Kauyon La'Rua - "Patient Hunter Team"

[mihangelion]

Hi Guys

I have decided to start an official topic for my Tau group and to show the progress im making aswell as to invite comments and tips from the rest of the community.

I have 2 armour designs so far that will be pretty easy to get hold of most of it. there are obviously a few things i need to find/build etc but this isnt going to be a quick project.

The first armour design i have is this one:


i decided to have this one or one exactly the same but brown instead of black.

the basis i have so far is:

• Based on path finders
  
• Uses a modified f2000 and VN mags
  
• Brown/Black Jumpsuit
  
• Armour using some form of foam covered in fibre glass/latex
  
• underslug moscart as grenade laucher (still thinking about this)
  
• Laser as Marker light (some roleplay options given with this)
  

im still working out the helmet (i might have to sculpt this so it fits a persons head taking into account human heads are different to Tau. i am also going to possibly have a radio built into the helmets in the long run.

As for weapons, a pulse carbine would be easy to make so the majority of it looks realistic but only the rear section would look different as shown in this poor picture lol



I will hopefully come up with some background to my team soon and will update this thread accordingly

Any tips appreceated!

[Cadet Commissar]

Whats the background on the Cadre mate? That colour scheme looks ok, exept the fire warrior looks like he is playing Rounders in a pose like that. Ok, maybe he should be looking more to the left.

How were you thinking of blocking out the fn2000?

[mihangelion]

HAHAHA nice!

well my initial idea for a background is the Tau empire have sent a scouting party assessing various threats due to suffering at the hands of some aliens without intel on them.

so the reason why this detachment of Tau is so far out from their space (mainly due to a wormhole) but its a recon mission and the usual effort to try and get home.

this has many roleplay options but as i said it is just an initial idea at the moment

[Cadet Commissar]

sounds good.

[Manius]

Sounds and looks good. I do notice a distinct lack of reversed knees on that image...have GW dropped that as a Tau trait now??

[mihangelion]

well i dont think its a reversed joint. i cant remember there ever being reversed joint. i know that they have another joint just above the foot

[Manius]

...darn-it! why did I think that....(was is Kroot then?? I dunno, ignore me)

[Lex]

Yeh, it's the kroot that have the reversed knee joint.

Not sure about the design for the F2000...I think the front part needs to be longer to match the plasma rifle, otherwise it just doesn't look quite right. Unless you're aiming for some sort of carbine version?

[cybersoldier]

mihangelion said:

As for weapons, a pulse carbine would be easy to make so the majority of it looks realistic but only the rear section would look different as shown in this poor picture lol
Any tips appreceated!

A senior NCO should be more observant, Colour Sergeant.

[mihangelion]

lol yeh i have said that i wanna make the carbine. its the standard weapon for Tau Pathfinders and is a good starting point as far as im conserned

[Lex]

I skim read... *shrugs*

[Cadet Commissar]

Their their Kyrian, did the nasty commissar shout at you? NOW STAND UP STRAIT CHIN UP SHOULDERS BACK AND CONDUCT YOURSELF IN A MANNER BEFITTING YOUR RANK! DI-IS MI-IS! SA-ALUTE LE-EF TU-RN Left Right Left Right Left Right!

[Lex]

He didn't, actually. But you did. Nice work, here's a cookie.

[Gor/Strauss]

*slaps Zenda* Pay attention when greycoat shouts at you, you know how it upsets him when you ignore him.

Liking the idea...aren't f2000's hard to come by though?

[Cadet Commissar]

Nope Airsoft world have three different ones, Tan, Black and dayglow puke. They even do a kryolen job for more splintercelliness. Could be worse tho, atleast no one has made a 203 that fits a FA MAS, dont think I could cope with a shed load of solid snake's on an open day.