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Has anyone had any experience with tau crisis suit/broadside alternatives? The whole army is all smooth lines and curves, and I hate the way the Crisis Suits stick out. I'd look into starting tau, if I could find something that could stand in, or work with some conversion work.

The Forge World suits are much nicer, though rather expensive.

Alternatively, cruise www.hlj.com for robot suit models. The Tau suits are fairly small, so you want to look for 1/72 scale models and check their dimensions.

I prefer to convert Stealth Suits, putting them on rocks to compensate for LoS. They look good as XV22 suits.

acidix wrote:Has anyone had any experience with tau crisis suit/broadside alternatives? The whole army is all smooth lines and curves, and I hate the way the Crisis Suits stick out. I'd look into starting tau, if I could find something that could stand in, or work with some conversion work.

I feel your pain, that's why I decided to use the FW XV-89 for all of my crisis suits http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Tau/TAU-BATTLESUITS-AND-DRONES/XV89-CRISIS-BATTLESUIT.html

I like what this guy does with his Crisis Suits as far as bulking them up and giving them more of a Reactive Armor Military look.



He adds bulk to the head and some armor plating from bits. You could go crazy with the armor if you wanted. I found a whole sheet of plasticard with the square armor panels so I'm going to try this myself.

Here's his final results




http://warhammer-tau-army.blogspot.com/2009/01/tau-battlesuit-conversions.html

I also only take FW Crisis Suits and Broadsides.
As the commander, I take this one from Urban Mammoth:

MechaEmperor7000 wrote:I prefer to convert Stealth Suits, putting them on rocks to compensate for LoS. They look good as XV22 suits.

I like that approach, i've experimented with it, however I havent had much success
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