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Regular Dakkanaut




I've had this idea to have wound counters incorporated into my Tau models. Something that visually represents how many wounds a model has left. My original idea was to use skulls as counters, so I bought a bunch of skulls. The plan is to stick a large magnet under the base of the model, and put a small magnet in the base of the skull, so they will be able to be added or removed at will.

I'm still OK with that idea, but I was wondering if I could make a more "Tau" version. Maybe like power cells? I thought I could have a small, vertical "battery" tower on the base of, say, my Riptide, that has 5 glowy power cells on it. As he takes damage, the power cells get removed from the stack. Not sure what I would use for the power cells though....maybe a shaved down melta-bomb?

Anyone else have any suggestions for a "Tau" version of wound counters?
   
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I like the power cells idea. I would probably make cylinder power cells from plastic rod.

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The power cell idea sounds great. And if you use plastic rods you could add some plasticard stripes as well and glue them around for additional decoration.

I don't know how the bitz situation on tau sprues is but maybe you could cut some spare rifles into chunks and paint those up as a more squarelike battery pack. Don't all the rifles have those round bit somewhere on the front? Cut a sqare out of the weapons with it in the center and use that. And you could just glue the magnet onto the other side

   
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Those are good suggestions. I was thinking of spare parts that I had lying around. Couple ideas that might work:

Firewarrior Photon Grenades. Come in sets of Two, but could separate them with a knife. Lookly a bit like a power cell.

Could also use the boxy part of the Crisis suit flamer. The part that looks like the "ammo box". Those definitely could be used as a power cell.

The question then becomes, what do mount them to? I originally thought something like a tall power cell structure would work. Or maybe magnetize them to attach to bottom of a drone and use it as a "support drone" that trails behind the Riptide.

Alternatively, I was thinking on just magnetizing them to the model itself, then pulling them off as the model takes damage.
   
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The photon grenade "pouch" is actually 2 stacks of disc-shaped grenades. You could use a whole pouch as an energy thingy easily enough. As well as the flamer fuel canisters what about the round fusion blaster magazine.tank/container thingies?

In terms of positioning, are you using the big shield generator array on the model? You could have them as disposable energy packs on the vanes of the genny. Alternatively some sort of drop-tanks on the inside or the back of the jetpack? There are a few big flat areas around the back of the model that could take them.

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