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Title: [BFG] Javier's Shipyard: Tau Merchant Class Proxy
Post by: Alchemy on August 19, 2016, 05:35:15 PM: Well, I'm expanding my son's Tau fleet :) for an incoming caampaign at home. As it is almost impossible to get Tau Merchants, started to work on a proxy... after looking in several starship modeler's page. I've decide to start with a promising Ground Zero vessel. I always though that Tau vessels looks "modular", so I add some of freighter modules to the basic hull.

After gluing the side modules, with the help of some old pieces from a 1:35 truck, I've made the railgun batteries.
Title: Re: Javier's Shipyard: Tau Merchant Class Proxy
Post by: Alchemy on August 19, 2016, 05:50:53 PM: For ion cannos, I've add an elevation to the weapons hull deck.
Title: Re: Javier's Shipyard: Tau Merchant Class Proxy
Post by: Alchemy on August 19, 2016, 06:12:18 PM: And now, the bridge and turres. Initially I though to construct the bridge with plasticard, but still some spares of the 1:35 truck made my life easier....
Title: Javier's Shipyard: Tau Merchant Class Proxy
Post by: mlkr on August 19, 2016, 08:40:46 PM: Cool stuff :)

/Mlkr
Title: Re: Javier's Shipyard: Tau Merchant Class Proxy
Post by: Alchemy on August 19, 2016, 10:53:49 PM: Thank you :)

Some extra deck and hull elements...
Title: Re: [BFG] Javier's Shipyard: Tau Merchant Class Proxy
Post by: Alchemy on August 20, 2016, 08:58:29 AM: Now undercoat in black....
Title: Re: [BFG] Javier's Shipyard: Tau Merchant Class Proxy
Post by: Alchemy on August 20, 2016, 11:01:23 AM: Ready.... for "The Great Good" :D :D :D
Title: Re: [BFG] Javier's Shipyard: Tau Merchant Class Proxy
Post by: Alchemy on August 20, 2016, 11:04:47 AM: And forming squadron with a non-proxy Hero Class
Title: Re: [BFG] Javier's Shipyard: Tau Merchant Class Proxy
Post by: Lord Borak on August 20, 2016, 06:33:11 PM: Those are a really cool! The matching colour scheme helps but they match up perfectly with the GW Tau model.

Now I'm going to google ground zero stuff :D
Title: Re: [BFG] Javier's Shipyard: Tau Merchant Class Proxy
Post by: mlkr on August 20, 2016, 09:46:07 PM: That is a very nice proxy. Fits the feel of the original models. Nice work :)
Title: Re: [BFG] Javier's Shipyard: Tau Merchant Class Proxy
Post by: Ragsta on September 07, 2016, 11:01:05 AM: Great conversion, and I like your use of 1:35 gubbins too. Well done :)
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Post by: Malika on September 08, 2016, 10:58:44 AM: Very original! Cool stuff!
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Post by: Jehan-Reznor on September 26, 2016, 03:29:22 AM: Nice Conversion, love it now do it again! ;)
Title: Re: [BFG] Javier's Shipyard: Tau Merchant Class Proxy
Post by: Captain-Matthais on May 11, 2017, 12:36:59 PM: Well thank you very much for some ideas for tau proxies.
They have been a thorn in my side no end and now I have a few ideas running around my brain, I just need to catch them and draw them out haha :)
Title: [BFG] Javier's Shipyard: Tau Merchant Class Proxy
Post by: Thinking Stone on May 11, 2017, 09:47:46 PM: Very nice! I agree with the others, the feel of the ship is very much in keeping with the first Tau fleet design!
Title: Re: [BFG] Javier's Shipyard: Tau Merchant Class Proxy
Post by: Malika on May 16, 2017, 01:33:22 PM: Am i the only one who prefers the original Tau ships to the flyer looking ones FW did?
Title: Re: [BFG] Javier's Shipyard: Tau Merchant Class Proxy
Post by: Captain-Matthais on May 16, 2017, 03:46:08 PM: Quote from: Malika on May 16, 2017, 01:33:22 PM
Am i the only one who prefers the original Tau ships to the flyer looking ones FW did?

I like both myself but prefer the original as yourself.
They looked more like a young race that theu were rather than advanced. Plus the old ones had the addition of being modular so could be made quite different. They also didn't lpok too imposing which I liked for a fleet that went out to mainly colonise/discover/explore rather than conquer.