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Great work on these Tau Models Sirath, it's a very crisp paintjob and I like the colour scheme.

I'm currently working on my Tau army as well. Feel free to take a look in my blog by following the link in my sig.

Those broadsides look really great.

The conversions and the painting are both top notch.

Usually I'm not a fan of projectiles and explosions etc in minis, but you've pulled off the launching missles very well.

Congrats!

Stunning broadsides

I really like the firing missiles although personally I feel smoke would look more realistic but probably less cool. The insides of the Devilfish are great how did you do that? Is it a kit, a kitbash or an entire scratchbuild?

I bet you could make awesome stealth suits. Give stealth suits a shot ^_^

The extra details look extremely good. I absolutely love the interior of the devilfish. My scheme wouldn't stand a chance, Keep painting!

Blueshift 0 wrote:The extra details look extremely good. I absolutely love the interior of the devilfish. My scheme wouldn't stand a chance, Keep painting!

Will do!

Superscope wrote:I bet you could make awesome stealth suits. Give stealth suits a shot ^_^

I do not like Stealth Suits.
I do not like them in a boat, I do not like them in a moat.
I do not like them here nor there, I do not like them anywhere.

Llamahead wrote:I really like the firing missiles although personally I feel smoke would look more realistic but probably less cool. The insides of the Devilfish are great how did you do that? Is it a kit, a kitbash or an entire scratchbuild?

They came with Smoke from Armorcast but I couldn't get the paint scheme right.

covenant84 wrote:Stunning broadsides

Gundam-Mecha wrote:Those broadsides look really great.
The conversions and the painting are both top notch.

Usually I'm not a fan of projectiles and explosions etc in minis, but you've pulled off the launching missles very well.
Congrats!

Kagar wrote:Great work on these Tau Models Sirath, it's a very crisp paintjob and I like the colour scheme.
I'm currently working on my Tau army as well. Feel free to take a look in my blog by following the link in my sig.

Cheers Guys

s.j.mccartney wrote:forgive me if I missed the post but...did you ever get that gue'vesa painted up? That model is an inspiration! I'd love to see it with some paint on!

Not yet, will paint him shortly, just waiting on a few things from Maelstromgames.com

Shadow Nugz wrote:The white... wow... I need painting skills like yours. Then maybe I wouldn't try and repaint all of my minis every other month lol.

May I ask how you achieved your white? Any specific paints or combos that got you the very nice white?

One concern is this: how easy would it be to see these guys in the dense green jungles? Any specific fluff why these guys are in a jungle or is it just the cool factor?

Keep up the work. Now I hate you because you are making me want to start a Tau army and a White Scars biker army... darn you!

I have posted The 'How To' paint White earlier in the thread....

You are right about white standing out in jungle. My thinking is that the Tau are so young+inexperienced they have not worked this out. Kinda like the USA in Vietnam, completely out of their depth.

Superscope wrote:Those broadsides are... beyond words of speech or text...I love the system set on their backs and the one with the missiles being launched are amazing ;3

What is your next model going to be? Tanks? Large sqauds of special drones? Kroot? even a xv22?

Again, i salute you and your cadre of the greater good *Salutes*

-PS- what you think of the tau forge world super heavies? I would KILL to see you paint up a manta XD

If you want to buy me a Manta, I will spend the 6 months painting it!

Next;
Finish off the Naga Prototype
FW Shas'el
Maybe some FW
Nicassar

goffnob deffsmakka wrote:Realy aweomse tau.
Where do you get these rocket things coming out of the rocket launcher on one of the broadsides.

Armorcast.com

Krieger wrote:great job on those broadsides!
All the extra details really mount up nicely and add a very specialized look to them.

I also have to comment on the smoothness of your white, Its downright fantastic.
Normally whenever I attempt something similar, it comes out mighty chalky, I guess I'm doing something not right...
Great stuff, hope to see more of it around.

Floor Polish smooths out paint beautifully

Sirath wrote:This is the Naga finished.

First, Absolutely astounding. Not just these but the whole army. So good it both makes me want to give up and inspires me to try to out do it at the same time.

Now to this model. Incredible paint but the antenna bothers me a little.
How do you think the naga would look if the antenna blended into a high tech monocle?
Or maybe some cyber implants on the side of the head?

I know the model is finished and wouldn't dare suggest reworking over the glorious paint. I was wondering about one of the next nagas you do.

Kroot Standard Bearer

It's all looking really great Sirath, completely missed your final paint work on the Naga auxiliary, I went a subdued grey and tan belly, which subtly match my Cadre's desert blue markings.

Always admire your clean style, and the various mods on the suits really work well. The Broadside head is one of the more original styles I've seen.

best!
Tael.

Ok...a couple things.

First this Tau army is amazingly detailed and converted, bravo sir.

Secondly your colour scheme on the Naga actually inspired me to pick up my LIzardmen again and start painting. Shamelessly I am copying your colour scheme because it struck me as brilliant, though I am going with the brownish/yellowish scales you originally had, the black looks...less awesome but still good.

Following this thread excitedly

focusedfire wrote:
First, Absolutely astounding. Not just these but the whole army. So good it both makes me want to give up and inspires me to try to out do it at the same time.

Now to this model. Incredible paint but the antenna bothers me a little.
How do you think the naga would look if the antenna blended into a high tech monocle?
Or maybe some cyber implants on the side of the head?

I know the model is finished and wouldn't dare suggest reworking over the glorious paint. I was wondering about one of the next nagas you do.

Thanks focusedfire, The Naga is not completely finished. I am actually working on him atm.

He is a prototype so I welcome suggestions + feedback.

The back thingie and cables are not doing for me, so I am working on changing it, will post the WiP shortly.
When you say 'high tech monocle' or 'cyber implants' what are you thinking? Can you expand?

Shas'El Tael wrote:It's all looking really great Sirath, completely missed your final paint work on the Naga auxiliary, I went a subdued grey and tan belly, which subtly match my Cadre's desert blue markings.

Always admire your clean style, and the various mods on the suits really work well. The Broadside head is one of the more original styles I've seen.

best!
Tael.

Cheers Tael and Thanks for the idea for the Naga!
Grey and Tan belly huh? I have not seen that, pics?

Haha, the Broadside head was just on a whim, the original heads did not fit with all the extra armour around the neck.

Joyous_Oblivion wrote:Ok...a couple things.

First this Tau army is amazingly detailed and converted, bravo sir.

Secondly your colour scheme on the Naga actually inspired me to pick up my LIzardmen again and start painting. Shamelessly I am copying your colour scheme because it struck me as brilliant, though I am going with the brownish/yellowish scales you originally had, the black looks...less awesome but still good.

Following this thread excitedly

Do It!
Orange Lizardmen FTW.

I was thinking almost borg-style cyber implants or maybe shadowrun.

The monocle idea was along the lines of a prettier, sleeker, Tau high-tech version of Yarricks or Yriels eye-piece. A high-tech targeter that wraps part way around the skull and blends into the Antenna.

If I may suggest an idea for the cable.

Picture the cable becoming a recoil supression harness/cyber-link for the gun. Have the cable attach to the gun then a smaller cable splits off to go up and into the cybernetic targeter or skull implants.

It difficult to suggest some of the things that I think would be cool because I don't know if the model would hold onto the gun during assault or let it fall to his side on the harness.

Ignore the next if it isn't your style or what your going for with this army.

If you want to add an edge of darkness to the Tau goodness you could go for a neclace of cyber implants that gives just the hint of a Thrall/slave collar that connects to the skull plate. Nothing overt, just a hint of possible mind control. Of course the skull implants could suggest this also.

I hope you like these ideas or that they may be of some inspiration. I'd be nice to think I returned the favor of inspiration in some small part.


Sirath, thank you for sharing this incredible work with us.

focusedfire wrote:I was thinking almost borg-style cyber implants or maybe shadowrun.

The monocle idea was along the lines of a prettier, sleeker, Tau high-tech version of Yarricks or Yriels eye-piece. A high-tech targeter that wraps part way around the skull and blends into the Antenna.

If I may suggest an idea for the cable.

Picture the cable becoming a recoil supression harness/cyber-link for the gun. Have the cable attach to the gun then a smaller cable splits off to go up and into the cybernetic targeter or skull implants.

It difficult to suggest some of the things that I think would be cool because I don't know if the model would hold onto the gun during assault or let it fall to his side on the harness.

Ignore the next if it isn't your style or what your going for with this army.

If you want to add an edge of darkness to the Tau goodness you could go for a neclace of cyber implants that gives just the hint of a Thrall/slave collar that connects to the skull plate. Nothing overt, just a hint of possible mind control. Of course the skull implants could suggest this also.

I hope you like these ideas or that they may be of some inspiration. I'd be nice to think I returned the favor of inspiration in some small part.


Sirath, thank you for sharing this incredible work with us.

Thanks for the tons of ideas mate! Really appreciated

The cybernetics sound like a rocking idea, I will have to experiment!
- Time to raid the bitz box!

As to the the gun, I want to make it self contained, so am steering away from linking him by cable to his gun.

Mind Control eh? Sinister, Tau would never do that....
Im thinking the antenna on his head may fill that role thou!

Okay, Finished further mods on the Naga Prototype.
Was not at all happy with the original rebreather, looked too clunky.

So here is the 2009 rebreather! Portable, self cleaning, rechargable and connects directly to the lungs!

Looks really good best tau I've seen so far.

Although as already stated the antena on the Naga is a bit weird.

Ilovethe whole army myfriendlooks beautiful and though I pronbly couldnt do it as well can I offer a a tip?

On your fire Warriors Pulse Rifles be Careful that the Yellow/orange color that covers it doesn't get to thick. JUst saw it on some of them. It's not even bad to the point of mostly noticing just me picking out the only critisim I could think of. It might be just the pics too but anyway just wanted to say that.

But the army looks beautiful and I love the Kroot Banner where'd you get that?

Oh Yeah, forgot to compliment you on the Kroot Standard-Bearer. Absolutely gorgeous. Great work with the Green Stuff on the banner.

You keep this up you may get a lot of commission work. I don't know if thats something you'd be interested in but I bet there are some out there that would pay what your work is worth.

Beautiful. How many of these bad boys are you going to have in a squad?

Great work again, can you reveal how you created the gore / blood that is hanging from the blades of the flagpole the Kroot is running around with?

0_0 OMG! Awesomes!

Wait a sec arent naga from warcraft?
Lookin' good though.

Cheers Tael and Thanks for the idea for the Naga!
Grey and Tan belly huh? I have not seen that, pics?

Sirath, here is the current iteration of my Naga, I have since dropped the smurf blue scheme and gone for this more natural style (flaming camera's washed out most of the shading);


Naga Warrior with Pulse Blaster

You can see the concepts (from back in the day) through to the current style in my gallery now (fun feature that) : http://www.dakkadakka.com/core/gallery-search.jsp?u=13443
I came up with the name 'Naga' based on it meaning snake, for a time The Luong was a contender name for similar reasons. But Naga'la rolls off the tongue more easily.

Fluff tidbit;

This Naga warrior sports the open sighted Pulse Blaster, thermal regulator armor and head crest protection (embedded com-net). Naga with finer freckles tend to make great specialists and often sport the pulse rifles allotted to each la'rua. On that note, Naga place high respect on large markings, so it is pleasing and also unsurprising to them, that a Tau Shas'O rank symbol is an underlined filled circle. Such signs bode well in the eyes of the Naga.

I'm looking forward to a full squad of the red Naga you've put together, it should look quite dominating.

~ Tael.
Please PM any queries to me, so as not to go OT in Sirath's Blog

Wow you are doing a terrific job. The white looks so clean. Can't stand working with it but you make it look easy. Cant wait to see more.

Hey Guys,

Three modelling updates for ya, been a bit busy. Played in the NZ Nationals over Easter, managed to win 1st Overall w. the Eldar.

Have redone the arms for the Prototype Gue'vesa, using arms from the Forgeworld upgrade kit.


Also chopped in half the metal Cadian standard bearer; excuse the blu tac and the wolf banner [lifted from some old white wolf knights!]

...And here he is; The Nicassar Prototype.



Personal Note:
I am struggling to find Genestealer Heads w. Feeder Tendrils.
Have managed to track down 3 but still need 7 to complete the squad.

If you have any Feeder Tendril heads you would like to sell, please PM me.

Cheers







Anyways;
Really happy with how he is developing; the torso is a stealth suit, trident+net from a Dark Eldar Wych and Robes from a Dark Angels Veteran.

holy cow. That niscar thing is cool. Never hear of it thou. I guess its some vague reference.

I really like the the guevesa playing ith his tau gameboy.. very cool. And your gonna paint hem to you excellent standard. Awesome.

They are sweet. If I had feeder tendril heads and lived anywhere near NZ i'd give them to you for free. However I don't, so I wont.

Are the squid dudes meant to live underwater? How are you going to oxygenate them?

ahhhh cthulhu has managed to manifest his awesome followers to an awesome p&m log AAGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH, they will consume us all with awesomeness!!!! (jumps out window).
regards,
-Jason

Shaman wrote:holy cow. That niscar thing is cool. Never hear of it thou. I guess its some vague reference.

I really like the the guevesa playing ith his tau gameboy.. very cool. And your gonna paint hem to you excellent standard. Awesome.

Thanks dude, there is not alot of literature about the Nicassar. GW released one model - a Battlefleet Gothic ship. The most common thinking is they are octopus/squid type creatures.

I have added to the fluff i have found on the interwebz, will post it next.

Duh, no way it is a Gameboy, its SO a PSP! ;-)

s.j.mccartney wrote:They are sweet. If I had feeder tendril heads and lived anywhere near NZ i'd give them to you for free. However I don't, so I wont.

Are the squid dudes meant to live underwater? How are you going to oxygenate them?

Lame, move closer and buy some genestealers.
Not 100% sure how im going to do the hydration/oxygen packs.


Im open to ideas from the group!

D3str0y3r wrote:ahhhh cthulhu has managed to manifest his awesome followers to an awesome p&m log AAGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH, they will consume us all with awesomeness!!!! (jumps out window).
regards,
-Jason

Cthulhu eh? Who is that?