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I will just preface to say, this is not mine. I discovered it on Coolminiornot. With all the big stuff coming out for other armies it would be nice for the Tau to have something crazy like this:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/210732

I can identify a lot of the parts in it ...but not all of them.

THats seriously has inspired me to rework all of my tau... Orkz on standby, no more deamons, Im doin tau coolness!!!

That looks brilliant- it's just.... how could anyone else incorporate it into their army? Just as a normal battlesuit?

Pure awesome.
That really is nicely done, although I still think that titans do not fit the tau.

That is wicked cool!! I'd make up my own set of rules for it, maybe have it count as something similiar to a revenant or even a warhound. I know alot of people think titans are "un-tau-ish" but they do make extensive use of battlesuites, so I would try to think of this as a very large and experimental type of battlesuit.

Thats so Gundam

If you search for that guy's username in the forums you'll find his second attempt. It's rather nice too...

Ah stuff it - here's the pic I found so far...

Damn... I wish I had his resources for buying multiple expensive kits and making a single random model out of

I saw that one before the only thing I don;t like about it is the torso sticks out a little too far, but I've seen a LOT worse custom titans(legos )

Those would make some awesome Tau titans if such a thing were real lol

Those are two of the best, hell no, The best tau conversions I have ever seen. The Ingenuity, attention to detail, composition and use of parts truly shows this is a experiensed, proffesional modeler.

im guessing the one in the link was ment to be metal gear rex

love it, allthough im not too keen on the body.

Apparently he is or was a member of the GW Eavy Metal team ...and here is the work in progress for the second one that was posted.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/viewthread.php?tid=31703&page=1

Meh. I'm not a fan. It's too gundam for Tau. Each to their own though. Good luck to him.

I never understood why tau wouldnt have large suits, or small titan like suits, I mean I would never see them with huge emporer class titans, or even warhounds, but I could def see them use like hammerhead size heavy suits. On a seperate note, I was curious if you even play tau InyokaMadoda, I mean I personally always thought even crisis looked pretty gundam influenced, if not a little clumsier...

Because stompy robots over a certain size are death traps. Two words, Knee-seeker Missiles

Anything titan sized is too big to damage easily, especially with force fields of some kind. Anything a bit bigger than a man is fine because it can use cover easily.

something in between is a bit of a liability. Much better off with Hammerheads

I understand your logic, it works, but I mean in real life terms something thats as big as that model would be in real life, would usually be able to hide behind hills, large trees, I mean its not 500 feet tall. And hammerheads cant fly, they are more like less effective eldar skimmers, so they arent exactly fast flyers. If that suit had a jetpack, then now were talkin, like mechwarrior.

gameandwatch wrote:I never understood why tau wouldnt have large suits, or small titan like suits, I mean I would never see them with huge emporer class titans, or even warhounds, but I could def see them use like hammerhead size heavy suits. On a seperate note, I was curious if you even play tau InyokaMadoda, I mean I personally always thought even crisis looked pretty gundam influenced, if not a little clumsier...

I mean that it's TOO gundam. There are some differences between gundam and tau and even though there are some very heavy influences there for tau, this model is just a step too far for me.

Oh alright, I think I agree with you there, I just dont know exactly what I would change to make it less so...

omg awsome i am blinded by hte worsmbrss soz blinding light made my spelling bad realy bad

Give it to me!!!!!!!! Or I will de-bone your dog!!!!!

They are gorgeous models, incrediably detailed and the form is well thought out. Flies in the face of Tau thinking fluff wise but heck.. gorgeous.

My personal reaction is it seems as if a Techno-virus has invaded Tau hardware Decepticon style.

~ Tael.

I can see that thing running in my mind!!! Tau with their technology could pull it off I rate!!

These are awesome!

i hav just noticed that i hav seen this on about 5 different threads wow. still the lbingd ghlyt sorry blinding light again dam i need some sun glasses

Nice work.. how about posting more pics once it is based and then painted