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For several reasons I plan on building a Tau Human Aux. Army, using the new Imperial Guard Doctrines. The colours and units will be Star Wars themed, and I intend for my commander to be Gen. Grievous inspired. Before I spend money getting bits to create an expensive custom character, though, I made a very crude mock-up of what he might look like.

Linkification.

The contents are:
1 Chaos Space marine Raptor (Body and legs)
1 Necron (Head)
Various Tau bitz (Various)
1 Iron Hands Space Marine prosthetic sword-arm thing. (Prosthetic sword-arm)
Some Green Stuff (Cape)

Comments would be greatly appreciated.

Personally i don't like the Tau Stealth Suit Burstcannon (if that's what it is) on his arm, or a flying Imperial Guard commander, but apart from that, not bad.

Eh, I didn't want him to be flying, but he's the only guy I could find with Grievous-style feet. And yes, that is the burstcannon. Maybe I'll give him a lasgun.

Tau cannon replaced with Bolter. It's not the final weapon, just a mock-up.

Come on, people. A comment here or there? If it sucks, why, and how can I fix it!

Personally i'd prefer it if you converted the raptor legs so that he's just standing but if you can't be arsed or just plain can't i'll understand.

Unfortunately all the raptor 'toes' are clenched. I could make it look like he was leaping towards someone, ala CW 20, though.

The head and the sword look good, but the body still looks a bit odd in place with the legs.

Pcm979 wrote:Here's the full range of possible base figures.

I see the problem...they are all virtually the same, and not much variation in determining.

Well, in light of that...it works well enough. Still looks funky but barring full customization, it's good enough.

I think it looks pretty cool, actually.

Revised idea:
Base figure: Necron Immortal
Alterations: Remove shoulderpads and 'spine', attatch General Grevious 'ears', replace feet with feet from the Tau Stealth Trooper, replace huge gun with powersword, mould cape from Green Stuff.

Thoughts?

I think that sounds decent, I don't know I usually don't like the blended characters merely because sometimes they look a bit awkward.

Get me in charge of Games Workshop and I'll have a proper one made.

You might want to use some non-40k parts.

For instance, I used some cheapo hallowwen plastic scorpion parts to make my Chaos cruiser into a demon ship.

You could probably use some Yugioh or Gundam toy parts from Walmart for less than half the cost of a 40k model, and then you can place the 40k parts on it. This is cheaper and also reduces the problems caused by recognizability of the necron parts, etc. And then you can afford to make more.

The trick is in painting the figures to hide the seams and make them look like a unit.