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So I just got my first kit of crisis suits and discovered, to my dismay that the arms are stuck on in pose! Anyone know how to correct this?

Cut it carefully with a knife. Pretty much the only way.

You mean in the 90 degree position? Just grab a hobby knife and cut it then slap some glue on there and BAM different posed arm.

You can do this with the legs too might need some green stuff just depends how you cut it and how you want it to look

Is it really so easy? :O And since my Tau are chaos I now have one crisis suit kit-bashed with a spawn (He mutated while inside the suit ) And it looks great. I will try to get pics up when it is finished.

wait....you know that Tau can't be tainted by Chaos right? They have no understanding of the warp and Chaos don't try to affect them.
BUT that would probably look pretty interesting Toss some pics up!

We had a thread about this before: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/567129.page

But I will probaly need to place pics in a new thread, I am a fairly slow painter and just started today...

It really is very easy to do the quick slice and twist. However, one of the things I have found is that the arms are still a little too short for my taste.

After you cut between the elbow and the upper arm, set the pieces aside for a moment. Now grab a couple of burst cannons. Cut the round "butt" off a burst cannon and shave down the rounded side just a bit so you have a flat surface on both sides. Glue that round bit onto the bottom of the shoulder, then glue the lower arm onto that.

Now you have an arm with much better proportions that can be posed any way you want it with a great range of motion!

If you want to look through some step by step builds and see some possibilities, feel free to look at my project log (link in sig) for an all you can eat buffet of crisis suit conversions. And feel free to ask if you get stuck

Listen to bossfearless. He makes the BEST Tau conversions on Dakka.... Maybe even the WORLD!

 chiefbigredman wrote:
Listen to bossfearless. He makes the BEST Tau conversions on Dakka.... Maybe even the WORLD!

Oh I know and I will! I have read all three threads in his sig, the conversions are simply amazing.


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 bossfearless wrote:
It really is very easy to do the quick slice and twist. However, one of the things I have found is that the arms are still a little too short for my taste.

After you cut between the elbow and the upper arm, set the pieces aside for a moment. Now grab a couple of burst cannons. Cut the round "butt" off a burst cannon and shave down the rounded side just a bit so you have a flat surface on both sides. Glue that round bit onto the bottom of the shoulder, then glue the lower arm onto that.

Now you have an arm with much better proportions that can be posed any way you want it with a great range of motion!

If you want to look through some step by step builds and see some possibilities, feel free to look at my project log (link in sig) for an all you can eat buffet of crisis suit conversions. And feel free to ask if you get stuck

Greats tip! Thanks!