In anticipation of its release, our interest in playing the battle game (WH40K for short) is growing too. I have been feverishly building an entirely new army - the Tau Empire. pace Marines (and Chaos Space Marines) have always been my favorites to play, but I thought change was needed. The "mechanized manga" look to the army is what instantly drew may attention to this race. I felt that one of the units in particular (the XV88 "Broadside" Battle Suit) was not executed as well as it could have been (and I'm apparently not alone) - the large shoulder-mounted rail-guns should have been mounted on the forearms. I have been working on my rendition of a conversion that I can easily apply to an entire squad. Here is a preview (photos did not turn out well- new ones coming soon!!):

The red highlighted areas are the parts that I removed. I re-used the shoulders from the smart missiles to graft onto the standard plastic arm allowing for the rail guns to clear the back pack assembly - which I mounted upside-down. I will take new photos with all the steps laid out and upload to my WH40K gallery later. I will also show the magnetic wargear that I have extensively used on all the battlesuits and tanks.

Back to my original topic WK40KRP: My minis collection is heavily slanted towards Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer Fantasy Battle. While I do have an extensive Space Marine and Khornate army, as well as a Goliath and Scavvy Necromunda gang, there is very little that will be usable for a WH40KRP campain. One of my gaming group members has come to the rescue with some fantastic character models usable for PC and NPC alike!! I am working on getting a gallery of his contributions up shortly.