Building the Tau Riptide battlesuit pt. 1

I got my new Tau kits on saturday and had arranged a game for sunday so I wanted to build at least something from the new kits. I went for the Riptide of course.

The thing is gigantic, it was possible to imagine the size of the thing only by looking at the weapons on the sprue.

Size comparison to a Fire Warrior.

The legs have some sort of stabilyzing fin which should be posable. It doesn't hold the possition so I bulked it up with super glue.

Leg fin.

It will hold its position after making the joint thicker.

The torso has some nice detail and has a very "mecha" feel to it, it's awesome!

My game was on sunday so I had to wait to properly build the whole thing ( I hadn't decided on the final pose). I put some major parts together with the help of tack putty (blue-tack but white) for the game.

The Riptide almost killed himself by using the Nova generator but it was a factor in the game. I took the Ion Accelerator weapon and tried to Nova charge it pretty much every turn. In retrospective I think that it probably wasn't worth doing it every time since the normal "overcharge" of the Ion accelerator is already really good with Str 8 AP2 large blast!! ... and "gets hot", which took another wound.

Barely holding itself together but ready for some gameplay.

I'll put some extra time after the game in order to finish the model, magnetize the weapons and add some extra details.