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Hi all. With inquisitors now being attachable to almost anything I thought of starting a small force to attach to my SM's. To get a feel for the idea I decided to start with a homebrew servitor. Homebrew because I had some bits lying around and wanted to theme the inquisitor around a slightly xeno / heretic-ish idea. The result turned out a little more 50's retro than I expected, but it looked viable at the time.

The retro is a good feel.
It still seems distinctly tau, which is what you're going for, but with that old-school imperial tech look/feel.
Nicely painted too!

While I despise beyond measure the use of the term 'homebrew' in place of 'homebrewed' I love your model to an equal and opposite degree! What a delightful method of both preserving the profile of an actual servitor model while at the same time creating something wholly your own! I absolutely love it.

I dig it! two thumbs up for ya!

I like it.
My own are just catachans with the right arm replaced/magnetized with the variety of heavy weapons/buzzsaws.
Yours is indeed a good look and matches what you were looking for I feel.

Thanks for the comments. Another two servitors and a cherub and the retinue will be finished, then a jokaero that steps away from being shaggy and orange.

I think the best bit is your whip aerial on the top, very nice.

Very interesting my friend.

Although it was probably a little backward, I just finished the servitors Inquisitor. I plan to arm him with a hellrifle, but unfortunately it doesn't fit anywhere conveniently on his armour. So after hunting around for a solution I decided on a.. sort of... cherub. Trying to stick with the theme of an Inquisitor who's a fan of xeno tech, the cherub runs along the lines of the servitor. Having said that, the cherub has no antenna so he doesn't stray to far from his boss and acts like a gun caddy / dogsbody.

Nice conversions, and I love the idea of an inquisitor too important to carry his own gun. I may have to steal the drone/servitor idea.

Ha, thanks. I figured an offsider would make him look more important. I'd love to see a post of your take on the idea if your keen.

This conversion is weak.

 6^ wrote:
This conversion is weak.

Sorry, but I gotta agree with 6^, it's.. A drone, with bits put on it.....

4L Goon wrote:
Ha, thanks. I figured an offsider would make him look more important. I'd love to see a post of your take on the idea if your keen.

I've not done anything yet, but I do like the idea. I've been looking for servitor counts-as for my Ordo Xenos guys for a while, so if I can get hold of some drones (I'll try and trade with local tau players) then I'll give it a go and will see about getting some pics up.

I like it, neat conversion. As for the beer bottlecap base.... Ugh! Just, no. You're better than that. It just makes the model look tacky.

6^ wrote:This conversion is weak.

BrotherOfBone wrote:

 6^ wrote:
This conversion is weak.

Sorry, but I gotta agree with 6^, it's.. A drone, with bits put on it.....

Fair call, I guess if a picture is worth a thousand words it's still gibberish without the full story. My idea behind the Inquisitorial detachment overall is around an operation / crusade that's hit on hard times / casualties and has had to improvise. In this case, something nasty happening against the Tau requiring some battlefield requisition to keep on rolling. Although Imperial and Tau technology is likely to be different, the basics are probably the same ( material science is universal but approached from different angles and electricity will always be what it is ) to allow the drone to have some bits tacked on to it and pressed into service. I tried to tie it in with the plasma cannons, armour and hellrifle. In the case of the drone it's Tau with an old Imperial weapon, with the Inquisitor it's an imperial character with a Tau weapon. I guess what I was aiming for was a "by any means necessary" approach.

Having said that, yes the Inquisitor could do with a little more =I= bling and the hellrifle is neither old or overly modified but you work with the tools you've got. Thanks for the feed back and suggestions though, I'll give it a more thorough crack next time.

Grimtuff wrote:I like it, neat conversion. As for the beer bottlecap base.... Ugh! Just, no. You're better than that. It just makes the model look tacky.

Yeah, the base's involved a bit of agonizing. In the end I decided to go with them due to a bigger base size and to run with the theme of a "homebrewed" army. Maybe that second one took the shtick to far? Dunno, sometimes plunging in is the way to go.