Converting Tau Battlesuits
Converting Tau Battlesuits
Positioning Limbs
Crisis Battlesuits These principles work
equally well with Tau
Piloted by the bravest warriors of the Fire Caste, Crisis Battlesuit arms and legs.
The target lock
suits provide a Hunter Cadre with fast moving, flexible has been added
firepower, bringing death to the enemy. to the head.
s
girders come create a shooting pose. pad, and experiment with its
from the new position.
building sets.
Green Stuff is used to
fill in the gaps between
the components.
The antennae
mounting blocks
have been removed
from the head.
• Drill a hole for a pin in the lower
arm, then drill a hole in the pad
to match.
When pinning, make sure
s This model is straight out of the the model is balanced or it
box and has been modelled will topple over.
dynamically to show a Battlesuit
taking off. To get this pose, the
model was pinned to its base The girder has been bent as the
through one of its feet. With basing Battlesuit steps onto it, giving the The knee was
cut and rotated
materials added, it’s impossible to model a huge sense of raw power to create the
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Converting Tau
Battlesuits
The leg was cut
and rotated to create
the leaping pose.
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FIREWARRIORS
Broadside Battlesuits
A heavier variant of the XV-8 battlesuit, the XV-88, or
Battlesuit Commanders
The most trusted of the Fire Caste Commanders lead
Broadside battlesuit, provides formidable firepower. the Hunter Cadres in battle, and some carry special
Its twin-linked railguns are capable of destroying issue equipment – systems that have yet to enter
enemy vehicles whilst its secondary weapons systems common use, are difficult to mass produce, or that
are deadly to infantry. are only in the earliest stages of development.
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Commander box set. pose, with the legs cut and
the warrior’s target. All this gives the
repositioned and pinned to the base.
model a sense of activity.
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a squat appearance.
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has been extensively Re Sh
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repositioned to create
the illusion of full
flight. s iew
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This white
Battlesuit, by Darren
Latham, has a multi-
tracker for a head.
i fl e
aR
s Neil Hodgson
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P la painstakingly painted
his model to look as if
it is entirely mirrored.
As Anya Wettergren’s
model shows, Battlesuits
are powerful in melee as
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