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Tau Crisis Battle suit, scratch built
Apocolocyntosis
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:33 pm 
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Firstly, my apologies for the appalling image quality in the pictures that follow, my camera struggles to pick out the definition between lots of small shiny bits of white plastic at this size.

Anyway, there has been some concern on the future of tau in epic post FW, so i thought id have a mess about, here are the results. This is just a test, as i don’t actually have access to any tau models to work from, just been looking at pics online (think my ones legs look a tad long in the shins and one of the guns is wrong).








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PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:37 pm 
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:37 pm 
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HOLY CRAP ! thats amazing !

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:43 pm 
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Excellent!!! Looks really nice. Can we see some paint on it too? :)

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:46 pm 
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thay look great you going to have a go at the other suits

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 6:01 pm 
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:O   :sus:  :oo:  :D

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:10 pm 
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Nice job on that, difficult to do at that scale. I think your reference material is off though, crisis suits have only three toes on the front and no "heel"

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:28 pm 
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Quote: (Apocolocyntosis @ 21 Jun. 2009, 17:33 )

my camera struggles to pick out the definition between lots of small shiny bits of white plastic at this size.

Use a lighter backdrop (probably not white, that'd create some real snow-blindness), reduce the exposure on your camera, throw a filter over your light source, etc. etc...  :yes:
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:57 pm 
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I think your reference material is off though, crisis suits have only three toes on the front and no "heel"
Thanks for pointing this out, the heels have now been cut off :) . My fault for initially using FW pics for the back of the toros but then moving onto GW store pics for the rest, and the GW store minis i looked at had no pics from the back.

I don’t plan on doing any other suits ATM, although i have made a pair of broadside rail guns. It wont be painted for a while, got all my paints packed up for now as im moving out of halls this Wednesday.

Thanks for the photography tips Vermis, i shall give em a  go next time :agree:

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 8:56 pm 
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This looks really awesome!!

In comparison with the original by FW I think I'd need to look very closely to distinguish them.
Such a tutorial as with the dreadnoughts would be nice, even though I think I have enough battlesuits.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:00 am 
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I can't accept that that was made with human sized fingers, come on, come clean. You have a slave workforce of lilliputlians doing you bidding dont you! :tongue:

Amazing work, I actually like the longer legs btw.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 2:19 am 
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Fantastic stuff mate.

Just incredible when you consider the size of this thing. The details are perfect and it is imediately obvious what it is.

Brilliant!

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 2:26 am 
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Unbelievable... in a good way!

Could you go through a "step-by-step" when you make another one and post pics of the process?

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:41 am 
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A step-by-step guide for these would be hugely apreciated.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 10:51 am 
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Quote: (illuvitar @ 21 Jun. 2009, 17:37 )

HOLY CRAP ! thats amazing !

Words. Mouth. Stolen!

Excellent work Apoc!

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