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OK, its been quite a while since I updated this P&M blog, (due to moving to a new barracks and all my stuff being boxed up) but fear not any who are interested I will be moving into my new longterm dwelling off post on the 12th of dec, and shortly after that I fully plan on starting back on this with vengeance.

So stay tuned and feel free to post any comments or suggestions or requests, I welcome and would love the input, and again thanks for your attention.

Stay tuned.......

Wow its been a while, looking forward to more models good luck with the move

Your models are awesome ! I've been trought the whole 10 pages without getting bored ! I love your camouflage pattern and technique! How do you make a so beautifull camouflage I'm very interested in knowing how ! Keep up the good work !

OK sit rep time..move complete, retirement from army complete...unpacking..very uncomplete

But you know when your stuff has been packed away for a long time, you forget what all you had..its almost like christmas opening all these boxes

When I find my camera, and get my gameroom set up (maybe a week or so) will start in again in ernest, (I found like 3 tau battleforces in one box unassembled..I dont even remember buying them)

So until then any interested persons feel free to make suggestions or requests for the future of my blog, I can use the input.

Thanks in advance.

congrats on retiring man!

Glad to here your getting ready to start this thing off again really enjoyed reading and seeing what you were doing. keep up the awesome work hopefully my silly green and off white scheme comes off as awesome as your camo. lol

take care

Ok dusting off the P&M, for the upcoming codex and slew of new models.

Just started working on a light box, so I can get some decent pics for a change.

Just finished a squad of Dreamforge , Eisenkern stormtroopers, and painted a few new Komodai Tau Auxilia troops.

On the slate for the big release I have 3 riptides in transit, a Sunshark, and a squad of the new hotness pathfinders, so I have a lot to do soon, cant wait!

Will get pics of the finished stuff posted up here hopefully tomorrow.

Thanks for the interest.

I can't wait to see your riptides! Keep posting! Love your models! And painting... And conversions... xD

Ok some new stuff!

my new larger komodai troopers.











Sorry for some of the blurry ones, still working on my camera skils.

and a few of my dreamforge models which I plan on using for Tau human aux.







ok finally some new pics, and I have started on a missle armed broadside conversion, hopefully will have it pic worthy in a few days.

As always comments are welcomed and encouraged...cant wait to get cracking on the new tau stuff soon!

Where do the backpacks for the komodai come from?

Maxmini, the armored torsos.

More fluff please! It's so rare to find quality homebrew background.

Sure Fluff is no problem, but what Fluff topics in particular?, let me know and I will be happy to elaborate on it.


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OK, since I have been looking at the cool new missle armed broadside variant, I decided to do a XV-8 conversion in line with my other conversions.

Heres the unpainted WIP pics.











I made the launchers removable and will elevate, and will maybe mount seeker(s) on it as well,(under the misslemounts).

plus some various little details and sanding to do.

Was a lot of fun to build and scales well with my other broadside conversions.

I will likely get some paint on this guy in the next few days.

Well enjoy all and comments and input welcome as always.

Wow, well done man. Your plasticard work is amazing.
One thing I would say is that, although you have done some work to bulk out the suit, it still looks a bit too small based on the new models. On GW's site currently they have a line up and it appears that the new broadsides are about half an inch taller and twice as wide. I think that adding a little more bulkiness and increasing the height (even by simply putting a rock on the base) would complete this conversion.
Having said that, I love the work that you've done on this. I might even have to try my hand at converting a couple for myself.

CS looks awesome! I wanna see more of that story you started earlier in the thread

Well there is a bit more in this thread

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/351631.page

And I will try to continue it very soon, just have to get my writing zen thing going again.

Awesome thread I am actually a big fan of the combined arms and assmilation of other races that the Tau do its a very diverse fighting force I love the idea and hope to one day soon make myself a Tau force once I have finished everything else I need to finsh namely Chaos and Dark Eldar...

Keep up the work its awesome

ok 2 new painted thingies.

My converted missile armed XV-88







And Riptide 501.









I have to say the Riptide was a lot of fun to build and paint, now to work on 502, and 503

Great stuff, glad to see you back, looking forward to your take on the new kits.

I appreciate that RandyMcStab, I am currently working on a conversion of the sunshark model, and will be putting a few pics up for that in a day or two.

And I never left..just got lazy

Are the Lizard-men helmets made of plasticard?

Yup little tiny pieces of plasticard, then shaped a bit with a file.

Now some pics of my reworking of the sunshark bomber, note the pulse bomb assembly will be added after its painted.









Next up painting time!

As always comments and questions are encouraged and welcomed.

That's excellent, great idea about turning it around, it looks so much better than the original model.

Wow stunning stuff.

So much better then the original stuff..... like all your conversions!

Is that the cockpit section of one of the tanks? That works really well like that. Reminds me of the GI Joe Sigma 6 series' redesign of the Cobra Firebat.

I've been meaning to ask, what shade of green is that you're using. It's exactly the shade I want to use on my stuff, but every time I've tried what I think is that color, it either turns out too bright, or too dark.

And you really do need to do a tutorial on how you do your flecktarn camo.

The cockpit area is from a piranha, and the green base I use is either Field green from Tamiya, or nato green.

Thanks for all the input to guys, hopefully I will have it painted up before the weekend, also will put some thought into doing a tutorial on the flecktarn -ish camo, I have never made a tutorial so will have to give it some thought.

Again thanks for the interest.

Now some painted pics of the new "NIGHTSHARK" conversion of the sunshark









and a few with the landing gear down (landing gear are still a WIP)





and a final with its weapon bay filled.



Next up I will be working on a Tutorial for a second Nightshark AS (razorshark).

Again thanks for the comments and questions.

Man, everything in this army is looking great! Nice to see that you're tackling the new stuff with such enthusiasm!
On a more modelling-based note, how does the Sun Shark compare to a Piranha size-wise? It seems like it would be possible to use one as a basis for conversion if the size is close enough.

A sunshark is roughly twice the length of a piranha and quite a bit wider (wingwise) , I use the front 3rd of a pirhana for the new cockpit on the conversion, maybe a bit more than a 3rd actually.

so a conversion of a piranha into a sunshark sized model would require quite abit of work, filler wise, to achieve the size.

hope this is helpful