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My first try at digi camo, i dont think it would be someting i would do across a large force as it would be hella time consuming without masking, but i thought i would try free hand, its not great and is a pretty bad picture taken with my phone but thought i would share and see what you guys think.

Not bad, especially for free hand. How does it look from the other angles though? (head on, rear on, 45 degree profile.

EDIT 1: Did you use a micron pin for the plate lining?

EDIT 2: you should really upload stuff like this to the Dakka Gallery.

It is literally as is, nothing on it apart from that top digital, just the terrible photo means it cant be seen very well, when i finish i will upload some better pictures,

it is in dakka gallery btw, i just linked the full size image instead
never tryed a gallery link

will give it a go

I must say this is very impressive. What type of brush were you using to get such sharp edges on that scale?

Its just a GW standard brush, i have some brushes more suited to this (notably a very short rosemary and co)
but it was just a trial run on a gun drone so i used what was literally to hand.
thank for the comments also guys


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hmm i just realised how much easier life woulda been if i left the fin off..

Looks really nice! I haven't seen such a camo pattern tried on miniatures before. It would be interesting to see if you could continue to paint it around the sides and such, to see how a more 3-dimensional object would look with it!

NICE!

Ok, a few pics of the finished drone, again i apologise for phone cam shots.

that is sick!!! an entire army of that would be ridiculously cool!!

I agree with dajobe.... an army painted that way would be sweet.

thanks dajobe


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thanks guys, i was gonna go generic urban camo on the troops and stuff, but as this is probably gonna be no more than a 2k force, i may just put the extra effort in and see if i can end up with a bad ass looking bunch'o tau

Do it, the whole army, like that.

Would look very cool.

taopaipai18 wrote:thanks dajobe


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thanks guys, i was gonna go generic urban camo on the troops and stuff, but as this is probably gonna be no more than a 2k force, i may just put the extra effort in and see if i can end up with a bad ass looking bunch'o tau

If my IG saw a force of tau that looked like that my people would say "feth, should we even try to win?"lol

meh its guardsmen, i got tons of em, and the one thing i can say about guard is they try there little hummie hearts out till they take a few casualties.

taopaipai18 wrote:meh its guardsmen, i got tons of em, and the one thing i can say about guard is they try there little hummie hearts out till they take a few casualties.

lol, my guys are actually usually pretty good on their leadership tests, of course now i am not going to pass one in the next 3 games...

Cool, nevertheless an entire army painted with this scheme would be time consuming without some masking or template of some kind. Perhaps. you could limit this to vehicles.

That looks really cool.

Well done on not over-detailing the camo pattern.

Keep it up!

Very impressive!
I can see this being a lot of work if you want to theme your entire army around this but your end result would be awe inspiring

Just some food for thought... A video tutorial on digital camo

Thanks jack, nice videos

I cant see anything in those pics. just grass. are you pulling our legs?
But really that is nice.

Decided to have a bash with a fire warrior, i think if i keep it to the head and shoulder pad it wont be to time consuming.

Wow, an entire army painted like that would be amazing.

Okay, I've been wanting someone to do this, and I've been waiting for a good method to possibly try on my titan. Totally worth doing the entire army, now snap to it!


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JackDarkmoore wrote:Just some food for thought... A video tutorial on digital camo

Thanks!

You did a really fantastic job. I like it a lot.

That looks amazing. I honestly wasn't sure how it was going to look, but it looks damn good.

The fire warrior is cool, perhaps you could also try it to the weapon. Tau weapons, being flat, give you a nice surface to work on... Just out of curiosity, how log did it take you to paint the model?


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@jabbakahut A Titan painted with this scheme would look really COOL!!!

Thanks for the comments guys.
the fire warrior model was already painted jack, but had more traditonal grey camo on the helm and shoulder, however not to long in total, it was based in a humrol tank grey so it was just a speed paint to begin with, i think about 35-40 minutes to redo the camo and maybe the same for the initial paintjob.

Well done! That is an exceptionally hard scheme to pull off, as it doesn't scale well. Very impressive.

Check out my WIP devilfish tank on my gallery
You should aim for something like that.