[Pttocs]

Basically I decided to make some plastic sniper drones out of spare bits I had lying around, and I think the end reasult is fairly good and will look good when painted up.

I was going to buy some metal drones, but the price of them went up from $40 to $44 (Australian Dollars, obviosly). I have always thought about making a sniper drone conversion, but always came undone on the way I would make the spotter, the markerlight he carries being to difficult to replicate. However, I found myself wondering why the Tau would make their spotters lug around such a bulky and awakward thing like that markerlight, so I came up with the idea of a more advanced marker drone that is directly controlled by the spotter, with the spotter himself marking out the target with his modded field binoculars wired to the drone. Well that is enough rambiling from me, so here is the product;






Of course he needs a team to spot for so here is his drones;




(The final drone is half made and when it is finished I will GS up the varios gaps and then paint them up.)

And some group shots:






I thought some people might be curios as to how I made the rail rifles, so I took some pics as I made the last one.








If you have any questions, feel free to ask, I would like to hear and comments you have, espicialy in regards to how you think I could improve them. I will post a full group shot with the completion of the third drone.

Thanks.

[FaithTruthWisdom]

Nice job. And not too dissimilar from my converted Sniper Drones/Spotters. I used the Tank Commander binocular arms (modified to be held by only one arm), and glued it onto a standard Fire Warrior, then included a standard Drone Controller on the model.

It made more sense to me for a spotter to carry around more compact systems, as apposed to what looks like a Crisis suit's leg...

[Scizor]

good convertion and nice idea!, now make the 3rd sniper drone and paint them!

[Commissar_Will]

You know, I reckon these look cooler than GWs sniper drones. The spotter in particular looks like he was hewn from pure awesome. The sniper drones could use some stabilisation fins I reckon, but they still look brilliant. That rail rifle conversion is just inspired. MEQs beware!

[Pttocs]

Thanks guys, your appreciation is, well, appreciated.

@FaithTruthWisdom, when I came up with the idea, my original idea was to use a steathsuit head piece as the part of the markerlight that the spotter looks into with some funky lens instead of an eyepiece, but in the end I decided that it would look clunky and would waste a steathsuit.

@Commissar_Will, I don't quite think the spotter is that good, but thanks for the thought, . I plan to put stabilisation fins on them at some stage, the only problem is that I can't find anything suitable that I have enough of in my bits box. The antenna from a gun drone would be ideal, but I simply don't have enough to use three on each drone (especially keeping in mind that I plan on doing a second team.) If anyone could suggest something that would work, please let me know.

@Scizor, Final drone is made, I am just waiting to go get some black spraypaint before I start painting them. Hopefully I get it today, but either way, they should be finished by Christmas

[razgriz_cipher]

They look good. I like all of them.