Warhammer 40K: T’au Empire - Riptide Battlesuit [56-13]

The XV104 Riptide Battlesuit is one of the latest T’au Earth Caste innovations, designed to combat the most dangerous enemies of the T’au Empire. Standing twice the height of an XV8 Crisis Battlesuit, its long, back-jointed legs hold up a heavily armoured torso that houses the Riptide’s Dark Matter Nova Reactor — an experimental power generator that can be activated should the shas’vre pilot require extra power to sustain his heavy rate of fire.

The XV104 Riptide takes the evolution of the T’au battlesuit to a whole new level. First and foremost, the model is huge, towering over the rest of the T’au – even other battlesuits and tanks. Sleek and elegant armour panels, along with bolts and grills, cover its body. Despite its enormous size, with ball and socket joints it remains a manoeuvrable model whose arms and legs can be posed in a variety of different ways. Either standing tall or even kneeling, you can use it as a unique, dynamic centrepiece for your T’au army. As well as three variant heads it comes with a range of weapons options including a heavy burst cannon, twin-linked smart missile systems, fusion blaster and Riptide shield generator. If that wasn’t enough, the kit also comes with two Shielded Missile Drones.

This multi-part plastic kit contains 108 components and a T’au transfer sheet with which to make a XV104 Riptide Battlesuit and two Shielded Missile Drones.

This kit comes supplied unpainted and requires assembly – we recommend using Citadel Plastic Glue and Citadel Paints.