Hello everybody,
I am 36 years old and live in Germany and have to excuse for my bad English.
Its been a long time since I last used it.
My first contact with Games Workshop was in the mid 90s of the last century. (W40K 2.Ed)
In the last years I was absent from the hobby but recently I became infected again.
Especially after a friend of mine got himself a new Chaos Marines army.
He was one of those guys who said: never ever again…!
So I looked in my bitzbox and found some firewarriors and an unopened crisis box.
As I really liked the background of the tau and have seen some great conversions in this forum I made my decision.
I will build a tau army with a lot of allied troops.
Here are the first pictures what I have build so far.
My PIP-stealthsuits:




My wip gue´vesa:





Any c&c is welcome.

Three comments:
-- Man, that teal looks fantastic! You painted it on very smooth, and you have a great eye for missing the armor chinks.
-- Are those Predator heads? They certainly look it, and that works surprisingly well with the idea of Tau stealth suits. Especially given the German translations of Stealthsuit as "Geist-Kampfanzüge".
-- Are those out-of-the-box Cadians modified with a longcoat of your own making, or is GW making longcoat Cadians now?

Thank you.

The heads are converted (Chaos)Space Marine heads.

The coats are sculpted with Magic sculpt.

After a long time I present you my version of the fantastic vespid crisis suit concept sketches from the user web gohst of 40konline.




And here is the inspiration.


Better pictures added.

Looks good! i think the head can be improved but vry cool conversion!

I have to say that although I don't really like these (from a purely personal perspective- i.e. they're not models I would ever consider putting together), I can really appreciate the work that's gone into them. The conversion quality you've managed to pull off is very good and the painting looks good too.

As I said, not my cup of tea so to speak, but very impressive regardless

@Blackstorm, Shinji: Thank you

Here is a picture of the whole army.
Ok it is actualy only a Killteam, but it is slowly growing...

That Vespid suit is very clever! I would have liked to see it resemble the Stealth suit a bit more like it did in the picture, but a good use of bitz either way!

@Wolf16: I agree to you but without the bits I could not build the upper body.
I try to get at least one part to build the teamleader to Look more like the concept sketch.

Heer are pictures of my broadside conversion. Not complete but you get the look.
It was a cheap eBay auction of a normal Crisis suit in real bad conditions with missing feet an very thick paint on it.

The Broadside is nearly complete.
Still needs some touchups and battledamge but I wanted to show him to you.





And here are two pics after the paint stripping, as you can see I did not managed to get everything of mini.

Welcome back to 40k! Nice conversions! Especially on the legs of the broadside. Any chance to get more closeups from the Predators?

@Cannonfodder: Thank you. I try to get some new photos but I have to build a new teamleader. It seems that I lost him somewhere

I have finished my pathfinders (except for the devilfish, he is in the pipeline)
Here are some pictures of the pathfinders.






And I have taken a new picture of the whole army. It is slowly growing.


C&C always welcome.

I really like your painting and conversions, especially the "Kolloss" (Broadside) with the ripped-off arm.

I am looking forward to see more of your cadre.

Lost?

How do you loose a model? It happened to me once but like everything else it showed up 1 day after the tournament needed it for.

May I suggest that you add a little more to the bases? It might help the models to impress more.

I think the teamleader turned his stealth mode on and I am unable to find him.

The bases are the only part of the models wich is not finished.
I have to add the snow effect and little touchups with brown paint.

Little update.
I finished the devilfish for my pathfinders.
I really like how he turned out.






C&C always welcome.

Hello,
I wanted to show you a couple of wip pics from my stealth suits and a kroot squad.







Sorry about the bad pictures.

I also made a new overview picture of the finished models.

nice use of flat colour man, you might want to use more edge highlights though. itll break up those blocks really nicely

I really love those models, and how you converted the crisis to a broadside. Very creative. Would you mind sharing what you used to make the fusion blaster into a railgun?
Thank you

It was nothing special.
I used two H-profiles of polysterene (I hope it is the correct english translation) and a small polysterene card in top of it.
The rest is Magic sculpt.