Imperial Guard Shotgun Veterans

Here's the Imperial Guard Cadian shotgun armed veterans, mostly inspired by the colonial marine character Hicks in the 'Aliens' movie with his tactical shotgun.

The look of the colonial marines armour combined with the shotgun is what the Imperial Guard should look like to me!

I always liked the idea of representing them in 28mm and this selection and combination of bits comes close.

The other inspirations for having shotgun troops are from the old White Dwarf illustrations for the landing party and boarding party.

And obviously there are the Forge World Cadian hardened veterans with shotguns

This squad got a heavy flamer too.

His extra large fuel tanks are from the vehicle flamer. 

The Victoria Miniatures trench raider torsos are particularly suitable with good solid armour plates.

The heads selection was important keeping them Cadian but a good use of the sergeant, veteran and vehicle operator heads.

I used both sets of Anvil Industries Afterlife Republic Grenadier legs they work so well with the torsos and good all round armour plates.

Vox operator making use of a spare commander arm from Anvil Industries

Sergeant's chainsword ready on the belt, do they have scabbards?  

Extra chainswords and back packs from Victoria Miniatures very useful!

All the shotgun arms came from Victoria Miniatures resin conversion bits.

  
I added extra armour on the arms with green stuff as the arms just have sleeves.

Grenade launcher grenadier with extra grenadey face.

This is the first ten men veteran squad including the two special weapon options a heavy flamer and grenade launcher. I have put together a few more troops from the spare bits so these can run as a complete shotgun squad.

Imperial Guard Tallarn Desert Raider Veterans

Got a platoon of most of the guard regiments roughly and one of my favourites are the Tallarn Desert Raiders. I saw the Maxi Mini desert dweller heads ideal for making some new raiders so got a coupe of sets and with a variety of other bits from different manufacturers got a squad together.

I had planned to swap the heads out on the regular Imperial Guard models but I like the combinations I got from these different legs, torsos and arms. Regular Astra Militarum torsos on Anvil Industry Republic Grenadier legs.

  

Anvil Industry are doing a great selection of bits and their new regiments options are fantastic! They have some good bionics too.

The veteran sergeant got some AdMech bits, bit of a funny combination  but I like it. This started with the idea to use the galvanic rifle with the fully covered desert dweller head as it's got the Tusken Raider feel to it.

This veteran would make a great sniper or special weapon for the squad.

The other special weapon for the squad is a flamer. There was no flamer in the original raiders line, I suppose its the last thing you'd want in the desert!

Used the same head for this one as well as seemed so fitting with this great pose.

Desert raider veteran grenadier flamer nice!

Vox / comms trooper.

The rest of the troopers and vox trooper all got arms/weapons from Victoria Miniatures, another superb bits supplier! I built some Cadian shotgun veterans with Victoria Miniatures bits which I'll post next.