New XV9 Crisis Suits from Forgeworld

Adam on Warhammer Tau just posted this up about 2 hours ago. Forgeworld have released what looks like 3 new, or at least 3 conversion/weapons packs for the XV9. (for someone who's not going to play Tau till the next codex, his site is still one I visit daily and jump to whenever I see it updated in the blogroll ^^ )
The vector thrusts have been removed and each of them appears to be sporting different shoulder modules. The also all come with different pairs of weapons.

Left one, going from the modules/collant nodes at the rear of the guns looks like it's armed with the Ion Weapon people have read about from the Imperial Armour, Apocalypse II. Middle one has the long open end of the railgun weapon which means the one on the right has the Fusion "Cascade" I think it's called.
Middle one also appears to be a new commander model, there is a tau symbol on the chest and a new helm. It reminds me of the main Tau character in Dawn of War with the random unreleased Stealth Suit.

I'm a mixed bag with these to be honest. The guns on the right one look a bit crap, more really like a bad conversion using WW1 machine gun part. Also after having built my own XV9, Forge World learned nothing from GW with regards to the feet for this model. Just like the Xv8, they stand in a horrible way and getting the feel onto the base/onto the model can lead to much swearing and superglued fingers to models.

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