Tau Update

I'm starting to push getting the Tau sorted as I have less than a month to go.

1 unit of Firewarriors done, 2nd about 50% there.

However, the Pathfinders I have turn out to be terribly molded. Not only is there a silly amount of flash to be cut off, but the arms don't fit without much bending and green stuff. :(

Oh well, onwards we go. Lets hope I can manage to get a decent look out of the Crisis Suits though, so far I haven't achieved the look I want.

Tau Update

New Tau update.

Work is continuing on my 1st Fire Warrior squad, photos to appear when I'm happy to show them.

However here are the Kroot. Bases need finishing, and they don't have any eye colour at the moment, but they are otherwise finished.

There is a unit attachement for the Kroot coming, but they are still bare metal at the moment.

To document my attempts with my airbrush to paint my Devil Fish, I'm posting it just under coated.

When/if the weather improves, I'll give airbrushing it a go.

Tau, 18th Feb Update

Just a quick Tau update.

My Kroot are all ready to go, bar eyes painted and basing. This now makes 2 units painted.

My Devilfish has been constructed. I'm waiting for better weather, and then I shall be undercoating it. I'm going to try and use my airbrush to paint it, in the hopes of getting a nice smooth finish, but that may take some experimenting.

Firewarrior unit 1 is about 50% complete now. No work in progress pics though, as they look terrible. Much work still to be done.

Otherwise, I'm getting there. Need to start constructing Firewarrior unit 2 at some point!

Reinforcements Have Arrived

My reinforcements for my Tau army arrived today.

More for me to put together and try and get painted!

40K Tau, The Start

I've made a productive start to the Tau, by clearing the table and sorting out a light with a daylight bulb!

Here is a pic of the army as it stands.

Thats:
12x Kroot mainly finished, just some highlights and basing to do.
12x Firewarriors, undercoated with some block colouring done on some
3x Stealth Suit, painted just need the bases finishing
3x Crisis Suits the most complete has some basic colouring done.
1x Broadside, just under coated.

I do also have a sniper unit, but that won't be fielded in the 1000pts army, so has been left on the shelf.

Being added to this will be a Pathfinder unit, another Firewarrior unit and a Devilfish. Exact loadouts of the Crisis suits are still being tweaked, plus I'm not going to give everything away, my opponants are likely to read this. :)

Last time at 750pts, I did well against the 'Nids, suffered against the Raven Guard when I lost my heavy support, and was taken apart by the Blood Angels when they got into close combat.

I failed to use the Kroot effectively, sticking them in cover at the back. Sure they had an excellent cover save, but they didn't get to shoot anything until near the end of each game. Solution, deploy them more sensibly and also use them to assault if the opportunity arises.

Against the Blood Angels, I was thrown then they deployed off table and deep striking everything. Next time I won't be caught off guard by that.

Enough talking, time to paint something!

40K Tau

My current war gaming project is to expand my 40K Tau army from its existing 750pts up to 1000pts ready for some games at the beginning of May.

Some of the 750pts is painted, but most is only base coated, so I now have 3 months to get it all finished.

Lets hope I do better this time.

The upgrades to the army are ordered and on-route, so I should really dig my painting table out again so I can actually do some painting!

The trouble is, winter is a terrible time to want to paint. The weather outside isn't good for undercoating, the natural light is weak, and vanishes half way through the afternoon, and artificial light just doesn't do as good a job. I'm going to have to buy a daylight bulb, and it seems they actually do energy saving versions of them these days! Hombase Link I know where I'll be popping on Saturday!

Keep an eye out for pictures as I work on them.