++ Like Gue'la to the Slaughter ++ A 3rd Inspired T'au Plog

[MoriyaSchism]

20 hours ago, TheTrans said:

 

Damn, a soviet style scope mount compared to the Imperium using rails to mount their accessories? Goes to show how primitive the perfidious Tau are.  Jokes aside, fantastic work. Really love seeing stuff that brings back the style of Third Edition.

[TheTrans]

Alright, I'm back... the joys of hobby ADHD!

Ran another fantastic 3rd-A-Palooza this year in July, it was the 3rd War for Armageddon where I slapped togethere a super heavy tank company to use on a large apoc table which was an absolute blast!

Next year we've decided on the First Tyrannic War, so I've begun working on an 'air wing' Tyrnaid force. 

But even more amazingly a local group of people have created a 3rd edition Slow Grow. Now my Tyranids for 3AP next year will not 'grow' very well into a normal list as it will have a pair of Harridans in it, I thought why not slow-grow the Tau that I started!

And with that I've now rattled together the frist Prototype Devilfish.

Much like the suits before it I've opted to try and ground the model with lift points etc. Now I felt if Battlesuits were guitting field-applied ERA, it would be madness for the Devilfish/Hammerheads not to also.

So the Devil Fish:





So to try and keep the design choices I've made with the Suits, I've added some hopefully logical lift points to the chassis and engines, swapped out  the burst cannon for a less rediculous looking sized one and added a sort of 'bump shield' around it. I've also put on some intake safey bars to try and stop a tau exiting the side door getting sucked into the jet engine just to their side and finally a good whack of ad-hoc ERA slapped all over it, I tried to minimise coverage, while still having any 'crewed' ares protected.

One thing I'm unsure of and would love some thoughts on, do I remove the front viewport and replace it with either a sensor packace or just fill in the era around it?