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Hi All,

I have been converted to the greater good and have sorted out my list to 1500pts.

The concept behind the army is a Third Sphere army surging outwards recapturing the worlds and outposts that were lost during the Damocles Crusade. This will be lead by Commander Shadowstorm (One of Shadowsun's lost sisters) and as a newly replenished army will have all the neat toys plus Auxiliaries.
I really like the colour scheme for Shadowsun so the entire army will be done as such.

Here is the first finished tester that I am finally happy with.
I purchased a box of GW jungle plants back when the Lustria campaign was on, so now is a good opportunity to use them.




Any comments, suggestions, criticism are welcome!

Lovely work - puts my Tau to shame...

(mind you, anything with paint on would put my Tau to shame.... )

Absolutely fantastic base and a very good start overall!! Can't wait to see more, much more that is.

Love the scheme! Just like the Shadowsun model!

Indeed, the base does look very nice. Do you have a board to match?

I really like the yellow detailing on the white. And the white is nicely done as well.

Will be watching ^_^.

love the colour scheme, very nice crisp painting.

Saw these over on the warhammer forum and got to say again, its a lovely job. Tau in white armour are particularly striking!

Keep up the good work.

Cheers,

Dante

Love it! Very crisp and neat paint job, lovely white color. Share the technique?

Almost finished my first test Kroot. Good fun to paint.
Even sculpted my first feather.
He still has a few bits i need to finish up - Base, woodgrain on the gunstock, etc


I am not happy with the 'gore/sand' on the blades, probably scrape it off and use greenstuff instead

Been working on a Devilfish, superdetailing the interior and adding magnets.

Here is the WIP converting

So you can see the interior detail, the right side plate will be detachable using magnets.


Working rear access door

Working side doors

Interior details - Hand rail w. straps, grenades, bonding knife etc
Going to add pulse rifles and other items (helmets and the like...) before painting.

WOW and WOW.

I love the hammerhead. How do you paint you Fire Warriors.

Arran

So the Dfish is 95% done, been working on it listening to the cricket.
Just the Base and Decoy Launchers left to do.








Detachable side

Spacious AND Functional

Very cool. The paintjob is very crisp and fitting and the detachables are way cool. Nicely done.

Very smooth and crisp. I really dig this colourscheme. Have you thought about some slight weathering as a to show off the clean paintjob even more?

Amazing work, the interior detail on the devilfish is outstanding!

I'm sure you, like me, often find yourself stressing over some minute detail and asking yourself "will anyone ever see this besides me?"

Thankfully the forums allow us to show off our work from every angle, and yours stands up very well.

Beautiful and clean painting.

The devilfish could benefit from some very limited weathering as has been said before.

I really like your jungle bases, are you going to paint those leaves?

All together really nice and characterful minis.

Gorgeous work on the devilfish! I´m liking the interior details.

As others have stated previously, your painting style is very clean and crisp.

Although, I had this image in my head all of a sudden...

"Welcome aboard the Tau Devilfish Busline. Please hold on to the handrails during takeoff and landing, and keep your hands, feet, and kroot away from the exits when they are closing..... Mind the gap."

Sp0n wrote:Very smooth and crisp. I really dig this colourscheme. Have you thought about some slight weathering as a to show off the clean paintjob even more?

Thanks!

Weathering. Had not thought of that. Where and how? I have not much exp doing weathering...
Anybody got links for a how to?
Im thinking just on the engines etc...

Flachzange wrote:Very cool. The paintjob is very crisp and fitting and the detachables are way cool. Nicely done.

Cheers.

YojimboJones wrote:Amazing work, the interior detail on the devilfish is outstanding!

I'm sure you, like me, often find yourself stressing over some minute detail and asking yourself "will anyone ever see this besides me?"

Thankfully the forums allow us to show off our work from every angle, and yours stands up very well.

Yep, I like the extra mile.

Metsuri wrote:Beautiful and clean painting.

The devilfish could benefit from some very limited weathering as has been said before.

I really like your jungle bases, are you going to paint those leaves?

All together really nice and characterful minis.

Agree on the weathering. Not going to paint the leaves, I really love the colouring they come with.
Will be giving the models a matte varnish which should kill the shine on them.

Xanthos wrote:Gorgeous work on the devilfish! I´m liking the interior details.

As others have stated previously, your painting style is very clean and crisp.

Although, I had this image in my head all of a sudden...

"Welcome aboard the Tau Devilfish Busline. Please hold on to the handrails during takeoff and landing, and keep your hands, feet, and kroot away from the exits when they are closing..... Mind the gap."

Lol,
I would love to see a city bus with Flechette Dischargers and a Disruption Pod!

Probably feel nice and safe!


Also
Decided late last week to enter something in Golden Demon NZ.
Figured it was time I truly sorted out my Basing scheme for this army.

So here it is...

Wow, those are beautifully crisp I take it you are working from a white undercoat?

Aquila

Love the paint jobs. Almost the same color scheme as my friend, only he used red markings instead of the tan. What method did you use to hinge the doors? Thinking about starting up a Tau army myself, and would like to do that as well.

nice tau stuff.

you know, the one thing i love about tau is how easy thier tanks fit together. for the life of me i always seem to get gaps every time i build a rhino...

Aquila wrote:Wow, those are beautifully crisp I take it you are working from a white undercoat?

Aquila

Yep, I originally tried to build up from a black undercoat up through grey to white, but it looked rubbish and tookan age.

Aduro wrote:Love the paint jobs. Almost the same color scheme as my friend, only he used red markings instead of the tan. What method did you use to hinge the doors? Thinking about starting up a Tau army myself, and would like to do that as well.

The side doors are pinned to make hinges. Just extended the pin vice drill bit out a far as poss and layed it against the hull. Slowly drilled out both the hinge and the door tab. Then carefully added glue to the door only, slipped the paperclip in and wholia!

lord marcus wrote:nice tau stuff.

you know, the one thing i love about tau is how easy thier tanks fit together. for the life of me i always seem to get gaps every time i build a rhino...

Lol, this one was kinda warped, had to rip out the rubberbands to get it together...

Like I said before, I really like the scheme. The white and tan really does make an eye catchin army when done correctly.

I especially like the banner dude, very cool idea and your bases. The effort you put into those is very well worth it and that grass/leaf stuff really make them look awesome. Works good with the white armour as well.

great painting, I like the lenses (yeah, its cos I suck at painting tthem) and the little bar-thing on the backpack

The banner looks really cool! I didn't think it would be fitting for the Tau but you really managed to make it look good! Kind of reminds me of some WWII Japanese diorama or something.

Pyro_Falcon wrote:great painting, I like the lenses (yeah, its cos I suck at painting tthem) and the little bar-thing on the backpack

I have to second that praise on the backpack. When I saw it my first thought was "unlicensed nuclear accelerator". My second was "must
copy".

Very nice painting. I really like the interior for the Devil fish, cosy. Hehe. Yeah, hope you paint more soon

Simple, elegant, perfect.

Excellent job

First Crisis Battlesuit finished - Fireknife Pattern

The extra details are cool, the crisp white paint and black lines are swank, but I don't like the angle of the one leg sticking out to the side. It looks awkward and unnatural to me.