Hello fellow Tau commanders. With the new codex around the corner and new plastic Pathfinds coming- I slapped these together. Patience is a virtue from what I hear, but I think 8 years is long enough. So... here is a place I hope fellow commanders will post their custom Pathfinder teams. Don't let those FW team bits go to waste! This hobby can be very pricy, so get the glue and green stuff flowing!

I wanted them to look very spec ops, like any ODA team the United States Army uses. I thought using scarves around the neck would look cool. They have pouches high on their chest like the MOLLE vest of current war fighters and the Sniper (rail rifle) has a huge back pack with sleeping mat/prone support. See what I can do when I get them painted. I Have not got to doing any of the drones yet, once I get the codex to see what they do (and my box of new pathfinders) then I will use up some extra bits I have.











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The marker light clusters are located on the helmets, I would think where ever the operator looks is where the light should go, I want to make then look like PVS-14s for the tau, maybe even a VIPER fpr the Shas'ui. The viper is a hand held laser targeting system used by forward observes in the army.

Looks really sweet! might have to make some my fire warriors into path finders like these. one thing I noticed (it may just be my eyes are playing tricks on me) is that the fire warrior on the far right seems to be booting himself in the bottom as he throws the grenade. it looks as though the leg is a bit to cocked for a natural throwing stance, but that's just my opinion.
really like the rail gun guy though. definitely making something similar when I get the time.

I'm a bit new here but since my most recent project has been my pathfinders I thought I'd share. I'm slowly getting these painted up, should be able to post that soon. For my pathfinders I really felt they needed to look somewhat stealthy, but most examples I've seen of this idea were hooded cloaks which seemed a bit cumbersome. I wanted them to be sleek and stealthy, so I shaved the optics of the basic fire warrior helmets off entirely, implying a more streamlined internal system. I also decided to do a kind of hooded trenchcoat, which I plan to paint in a tiger stripe camo. These are just a couple pictures, since I didn't want to be too redundant, if you want more they are in my other thread "The Shadow of the Greater Good".

Here's the main pulse carbine part of the squad with attached markerlights.


Here is the rail rifle part of the squad, I waited to assemble them until they were painted.

I think you gave them too many pouches, they starting to look like IG, which they are not. They are tau, with multi tools and space savers, so I would cut down on the overall drab.

[edit] One more note, I suggest you give the prone sniper a biker base, as its round edge and fits the model better.

Those are looking good! Something about cloaks and things of that nature go with pathfinders. Yes, I will admit I did load them up with gear. I was thinking that they work way ahead of main battle lines, extra storage is a necessity. Then again they could keep it in their transport. Farsight pathfinders work a bit different than main line tau

I like the looks of both conversions. Cloaks and gear really accentuate their advanced positions. I tried to depict the same with mine: through less conventional equipment, longer comm antenna, and lots of interaction with the terrain they were based on.
They are some of my favorites from my army, and I may have to convert two new recruits to join the squad.

Those path finders are amazing man, really dig how your have them posed! The kroot pathfinder is a really cool idea as well. With the new codex coming out, I have a feeling pathfinders are going to get a needed boost. I need to get 5 more done then finish making their devil fish. I just got some needed motivation to do some more work, thank you good sir!