Crayfish
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Thanks to GreyDeath for this.
The Crayfish are my favorite things to make and create. I came up with them as a way to have a bit more fire support for my Fire Warriors.
I think if Eldar would use them then Tau would have a fire support for their troops as well. So I sat down and came up with the Crayfish.
Ordered the parts I needed so it would be GW official to use in their games. I then sat down until I made it the way I wanted it; and I love them!
They're really easy to build with just a Gun Drone and a battlesuit weapon of your Choice and then the Necrons' Tomb Spiders legs.
That's it, and wow, you have some heavier support walking along with your troops!
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| Comment made by Tau Master2 on 16:09:09, 8 July 2008
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| It dosn't fit in fluf-wise, but it does look cool. I won't let you play with it, though. That Railgun looks too powerful.
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| Comment made by mattytheogre on 21:51:54, 5 July 2008
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| Simple and very nice!
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| Comment made by Gatorfan83 on 07:35:55, 2 July 2008
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| to many guns in my opinion, i'd drop the carbines
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| Comment made by FNProject9.0 on 20:07:25, 29 June 2008
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very original idea! much respect =D
more pic related to leg assembly is welcome tho
also the tau game is efficiency,every unit has its own purpose. use warriors against army with 4 or worse armor. against MEQ armies like nec/cm/m etc warriors are a wast of point. focus on battle suits and those snipe drones.btw i found this drone army very interesting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYIlM_tVphA
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| Comment made by franz.ferdinand on 17:30:37, 8 June 2008
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| jeez man, pretty soon all your amy will be conversions with these creepy crawly legs
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| Comment made by ofDeath on 11:10:17, 11 March 2008
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| wicked idea!
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| Comment made by Dakota Nel on 10:40:46, 2 March 2008
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| According to the Tau Codex, Etheral doctrine prevents integration of organic heavy weapons into fire warrior teams. Other than that, amazing model.
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| Comment made by taugundrone on 17:51:52, 23 February 2008
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| sweet! why dont u make a base for it?
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| Comment made by elltashen on 21:21:14, 9 January 2008
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| very cool what model bitz did you used for the legs
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| Comment made by 000676048 on 17:07:07, 5 January 2008
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| I love the design and the color scheme you have used. This might be one of the best Tau units I have seen with legs!
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| Comment made by Mr. Mister on 08:50:53, 31 December 2007
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| Nice Dude! how many points does it cost to play it?
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| Comment made by Slugga on 12:32:56, 29 December 2007
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| Tau allready has heavy firepower! Just order some Heavy Gun Drones from forgeworld. They look much cooler and Tau-like.
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| Comment made by Veteran3212 on 01:37:36, 27 December 2007
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| sweet, why dont you make a apoc. datasheet for it
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| Comment made by Daempera on 21:21:31, 24 November 2007
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| wow!
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| Comment made by Valaska on 17:32:37, 27 October 2007
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| I\'d always liked these little guys hehe, good show Grey Death.
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| Comment made by Shas'O Check'Sa Bar'naby Kias on 06:52:20, 22 October 2007
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| The necrons won\'t be happy about that. The legs might melt, mid game and return to their former master!
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| Comment made by rocker360 on 09:59:58, 15 October 2007
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| i give taht fishy <>< out of fishy <><><><><><><
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| Comment made by Didimau1 on 02:17:19, 14 October 2007
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| looks really good, i can see it looking awesome on a diorama base, maybe with it kind of scuttling over a rock while aiming the turret downwards at a wimpy guardsmen..ah that would be sweet
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| Comment made by HardcoreFroth on 18:23:27, 9 October 2007
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| Great idea, I can picture this on the battlefield. Perhaps rules and what not to use these things.
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| Comment made by piggy on 17:01:56, 3 October 2007
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| cool but u shoudv picked diferent pieces to vonvert with.
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| Comment made by steck_638 on 11:54:09, 30 September 2007
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| it looks like the legs are pined. this looks like a cool conversion but, you need VDR with options for diffrent weapons
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| Comment made by destroy worm on 11:54:33, 30 August 2007
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they are the meanest
wouldnt like to come across 1 with a railgun
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| Comment made by luminorne on 16:25:24, 23 August 2007
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| wow haha thats awsome im gunna try that to getsome heavier guns in with my firewarroirs but any idea were i could get the spider legs?
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| Comment made by Stealth on 03:11:49, 15 July 2007
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| Great model, but Tau do have fire support in the form of Gun drones, Sniper drones, Shield drones and Markerlight drones
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| Comment made by DRobot on 22:17:17, 13 July 2007
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| it looks very nice, though im not sure about the legs, i kind of hve the idea tau are more of flying, instead of crawling, but thats just my opinion.Anyway NICE WORK!!!
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| Comment made by Tau_player on 15:10:47, 11 July 2007
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| i want it soooooooooo bad
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| Comment made by DRobot on 02:25:39, 11 July 2007
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| looks good!!!!
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| Comment made by Commander Bloodlust on 00:51:36, 11 July 2007
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| arrrrrrrgh! I love it, snazadelic conversion.
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| Comment made by Bugga62 on 11:35:46, 9 July 2007
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| Awesome conversion! Very cool looking.
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| Comment made by Extreme on 11:17:46, 5 July 2007
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This is a brilliant conversion. The design is well thought out, and the fact that it's a walker could be justified by the fact it's a nippy weapons platform without the expense of anti grav technology.
However, one question; the Games Workshop website states that, when you order tomb spyder 'legs' that they are 1 of 3 random pairs. since this model uses 2 pairs, how did you (GreyDeath or readers) ascertain that you got 2 identical pairs?
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| Comment made by .::cmd.Farsight::. on 15:24:50, 2 July 2007
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very very nice
melikadalikeadafishythingy =p
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| Comment made by vespid wrangler on 02:29:15, 27 June 2007
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Wow the painted one looks deadly
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| Comment made by aquatos sept on 10:09:10, 16 June 2007
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| that is awsome definantly needed in the tau armys but how do i put my creations on tauonline
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| Comment made by Commander NightGale on 09:16:03, 5 May 2007
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| -Nice idea,is that a missile pod under the legs on the painted one?-
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| Comment made by Sven-Kaiser of Krieg on 23:25:33, 12 April 2007
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| +++Nice! I don`t collect Tau any more but I will try to make a crayfish with my spare parts.+++
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| Comment made by --leo-- on 04:55:58, 10 April 2007
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it kind of looks cool but it doesn't fit in the tau culture, maybe if you made some sort of skimmer with this idea.
but it looks cool
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| Comment made by orkinator on 05:26:12, 6 April 2007
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| It looks brilliant but how do you stick it together as i tried one but it fell apart. do you pin it?
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| Comment made by technoman on 02:36:17, 20 March 2007
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| cool but can u use it in battles
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| Comment made by Niatica on 01:00:10, 17 March 2007
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| meh.
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| Comment made by username on 14:28:56, 19 February 2007
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| sweet squared
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| Comment made by Deatheagle on 04:03:18, 15 February 2007
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Brilliant conversion! How do you attatch the legs to the gun drone?
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| Comment made by Trash-Candle on 03:06:53, 12 February 2007
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| A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!
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| Comment made by shortyMcshortshort on 13:30:01, 3 February 2007
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you should VDR the beast!
(VDR= vehicle design rules)
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| Comment made by Adonom on 17:23:30, 29 December 2006
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| On this, it would now only be usable if you opponent agrees, as "chapter approved" is no longer... approved (legal). I do wonder, however, what the stats are?
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| Comment made by blackphoenix on 16:03:58, 23 December 2006
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| how to you calculate the points?
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| Comment made by blackphoenix on 16:02:51, 23 December 2006
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| How is it legal if it isnt in the codex? (note, i am a noob :( ) i have a 1500 army for tau and 1500 SM. By the way, i love it and really want to make one or two w/ railguns to deal with tanks
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| Comment made by Mad Martin on 05:37:50, 7 December 2006
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| I'm gonna make a squad of these beauty
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| Comment made by stupidsimon on 11:54:08, 6 December 2006
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| what did you use to join the gun to the drone?????????????
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| Comment made by stupidsimon on 11:52:31, 6 December 2006
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Amazing, you're a natural!!!
I'm making two per squad!!!!
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| Comment made by Sting on 05:47:24, 13 November 2006
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| Thats a great idea.
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| Comment made by tautanker on 12:24:09, 6 November 2006
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| nice! i wish i could come up with stuff like that
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| Comment made by Commander Arthurein on 02:07:27, 5 November 2006
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| Really good work, i built one of that and it's fantastic if it counts than a krootox for support fire warriors
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| Comment made by stsonic on 10:32:35, 27 October 2006
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| that's so cool!
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| Comment made by Dorphern on 10:43:29, 13 October 2006
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| Nice Work!
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| Comment made by xv101 on 08:10:29, 3 October 2006
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| great work was it hard to glue the tomb spioder legs on???
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| Comment made by Teh_Frm4terer on 01:58:45, 6 August 2006
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| lol... ive read this about 56 times and i never get tired of it... great work...
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