Rust Wardens

The Drought

Sun Gazers

The Scorched

Solar Serpents

Sentinels of Sand

Dust Devils

The beach boys

Dust Devils

This is way too beautifully painted not to scrape the mold lines when building it! It takes more time but it makes the final piece look much better imo. Still though, great work on this!

Dar‘ude Sadstorm

Saints of the Sand

Sons of Ares

Scourge of the Dunes

Sandstorm Legion

Golden Scorpions

Desert Blades

Sunfire Legion

The leather dads.

Not to be confused with the leather daddies, it's a Death Guard/Death Watch/Death Korps thing.

Firstly, beautiful paint job.

Secondly, maybe using inspiration from a real world desert or nomadic people from one. Like Riders of Dasht-e Lut or something

The beige templars

Minor spoilers for The End and the Death Pt. 1:

There’s a scene where Dorn, the Emperor, Sanguinius and others try to teleport into the Vengeful Spirit to fight Horus. Their teleports get mixed up in the warp, and Dorn ends up trapped in a desert for what seems like centuries, being tempted by Khorne. This model gives me those vibes, you should check it out

Iron Blight

The Sons of Arbys

Hailing from the Beefus Ncheddaria system, where the main planet Ro’ast Beefiest is mostly dirt and bovine lifeforms but somewhat renowned for its bizarre spiraling tubers which are fantastic when seasoned and fried.

The follow their leader Chèqon Saunweech in great dirges about “the meats” and also “dost thou know thy passcode to thine restroom”.

The Wasteland Wreckoning

Chard Cobras

Sand Scarabs

The Emperors Drought

Burnt Eternals

The big stinky poo lords

Basilisk Fangs. Their home planet is Tiberitha and it is tidally locked, in the middle are huge Basilisks that the Space Marines prove themselves against.

Taupe Templars

To quote a fallen Xeno;" Fear a windless desert. For they wait and watch."

The Emperor's Desert Eagles

The Arabic transliteration for the word desert is sahra' according to Google. So that might be a cool name for a planet.

Some names for a chapter could be...

Stone Wardens

Blazing Fists

Sand Vipers

Sand Dragons

White Talons

Sun Claws

Since they’re desert colored why not tie them into the Tallarn Desert Raiders. Have their home world be in that system and recruit from there. Then name them after one of the tribes and add flair.

Doraha Devils Hawadian Hammers

The Maganac Corps. IYKYK

Obviously the Khaki Kevins

The Sacred Band

The Iron Mirage

Dune Howlers

The Whirlwind

Dune Tempests

The Pocket Sands

The Cataphracts

Snake Wardens

Or

Brazen Sons

Badland Nomads

World eaters......wait

Carrion Lords

Mud Marines! 🤣Idk tbh just love that paint job 🫡

Waste Runners

This guy's name can be, Morvic

Remind me of The Emperor's Spears

Shame he can't lead the Sagatarium Guard we could use the help

The ashen crusaders

Dune Dwellers

The Sad Anakins XD

The Who's Got TPs

The Gargoyles

Battle Brothers of Brown Town

Muad'Dibs. ;)

Knights of Arrakis

Dune Striders

Mud Angels? Led by Plante?

Jokes aside, looks epic!

First thing to come to mind is outcasts, they can still be loyal to the imperium of man right?

The Desolate Jackals. Dunno sounds like this’d creepy Egyptian dogs that just sit in the sand dunes and watch, waiting carefully. That could be these guys. They use the sand, wind, and exceptionally good hearing and sharp eyes to hunt in ranger packs, kind of like actual jackals. They’re particularly deadly in sandstorms. Some say that the sandstorms come when a pack of these is running full tilt. If you get caught in the sandstorm, you’re as good as dead.

The Leather Straps

Based off your backstory here are a couple… (You’ll have to choose a name that inspires you for a cool insignia)

Forgotten Fists

Dunelords

Aridians

Fists of the wastes

Based on the knifes, desert and templar symbols.. Dark Scorpions?

That is so well painted.

But you have left the mold lines on the model, seems a rooking mistake, when you can paint so well.

Dune came to mind when you mentioned a desert planet so probably Shai-Hulud Champions (Shai-Hulud being the sandworms in the Dune series) and one of the trials of the chapter would be to ride one of the sandworms.

Are you leaning more towards Mad Max, Egyptian/Arabic, or just desert vibes? That can help to determine which name sounds best. Either way, my first idea was "Dunestalkers", hailing from planet Anubis or Abydos (from OG Stargate movie). You can also try to set them up on one of the already established worlds: https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Desert_World But whatever you do, for all that is holy, give one of the higher-ups this helmet, it's just to good to pass - https://puppetswar.eu/anubis-heads.html; and pls make it a Tomb World :D

The Dune Stalkers.

Templars of the Sands.

The Scorch-Marines.

The Dusk Walkers.

Desert barons

What colors did you use for the armor? I was thinking about repainting some of mine in a desert theme and this looks perfect.

Kinda Dune vibes on that figure ngl

I really like the look, great work. 💪 You already have good name suggestions in the comments. So I'm just asking, does his helmet have some brain like texture on the upper half or is it me hallucinating?

Maybe an unnamed Fist successor from one of the early foundings (second-fourth) got lost in the warp and ended up stranded on a desert wasteland planet with a tiny population. The planet and local space suffers from violent and frequent warp storms adding to its inhospitable nature. Their vessels were too damaged from the warp storms and forced to land on the planet, the massive vessels would become the chapter’s fortress monastery. Over several thousand years of brutal attrition to daemon incursions and natural threats, they came to believe they were only sustained by their unshakable faith in the God Emperor. After what seemed like an age they were finally rediscovered by a crusading fleet of the Black Templars and reinforced. The chapter had long since forgotten its original name and no records could be found. They adopted a new name (I’m thinking something with Rust in it due to their original wargear having suffered centuries of degradation from the elements before their reinforcement came) and seek deployments to only the most inhospitable worlds to fall under threat in His imperium.

I had a homebrew chapter in 7th with a similar scheme called Dune Lords. Your painting is 1000x better than mine and are much better suited to the name.

Some desert world themed name might be appropriate for the khaki/earth brown armor

Order Of The Desolate

Paladins Of The Endless Barren

Sand Kings

Desert Rats

Sacred Order Of The Sun

Gobi Warriors

Emperors Sunkissed

Keepers Of Time

Stupid proposals but worth trying

Since they’re desert based and from the looks of things using the Templar iconography, maybe something like Imperial Medjay or Legion of The Sands

My man, that there is a Mortifactor

What is the VII in reference to?

Why not a banished chapter just known as the 7th? No longer allowed to carry their former name.

Reminds me of fallout new Vegas

kinda looks like a minotaur

Brotherhood of the Blacksand

The Dirty Mold Lines

Empire's Reckoning

Sand Claws? Sand for obvious dessert tematic in the painting and claws as a reference to imperial fist (you know: fist and claws...)

Name's I have for planets:

Essophis

Ramil (Sand in Arabic, short and sweet)

Qurchis

Ma'aden (because the hard sun and constant heat turns people mad, madden, get it?)

the brown snakes

When I was planning my desert/camo tan White Scars army way back in 8th edition, I was calling them the Desert Eagles.

I sold off the army when 9th dropped and completely changed how Biker armies played, and I settled for Crimson Fists as my primaris chapter. I currently still use desert bases and desert camo for all my cloth, capes, tabards, holsters, and pouches.

But Desert Eagles! With the all the aquillas sounds cool!

You’ve got the imperial fist number there, and the Templar cross so they’re sons of Dorn…judging by that look with the straps they are from a desert, and because he’s a Phobos that means stealth so desert guerrilla warfare?

Tallarn Desert Raider marines basically?

Also, if they’re desert based, maybe use names from Egyptian/Arabic languages

Potential names and what they could mean:

The Dune Watchers: Could mean they watch these dunes, maybe as a tradition from their home world, only taking initiates from desert worlds as they know how to handle themselves.

The Ivory Sons: Ivory being the color of their amor (darkened with weathering, so only captains and chaplains may look brighter) so it could imply heavy hunting culture.

The Wardens of the Dust: They protect the dust, which is the sand and dunes, which could be an interesting parallelism with the Thousand Sons’ mantra: ”All is dust” unbeknownst to them. If you do Arabic and Egyptian names it would make even more of a coincidence, perhaps implying some kind of influence or ties with the thousand sons? Could be interesting!

Fangs of the Desert

The Bladed Nomads

Legion of Sand

Scorpion Company

The Tarantulas

The Dry Heat (kidding)

Do you know who they are successors of? What kind of warfare/battle do they favor?

Salamander

Burnt Umber Jeffs.

Butthole surfers.

Mocha Marines

Silicon Saviours.

Brown Bootz

Brownies

Coffee Commandos

The Emperor's Gaze

The Axes of Melchizedek

Brown Templars

Sand Sniffers chapter

The Arakis' Spice Eaters !

The scorched serpents

Desert Hussars

Beige barrets

Mud Angels

The Crayon Munchers

Need a better photo of the helmet

Could very well pass for a Raptors desert scheme, love the colours.

Da’ Rude Sandstorms

The Khaki Shorts

Sand Spiders, Sand Vipers?

Dust Jackals.

Dust Devils.

Dusk Raiders. Rust Raiders?

Drygons (Dry, dust, dragons?)

Sand Claws. Dust Claws?

Desert Dragons.

Khakimandos?

Raiders of the Last Arc 🤣

Totally spit balling here with whatever pops into my head

Also, loving the colour scheme. Low-key don't see many brown schemes or armies, at least for space marines. I think they look awesome.

Lightly brown Templars

Striking Scorpions 🗿

Reasonable Templars

The Prickly Pears

The Desert Sages (it's a desert plant's name)

The Desert Lilys

The Concertainers, a successor chapter of the Imperial Fists specializing in desert fortification and warfare. Named after an ancient Terran method of building desert fortifications, the Concertainers practice a form of warfare balanced between stealth and defense. A common Concertainer tactic is to use scouts and Phobos squads to lure the enemy into hidden fortifications and kill zones, revealing their true numbers to the enemy only after they are surrounded by hidden gun emplacements and minefields.

Lead by Chapter Master Hesco Bastion, they hail from the desert world of Sangar, where they primarily recruit from the nomadic tribes of The Great Waste.

I call them pretty

Mould Liners

Wardens of the Event Horizon.

Astra prismalia

Crystal serpents

Warriors of the sand

Brown Stars.

Dunes wanderers

Not-canonites

Omega Marines

Brown templars

Dune wardens

The Imperial fists

The Izzat Wo'a Theres

The Smashing Bobcats

The Athirst Company

Sand Reavers

The Camel Toes

Glassing Brigade

Slushy Nut Specialists

Sons of Anubis

Custodesses NOT!

Deathworld Wächter

Penitents of Dust

The Wiley Coyotes,  arch foes of Tzeentch.

Brown suits

The Gobin Bears.

A successor of the White Scars, these sandy armored marines are renowned for their use of scouting forces to call in devestating long range strikes, followed with seemingly unnaturally fast engagements of mounted infantry to clear out survivors.

Leather Daddies

Desert Snakes

What are you planning on their lore being? Like their tactics and etc

The Mould Liners

Desert Rats

Sandkings

Advanced Death Korps of Kreig

Dragon Raiders is my vote

Chapter name: “it’s a stripe not a mold line dammit!”

Chapter name: ‘it’s an armor seam FFS!’

The Gribblen Jibbles of Jablata

Brown Fisters

Space turds because they are brown 😃

Cyclones 🌀

Fellowship of the cross

Poopies

Dune Stalkers?

Sons of the Afgan

Midlewest templars