Kirustak\'s WIP

[Kirustak]

The Tau\'Dar of Telre Tedona

Ok so I have been lurking around theses awesome forums and site for a few months enjoying the information and such. Now that school has allowed me a few moments to work on a model or two I thought I would get some advice and help on trying to decide a few things about the model I hope to be entering (read have converted by the right time) into a painting comp. I have no clue on color scheme you can suggest them but that isn\'t why I am posting this thread.

The Tau\'Dar don\'t use battlesuits, don\'t ask me why because I haven\'t finished their fluff. However their Shas\'o is a lady Tau and she will have the following weapons and such.

Plasma Rifle
Missile Pod
Vectored Retro-thrusters
hard-Wired Multi-Tracker

Here are the model pictures that I currently have. Anyone have any suggestions on how to mount missiles on this gal? Or any other suggestions.







Her right arm will hold the Plasma Rifle while the left is going to be the Shield Generator. And I still have to design and build the jump pack. . .

 

[uberdark]

these look quite cool but i really want to see bigger pictures. they are just too small. pleae resubmit and i would be glad to critiique it.

 

[Kirustak]

They are thumbnail links, just clicky on the pictures to see a bigger picture, if you still want bigger I may have to find a new image host.

 

[uberdark]

aaah... sorry bout that. they look great but the heads are too big for the fig. you may have to actually green stuff it. the rest looks good though. keep up the good work... from one tau fan to another!

 

[Kirustak]

Update time!!

Below I have the newest conversions to the Tau Shas\'o of the Tau\'Dar.

It took me some time a but I finally developed and designed and even constructed the jump pack for this gal, simple but effective I think. The BFG she carries is also something of a nice addition, this also took a good four hours to design and build. But then it was fun.

Ok the Jump pack

Because I wanted to be able to see the Tau symbol on her back I needed a jump pack that wasn\'t exactly a pack, I didn\'t want wings like every other race seems to favor it just would not be Tau! Well I got to thinking surely the Tau would be able to design something that was lightweight, easily mounted on a suit and also looked rather nice. Utilizing the shoulder system I already had in place I worked my little conversion around a style of retro jetpack I had once seen.




The Gun! Big Plasma Gun aka BFG . . . It is a thing of beauty if you ask me, a weapon of Tau design that appears somewhat lightweight and yet packs a real punch. I figured that I would experiment with the color of the rod before gluing it in, (might go blue) as I am not sure which will match the color scheme better. (Nope still don\'t know how I am painting this beauty)

For comparison I snapped a few pics of the various Tau Guns in standard use. It is only about as long as the Tau Carbine so nice and compact.



Enjoy! And as always comments and suggestions are appreciated.

 

[Krause]

Very nice conversions.

I don\'t know how it fits with the new rules and fluff. I haven\'t played/painted/followed for almost 2 years.

Where did you get the red rod?

Keep it up

 

[Kirustak]

The red rod is actually plastruct rod that I purchased from my local hobbytown USA.

The Tau\'Dar don\'t exactly follow the standard rules for the Tau, well not yet anyway. I am considering using a different ruleset to field them. . .

I have been working on the personalized missile drone (a stand in for the missile pod weapon) a bit while trying to figure out how to further convert the model. With luck I will have some pictures of Daciir (the drone) in a little while.