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FUSION BLASTERS ONLINE!
With the Fusion Blaster squadron finished, the Crisis Drones are now all complete! Taking a break from the larger suits the next will be a small squadron of marker or Stealth Drones.

GUE'VESA SHADOW WARRIOR!
To shave 10 Gun Drones of my work load for a tournament in 2 months I've started work on my Tau Culexus Assassin or as it shall be named; Tau Gue'vesa Shadow Warrior!
Still experimenting with helmets and not sure about the knee pads so I'm really interested in feedback and suggestions?

Also here's a pic of all my Crisis Drones
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The assassin is super fething cool! Can't wait to see him painted up.
Can you use assassins in a tau army tho? That sounds weird.

Officio Assasinorum is an Army of the Imperium. So he's an Ally of Convenience(possibly desparate? Don't recall) to the Tau. VERY good choice too, since the only other Tau psychic defense is the Talisman of Arthas Moloc.

I like the concept Proiteus. Before I even read the text I identified him as a Culexus assassin. The torso feels really small relative to the legs though. Not sure it's precisely a problem if you're going for a deliberately lanky look, but still slightly oft putting

I'd bulk up the chest and maybe add some abdominal plating. Also, I'm not really feeling that "eye" - doesn't feel as "Tau" as the rest.

Love the assassin, including his tininess and gribbly center eye-laser. One thing, don't tau have different number fingers from humans? At the least, crisis suits have three fingers + one thumb, trying to find an example of a FW hand ...



I mean, cause you're strapped for time and all that

- Salvage

 Boss Salvage wrote:
Love the assassin, including his tininess and gribbly center eye-laser. One thing, don't tau have different number fingers from humans? At the least, crisis suits have three fingers + one thumb, trying to find an example of a FW hand ...



I mean, cause you're strapped for time and all that

- Salvage

He's a Gue'vesa. He's human.

 Grimtuff wrote:
He's a Gue'vesa. He's human.

Faaaaaaaaaaaaaakk me, missed that bit. Comments about him being on the slight side make sense to me now too

- Salvage

 Boss Salvage wrote:
Faaaaaaaaaaaaaakk me, missed that bit. Comments about him being on the slight side make sense to me now too

- Salvage

No worries, Tau have little presence in the warp but none of them are really pariahs... or assassin level of good is close quarters. So a Tau assassin was never really an option.

ACTIVATING AMBUSH PROTOCOLS!!!
I give you the Tau Stealth Drone! Due to it's stealthy nature I decided to keep the white on it's colour scheme to a minimum, I'm very pleased with how the stealth generators came out and will likely build more in the future.





PARIAH UPDATE
Started working on my Assassin on the side and trying to decide 2 things?
1) Which helmet design to go with; the one converted from a pathfinder helm or the breacher helm?
2) What colour to paint the glowing eye lens; a ghostly green or a shade of purple?
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Breacher helmet, and purple.

The right side helmet (breacher?) and green!

Actually purple might work, like the Necromonger scanner guys from the 2nd Riddick movie.

Definitely breacher! Very modern and unique

Though, I do say he still needs a midsection!

Oh, and the ghostly green like on some of the drones!

Wow.

Great stuff Proiteus. Excellent concept and execution. I can't wait to see more.

5 DOWN 15 TO GO!!!
Completed my Marker Drone's using the Paulson Games' Mecha Heads, think they look very unique and weren't nearly as expensive as full GW ones. Now if only I can get the other 15 painted alongside the Riptide, 3 Broadsides, Ghostkeel and Commander before the 23rd of June!
By the way started painting my commander and I'm wondering about 2 things; 1) Does it really need the sensor arms? 2) Where should I paint the orange detailing to tie it better to the Crisis Drones?
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I love the painting style you've done on these, and all those little marks and scratches really do make a difference .

ESTABLISHING BATTLEFIELD CONTROL!
Well my Command Drone is now up and running, I made two small missile pod drones to represent it's weapons otherwise it will be a simple Buffmander.
I'm glad I decided to ditch the small sensor arms during painting, this feels a more drone like, after all the command drone is nothing more than a master hub for the army's Drone Network.





Next up the Tank Drone (Riptide).

Big Blue! Love it, lil' missile friends and all

- Salvage

HEAVY HITTER!
The most powerful drone has now been added to the Kor'vesa Initiative's arsenal; The Tank Drone (Riptide). Escorted by a Repair Drone to represent it's FNP, modelled after the Builder Drones from DOW Dark Crusade. I've also added some snow to the base to help blend the ice and rocks together and cover up the areas where the crackling paint hadn't worked so well. What do you think to the snow effect on the base?

Next up the Stealth Striker (Ghostkeel)

Hi. I'm coming in late to this having seen your tank drone on FB.

The whole army looks fantastic. Can I just query what you are using for the smaller drone core (below the saucer)? (Can't seem to see it mentioned, but may have missed it.

ALL STEALTH DRONES NETWORKED & OPTIMISED
DX18 Stealth Striker ready for deployment aka my Ghostkeel. This was by far the most difficult one to paint so far; 1st because of it's shape as I had to re-highlight certain areas where I was holding it and 2nd I wasn't sure how to paint it.
In the end I went with the standard scheme which turned out well. My favourite part of this build is the Stealth Field Drones!

Now all I need to do is get the 3 Broadsides painted in a week ready for a tournament (plus assemble 15 more marker drones).
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That is really fantastic, I think that might be my favorite one yet

 gameandwatch wrote:
That is really fantastic, I think that might be my favorite one yet

Seconded! The design, the pose, the stupendous paint ... Great stuff

- Salvage

SIZE COMPARISON
While visiting a friend up north I had a chance to compare my Drone Conversion's size to the original models they represent all except the Ghostkeel.
Think I've done rather well (maybe with the exception of the Buffmander)
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MISSILES ALWAYS MORE MISSILES!!!
Well with this my 1500pt army is complete and ready for expansion! The MV808 Missile Support Drones are certainly my favourite in the whole army, just hope I can find and purchase riptide Shields to build more?

Next up: Converted Remora Drone Fighters and the Kor'vesa Initiative's field Commander Shas'o'vesa Kor'shara Drone Dancer!

DRONE FIGHTERS INBOUND!
After completing my army on Monday I decided to jump into the first expansion which is a pair of Remora Drone Fighters. I used the conversion used by Blue Table Painting, with some tweaks and am looking forward to using them.

Next up is my Commander and then I can start painting as I prefer to airbrush models in batches.
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Brilliantly unique, really cool idea, cant wait to see the commander.

 stonned_astartes wrote:
Brilliantly unique, really cool idea, cant wait to see the commander.

Well here's the first....

SHAS'O BOR'KAN ALA'URUN STORMSTRIKE
Originally my Battlesuit army was going to made up of Commando suits inspired by the Dark Crusade Commander, however they were far too small to be used in game so the conversion was put into storage. Until now....
Now it has been tweaked and rearmed to represent one bad-ass proxy of Commander Shadowsun.
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