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Since I don't play Tau and really have no desire to start yet another army*, I really couldn't justify the rather ridiculous cost for the Riptide... but oh, what a sexy model. So I convinced my friend to let me build an paint his. And by "convinced," I mean, "asked him and he threw the box at me." Well, kind of.
The model has magnetic hardpoints to swap out all of the options - the guns, the tops of the wrists, and the tops of the jetpacks. There's also a magnetic wound counter on the base (the little chimney hanging out next to the script that some desperate guardsman scribbled on the wall).
* More on that later.