[Tau] Commander Farsight

[Orni]

Originally Posted by Zarachius

Well, it doesn't look like Commander Farsight

You think so ?
Of course it's not the typical xv8 crisis suit.
But I really thought about this. Farsight is some sort of close combat fighter. So his suit should be more flexible. I shrunk his backpack down and enhanced the legs a bit.

Additionally, the sword makes much more sense in the same hand as the plasma rifle since he either hits somebody with it or shoots from some distance. Actually I've never seen somebody fight with a close combat and ranged weapon at the same time against different enemies, not even in a movie.He also may fire the plasma rifle in addition in close combat fluffwise this way, maybe when he wants to penetrate some vehicle armor.

The wings of course ... are just decoration and without any real purpose. At least I like to think that he's got some antigrav technology in there which stabilizes him while flying since his backpack is maybe less powerfull due to it's size.

[Tekore]

I really like it, much more "in your face" than the typical suit. Looking forward to seeing it painted!

Tekore

[Orni]

Originally Posted by Tekore

I really like it, much more "in your face" than the typical suit. Looking forward to seeing it painted!

Tekore

That's right
Actually I'm planning to play him as an attention whore.
He's looking dangerous and he also got a dangerous profile and he might even strike some (non storm)terminators down or something. But he'll just jump arround and poke the enemy a bit to draw all the firepower on him. I'm not planning to give him a 7 crisis bodyguard team. If the enemy get distracted for one or two turns and uses most stuff to kill him thats enough for me.

[ChadMS]

Nothing special?! You're too modest Orni.

[Orni]

Originally Posted by ChadMS

Nothing special?! You're too modest Orni.

you can give some rep if you think so

nah, seriously, he turned out to be cool just by accident. I never had a final model in mind while building him. Just addes stuff ehere I thought it would look good. The weapon was the only thing I was planning to do this way. I took a drone as a shield since an attack drone was on my table and I got the idea to do so. The backpack were shrunken down just as much as possible and the head had to be done this way since it didn't fit in the original shape and I had to saw the back part of and add some more stuff to the front site to make the head bigger again. The two antennas cover the ugly parts xD

As I mentioned earlier the wings were just added to make him bigger since the shrunken backpack made him so small. I build most of my models this way, one tiny cool idea is the beginning and the rest evolves while building it. Almost all my bigger models are done in one or two hours since I keep adding stuff till I'm satisfied without thinking to much. If something looks cool and is fluff acceptable I'll add it.

A friend of mine works over a week for one model, people are different I guess.
He's doing sketches and stuff and only starts building if he got the final result exactly in mind. However, I decide how my models will look like depending on the material I have, while building it.

[number6]

That's a terrific conversion! Really, really like it.

[omgitsduane]

awesome! the backpack wings look way cooler

[Dead Dude Walking]

I agree, the wings are very cool. A very good use of bits! Almost repworthy...

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