Tau Army

These are still unfinished, but a little while ago they reached that sweet spot where the conversion work is disguised and you can see the form of what you made come together. On the subject of conversion work, I thought I would quickly list the parts used on the different models.

Thresher: This hammer head variant is a devil fish with the extra weapon from the storm surge attached at the front. The sandbags are made from Milliput (thanks to the terrain tutor) and the stowage is from Tamiya. I believe its american modern stowage in 1/48th, I mostly picked them up because they were super cheap on amazon. The plasma tank on the back is from a huge resin ‘water tank’ terrain piece that I’ve had for a hundred years and had never painted. the aim was to make this vehicle chunkier then the other two in a way that didn’t impact the form. My main worry with converting Tau vehicles is that the forms are so fluid that you cant just make plasticard boxes to extend them. Finding premade forms in packaging or other ranges really helps with this.

Storm Surge: The storm surge obviously has more of the stowage, most of my tau do. The tarpaulins are tissue and PVA with twine, I let the PVA dray a little before using it at then torn it with the point of the knife. The antenna is copper wire with green stuff ridges and the crane on the back is mostly sprue with necklace chain wrapped around it. Finally the netting is an old bandage that I’ve been keeping in my paint water for over three months. My aim was to let it soak up all the greens i used in the camouflage and get really ‘weathered’

Skyray: I shortend the second devil fish in the same manner as I did the transport, then built the rocket pod out of spare tau sprues.