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So the LRE is almost done.

I had to make the Flamestorm cannon front out of plasticard, because the detail to not detail was bad. (on the tubing)


I was skimming through my mind (yeah, I do that sometimes X-D) And I thought I'd make a Tyranid. I didn't want to cut anything off the sprue, because I'm planning on selling all of that, so I dived into my bitz boxes... Thankfully..I found a full Tyranid Warrior body! (and half of another) in sprue! So excited. So I got out the putty, and started seeing what I could do. I just stuck stuff places, and definitely liked what I was doing...so I cleaned up most of the flash, and started gluing! I'm almost completely happy with this conversion. He's missing a left scything talon, because fatefully...I don't have one (weird..I know) and I don't want to cut one out of the sprue, because that would take away from its sellability...
The conversion is supposed to represent leaping I think...I dunno..it just looks really neat X-D leaping over the current target, to get to the thing on the other side!



What do you think?

Assembly has started sir.

So my stuff came in right? So me being impatient...and not being able to wait for myself to buy the other parts, had to put SOMETHING together...knowing that I'll be using the main pieces, I glued/Greenstuffed it together. I need to make sure that this will never fall apart.


Had to clamp down on that piece with my Leatherman so it'd be perfect. Took me a while to bend it too, because this thing was pretty warped. (for my standards)

Spent about 20-30 minutes to get this thing to stay together.


I used putty to hold it together, and it wasn't strong enough X-P so it kept falling apart! Annoying as hell!

Tau Sniper Drone Tutorial

This is the first non-video tutorial I've done in a long time...check these out though =-D

Sorry for the mondo pictures. They're screwed up because of the forums. Click on the pictures to get full views.

I apologize in advance for the huge pictures, but I accidentally did 17" at photobucket..and it takes forever to upload 20 pictures...I don't want to do it again...

This is what we're striving for.

This is what we're making. Pretty close huh?

Underside

These are the things you need. 1 drone body, 2 Crisis Flamers, Arms, and targeter, 2 rifles (its been a while since I've done Tau), and 1 array thing for a Tau Tank.


Step 1
Take the array thing, and cut off the pointy part, and remove flash. Remove the front lense on the underside of the drone body. (or any, its just personal preference, you will want to have the holes facing forward, or you can fill them (this was originally supposed to be a shield drone, but I didn't have an extra shield, so it became a spare))


Step 2
Take the 2 Crisis Arms, and cut off the shoulder piece. Hold both while you do it, or they'll shoot across the room, which happened to the black one. =-P


Step 3
Take the 2 Crisis Flamers, and cut off the pack-thing, and the barrel. I left the barrel on the left one so you can see where to cut (just incase you need it.)


Step 4
Take your 2 rifles (pulse rifles?), and cut off the barrels. For ONE of the flamers, cut off the back part. The top one shown is to show what it was before, the bottom one is what you want it to look like.


Step ish.
These are all the pieces you want to keep. Everything else can go into the bitz box. YOU MUST HAVE A BITZ BOX!!! =-D just kidding..but you really should..


Step 5
Glue the Array thing in the drone body, where you cut off the lens. Cut the flamer (that you kept) to look like the bottom one.


Step 6
Glue the flamer on like so.


Step 7
Glue the flamer pack-thingies on like so.


Step 8
Glue the flamer barrels on like this. The area where you cut them off the original will line up perfectly.


Step 9
Glue the Crisis shoulders on like so. You'll have to move them around until you think they look good.


Step 10
Cut the Targeter to look something like the one on the left (the one on the right is an example) Cut it to fit on the front of the drone shell. (they're painted, because the original got messed up =-( )


Step 11
Glue the targeter on like so.


Step 12
Remember those 2 pulse rifle barrels? Glue them on like this.



Step 13.
Glue on a antenna..I don't have any spares (for some reason... =-/ )

Zangs a damn!


The targeter man will come along shortly..I haven't thought about him yet, as its been almost a year since I've made one of these. =-P