Firewarrior Counts-As Kroot Shaper [Tutorial, Pic Heavy]

[Forrestfire]

Hello. When I played Tau, I realized about halfway through that I didn't like the kroot models. My solution was to make a squad of fire warriors to count as kroot.

I don't have my original squad at the moment, so I reproduced how to make them:

These are the pieces you need: 1 standing fire warrior legs, 1 unhelmeted fire warrior head, 1 devilfish pilot body, 1 loose kroot rifle, 1 fire warrior grenade arm, and 1 fire warrior sensor arm.
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee26/ustaaz/000_0001.jpg


Step one: Take wire cutters and cut the pilot torso in half:
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee26/ustaaz/000_0002.jpg
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee26/ustaaz/000_0005.jpg

Trim the bottom with your hobby knife. It should end up looking like this:
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee26/ustaaz/000_0008.jpg

[Forrestfire]

Step 2: Attach the new torso to the fire warrior legs.


Step 3: Cut the the grenade out of the grenade hand with your hobby knife:
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee26/ustaaz/000_0013.jpg
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee26/ustaaz/000_0014.jpg


Step 4: Attach the grenade arm (sans grenade) to the kroot rifle:
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee26/ustaaz/000_0015.jpg


Step 6: Glue both the new kroot rifle arm and the sensor arm to the body.
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee26/ustaaz/000_0016.jpg

Now you're done!

[Forrestfire]

Here's another one I made with a knife using the same steps but substituting an "open hand arm" and knife for the sensor arm:
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee26/ustaaz/000_0023.jpg

The fire warrior in this diorama (http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?t=1553) is the same guy with a different head and gun.