Conversions

Last two days I have been looking at painting techniques and conversions. I like to find conversions that easy, simple, and look good. The conversion listed below is one that I found for XV-8's that combines the idea of the modular weapons feature from the Forgeworld suits and applies that feature to the standard suits. Whats even better is that the person who came up with this idea shows you how to do this:

The result is.....

I think this is enough to make a model stand out and still keep the XV-8 looking like an XV-8 and not something out of a Gundam cartoon. This technique be easily applied to a whole squad or even to a Farsight Enclave of say twenty plus XV-8's.

These are some other weapons the person made:

The Tau Sept Marking on the shield is an excellent job.