Very "unique" painting scheme for Tau Devilfish.

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**BlackDracoSLC**

A friend of mine recently bought a 1500ish point Tau army for around $70. Sounded like a fantastic deal to me! He brought it over today and the paint scheme on the Devilfish blew me away. I decided to share it with the rest of DD.

And yes, that seeker missle is glued right where you think it's glued.

**Brother SRM**

Dear god. Get him a tub of Simple Green and some toothbrushes for Christmas.
If the entire army is painted like this, I think I need to see pictures.

**Lord of battles**

needs pics of the troops nows!!!

**starbomber109**

Please tell me that isn't painted in enamel. But yeah, he'll probably have to strip it (donno what to do about the seeker missile though...)

**Hawkins**

I agree, more pics.
Did your friend ask the seller if he was going with the whorehouse in distress theme? cause really all this needs is a red light in the cockpit window

BTW, its not that bad, i guess reprimering it could work.

**KillaKan**

W.T.F.?

**Iron_Chaos_Brute**

I'll jump on the "pics" bandwagon here.

**Aduro**

Are you happy to see me or is that a Seeker Missile in your pocket?

**Hawkins**

i dont think its in his pocket Aduro.... :O

Edit: er its pocket

**Vindicator#9**

That does look an AWFUL lot like enamel paint or really thick paint. ASSAULT ON THE EYES AHHHHHHH.....btw want more assulting on the eyes.

**BlackDracoSLC**

He's already basecoated over the troops and started re-painting them in his own scheme. But this sole example remained, due to either the paint being enamel or mixed with PVA glue. He will try out Simple Green. Sorry to disappoint, guys!

**Black Blow Fly**

Plus the won

G

**Karon**

Looks terrible.

**Doombot001**

Why are you guys so distressed? I think this is an excellent paintjob of grand "Orky-ness". Check out that detail of lovely blue contrasting with brown and that wonderful primer that just-so-happens to peek through the paint job!

A better paintjob while high on paintfumes, 20 beers, and 10 shots while painting a devilfish I have not seen yet!

**03bbrevenge**

Even slaanesh weeps at that paint job

**Kanluwen**

Looks like it was colored with marker.

**Vet Sergeant Travis**

It's er very...original?

**Grimm**

Whaaaa...? That's awful. No offence.

**Candroth**

The nose art? Bitchin. The rest of it needs to dive into the Super Clean right now.

**The Dreadnote**

**Kilkrazy**

At least it was painted.

Even if with poster paints.

$70 for a whole army is a bargain though.

**hoyota**

It looks like a three year old ate a box of crayons, and puked out a devilfish.

**Persephone 66**

Kanluwen wrote:Looks like it was colored with marker.

By a 5 year old.

On a sugar high.

**LiberatedObject**

BlackDracoSLC wrote:A friend of mine recently bought a 1500ish point Tau army for around $70. Sounded like a fantastic deal to me! He brought it over today and the paint scheme on the Devilfish blew me away. I decided to share it with the rest of DD.

$70 is a good deal.
Secondly, I too was blown away with the force of a 100 megaton bomb filled with crayon and a 3 year old's motor control. I think more pics would be hilarious, and also think that if the scheme is desired by its new owner, then strip it anyways and paint a little better.

**Einhänder**

Persephone 66 wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:Looks like it was colored with marker.

By a 5 year old.

On a sugar high.

With steroids.

**kuro_khan**

I can't access photobucket from work, someone else please host it, I gotta see this!

**BlackDracoSLC**

Candroth wrote:The nose art? Bitchin.

My sarcasm meter may be off, but the nose markings are a transfer IIRC. At least it looked very much like a transfer when I saw it

Killkrazy wrote:At least it was painted.

Even if with poster paints.

$70 for a whole army is a bargain though.

It was a great bargin, and the rest of the army looked fine once he painted over it. Off the top of my head it included:

1 Hammerhead
1 Broadside
3 Crisis suits
2 12 man Fire warrior squads
1 pathfinder squad (6-7 strong squad)
Assorted gun drones
And the Devilfish!

**Candroth**

BlackDracoSLC wrote:
Candroth wrote:The nose art? Bitchin.

My sarcasm meter may be off, but the nose markings are a transfer IIRC. At least it looked very much like a transfer when I saw it

That may well be. If nothing else, the placement is awesome, even if what's underneath kind of makes me want to run screaming in terror.

**BlackDracoSLC**

Yes I will agree - Most of my transfer attempts are pretty bad

**Kilkrazy**

Microsol and Microset will be your friends.