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Okay after much procrastination, I finally got around to photographing (most of) my Tau. I'll try to update whenever I have something new. Comments and criticism appreciated!
Pathfinders


Battle suits




Battle suit HQs




Farsight Fire Warriors

Ethereals

Steath Suits

Farsight

Shadowsun

Skyray


Devilfish

Piranha

Hammerhead

Braodsides

Those are some beautiful Tau you have there. One question. Why the different colors? For different squads or are they test paints?

wow...they look great.
'Cept Shadowsun, always hated that model... and the pathfinders -noone likes PFers.

burb1996 wrote:Those are some beautiful Tau you have there. One question. Why the different colors? For different squads or are they test paints?

On the commanders, because I thought it would make them stand out more, on the stealths, to denote rank, red for shas'ui, purple for shas'vre. Since you get a Stealth shas'vre in every box of three, I plan on painting a few red for friendly games so that I can avoid buying more stealths to fill out my teams.

Very Distinctive and cohesive force you have there.

The reds and creme whites are so clean!

Great job!

Most impressive.

Incredible job! I really like your free-hand additions (lines and such) to the units, makes them very unique. Great work!

Breathtaking work. Great subtle yet visible highlights. An often underestimated feat on those boxy tau models.

A detail I especially like is the blood running "off the edge" of O'shova. It's a great 'wink' to the idea that this model is not really standing on a cylindrical platform. A humorous but classy touch.

I really like the painting style. I'm a bit confused though about the basic crisis suits, it seems different ones just have random different sections painted red or white.

ph34r wrote:I really like the painting style. I'm a bit confused though about the basic crisis suits, it seems different ones just have random different sections painted red or white.

Each different equipment setup has it's own Paint scheme. I didn't group them in any particular order in the photos so the effect is kind of lost though. I only have one or two battles suits fully painted for each scheme right now so it's yet to really come together.

Those are great. those diffrent coloured battlesuits are wonderful. fabolous highlighting

My sniper Drones


Better pics of Farsight.


Better pics of battlesuit commander



Better pics of battlesuits






As always comments and criticism are welcome.

waa such nice and clean painting.
Just perfect for tau .

line the decorations maybe?

Wow, nice color schemes! Great job. Reminds me of the old cartoon the centurians!

But seriously, excellent work.

Reecius wrote:Wow, nice color schemes! Great job. Reminds me of the old cartoon the centurians!

But seriously, excellent work.

Their are worse things to be compared to. I seem to remember this cartoon.

That's awesome, cartoons are probably the only good thing that came of the 80's.

Just assuming it was an 80's era anyway, I don't remember that particular cartoon so I could be wrong. Anyway, nice army though, very clean and the different schemes for the battlesuit HQs just works for me.

My WIP iridium armor commander. I plan to do much more to the torso, but I don't have any idea how to model his arms. Any thoughts on how to make good iridium armor arms? I have a ton of Tau bits.

Small update, I finished the head of my iridium armor commander.


Also, my WIP stealthsuits. I'll try to have a squad finished and posted tomorrow.

It's a new day and my first squad of stealth suits in finished. Enjoy.

Nice blending effect with the SS, the light green trim brings it out.

Putting the finishing touches on the Red comet. Here's some WIP pics.



He's fully magnetized and yes he's named after this guy:

Because nothing's cooler then sleeveless turtlenecks, giant sunglasses and blond mullets. NOTHING.

Beautiful Tau.. great work. Not a fan of the purple stealth, but thats just my personal preferance. Love the red. Great work done on all the extra modeling.

My Ethereal guard.


I'm thinking of repainting these guys (the guard, I'm happy with the ethereal) without the orange but I know I should really concentrate on other models. Should I repaint them? Someone help me make up my mind.

I finished my test schemes for my kroot and gun drones. Comments and criticism are welcome as always.

I really like the color choices you've taken throughout the entire army. Even though you use different colors, they all seem to be taken from the same palette, so they still match. I can't wait to see your army finished. Great job so far!

Love your pathfinders and drones.

Those are great the differn't colour schemes for the HQ's are brilliant.

I really really really like them!

I have been planning to paint my Tau red and beige. Exactly what colours did you use?

For some reason your pathfinders always reminds of these guys:

They make cute battle suit imo :"P