As many of you will know this is a Tau helmet (excuse the poor drawing skills, I'm just knocking this out quickly to prove a point so forgive my rambling... It's important I assure you
). It's sleek, stylish and made for a purpose (Tau can't see very well and the helmet augments their sight range)
Now, inside the helmet is their head, obviously... which is to be honest... a grey skull face and mostly humanoid (with the nose and ears removed).
This is infuriating to me.
A perfectly good alien race and GW has to screw it up by making them humanoid once again.
So I got thinking about Tau physiology: Why do they have hooves? To run fast on open ground. Why would they need to do this? Well there are two answers; run down fast moving prey, or outrun fast moving predators. Almost every land predator has
binocular (and relatively good) vision. While it is prey have greater
peripheral (but poorer quality) vision. A heightened olfactory sensitivity coupled with the presence of (vestigial) secondary stomachs and a dental structure that would be idealised for eating vegetation leads me to believe that the Tau, early in their evolution were not predator, but prey. What I don't understand then, is why the Tau (as GW has modelled for us) have forward pointing eyes which should give them excellent binocular vision... and yet tell us that they have bad eyesight. What happened GW? What gave them forward pointing eyes... and bad vision?
An arbitrary decisions says I, based on no logic.
Now the logical thing to do is have everyone's helmet on, right? Well that's sort of what I planed to do with my army... but I really want to satisfy my curiosity...
Tau don't look like the things GW draw and model for us.
So what do they look like?
Can anyone give me some ideas for conversion?
Better yet can anyone here draw their ideas? (I have a few of my own which I'll post later when I spend more time on them)
I'd almost like to find a
reason for that swept back helmet... Horns maybe?
Definitely not
human in any way... Something alien, that could fit inside that helmet... a Herbivore look?
If you don't have any ideas that you want to share then tell me... Do you think I'm 'bouncing off the wall' crazy? Do
you hate the look of un-helmed Tau? Please tell me I'm not alone in my hate...