The sniper squad has to contain two of my favourite models from the army; those being the prone sniper and the scout sergeant. The prone sniper was made from a Catachan Sniper with a few modifications. To turn him into a scout I removed the boots and replaced them with ones from a spare Space marine Scout, likewise the addition of the marine shoulder armour.. To bulk the model out a bit more I used green stuck to build up the back and shoulders where his backpack would normally be and then used more green stuff to sculpt his desert coloured sheet which he is using to disguise his shape. For the final change I removed the barrel and muzzle of the sniper rifle which was a different design to those used by the Adeptus Astartes and scratch built a barrel and suppressor from plastic rod to match those in the rest of the squad.

For the Scout Sergeant I replaced his close combat weapon with an Auspex and scratch built the snipers rifle that is slung over his back from plastic card and green stuff. This helps tie him into the squad more as I always thought it strange that a Sergeant leading a sniper team could only have a bolt pistol. This was, even though he can't actually use the weapon in gaming terms, he at least looks like he has swapped weapons from his usual rifle to deal with the enemy up close.

The Scout with the Autocannon is a straight forward conversion from the Heavy Bolter. The muzzle and extra cables were removed and the barrel replaced with a scratch built one to match the autocannon barrel found on the Dreadnought (Forge World's version).

The scout bike squadron was one of those conversions that just seemed the right idea at the time and is one of those things you either love or hate. I like space marine bikes, but for my Sand Jackals I wanted to do something a bit different, so I mounted them on riding lizards instead as it was more in keeping with a nomadic force that specialised in desert warfare.

The mounts are unconverted and are simply Dark Elf Cold Ones. The flesh colours were  a base colour of dark flesh and brown ink over which increasing amounts of bleached bone were applied for the folds and highlights in the skin. For the bony plating I started with scab red into which I mixed blood red for the edges and then blazing orange for the final highlights. 

To make the scouts fit I carefully repositioned the legs and then cut the left arm at the elbow and wrist, repositioning it so that it brought the arm across their chest more as opposed to stuck straight out forward. I had hoped to add harnessing and reigns (hence the hand repositioning), but unfortunately ran out of time so this will be the first thing I do to finish them off properly.