On the ATT forum I'd been toying with the idea of basing a farsight styled list off the seven samurai story for quite a while. The basic idea is that the list would be made of 7 HQ suits each representing one of the 7 samurai, they would each be modelled a bit uniquely and armed representing the repective samruai. The rest of the list would likely be made up of non-Tau auxillary troops representing the farmers. (counts as Tau models)
I started on this model last night, needs a bit of greenstuff and a bit more cleaning and he'll be ready for paint. The fusion blaster arm is converted from the xv-9 dual burst cannon arm. Did a lot of chopping to get everything lined up as a simple barrel swap didn't look right.
The base isn't finalized yet, I had a bunch of dark age games bases laying aorund and the ice base was the first one I pulled out of the box. Not sure if I want to use a snow & ice base or if I want blasted rock or a dessert theme. I'm also still undecided about the paint scheme if I should do the whole HQ unit in one color or if each suit should have it's own color scheme to help individualize them more. Sadly seven samurai is in black and white so getting color patterns from there isn't very viable.
I'm still up in the air about colors so if you guys have comments on what you think would work best please feel free to post them.
The Shas'O/Farsight Model I put together about two months back:
Some other models I may end up using for the HQ: