Once Upon a time I played a game called AT-43. A game by Rackham Entertainment( R.I.P.). I played a race called Karmans. The game was ok as a skirmish fast paced game as an alternative to 40K. Fast forward to today and Rackham E has been dissolved in bankruptcy. People in the FLGS stopped playing right before that news hit and actually, so did I.
So now I have a rack of miniatures (pun intended) that are useless mostly, and worth dick on eBay. So I got this idea after hearing that the Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection was out on Blu-Ray. That I could somehow turn these models into a Tau army. Here's why. Some of the models I own already look like Tau Crisis suits in a way. I have a few as Broadsides too.
My plan is to make the fire warriors using the Tau bodies and shaved down Ungor heads from WFB. I'll use Tau vehicles,weaponry on the "suits", kroot, and so forth.
I'd like to have an alternative to marines to play and I think this could be a characterful army. I am not quite settled on a color scheme yet. Still playing a round with test models.
What do you think?
Broadsides
Crisis Suits
Fire Warriors
Devilfish & King Mammoth
Cool. I think the Karmans work great as Tau. I have a couple I use as Broadsides myself.
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I always wondered about the scale of some of those flying buggies, maybe as Piranha or something.
There are also some ape minis floating around, like some space apes/boilersuit apes with guns from Eureka:
http://eurekamin.com.au/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=ape&sort=2a&page=1
Thanks sonoftaurus. I have seen the boiler suit apes before. prety cool. I am not using the AT-43 vehicles though. I actually am using all GW vehicles. The scale is about the same but the buggies are slightly bigger.
ReplyDeleteAwesome! I love it. great use of resin.
ReplyDeleteI'm working (slowly) on similar army, since Karmans are so cheap now on the internet (sorry, I don't mean to rub it in). I couldn't find any good heads for firewarriors though, but I hadn't considered using beastmen heads. They probably need some putty work to extend their mouths out a bit though.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the idea. By the way, if you have any of the vehicles and some Tau vehicles, any chance I can get you to post some size comparison pics? Specifically, I'm wondering how the King Mammoth sizes up against a hammerhead...
Warhammer 39999,
ReplyDeleteI'll be building some stuff this Friday and Saturday. Hopefully I'll get you that comparison this weekend. My HH isn't built.
Mahalo
ReplyDeleteWarhammer39999- I added a piranha comparison to a Buggy from AT-43
ReplyDeleteI appreciate it.
ReplyDeleteI purchased some of those buggies, and figured they'd be a shoe-in for the piranhas. I was just wondering if there was a comparable option for the bigger tanks...?
Updated with Devilfish and mammoth
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome. I think that makes a suitable stand-in. Now, to find me some cheap mammoths somewhere on the internets...
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