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Post subject: New Tau Stealth suits 40K scale  Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 2:17 pm |
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Freshly lifted from Warseer:
As for the gun, it sounds like the 'cyclic ion blaster,' which will be one of the special-issue weapons available to high-rank Tau crisis pilots. It will be strength 3, assault 5, with to-hit rolls of 6 counting as AP1 but still needing to wound -- much like the rule for Eldar Rangers with regard to their longrifles. |
Now this, I like! 
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Post subject: New Tau Stealth suits 40K scale Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 4:50 pm |
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| Quote (Tactica @ 18 Nov. 2005 (01:45)) | Legio Adep'taus "Stealth" Tau'tanicus
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Boo! Hiss! 
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Post subject: New Tau Stealth suits 40K scale Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 7:12 pm |
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Post subject: New Tau Stealth suits 40K scale Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 8:54 pm |
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I actually like the looks of it. Not very stealthy looking, but way cool.
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On a related note, one of the local 40K Tau players has a unique color scheme for his stealth suits. He primed them white then drybrushed them with a light aqua/green color. That left all the recessed lines in white. It has an effect kind of like the "invisible" stuff on the old cartoons that were outlined in white - Spaceghost, Wonder Woman's invisible jet on Superfriends, etc..
I thought it was very inventive.
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Post subject: New Tau Stealth suits 40K scale Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 9:10 pm |
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NH,
Agreed, not too stealthy looking, but the models are kinda  looking.
Paint Scheme: That would be interesting to see. I wonder how one of the golden daemon slayer sword winning types would go about 'invisibility' painting...
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Post subject: New Tau Stealth suits 40K scale Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 9:32 pm |
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I'll challenge Boltman with this later, see what he can come up with. It'll probably be some kind of super-chrome finish (S/E NMM) 'reflecting' the environment around it.
I still like the smaller XV15 Stealth suits better. I wonder if they're getting an update to bring more guns to the party. A plasma rifle or fusion blaster on a stealth suit would just be gross.
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Post subject: New Tau Stealth suits 40K scale Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 11:47 pm |
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We've already seen them with th fusion blaster - at least on the lead figure, don't know if that was prototypes or character only, or - something else.
Paint: it would definitely have to be some kind of SE/NMM - I agree, but instead of NMM in the typical chrome/golds - I'm thinking it would have be a study of whites and blues?
Hmm... don't know - that's a tough one.
I could imagine a shadowbox scene where you are forced to look at the model from one direction - where you could see 'through' the model i.e. in paint to the scene in the bacground, but now you have a distorted image looking 'through' the stealth... very predator movie-ish... In this mode, I bet you'd have to use the full gambit of colors in the scene to pull off and reflective studies would have to be pretty close to dead on - heh, that would look cool. Would have absolutely zero play value use on the table, but ought to be one hell of a challenge for the Master Painters group!
Heh... blah... 
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Post subject: New Tau Stealth suits 40K scale Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 2:59 pm |
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| Quote (Tactica @ 18 Nov. 2005 (22:47)) | We've already seen them with th fusion blaster - at least on the lead figure, don't know if that was prototypes or character only, or - something else.
Paint: it would definitely have to be some kind of SE/NMM - I agree, but instead of NMM in the typical chrome/golds - I'm thinking it would have be a study of whites and blues?
Hmm... don't know - that's a tough one.
I could imagine a shadowbox scene where you are forced to look at the model from one direction - where you could see 'through' the model i.e. in paint to the scene in the bacground, but now you have a distorted image looking 'through' the stealth... very predator movie-ish... In this mode, I bet you'd have to use the full gambit of colors in the scene to pull off and reflective studies would have to be pretty close to dead on - heh, that would look cool. Would have absolutely zero play value use on the table, but ought to be one hell of a challenge for the Master Painters group!
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I'll suggest it to Chris Blair next week (he only lives a half-hour walk away from me, and he's a many-time Golden Demon/Slayer Sword winner...)
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