Even if you are not a Tau player or a lover of the Scrawny Xenos, prepare to get blown away by this custom XV-107 Battlesuit!
This amazing XV-107 is done by the legendary Third Eye Creations. Check them out, they do commissions in a variety of styles!
This is a Forgeworld XV107 R’Varna battlesuit. I chose this model to paint because I thought the mech itself was a solid design and the guns really spoke to me. I kitbashed the arms a bit lengthening the upper arms since I didnt believe the previous stock design could ever stand back up with such stubby arms, should it get knocked down. I then modeled the missile plumes with green stuff/cotton while modeling the plasma discharge with acrylic sheets and water effects. The model is 99.9% airbrushed except for the lens highlights on the optics and missiles. If you zoom close in a few pictures you can see the white regions are textured with hexagons and the gray regions are shadowed with an extremely fine mesh pattern to look fibrous. However you cant see the mesh unless you are within about a foot of the model and it didn’t show up well on camera. The primary weapons were made to glow by my standard use of whites, translucents, and florescents, and a weak UV lamp far from the model to make the florescents glow just a bit on top of direct illumination. Paints are a combination of createx, liquitex, autoair, Reaper, and GW.
Like with many of my models I wanted to do something unique and this particular instance is an action shot of the battlesuit fully unloading into its poor target. The plasma cannons giving a solid 1-2 punch while the shield/missile drones provide close support. One weapon just fired as the second is fully charged, leaking discharge arcs as it is primed to fire. Previous complaints about my XV9′s shields having visible wires prompted me to place the drones so that the wires are as well hidden as I thought was reasonable while still depicting independent drones.
Steve
Third Fate Creations
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About the Author: Rob Baer
Rob Baer
Job Title: Managing Editor
Founded Spikey Bits in 2009
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About Rob Baer: Founder, Publisher, & Managing Editor of Spikey Bits, the leading tabletop gaming news website focused on the hobby side of wargaming and miniatures.
Rob also co-founded and currently hosts the Long War Podcast, which has over 350 episodes and focuses on tabletop miniatures gaming, specializing in Warhammer 40k. and spent six years writing for Bell of Lost Souls.
Every year, along with his co-hosts, he helps host the Long War 40k Doubles Tournament at Adepticon and the Long War 40k Doubles at Las Vegas Open, which attracts over 350 players from around the world.
Rob has won many Warhammer 40k Tournaments over the years, including multiple first-place finishes in Warhammer 40k Grand Tournaments over the years and even winning 1st place at the Adepticon 40k Team Tournament.
With over 30 years of experience in retail and distribution, Rob knows all the products and exactly which ones are the best. As a member of GAMA (Game Manufacturers Association), he advocates for gaming stores and manufacturers in these difficult times, always looking for the next big thing to feature for the miniatures hobby, helping everyone to provide the value consumers want.
While he’s played every edition of Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy (since 5th Edition) and has been hobbying on miniatures since the 1980s, Titans of all sizes will always be his favorite! It’s even rumored that his hobby vault rivals the Solemnance Galleries, containing rulebooks filled with lore from editions long past, ancient packs of black-bordered Magic Cards, and models made of both pewter and resin.
