Tau Mods

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Thanks to BIO_Ultra_ for this.

Tau Fire Warrior - preferred enemy Space Marines (Black Templars)

This is a very simple mod in which I created for the purpose of teasing my friend :) (he collects Black Templars) but in the end came out quite well anyway. You only require to parts of a Space Marine, and a Tau Fire Warrior to create this mod, just take a Space Marine shoulder, and glue it where the giant Tau shoulder originally would be, and a nice head on the ground beside his feet never hurt. Just scratch some pieces off with a modeling knife, paint some blood and you're good to go.

Tau Fire Warrior - Dual Pulse Rifles

Another simple mod in which I designed for the average fire warrior. He carries to pulse rifles, and will blow the *insert word here* out of anything that comes near him Wink This mod is quite simple to create, but will require a few extra parts (included with the normal squad), and a little cutting of the fire warriors left arm.

First get a left arm that you think would position the gun in the direction you want him to be pointing it if he had a gun in his hand. Then you must cut off his hand, at the wrist area, and re-glue it in a sideways position, making it look better because the gun won't be sideways. Then glue the left arm on how you see fit. After that just glue on a second shoulder onto his right arm (if you have one, most will not, mine did because I had one extra due to my preferred enemy mod. Then you just have to paint it up and it's finished.

Tau Fire Warrior - Heavy Pulse Rifle

My favourite and most original mod for my Tau race. I call it the heavy pulse rifle. I got this idea when I was thinking about many different races normal squads can upgrade one of their men to carry a heavy weapon, so I designed this for my fire warrior squad. To create it you will need an extra end of a plasma rifle, a bit that looks like a handle (mine is a handle from an Imperial Guard mounted heavy bolter), two extra pulse rifles, and that's pretty much it. You must cut one of the pulse rifles barrels close to the middle, and then another near the beginning of the gun. Cut off the whole barrel of the plasma rifle, and the two large cylinders attached to it. Glue the barrels of both guns onto when the barrel of the plasma rifle used to be, with the larger one on top. You must cut the gun off of one arm because all are attached, after carving it out, glue the handle on top of the gun/barrel, and make each arm fit one handle, you may have to play around with it a little bit, then voila! Your own heavy pulse rifle :)

Tau Commander - Twin Linked Plasma Gun

I made this mod because, well... I made a stupid mistake Wink I forgot the multi-tracker could be hardwired, so glued it up on top and my missile on the other hand, unfortunate thing is... the twin-linked plasma rifle didn't look good anywhere other than the opposite arm (to me at least) or did it? I found one more place, but it required a mod, and that was on the same arm as the first plasma rifle. So to make this you must first have an extra plasma rifle (included with battle suit/commander) and cut the whole barrel off of it. Then find some sort of wire looking thing (I used the wire off an extra Terminator lightning claw arm) to combine the two guns. Glue the second barrel onto the first, but further up the barrel. The glue the wire to the chopped of part of the barrel, and into the original plasma rifle.

Tau Commander - Close Combat Weapon and/or Symbol of the Tau

This is a mod I created because I think the Tau should have much more CC weapons, like, actually Tau, not Kroot. So I designed a simple axe like weapon, symbolizing the Tau, and a CC weapon. It was very simple to make, just carve out a staff/stick/pole out of plastic, use extra parts to making it look all Tau (in my case a shield generator and the head pieces of a battle suit) and carve out a axe/ sword head out of something. (I used the thing plastic from a normal infantry unit's base).

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Comment made by wood on 06:32:31, 20 April 2008
love your heavy gun dude awesome!

Comment made by dooley on 01:54:00, 2 March 2008
the heavy weapon guy should have like a barrel mag or somethin to make it look bit more realistic

Comment made by pl4gu3_r3aper on 02:33:58, 19 January 2008
point wise, How much would the heavy pulse rifle guy be worth, i\'ve made one and want to use it in battles.

Comment made by pl4gu3_r3aper on 02:28:20, 19 January 2008
point wise, How much would the heavy pulse rifle guy be worth, i\'ve made one and want to use it in battles.

Comment made by elltashen on 01:00:58, 10 January 2008
that um guy with the heavy weapon thing is awsome.

Comment made by Mr. Mister on 11:12:46, 3 January 2008
Awesome! Can you teach me how to DW pulse rifles?

Comment made by Veteran3212 on 01:40:53, 27 December 2007
great conversions

Comment made by Daempera on 12:27:14, 8 December 2007
may I also point out that a battlesuit only has 3 hardpoints, so you can\'t have the twin-linked missile pods, plasma rifle and cyclic ion blaster on one model. a twin-linked weapon takes up 2 hardpoints

Comment made by Daempera on 21:12:11, 24 November 2007
like the conversions, but you could stick the axe thing in the base so it looks like a flag?

Comment made by kanter on 21:16:26, 16 November 2007
The axe just doesn\'t fit for the tau, you should remodel it so it has more of a katana look.

Comment made by some guy on 00:24:00, 28 October 2007
very cool mods but the axe really looks out of place :)

Comment made by Shas'O Check'Sa Bar'naby Kias on 03:31:55, 24 October 2007
nice conversions, but I don\'t like the twin-linked plasma rifle. it looks poor compared to your other conversions

Comment made by rocker360 on 09:59:08, 15 October 2007
love it

Comment made by HardcoreFroth on 18:49:44, 9 October 2007
Not keen on the axe, but everything else, really cool. Except, could a fire warrior deal with the recoil of a pulse rifle with one hand? Also love the heavy pulse rifle.

Comment made by destroy worm on 20:21:14, 3 October 2007
i dont like da axe i thnk its strange but da other things as cool specialy da double plasma guns and hevy wep overall i think it is really realy realy realy realy realy realy realy realy realy realy realy realy realy realy realy realy realy realy realy cool lol

Comment made by Shas'ui T'au Kais on 08:55:11, 27 September 2007
VERY COOL

Comment made by shaso kunas on 02:49:17, 20 September 2007
awsome conversions!!

Comment made by dooley on 01:51:45, 17 September 2007
the fire warrior with the blk templar sheild plate should have been on teh other side, and have the tau shoulder plate there , make it look double protected

Comment made by Dom of Gears on 01:41:13, 23 August 2007
I really like the heavy pulse rifle and he twin-linked plasma rifle, but the rest I'm not so sure on. There's no way a Tau should be able to hold two pulse rifles, maybe try two carbines and count it as a pulse rifle? The commander CC weapon is okay, I just don't quite get the obsession people have with making CC Tau...

Comment made by foreign fighter on 17:30:40, 21 August 2007
on the commander- you do know you cant do that(not the staff, i know its a convertion) you cant have two wepons AND a twin linked one

Comment made by BIO_Ultra_ on 08:23:48, 13 August 2007
Walrus man - no biggy ;) lol everyone else - glad you liked them

Comment made by shas O shojin on 07:42:58, 10 August 2007
wonderful!!

Comment made by Walrus man on 16:33:28, 4 August 2007
BIO ultra - I didn't read the article, just looked at the pics - embarrasing

Comment made by Droids_Rule on 16:43:57, 1 August 2007
Very nice, especially that Twin-Linked Plasma Cannon!

Comment made by fattyboy5 on 01:51:33, 1 August 2007
Got some really good ideas here. i know fire caste doctrine states against using heavy weapons in fire warrior teams, but it looks dam cool.its wierd because ive bin using the same plasma rifle idea for ages.

Comment made by BIO_Ultra_ on 19:24:15, 31 July 2007
Walrus man - i have indicated how to make it in the mod desription above the picture. It may not be the most descriptive, but it should be enough to get you own made.

Comment made by --leo-- on 09:44:29, 31 July 2007
the twinlinked plasma rifle looks very good, think i'm gonna make myself something like that too

Comment made by Walrus man on 23:32:44, 28 July 2007
I really like the look of the heavy pulse rifle even if its against fluff and the tau code of honour. How did you make it?

Comment made by Divinity on 16:38:36, 26 July 2007
the reason tau don't have heavy weapons is because it's against their code of honour. they need to be mobile and they believe the fair enemy deserves a fair fight

Comment made by BIO_Ultra_ on 20:34:05, 23 July 2007
im glad you like them sniper drone :)

Comment made by Commander Bloodlust on 20:22:10, 23 July 2007
absolutely snazzadelic modifications I'm gonna do one of those dual wielding pulse rifle fire warriors right now.

Comment made by BIO_Ultra_ on 11:12:44, 23 July 2007
ya, my cam doesnt help any either, the flash ruins it, so i have to take them without the flash directly under a light >< awell, im glad you liked some. And ya, i figured that would be one that many people have done, along with the prefered enemy one. I think the other ones wouldnt be as common though.

Comment made by Argetlam on 23:45:06, 22 July 2007
some good ideas...and some not so great ideas! i like the dual rifle wielding fire warrior, mainly because i have one too! but ur painting could do with some work, tbh! anyway, nice ideas!