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I hate fist-bump missile pods. They look even more stupid than the old broadside sporting two cannons that are bigger than the broadside himself lol. Since i never intend to use railsides, and in the off chance i do i still have the old guys anyway, i "fixed" them. Looks a LOT bigger than i anticipated, but that just makes them look cooler

Red-cap guy is the Shas'vre when im not running them around an Ethereal (leadership boon ftw). The Seeker Missiles are magnetized, since i really only bring them if i have ~24pts lying around. Better point dump than buying a markerlight for a firewarrior shas'ui lol

Also im not that great at lighting effects lol. This is honestly better than normal.

looks awesome

Amazing Idea!!!

As soon as I add broadsides to my Tau I'm stealing your idea!!

 Joyous_Oblivion wrote:
Amazing Idea!!!

As soon as I add broadsides to my Tau I'm stealing your idea!!

Go ahead, and its easier than it looks.

I expected to have to greenstuff some "attachment" parts, actually i didnt lol. Sawed off the fistbump missiles at the arm joint and the railgun at the barrel, they fit perfectly. Only greenstuff is making it look less rough and filling a couple holes that were left behind.

Looks great!

Reminds me of strike suit zero...

TOO MANY MISSILES!

And pretty cool while you're at it

It's an interesting take on the Missilesides. I like it. I like your color scheme even more, honestly. Great work all around!

 Jimsolo wrote:
It's an interesting take on the Missilesides. I like it. I like your color scheme even more, honestly. Great work all around!

Thanks, ive been getting a lot of comments on the color scheme. Both because the colors actually work together and its unique (purple tau? who the hell does that?). actually got a weird look once since im a guy and i have a purple army lol. i despise the vomit brown that tau usually are, my orks are already pretty red, and everyone does blue lol

Technically neither these guys and my piranha/riptides are done, theres no edgings in the armor. Im not doing them on purpose because it looks done already and i want to get my army painted before i go back and spend several hours doing pen-work lol. Only the Shas'vre has markings on his head because i want him to stand out saying he's different, theyre all going to have markings when im officially done. but i probably wont get to that for a long time (still got 50 firewarriors 20 pathfinders 3 old broadsides 10 crisis suits 2 riptides 2 hammerheads 2 devilfish 6 stealth suits Shadowsun Farsight and an Ethereal to paint lol)

Great job! They look awesome.
Keep it up!

Very nicely done. Great job on the details.

Very nicely done! Consider the misslesides idea stolen. I will be taking apart mine tonight to make them look like these. I got some fist bump broadsides in a trade the other day and I would really like to change them to look like yours.

Nay! You are not alone in your Tau Purpleness! Purple and black color schemes unite!

Suddenly the correlation between Anime Fans and Tau Players makes sense!

Macross Missile Massacre gone table-top.

It explains so much!



PS: I like the bases

Great conversion, looks very cool.

Wow! great improvement. I really disliked the out of the box look they designed. These look so much better.

Darkwater wrote:
Nay! You are not alone in your Tau Purpleness! Purple and black color schemes unite!

eh im purple and green but still purple no doubt! lol.

nice broadside btw

i particularly love its basing. is he standing next to the banks of a radioactive sludge river?