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Stellar work from start to finish!

A Whole thread of awesome

THE REMORAS TAKE FLIGHT!
Finally got round to painting the flyers, now all I need to do is add them to the armies on parade board and I can gets some HD photographs of the whole army!
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More excellent additions.

Cheers,

CB

DRONES ON DISPLAY!
With the Drone fighters and gun drones complete the Armies On Parade board is now fully complete, thou I may add some Pathfinders on it for next year's competition. Now all I have left is 10 Marker Drones, 5 Gun Drones, 2 Riptide Drones and I'll be happy to move on to my next project. However I will likely return to build more Broadsides, Pathfinders and a Defence line in the form of some beefy shield drones.

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Man this is so badass. I had an idea like this as well except to model them as mining drones to be counts as Tyranids. This is some incredible work man

Absolutely amazing! Hope to see more from this Army. In your own time obviously - I'm a big fan of your Rebel Grots

THE FUTURE OF THIS TAU CADRE
I'm facing a bit of an internal debate recently on where to take my Tau at the moment.
As you may know the recent codex makes Crisis suits too expensive to base an army around and such this army has rarely seen combat since 8th dropped so I desperately needed infantry units.

At first I considered abandoning the Drone army in favor of a human based Tau army with Gue'vesa infantry including Fire Warriors, Breachers, Vespid, Pathfinders and Stealthsuits. The rest of the suits would remain as my drones that they would use in place of Battlesuits. You can see that in the Van Saar conversion below which I couldn't wait to convert once I saw that kit...



The only 2 issues here was the fluff; would the drones be part of the Gue'saar or a separate attached force? The second being the large cost of all the Van Saar and Tau kits.
The other option was to stick with the scheme. At first I considered using Necron kits to convert something similar to a Star Wars battle droid, however, it's human feet and hands would look odd.
My next idea was to convert smaller drones using support systems however my first conversion mock ups were a bit lacking.

TINY BUT MIGHTY
However thanks to the Earth Caste's finest minds and drive, the need for a small easy to produce infantry unit for the Drone Initiative has been addressed, presenting the Light Gun Drone.
I have the game Grey Goo to thank, seeing their human faction with all their drone units reminded me why I took this direction in the first place.



The Gue'vesa will still see action in Necromunda and Kill Team so expect another project log thread for them in the future.

Have you ever thought of making a small drone gang for Necromunda? Make them all dirty and damaged and outfitted with las pistols and heavy stubbers and such. .

 IceAngel wrote:
Have you ever thought of making a small drone gang for Necromunda? Make them all dirty and damaged and outfitted with las pistols and heavy stubbers and such. .

No but I'm am considering a gue'vesa infiltration force with a Kroot Merc.

CLOSE QUARTER DRONES
A new light Drone variant; The Slicer Drone! These guys will represent my Tau Breachers.
Probably will make some small adjustments before building a full squad.