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Okay i have been trying to come up with a good chaos scheme for tau allies for my chaos force. At first i started thinking of tyring to kit bash tau with beastmen, but latly i have been in a rut with trying to come up with good conversions. antone have any suggestions for chaos tau?

Beast men can look good in their own right by kit bashing with various different kits, I've seen some amazing beast men legion conversions sitting in the P&M blogs lately who I'm sure will appear here when the owners read the post. For my own part I had some success crafting on a breastplate and using bolt guns for the weapons (It fitted my need as allies), you would likely find similar results in using pulse carbines/rifles instead of the bolt guns.

Mine:


Something to consider is making sure you use appropriate hands on the guns, I believe tau are missing some fingers (compared to humans) which means you cant just sit the hand/gun combo on top of the beast men arms.

If you didnt want to use beastmen you could always try and create a Dark Mechanicus style counts-as Tau, utilising weird science/warp power to replicate tau-esque technologies.

Edit:

One of my favourite beastmen logs from mayajid:

Beast men look pretty good, and may solve one of my issues I am having working out centaur allies for Tau. They centaurs will be a SM bike force, and I was having a devil of time coming up with a good way to do attack bikes

The yellow powered armored beastmen look good for stealth suits,. Orginally i thoughtn of cutting off the toso of a gor/ lesser beast man and adhear the firewarrior torso to the legs and git it a beast man head. Im a horrible sculpter tbh.