Tau Special Forces

[YorkNecromancer]

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Got bored waiting for Adeptus Mechanicus. Made some Tau commandos from a squad of utterly ruined Fire Warriors.

Cutting Tau nostrils into Dark Eldar Wych heads is tricker than you might think...

[Rev. Tiberius Jackhammer]

Great conversion of non-Tau bits to the Greater Good - that always seems pretty tricky. They do look pretty brutal!

[Kirsten]

definitely an interesting choice of bits, a shame there isn't a veteran fire warrior squad option. I particularly like the rifles, unusual choice of bits to get a great overall look.

[Deadlift]

Yorker, your conversion abilitys never fail to impress. Very cool and original.

[Haighus]

I think they would be great as a hard-as-nails unit in a Farsight force :)
It is unfortunate that there is no veteran Fire Warriors unit, although I guess it doesn't match the fluff of veterans becoming battlesuit pilots.

[Kirsten]

true, but the HQ choice dude is on foot, so you could have elite infantry.

[Haighus]

Yeah, they could certainly add a unit, but the HQ guy on foot is meant to be a sort of anomaly IIRC, a rare example of sometau who wants to remain a footslogger.

[KellyLama]

What bit did you use for the "barrel" of the rifle?

[YorkNecromancer]

I recently made some plastic Sisters of Battle (http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?52847-Non-GW-Plastic-Sisters-of-Battle), and used bolters (obviously) instead of the guns from the kit they came from (http://dreamforge-games.com/collections/infantry/products/eisenkern-valkir-heavy-trooper).

Those Eisekern Valkir guns are very nice, and I was just waiting for something to come along that I could use them on; this seemed perfect.