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i second aduro

Make that a third.

Fair Enough, But its a bit late to change him so will stay as is...

Broadside #1

Manga inspired Head

Armour Plating


Advanced Stabilisation System

ASS Gyroscope

SMS

Legs, Converted using Burstcannons

Sirath wrote:Fair Enough, But its a bit late to change him so will stay as is...

No! I say you must change him, so crack him apart, strip him down, and start over! My Word Is Law!

Sirath wrote:Broadside #1

Interesting assortment of parts. I'm curious to see how it all fits together. Especially that swank little gyroscope you made.

I have to agree on the leg angle comment.

Beautiful work.

Very nice detail on your painting. Your conversons are great, and I like that you are looking to do more than switch a head or an arm. This will be an awesome army to see on the tabletop when it is done. That head on a base would actually make a decent objective as some kind of sensor drone.

Meph

You continue with an awesomely crisp clean styling, with some really great conversion work that fits VERY well with the tau theme. Very impressed with this project.

Broadside Wip

That army is damn pretty. I like everything about it, even the leg. Its sad that the broadside gun is warped when you paint them so nice.

Fantastic.

EDIT the Gyro is flippin cool.

Shaman wrote:That army is damn pretty. I like everything about it, even the leg. Its sad that the broadside gun is warped when you paint them so nice.

Fantastic.

EDIT the Gyro is flippin cool.

Thanks,
Yeah, i would like to change the leg but the plastic glue has fused the pieces together...
Stupid warping, hopefully it is not detracting from the finished product.

I stole the idea of the Gyroscope from the GW website. Then improved on it.

Looking awesome.
My only critisism would be to paint the plants.
They just look odd with such a different finnish and level of detail!

I love it ! Are those aquarium plants ?

Where are you getting that circle tau sept symbol that you added to the chests of your first suits.

Alex Kolodotschko wrote:Looking awesome.
My only critisism would be to paint the plants.
They just look odd with such a different finnish and level of detail!

Thanks Alex,
Yep, This has been suggested before. I have experimented with painting the plants but it just looks poor.
I honestly do not see the issue with the unpainted plants, they are really nice colour.

Captain Engelhardt wrote:I love it ! Are those aquarium plants ?

They are 'Jungle Plants' released by GW for the Lustria Campaign

Ghost in the Darkness wrote:Where are you getting that circle tau sept symbol that you added to the chests of your first suits.

It is simply the FW shoulder pad symbol cut out.

Oh and BTW,

I have ripped the Crisis Suit off his base and removed his left leg.
I will reposition him and then post some photos so you guys can decide if it works better...

Cheers

You know, I do not know how I missed these but they are AMAZING. Lovely lovely tau there.

I wouldn't worry too much about the leg.

It's probably all mechanical anyways, it doesn't have to bend like a person's leg would.

::EDIT:: Wait, is it mechanical? I can't remember how big a battlesuit is compared to a tau's body.

Okay,
I was considering how to best represent Tau vehicle upgrades. The most common of which is the ever-handy Disruption Pod.
As Tau like aquatic aesthetics to their designs and naming conventions. [Hammerhead, Tetra, Manta, etc] The obvious leap was they would also model the defensive wargear to match aquatic structural adaptations.

This was the inspiration;


This is the concept in progress;






- I wanted a 'pod' structure, so both ends are rounded.
- It is constructed from a Shield Gen base, with plate from a Shield Drone as the top 'dome'
- This is connected by a barrel from a Sniper Drone Rail Rifle, then the cylinders from a Plasma Rifle.
- Finally the 'Spines' are paper clips.
- Plus a magnet to attach it to the Vehicle


Next part will be to paint it, going to try white on the 'domes' with Black on the rifle, gold accent on the cylinders and spines.

WoW Sirath! Everything looks great! While crazy paint jobs are the many, it's nice to see a clean scheme executed so well.

Keep up the great work!

@LBursley - Thank you for the compliment, appreciated.

Not 100% happy with how the disruption pod turned out.
So I made a new version;



Think it works better.

This thread is awesome. It's rare to see anyone put this much love into tau; Well done!

Awesome tau the tau player I play paint very bad which makes me feel better about killing them.

Don't care for the pod myself by itself. The fact you're posting pictures of it instead of an assembled Broadside makes me hate it all the more.

They are very outstanding Tau!

Sirath wrote:First Crisis Battlesuit finished - Fireknife Pattern

ok, you officially made me a Tau fan again!

holy crap those are some of the nicest and crispest minis ive ever seen. none are over done too. very nice work
and onto a more orky perspective, nicely painted tau reminds of how good they taste after a good WAAAAGGHH!

Hey,
Thanks for the feedback
Here is another concept-tester piece for an Auxiliary unit.
Based upon Sebastian Stuart's Naga from WD
Will 'count-as' a Kroot unit.

Sirath wrote:Hey,
Thanks for the feedback
Here is another concept-tester piece for an Auxiliary unit.
Based upon Sebastian Stuart's Naga from WD
Will 'count-as' a Kroot unit.

Well, you got me convinced and I believe that is gonna look great.
I like the much bulkier look of these guys compared to the kroot. The technologified tau look works nicely as well.
Im looking forward to seeing a squad of these.