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 Gantoris wrote:
"While the enemies of the Emperor still draw breath, there can be no peace."

Are GW's customers the "Enemies of the Emperor?"

MB

This is one of the reasons I drifted away from 40K, and now tend to only pay attention to (or own) the Tau, whose proportions are more realistic.

I grew older and began to find the comical proportions to be too hard to accept.

I wanted to see realistic proportions on the miniatures I have.

And those realistic proportions can seem to be very strange to people who are used to looking at the fat, squat proportions GW uses for the Space Marines, and for the rest of the 40K line to a lesser degree.

But other than sculpting a set of Space Marines myself, there are no options available for such things on the market.

I suppose that doing a SM in Maya or Mudbox would not be too terribly difficult...

I will have to give it a try, and see what it looks like (I have fully rigged humans of varying proportions available as a doll for such a project). And it isn't as if SM armor is overly complex.

MB

 warboss wrote:
Tau have their own bug bear in that regard (namely the squat crisis suits). The infantry are alot better but the xv8s suffer the same problem in that they're proportioned like marines and it is laughable that a fire warrior is in that chest in anything other than curled up into a ball. Some of the best conversions in the past stretched out the dwarf arms and legs to something more normal. The new enforcer suit also addressed that issue as well which is why I decided to buy one as my first new GW tau model in years.

Which is exactly why I have no Crisis suits.

I did think of getting some and doing some conversions (I have done real-life work on a prosthetic leg - preparing for when I eventually lose my own - that I modeled after theTau Crisis suits, except for in proportion. I hear that it is popular, but I could apply the same standards to the model).

I can be so incredibly dim at times.

MB

 warboss wrote:

BeAfraid wrote:

 warboss wrote:
Tau have their own bug bear in that regard (namely the squat crisis suits). The infantry are alot better but the xv8s suffer the same problem in that they're proportioned like marines and it is laughable that a fire warrior is in that chest in anything other than curled up into a ball. Some of the best conversions in the past stretched out the dwarf arms and legs to something more normal. The new enforcer suit also addressed that issue as well which is why I decided to buy one as my first new GW tau model in years.

Which is exactly why I have no Crisis suits.

I did think of getting some and doing some conversions (I have done real-life work on a prosthetic leg - preparing for when I eventually lose my own - that I modeled after theTau Crisis suits, except for in proportion. I hear that it is popular, but I could apply the same standards to the model).

I can be so incredibly dim at times.

MB

While I can't comment on real life biomechanics, I'd probably not recommend using the tau ankle joint. Those things always break even in foam cases! You don't want to put your body at risk on a joint that is always broken on ebay used tau sale pics.

I am aware of that. The joints on the real leg are different. The appearance is only (mostly - some structural design is included) cosmetic, as people are starting to want prosthetics that don't look like titanium sticks with ball joints or hinges at either end. Plus with a meso-scaled limb of that design, made from metal, you would find the joint, as designed to be much stronger than that of the model.

We have begun using more ergonomic design on top of aesthetic design to get higher performing prosthetics (if you look at the Paralympiat Amiee Mullins, she can run about 8mph faster than an Olympic Athlete with actual legs. And that is restricted from the optimized prosthetics, which could have her running faster than a horse).

But anime styled prosthetics are a thing now, and the Tau have that aesthetic.

Even with all of that, though.... The current Tau Crisis Suits are a mess.

MB

This thread has inspired me to take on modeling some Truescale Marines (I will be doing Mk VI and VII armor first) and to do some Tau Crisis Suits or maybe a Tau MBT (Since I don't care for the "Everything is built off the same chassis" models they have now) this summer when I am done with the Goblins.

MB