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hi dakka!

I just found a box of lizardmen warriors that I have laying around, and was thinking using them as kroot for my tau army would be a fun conversion. My question is, would it be better to convert them into holding Kroot rifles, find a custom gun, or would any kind of sci-fi weapon work. I was thinking either half leftover kroot rifles, half ork guns, and using some plasticard to ,make shoulder pads and some kind of plated armor. good idea, or more trouble than its worth?

Maybe you can use those ork guns or use as much as you can bitz-wise.

Use kroot stuff, ork guns, maybe even Tau weapons.

Hey, its a great ideia, but, will give you a lot of extra work. Do it if you like conversions, good luck, and dont forget the pics...

I got the idea because I don't like the way kroot look, but would want a lizardman army if I played fantasy. I haven't done any real conversion work, so i'm trying to learn by doing.

Here's my first attempt. I like the gun and shoulderpads I picked (Ork shoota, one ork pad one Lizardman one) but I feel like it needs more in the way of clothes or armor. Any thoughts?

I'd suggest giving it a few more tech element or supplementary gear rather than actual clothes, i.e.

Comms ear piece,
Ammo belt,
Grenades
Wrist watch or something similar.

The little details that make it 41st century without it becoming a lizard in a tux.

i'm trying to find a tutorial on making some kind of chest piece, like fire warriors have. I'm giving each of them FW antenna though.

Gun look slightly too big IMO. I might try to find something smaller ie plasma pistol with a bolt pistol barrel on the end of it maybe? That might make it look more 'techy'

if you can find a tube small enough, for the chest just smooth some putty over, press the tube in and witch a line out from each side ^_^ at least I think thats what a tau torso looks like, I havent looked at my tau in a while :3

here are a couple with some techy bits added on. Now they can communicate Also, like the slugga a lot better, especially after adding on the FW pouch as a power cell. probably gonna paint it up to look like a plasma pack




sorry for the shoddy lighting, Its all I've got :(

Looks good!

Is it wrong of me to bump this up? I finally found the time to paint these guys up, As well as making a few more using Tau Carbines- now lizardmen!





More views in my gallery, any thoughts?

Looks decent! As long as all of your "kroot" are lizards, there should be no confusion since you've got them armed correctly. Cool idea!