"12" Eva as Eldar Titan" Topic

Yes, it's time for latest crazy ideas round I lost count a long time ago.

So to go along with the Harlequins I've been picking up, I'm thinking they need a proper titan. I don't really want to pay the Forgeworld prices, and I also don't really like the style of them. So I've been thinking of using one of the EVA units from Neon Genesis Evangelion. I've found one I even like a lot here: link

The only problem is most of the EVA units I've been able to find only run 5"-6" and the titans run 12"; so the question is does anyone know a currently available EVA, either action figure or model, that's in the 10"-12" range?

I don't know about big EVAs, but the Hime from Brain Powered looks more Eldarish:

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While the Eldar titans are more organic looking than most mecha, they're much more angular than the Hime:

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I do remember one game of 40k where we figured that Wraithlords would probably move organically like Evas would. We then started calling that Wraithlord "Shinji". I think it did a few turns of bezerk action before it started to break down and moan about how its father treated it…

Here's a great conversion featuring an EVA. link

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LOLZ @ the mature user name. Great conversion, though.

Personally, I think the brain is more convincing than the EVA as an Eldar Titan, but it's your tabletop. Both are cool. The EVA is just very recognizable to me as…an EVA. ;)

I don't know about the Eldar but they would make awesome Tau Titans.

I've been thinking about Tau Titans (and was probably going to make a post about those in a bit) but for those I've been leaning more toward modified gundams or Macross/Robotech destroids (I've even currently got my eye on a couple 10" destroid figures).

Check out the Five Star Stories Mortar Head
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(The Knight of Gold especially seems very Eldar-ey)

Thanks, Hey Nonny Mouse. I'll look into those, though so far my google fu has only revealed 1/144 kits (too small and a bit pricy) and some 1/100 kits with no mention of size. Maybe HLJ will have more details.

Ultimately I went with two 10" EVA-00' units, as I was able to pick up both of those and two of the recent Steel Battalion figures for just over $35 USD (including shipping). I wanted the 15" EVAs, but they didn't seem to have any of them in stock.

It could be that I won't be happy with them, or that in the process of trying to modify them wind up destroying one or both, but given what I just paid for them I'll feel a lot less bad about that happening than I would have with most of the other options I looked at.

I gotta say that a Tau titan would be a nice thing to have… Even if I don't think that the manner in which Titans are represented is a very good one…

The Eva has many traits that a Tau Titan would probably have, but… I am wondering…

Wouldn't the Tau have different Titans for different castes?

<pedantic>Tau don't, and most likely wouldn't, use Titans as such. Something that restricted and vulnerable would be seen as a significant liability. Their suits top out at the XV-8 series. Most development is going on in the 'mid-sized' suit category, the XV-2* (XV-25 Stealth, XV-22 Prototype). That said, the Tau do have a Titan-equivalent that fills that 'role', as much as the Tau think it should – the Manta! link While the produced model is a troop carrier variant, it's mentioned at least a few times in the various fluff sources that the Manta missile destroyers are used for Titan-hunting.</pedantic>

Okay, now that that's out of the way, a Tau Titan would be pretty cool, and fun to model. I've seen some made off of walkers like this: link There's often a bunch of Tau bits and weapons stuck on, but (IMHO) it's never been done very well.

As for the castes having their own Titans, sort of? The Fire caste most certainly would…and they'd all be combat vehicles, of course. The Earth caste would have a bunch of construction/engineering Titans, of widely varying design and capability. The Air caste already has theirs (see above).

The long-limbed, lithe EVAs seem to suit the Eldar aesthetic much better than the Tau – I've yet to run across anything that really screams 'Tau Titan', to me.

So far gundams and macross mecha are, to me at least, the closest. The Tau seem to have already drawn pretty heavily from that source; the XV25 stealth suits already look surprisingly close to a new variant of Robotech's Invid (Mospeada's Inbit, for purists), and the conversions I've seen done that use bits from various Robotech/Macross models tend to look pretty natural.

I'd like to use a destroid as the base for such a conversion, but most of them just don't seem very Tau-like; the VFs are much closer in style, except for the problem that from the body down they look like transforming aircraft, which is a vibe the smaller Tau suits don't have. Perhaps there's a way to find a happy medium between the two, or maybe something like grafting a VF head to one of the less outlandish Gundam bodies. The problem there being finding two appropriately-sized figures, and finding them at a price that doesn't make me cry when I start mutilating them.

On the Eldar-
Way too Expensive, l know, But:
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Makes Forge World look like Lincoln Logs, doesn't it?

jbenton:
Here's a Reference site for you:
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and particulairly this step-by-step journey:
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As for Tau? Looka These:
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Thanks for the links. I almost broke down and bought one of the 1/100 plastic kits from Five Star Stories, the cheapest of which would have run me as much as the order I eventually placed; the only reason I didn't was because the biggest of them only came in at 7"-8". I suppose it's a bit silly of me to have focused so heavily on that particular element, but when I think Titan I want something big and imposing.

As for the other links I'd actually seen the scratch built Eldar titan before. It's impressive work, but at the same time he was sticking pretty closely to the official design, which I happen to think is rather silly looking. I plan to try and modify the EVA to make it more Eldar-ish, but as of yet haven't decided how.

Greydeath has had some Tau stuff on ebay lately, and I was eyeballing it. He does some impressive work, though the "knights" aren't the aesthetic I'm looking for, and I agree with a poster there who thought the superheavy tank looked more industrial/chaos than Tau.

Lots of good stuff over there, though, and plenty of sources of inspiration.

I remember someone did one of my 1/60th Dictator kits in Tau bits. It looked great. The kits don't pop up too often in auctions, though.

Best,
JBR

This thing: link ?

I must say it's rather impressive, Mr. Ross. I wants one. Again it's not quite the size I'm looking for, but it's nifty enough that I'd find a use for it somewhere.