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Thanks to Vash for this.
Hello.
I have just bought 19 Crisis suits and 6 stealth suits (and 6 hammerheads...). Of course this is the Apocalypse deals.
Anyway I am going to field all these nice crisis suits in a Farsight army later on in normal WH40k too.
Thoug I don't like the apearance of the Crisis suits, as they are to stiff in my own opinion. There is no life in them (duh they are robots... but with a operator though...). So I decided to do some somple conversions to give them more life and dynamic.
I am sure others have done the same, but I'll post my results as they come.
Here is just a picture of the basic conversion I do. I cut the legs and arms on all crisis models. This will give me more dynamic and opens up more poses for my crisis suits.
These cuts takes only a few minutes in total and I think its worth every second to do it.
These are som "free hand" conversions. More of these will come of course. But I have only done 5 at this moment, due to lack of time.
Here is my try to convert some crisis to look similar to some crisis from the Tau Empire codex. The left one is Commander farsight, and I tryed to make him look like he does in the codex. The one to the right is an old favorite picture. The twin wielding fusio blaster crisis. The picture of him can be found in the Tau Empire codex under the Elite section of the army list.
This is my secondary commander. Wanted him to look like the crisis from the front page of the Tau Empire codex.
Here he is finnished, with my color scheme. Makeing a snow themed army.
Yours Truly
Vash
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| Comment made by DanTay25 on 07:18:17, 5 May 2008 |
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| Dynamic.. but Farsight looks like he's ballet dancing... lol nice work though. |
| Comment made by wood on 06:42:08, 20 April 2008 |
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| amazing |
| Comment made by suvantom on 18:33:57, 15 April 2008 |
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| one more thing. you are an awsome painter!!! |
| Comment made by suvantom on 18:32:21, 15 April 2008 |
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| totall proness!!!!!! |
| Comment made by dooley on 03:55:07, 2 March 2008 |
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| *claps* well !@#$ing done, |
| Comment made by insanetau on 07:55:20, 24 February 2008 |
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| i have one thing to say: THAT THING SHOULD WIN A POSING AWARD, MAN!!!!! |
| Comment made by lillian1364 on 08:10:57, 9 February 2008 |
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| Great interpretation of the original Tau artwork! |
| Comment made by MOOMOO on 04:11:52, 9 February 2008 |
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| Good job :) |
| Comment made by Reuben on 03:30:11, 29 January 2008 |
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| To the farsight mid flight thing, if you look closely his left foot is on a rock. Nice Poses, very DYNAMIC! |
| Comment made by imran_tayab on 13:49:47, 13 January 2008 |
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| Wow, kool conversions. I like the kneeling ones best. One small nag is your Farsight conversion. Shouldnt he be in mid-jump? |
| Comment made by dondeen on 10:45:12, 29 December 2007 |
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| are you selling these on ebay coz i saw em |
| Comment made by dondeen on 10:43:50, 29 December 2007 |
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| are you selling these on ebay coz the one thats kneeling and 2 others are on it |
| Comment made by Veteran3212 on 01:29:03, 27 December 2007 |
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| yes, nice conversions, ive been playing for 12 years (4-16) yea i started early, good uncle, and finally some who loves the hobby as much as me |
| Comment made by korto on 17:19:35, 22 October 2007 |
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| amazing color sheme ... |
| Comment made by Vash on 14:12:04, 20 October 2007 |
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| thanks for the comments. piggy, at the time the forum admins took this topic, I had only done these crisis suits. I now have 19 finnished suits in the conversion section. |
| Comment made by Shas'ui T'au Kais on 07:51:05, 18 October 2007 |
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| Farsight and the XV8 Commander look like they have jump out of the Codex!! amazing skills!!! |
| Comment made by piggy on 15:15:09, 17 October 2007 |
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| nice paintjob and cool position but i dont see much creative converting |
| Comment made by Vash on 21:00:33, 14 October 2007 |
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| thanks for the comments. I used a normal modeling knife actually. I just \"draw\" a line along the \"knee joint\" several times on both sides. In the end the cuts are so deep I can just tear the parts apart. Takes around 2 minutes to do. For the arms... well its just plain cuttin straight under the shoulder. After that its reconstructing the elbow area so it looks nice and round. |
| Comment made by fattyboy5 on 11:49:57, 14 October 2007 |
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| very nice good conversions. games workshop probs will start to sell a saw, for £20... |
| Comment made by Alexander on 11:39:41, 14 October 2007 |
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| One of the best modelism articles ever in this website. Congratulations, Vash. |
| Comment made by Olle P on 09:19:00, 14 October 2007 |
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| What tool do you use to cut the parts? I know GW will start selling a saw for that purpose soon, but in the meantime... |
