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Rise of the Riptides: Ion Storm Pattern Tau Army

By Rob Baer | March 6th, 2018 | Categories: 40k News & Articles, Tau, Videos

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Don’t miss this throwback spotlight on an amazing Tau army painted and converted by Top Miniatures that won the painting competition at the ETCs a few years back!

Join us for a look back a few years to an incredible Tau army that’s poised to take tabletops by storm again in 8th Edition! Top Miniatures is a commission painting company out of Eastern Europe and their work will drop your jaw!

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Not enough amazing things can be said about this army, as it looks absolutely incredible! Some time, effort and love definitely went into these models from top to bottom.

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Everything in the army has been magnetized for the ability to swap out weapons with ease (above) and check out these converted “Kroot” models below:

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Some extreme detail went into the conversions as all the troops are based off the Witch Elf, er Daughters of Khaine models.

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Even the Piranha is also converted with some alternate heads and painted with extreme detail to match the rest of the army. Of course, the Drones detach but the bottoms of the drones have also been magnetized so that all the guns can be swapped out pew, pew!

Hit play on the video below to see the entire army in living color!

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About the Author: Rob Baer

Rob Baer

 rob avatar faceJob Title: Founder, Publisher, & Managing Editor

Founded Spikey Bits In 2009

Socials: Rob Baer on Facebook and @catdaddymbg on X

Bio: Spikey Bits started with Rob trying to stay motivated to hobby on his backlog of projects and share his knowledge with others during the early blogging era. Virginia restless, miniature painter & cat dad. He blames LEGOs as there was something about those little-colored blocks that started it all.

Scale model hobbyist in the 80s, miniature wargamer, and trading card player ever since. He’s played every edition of Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy since 5th Edition, but Titans of all sizes will always be his favorite! It’s 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 minatures made of both pewter and resin.