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Evening all,

Just a quick question, I was looking at picking up some crisis battlesuits in the near future with a view to converting them to make them more substantial and less like roly-poly robots they currently are. one of the things i think will help this is the use of hands, rather than the stubby forearm attachment points. I know the new battlesuit commander has hands but I dont fancy buying one of these just to snip off his digits (plus, finecast) so i was wondering if anyone knows of proxy tau hands that can be used instead?

I would have thought terminator hands might be a good start scale-wise but alas, only one per model thanks to powerfists.

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more than I could have hoped for, much appreciated davis.

so long as can pull it off, that will take some beating, but if anyone knows of anywhere I can buy suitably scaled hands, that will also be very helpful.

Space marine terminator hands are sized perfectly. The problem is most of them are either equipped with power fists or are grasping some sort of weapon. I believe this modeler used Grey Knight terminator hands.

GK termie hands are what I have seen used the most.

I used GK teminator hands on my Stealthsuit conversions. Just remember to trim off the pinkie

You can build a three fingered pincer hand using the fingers from a Furioso dreadnaught, and then there are also the fingers from power fists. It all depends on whether you want to just tack something onto the existing Crisis suit forearm or if you want to try to build something else.

+1 to the Power fist vote. If you can find an open one... Terminators are the best for this.

Thank you all for the suggestions. Dakka does not disappoint.

I'm very tempted to go down the DIY route as i figure that looks easier than cutting up terminators, as well as being more sustainable in the long term. If I can get looking them as half as good as the guy in ATT then I'll consider that a success. I'll also look to get in touch with the guy who made the crisis posted by Tyberos to see how he bulked it up so convincingly.

Resv's helldivers (posted by Tyberos) use the GK hands. They are totally separate from the arms and there are a few alternatives on the sprue, so you should be able to pick them up easily from a bits storemor ebay.

1 thing of note, Tau have 4 fingers, so their crisis would probably have 4 fingers as well.

Its easy enough to trim the pinkie off the GK terminator hands.