Sunday, February 24, 2008

The Devilfish box 1


That's what's in the box. Being budget-conscious I highly recommend this set. It comes with a squad of 8 Firewarriors and an extra pair of gun-drones. So either you've got a Devilfish to make a legal Pathfinder team or you've got a highly mobile Troops choice on the org chart.

Here are the drones built up. They're simple little guys. And in large numbers, they make for a pretty crazy sight on the game field.

Grouping the bitz together for the Firewarriors, I had to make sure the arms match up because there are several variations (4 to be precise). What irritates me is that the sprue comes with an off-count number of Pulse Carbine options. That means it takes a bit of creativity to make it look right (since the left hand will not necessarily reach the grip of the weapon held by the right hand).

But as you can see above, a bit of sneaky arranging of the pieces and things look alright. Cheats like chopping off parts of bitz hidden by other bitz help. For Tau, they have those big "shields" on their left shoulders that can hide unsightly mods. And once primed with black, it'll be even less noticeable.

Next up - the tank model. And when that's done I'll finally be able to show off the actual scale of the Baneblade I built earlier this year!

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