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This will serve as my hub page for my Cadre of the Es'run Sept. I will update all sections as my Cadre grows. The format will be broken into 2 main sections completed and WIP. I will then go into seperate units with a link to a full album followed by the best picture I have of the unit in a spoiler section to save room. Please feel free to leave C&C, I thrive off of it and it makes my Cadre better.

BEHOLD THE FLUFF!

Rank Scheme:
On the panelled armor, the number of blue panels denotes the rank of the individual:
0 - Shas'la
1 - Shas'ui
2 - Shas'vre
3 - Shas'el
4 - Shas'o

The shoulder armor is unmarked for members of the team. Blue shoulders denote team leader.

Completed Models -

Ethereal-
Aun'o J'Kaara (Album)
Sample - Aun'J'Kaara

Fire Warriors-
Fireteam Eio (Album)
Sample - Shas'ui Eio and team

Es'run Sept Carrying Case and Armory -
Custom Made Case (Album)
Sample - Aun'J'Kaara


Work in Progress -

Commanders-

Shas'o Korst "Commander Lightreaper" (Album)
Sample - Prepainted El'Lynu

Shas'el Lynu "Commander Onslaught" (Album)
Sample - Prepainted El'Lynu

Fire Warriors-
Fireteam Doran (Album)
Sample - Shas'ui Doran and team

Hammerhead / Skyray-
Es'run Sept's Mechanized Heavy Support (Album)
Sample - Still painting base layer

Devilfish-
Fireteam Eio's Devilfish (Album)
Sample - Finalizing Highlights

Kroot-
Squad Varshool (Album)
Sample - Kroot Carnivore 1/12 complete

Stealth Team-
Stealth Team Kunas (Album)
Sample - Shas'vre Kunas and his stealth team basecoat only complete

Tau Aegis Defense Line-
My "Tau-gis" Defense Line (Album)
Sample - Basic Firebase, Basic Line, and Measurements

Can you get another photo if the fire warrior team? The current one is very dark. Have you tried editing the exposure level of the photo?


Looking forward to seeing more.

Fire Warrior Samples have been improved.

1 January 2013

Modelling Report -
1) Stealth Team has been added to the WIP Section
2) Tau Aegis Defense Line has been added to the WIP Section

Gaming Report - My tau cadre is doing awesome on the tabletop. Haven't lost yet, but every game has been extremely close and a ton of fun. They play very differently than my BT army. My wife got me a new hammerhead and another crisis suit for X-Mas so I have been assembling those. They will be added to WIP as soon as I get pics of them. My Stealth Team has been a game changer every time so they have been bumped up to get completed first. They are easily be best unit on the tabletop so far. In one game popping a rhino transporting a DA captain with the relic, then killing him with the FB on my team leader, rolled a 6 to hit so I got to target who I wanted to hit and he failed LOS and invuln save. Another game they killed a gun drone on a 1 man broadside team and made it run off the board. They used their BCs to mow down necrons again and again, essentially tying up the whole left flank of the board for 4 turns on their own. And in the last game they walked onto the board behind a HUGE mob of cultists and bursted them all down in a turn of crazy rolls. So in my judgement they needed the paint first, even before my Shas'el (who has died every game within 2 turns so far, and the only kill to his name is 3 necron warriors who all resurrected and killed him back.

14 January 2013

Important Note: My camera broke and while a lot of work has been done, pictures have been a little behind. Will post as soon as I get a new one (supposed to be later today) Got a new one! Pics uploaded.

Modelling Report -
1) Tau Hammerhead/Skyray assembled and magnetized and primed. I got the skyray box for christmas and now I have a heavy support to blow stuff up with. Will be added to the WIP section as soon as I take pics.
2) Fireteam Eio's Devilfish is fully basecoated. I have handpainted ALL the camo stripes on. All it is missing is a decal on the side, wash and highlights. I could REALLY use some advice on how to highlight the devilfish, Im just unsure about it. Also...I did silver on the back engines, but I am really playing around with taking ALL of my silver in the army and doing the GW Copper pain intead. It would still be metallic and it would stand out...but the reddish of the copper I think would look better.
3) Fireteam Doran will be added to WIP today. The team is fully assembled and primed...awaiting paint.
4) XV-88-2 Broadside is on the way. My wife bought me a Forgeworld Broadside with SMS for my birthday and it is in the mail...the FW Broadsides just look WAY cooler than GW ones...and even the "No Forgeworld" players in my FLGS are ok with it because broadsides with SMS are already in the codex.
5) XV-8 Crisis suit. I got another one, already assembled, magnetized, and primed. I am just trying to figure out whether I am going to model it as my Shas'O or as my crisis team leader.
6) Carrying Case. This will be moved to the Complete section as soon as I get pictures of it. I finally finished cutting my second foam layer to fit my tanks, and I finished the magnetized Tau Armory so it is picture ready. I will probably hand-paint a Sept Symbol on the outside of the case at some later point.

Gaming Report -
I have been doing a lot of painting lately and I have only gotten one game in since the last update. Stealth team is still doing unexpectedly well, net me slay the warlord and linebreaker when I walked on in turn 4. Still lost due to him having the relic. But a good game regardless. Hammerhead pie plates got me an average of 1 marine per turn, and the disruption pods on it are a little unfair IMO. He scored two explosion penetrating hits that I jinked out of.

So yes, HUGE update today. I got a lot of work done over my late "christmas" leave, and I cant wait to get a new camera. If anyone has any suggestions on what they think I should get next please say something because right now all I can think of is another suit or 2.


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15 January 2013

Modelling Report -
1) All updates noted yesterday have been added as photos.

Short update, just pics. Feel free to comment or criticize as always. Still need some input on what to get next for my Tau.