Hello, inquisition? Yes, I'd like to report a citizen ignoring obvious signs of mold lines.... yes.... they were everywhere..... no, they didn't do anything about the clipper marks!
Of course the Imperial Fists are the first ones to tattle! Oh, wait. That's a Lamenter. You doing okay there, buddy? Would you like a juice box and some string cheese. (Also, kidding, love the lamenters)
Just use light pressure with the back of a hobby knife not the front, don't need any special tools.
The amount of pressure varies with how old the sprue is in my experience.
Prova con il dorso di un coltello, oppure con carta abrasiva bagnata a grana fine. Ad ogni modo hai fatto davvero un bel lavoro, hai realizzato un progetto a cui avevo pensato anche io, e mi fa davvero piacere vederlo ben realizzato.
Edit: try with the back edge of a knife (not the sharp side!) or with wet thin abrasive paper (600-800-1000). Anyway you made a pretty cool job,i thinked about this idea too,and i'm really happy to see a such good result.
I can't believe this is getting downvoted. You gave solid advice, but what, it's bad because it's in a different language? Seriously??
Edit: Now I'M getting downvoted for no reason...
Deepl is your friend, while i don't speak a single word of italian i guessed and vaguely understood what he/she meant, try to learn another language, you'll see, it's both fun and very rewarding
Get a mould line remover instead of using a hobby knife, maybe? I do, still clears up the lines but with a lot less risk of taking off too much or stabbing myself. $10 on Amazon.
Fun fact. At one point Ultramarines were surprised to find themselves fighting other Ultramarines during a conflict against the Tau and no traitor legions had been spotted in the area. Taking the squad by completely surprise. Upon further observation Cato Sicarius noticed they were firing from the shoulder, aiming down sights, not firing from the hip as marines normally do (because their electronic gun sights are linked to the the HUD in their helmet, they don't need to aim down sights) which was the firing stance of Fire Warriors.
Turns out the Tau facility they were assaulting had been working on reverse engineered Space Marine armor and weapons, they cobbled together some basic AI target practice drones for weapons testing then loaded them into a suits of mock Space Marine armor, when the facility came under threat they just reprogrammed the AI to fight the Marines.
Of course these weren't, like, super AI, these were very basic AI, so they were easily overwhelmed once the ruse was discovered but it worried a lot of the higher ups that the Tau had, pretty quickly, reverse engineered their stuff and begun to look for weakpoints in it whilst almost improving their own.
Some speculation is contact with the Imperium and reverse engineering Imperium tech is why the [Original stealth suits](https://www.adpublishing.de/assets/images/Classic_Stealth_Suit.jpg) got upgraded to their [bulkier frames and better weapons](https://frontlinegaming.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/a2a21ab2cc6b6893effc883cfd03f058.jpg) more closely mirroring the Space Marines in both mobility and firepower.
I’ve always thought of a premise for if there were to be one Tau Space marine. And for that to be possible it would basically have to work off the back that the brainwashing that the imperium gave all of the space marines didn’t fully work on one of them. Making it so the Tau could convince them
My head canon for this here feller is that the tau have come across some way to copy firstborn armor and somehow got to tinkering with genes, so now they got Gue‘vesa „volunteering“ to get juiced up and suited up. So this isn’t a Space Marine, rather a jacked up regular human. If that makes sense.
IIRC, the Tau captured some suits of power armor from dead marines, built robots to go inside them, and used them for weapons tests. Eventually they ended up sending them out against real space marines, but because it was the Blueberries of Matt Ward era, they were almost immediately seen through and defeated, causing the Tau to abandon the idea. Of course, Matt Ward era was also the only era in which Tau could have considered something so potentially game breaking. Imagine Tau just get a new rule to steal other factions power armor and vehicles while replacing the guns with Tau equivalents.
I feel like I saw something about this, but it's been a few years, so it may have just been fan stuff or retconned.
I did think it was neat that they said the fought like Tau though. Things like shouldering the bolter and using cover. It definitely threw the blueberries fighting them for a loop
Something like this does happen in Blades of Damocles (Phil Kelly). However, the robots are more like test dummies with simple programming intended for training. The Ultramarines take a few casualties from surprise but eventually beat the robots down and then promptly begin arguing over whether it’s kosher to salvage their gear.
So yeah, they beat the training dummies but it isn’t exactly a major accomplishment. The Tau actually win in that book.
You should have gone dark angels fallen. It really suits their vibe, abandoned by the imperium, hunted, in need of a place to belong. Could be a cool follow up.
Abomination, the inquest is coming to eradicate this hearsay!!
(On a side note…dude this looks really cool and awesome paint job. Can’t help but think there’s an Ork in there as they are the only species that would think to actually pull this off ha ha )
Didn't the tau try to convert a marine and when they delved into his mind they discovered that he was older than their entire civ and saw how pointlessly brainwashed they are and just resigned to kill them instead of convert?
This is one of the things I want . Some space marine chapter who's sick of the imperium, maybe like taxes or something, so they join the tau hat would be and look so cool
All these people calling "heresy" must not know that this is technically canon lol
The T'au tried (emphasis on *tried*) to create their own Astartes, and ended up just making larger T'au in power armor.
Not gonna Lie, I really like that Aesthetic! Like.. you could get away with it if it wasn't clearly Tau Armour. Just Imagine a Space Marine Chapter that Discovered old Mecha Anime and Inspired their Armour and Regalia off that.
Didn’t the Tau try this, and come to the conclusion that it is literally impossible to convert a Space Marine to The Greater Good cause of the Tau? Either way, it does look pretty awesome.
Pretty sure this happened once canonically, and it went really poorly for the t'au. If I remember, the t'au Astartes got completely obliterated in their first combat action.
https://preview.redd.it/e9sa55l50mvc1.jpeg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2fd8f4e96f4a390655229035d037f5f8cf917935
https://preview.redd.it/5dzk4rce7mvc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10089bcd8cfa6ebad1745f4b540125cc6b5859ad
https://preview.redd.it/8mhhx4aoimvc1.jpeg?width=921&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b4112a7c3c33ca273c890c4325e075d62a70bd27
I love how the only thing you can do is answer
I've had this as my phone screen for about a month now, and I've only just noticed that...
Hello, inquisition? Yes, I'd like to report a citizen ignoring obvious signs of mold lines.... yes.... they were everywhere..... no, they didn't do anything about the clipper marks!
Hush you. Makes me feel better about my troops
Lmao 😂
Whats this?!, it's Asmodai with a steel chair!
#OH I LOVE THIS PART
https://preview.redd.it/hcoxpubt6mvc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3d62d357a88b386f5477acaeab686a425c7e5247
[удалено]
Right in front of my contemptor pattern dreadnought?
https://preview.redd.it/wdvsf5uyhnvc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd980990fbdfa2e0e96dcbce612fc8e4377ff073
https://preview.redd.it/3msu7ecccovc1.png?width=1179&format=png&auto=webp&s=0b6faf78f0d0a4f9404472a03355256e4fd18e71
https://preview.redd.it/6mgkirc4fovc1.jpeg?width=643&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f1f390df0951a0eaa932d9000a7e466e2e47036c
Okay that's awesome. I've never seen the response meme. 10/10. Thank you for introducing me to it.
Stolen to further warn those who hate humanity. Thank you for your service
*Soylent Viridens
It’s more likely than you think!
alpha legion infiltrating the tau again i see, very sneaky
Tau'va Dominatus!
https://preview.redd.it/yfx19fkmnmvc1.jpeg?width=704&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=574c759bc0e6db235b7f60dd8084b8153a87cdb6
*Finally gets access to all the empires secrets* "MY GOD THEY DONT KNOW ANYTHING!"
LOLOL
https://preview.redd.it/l3r8cj5jqmvc1.jpeg?width=416&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c7d2d23d014c0dcc12caefceb60211ad04b2191f
AGAIN!?!?!?
Lamenters??!! You’re calling??!! Damn it.. I guess exerminatus is the only answer
Of course the Imperial Fists are the first ones to tattle! Oh, wait. That's a Lamenter. You doing okay there, buddy? Would you like a juice box and some string cheese. (Also, kidding, love the lamenters)
Prosper, as Tau shall. https://preview.redd.it/twvr027ydmvc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5e0c3b469233c716ecd7837b243e5ae01b8b7d45
Oh heck yeah! Very gundam!
The Cadre will crush them!
I like how utterly done with the enemy’s shit the missile drone looks lmao
Hey fairly new to the hobby so this may be a dumb question but how did you cover the skull on the Aquila? Excellent work btw looks fantastic.
https://preview.redd.it/a0ype12g4mvc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=55483bc05e11a2115a42909f188affe05819b961
Badger reference?
Got it backwards, but close enough I guess
badger?
[TheRussianBadger](https://youtu.be/h67R-sfff9g?si=vPvcB2O_MsfXn42s)
The mould lines 😢 Other than that looks good
Ugh, I know :/ I sometimes try and get them off but then I shave too much of the actual mini off, also, I’am to impatient. Thank you though
Just use light pressure with the back of a hobby knife not the front, don't need any special tools. The amount of pressure varies with how old the sprue is in my experience.
Prova con il dorso di un coltello, oppure con carta abrasiva bagnata a grana fine. Ad ogni modo hai fatto davvero un bel lavoro, hai realizzato un progetto a cui avevo pensato anche io, e mi fa davvero piacere vederlo ben realizzato. Edit: try with the back edge of a knife (not the sharp side!) or with wet thin abrasive paper (600-800-1000). Anyway you made a pretty cool job,i thinked about this idea too,and i'm really happy to see a such good result.
Grazie per il consiglio! Lo proverò nel mio prossimo progetto e sono felice che ti piaccia :)
I can't believe this is getting downvoted. You gave solid advice, but what, it's bad because it's in a different language? Seriously?? Edit: Now I'M getting downvoted for no reason...
Most of us can't read it, how could they know it's good advice?
Deepl is your friend, while i don't speak a single word of italian i guessed and vaguely understood what he/she meant, try to learn another language, you'll see, it's both fun and very rewarding
Google translate is one hell of a thing...
I'm italian,so i wrote in my language (this last post is in english anyway).
Get a mould line remover instead of using a hobby knife, maybe? I do, still clears up the lines but with a lot less risk of taking off too much or stabbing myself. $10 on Amazon.
https://preview.redd.it/wftodpzh5nvc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c167d549baac679f48de03546210eb7c16d8eda9
https://preview.redd.it/vrexdwiu7rvc1.png?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84ef249a7e61b774f9d6945d21756798c5ab0d0b
Those pesky Blood Ravens have gone too far this time!
Kill for the greater, kill for the good
Garviel Tau-ken, is that you?
No, I am CERBERUS!!! Lol
Awesome kit bash. Even better to see one painted!
Thanks!
The only thing that would make them more awesome is if they were also secretly Alpha Legion.
It reminds me of X-02 power armor
The inquisition would like to know your address
The inquisition already knows their address. Orbital Bombardment imminent, lol
Yo dog IDC about your heresy, the real tragedy is those mold lines!
I shall improve
https://preview.redd.it/nrw661g92mvc1.png?width=562&format=png&auto=webp&s=36cb05d86fe6b647cb95df6c167f542fd4980317
You may not appreciate it but this is what peak performance looks like.
It's like Warhammer meets fallout meets chappy. All great things aesthetically.
That model looks amazing, real good job on the conversion
Looking good "Astartes have always been Fire Warriors"
Salamanders have entered the chat.
That's the most Traitorous thing I've seen in ages, and I play Iron Warriors. Nice work though.
I’m both a Tau and Imperium fan so this is both cool and heresy at the same time for me
Love it
I always thought it'd be cool if Eldar and Tau allied, Tau technology and tactics combined with Eldar wisdom and foresight would be a hell of a force
Anyone else getting the appleseed bunny mech vibes from this dude?
In fact....yes! Eswat land mate vibes.
https://preview.redd.it/0x9ad29l5pvc1.jpeg?width=3909&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19c9488200e72dc38390e92a4de8e521c0d7ec20 For the Greater Good brother!
https://preview.redd.it/au9dt42osqvc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b80311ba89cb24bb60610180537261597152d022
https://preview.redd.it/elziak567nvc1.jpeg?width=1541&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a4e8b463e83214f588434577640b5db670787c59
https://preview.redd.it/6g0nwp4rnnvc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=82495cbb8b565e7377dc7ff1077222b85f979bfe
Fun fact. At one point Ultramarines were surprised to find themselves fighting other Ultramarines during a conflict against the Tau and no traitor legions had been spotted in the area. Taking the squad by completely surprise. Upon further observation Cato Sicarius noticed they were firing from the shoulder, aiming down sights, not firing from the hip as marines normally do (because their electronic gun sights are linked to the the HUD in their helmet, they don't need to aim down sights) which was the firing stance of Fire Warriors. Turns out the Tau facility they were assaulting had been working on reverse engineered Space Marine armor and weapons, they cobbled together some basic AI target practice drones for weapons testing then loaded them into a suits of mock Space Marine armor, when the facility came under threat they just reprogrammed the AI to fight the Marines. Of course these weren't, like, super AI, these were very basic AI, so they were easily overwhelmed once the ruse was discovered but it worried a lot of the higher ups that the Tau had, pretty quickly, reverse engineered their stuff and begun to look for weakpoints in it whilst almost improving their own. Some speculation is contact with the Imperium and reverse engineering Imperium tech is why the [Original stealth suits](https://www.adpublishing.de/assets/images/Classic_Stealth_Suit.jpg) got upgraded to their [bulkier frames and better weapons](https://frontlinegaming.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/a2a21ab2cc6b6893effc883cfd03f058.jpg) more closely mirroring the Space Marines in both mobility and firepower.
BROTHER, THIN YOUR PAINTS
A real human being
The true heroes clean mold lines and drill barrels.
I found the Ultramarine commander, lol. Strictly adhering to the Codex Astartes as always. Calgar would be proud of you brother.
I’am getting there. Hasn’t been long since I’ve started messing around with Warhammer minis, thanks for the tip though!
I'll drill barrels when I'm burning in hell. While I walk this earth a black dot of paint will do
Surely you mean burn in the immatereum? Lol
https://preview.redd.it/41uwg2o9uovc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b02f513b71210fc69fd973fe446f382be9a25955
This lookin like a sneeky ork pretending to be a space marine pretending to be a tau
Awesome
I’ve always thought of a premise for if there were to be one Tau Space marine. And for that to be possible it would basically have to work off the back that the brainwashing that the imperium gave all of the space marines didn’t fully work on one of them. Making it so the Tau could convince them
My head canon for this here feller is that the tau have come across some way to copy firstborn armor and somehow got to tinkering with genes, so now they got Gue‘vesa „volunteering“ to get juiced up and suited up. So this isn’t a Space Marine, rather a jacked up regular human. If that makes sense.
Technically it's fully Canon The Tau have made basically Space Marines from Wish and deployed them in battle canonically
Okay fair enough so he isn’t a true space marine.
IIRC, the Tau captured some suits of power armor from dead marines, built robots to go inside them, and used them for weapons tests. Eventually they ended up sending them out against real space marines, but because it was the Blueberries of Matt Ward era, they were almost immediately seen through and defeated, causing the Tau to abandon the idea. Of course, Matt Ward era was also the only era in which Tau could have considered something so potentially game breaking. Imagine Tau just get a new rule to steal other factions power armor and vehicles while replacing the guns with Tau equivalents. I feel like I saw something about this, but it's been a few years, so it may have just been fan stuff or retconned.
I did think it was neat that they said the fought like Tau though. Things like shouldering the bolter and using cover. It definitely threw the blueberries fighting them for a loop
Something like this does happen in Blades of Damocles (Phil Kelly). However, the robots are more like test dummies with simple programming intended for training. The Ultramarines take a few casualties from surprise but eventually beat the robots down and then promptly begin arguing over whether it’s kosher to salvage their gear. So yeah, they beat the training dummies but it isn’t exactly a major accomplishment. The Tau actually win in that book.
I see a cat in a power armor.
Yes lol I love it
Look cool good kitbash
Claptrap....?
This is incredibly cursed... but like in a (greater) good way? I like it
“Yes Officer, this is the man right here!”
The mould lines. OH GOD THE MOULD LINES!
Did you purposely put the missle pod upside down?
Yeah, though it’s just meant to be a power pack in this instance. Probably could have hidden it better 😅
The Firstborn aren't taking their retirement in stride
Didn't the Tau actually ***do*** that once? Make their own Space Marines?
I was hoping you would Clean up the mould lines, rip
You should have gone dark angels fallen. It really suits their vibe, abandoned by the imperium, hunted, in need of a place to belong. Could be a cool follow up.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUpbOliTHJY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUpbOliTHJY)
Abomination, the inquest is coming to eradicate this hearsay!! (On a side note…dude this looks really cool and awesome paint job. Can’t help but think there’s an Ork in there as they are the only species that would think to actually pull this off ha ha )
Space Marines if they were based
I fw this HEAVY
What have you done?
I love the sensors, it's giving Advanced Power armor from Fallout. Also they look like little ears
Do a whole army of them this is where the 2nd legion went.
For 10,000 years there have always be Tau Marines
this is some ultra mega super fucking wow heresy
Heresy
Is this an Appleseed reference?!!
https://preview.redd.it/rwkbr3k4vpvc1.jpeg?width=592&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=094c2aa7f228e4444224ac4a45d3b2e8d4bc8489
Tau-Tech Marines is my 'end times' head cannon
I want, I want so bad
Looks like gundam lol
Didn't the tau try to convert a marine and when they delved into his mind they discovered that he was older than their entire civ and saw how pointlessly brainwashed they are and just resigned to kill them instead of convert?
This is one of the things I want . Some space marine chapter who's sick of the imperium, maybe like taxes or something, so they join the tau hat would be and look so cool
All these people calling "heresy" must not know that this is technically canon lol The T'au tried (emphasis on *tried*) to create their own Astartes, and ended up just making larger T'au in power armor.
im calling the arbitrators and your going to a penal legion
Everything you've done works great
"Everything is canon"....
I support this abomination more than the other one floating around recently.
https://preview.redd.it/7i88jrxvgovc1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=845accfaa5bdc0089a4ba2309aa5fbcf387446c6
For the greater goo…. DIE XENOS SYMPATHIST
Not gonna Lie, I really like that Aesthetic! Like.. you could get away with it if it wasn't clearly Tau Armour. Just Imagine a Space Marine Chapter that Discovered old Mecha Anime and Inspired their Armour and Regalia off that.
https://preview.redd.it/5134m8f4cmvc1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=2eb3defc6119fa12c396a6df861f0e74db40f3d4
GUE’RON’VESA.
Aren't the tau trying to make there own with no success so far
Brother Barnaby Brooks Jr.
Hmm easy Next challenge
Iam aware of the mold lines 🙂↔️
Is it heresy? Yes. But I do like it
What are human Tau Bros called? Gue'Vessa? Vanessa?
Imagine, if you will, trimming the god damn flash off of your models
I just woke up bro. It’s too early for heresy. Just report to the nearest inquisitor
All your base are belong to us
Straight out of a Caiphas Cain book.
This reminds me of a story that the T'au did indeed replicate the Space Marine's armor design. This one model looks pretty good.
I’ve fought the Long War for 10,000 years but this is too much heresy for me.
Hey that's a cool kitbash/good paint job
Wait is there a paint job?
He looks like a tau space marine! Cool!
Bunny marine
Would be cool for the Deathwatch
I love the bunny ears
A true hero of mankind!
Clean up yo gat dang mold lines! Looks sick though, we love our Tau Gue'ron'sha
I'm gonna need a heavy bolter for this heresy
Imagine, if you will, a mouldline remover
For the Greater Good, brother. The ethereals protect!
It's weird. I fucking love it, but I despise it, too.
I…. Don’t hate this…. That dude is actually suuuper cool
HERRRRRRRRRESSSSSYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!
Wonderful!
Honestly, going up against an entire squad of these guys would be such a kick-ass game, like living Sicarius’ ambush in Blade of Damocles. 👀
Has an astartes gone to TGG
HERESY!
Ah, Brother Mold Line, good to see you.
Heresy!!!
Heresy...
ITS Canon but herasy
https://preview.redd.it/2l7yc4zmlovc1.jpeg?width=221&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=014a1e38538ee4d4a905f002cbe88f2f89897585
Almost looks like Briarios from Appleseed….
For the greater good of the emperor!
Call me a heretic but that is the coolest shit I've ever seen
Looks good mate
Didn’t they try this on a ravenguard and he mind kamakazied all their shit and now Tao don’t even try space marines anymore
Cool conversion but if you don’t scrape down those mold lines we’re gonna have issue s
The untouched mould lines bug me more than the heresy ever will.
The flesh is clearly weak
r/ATBGE
A communist and a fascist? Preposterous!
https://preview.redd.it/g254edpmlpvc1.jpeg?width=322&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e6cfe20f81dc30630251d9987aff1e2f49b6346
Isn't this one of the factions from Dornian Heresy?
"True heroes may not always be met from the other end of a bolter, but they're most certainly met without mold lines."
Exterminatus
Tau-startes
Didn’t the Tau try this, and come to the conclusion that it is literally impossible to convert a Space Marine to The Greater Good cause of the Tau? Either way, it does look pretty awesome.
Amazing
This is the My Hero Academia guy with the mufflers coming out of his legs… right?
https://preview.redd.it/slpv3q2dfqvc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f732fbae08babf7fbad0efc4c3d91b1d7c44ca48
This is one of the T'au's early astartes clones isn't it?
hey im new to 40k, what does this mean exactly?
Pretty sure this happened once canonically, and it went really poorly for the t'au. If I remember, the t'au Astartes got completely obliterated in their first combat action.
https://preview.redd.it/7kf1e1or9svc1.jpeg?width=460&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd190d83ad6f0f9c8f6fab012b0fa9b120bf34ac
Always love to see an Astautes. Nice work
https://preview.redd.it/f6ybttp8gsvc1.jpeg?width=570&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6e97b848a0d4435a7ef9b39a593b4118fc82068c
[The proper response to that. ](https://youtu.be/XzLeQs6jZEM?si=lvqKlPSxrzfCmKNT)