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very nice original colour scheme

Looking good!

Any plans for infantry?

Well I'm painting my devilfish right now and i base coated it with mordian blue and i dry brushed it with a mix of mechrite red and iyanden darksun and it looks good so far. So any idea on what i should do with it now. Because I'm not good with pics i didn't post pics

emperors_champion:Thanks Emperors_champion, I have some fire warriors ready to paint so I will get them done after this guy. I still have one more battle suit to paint but I will probably get the fire warriors done first.
devlin215: I have a saying "turn your imperfections into your perfections" this means that keep practicing on your weak points and eventually these weak points will become strong points. "What is my weakest point of hobby" is what I will all ways ask my self before undertaking a project. so for this project it was red and white that I was going to perfect.


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Norn king: Thanks mate!!

Man these are looking awesome the red is great and I really dig the bases, though I do agree with everyone else in saying that some shire would do well to break it up a bit. But other wise great work so far.

Mandrake Wk: thanks I agree 100% about the red, I think some white really needs to be added to the mix.

Maybe on the shoulder pads or even a sprinkling of script?

Yeah I think that white any where would look good.

Almost finished this guy, Photos arn't that great. Just gotta finish the base on this guy and then I am done!!

Second guy is finished, don't know what to do next. Whether that is battle suits or fire warriors? Have'nt had much time to paint lately because I have been studying for exams.

I vote for firewarriors.

Weathering and gems look great.

I'm with 1-i, do a couple squads of firewarriors and your army will be legal to play.

yeah I agree I will do some fire warriors soon

Nice looking reds you've got going on there, consider me subb'd.

So many of you will have noticed that I changed the name of the blog, this is not because I am stopping tau but more or less because I am painting other stuff and I thought that I should show them off as well.
Disjointed Entity: Thanks I might create a tutorial soon.

Edit: how do I change the name of a thread?

So whilst I can't change the name for now I will show you what I am working on as a side project.
Here he is, now all of those shadows are not shadows but it is instead blending. still very wip but C&C welcome please!

Tech Guard wrote:

Edit: how do I change the name of a thread?

Edit the very first post mate.

thanks mate!
I will try to get those fire warriors done soon. It might be a bit slow as I am painting up a Blood Angels kill team for this weekend.

Cool!

thanks, I just finished the mechrite red base coat and a badab black wash. I am gonna try to get some shading done tommorow.

Welcome to the world of random blog keeping!

Nice work on the chaos champ! Wouldn't mind a couple of pics of your BA kill team!

I will get them up today!

Woo-hoo!

So I finished the kill team today. Two days of solid painting produced this, I wanted to go for a really warn and battered squad. I feel as though this squad tells a story, this squad has been on extended tour, probably for a couple of months. They haven't seen resuply in three weeks, and are fighting their way back to imperial territory. As some of you with keen eyes will of noticed there are no highlights, I wanted to make this squad look as real as possible so highlights were the first thing to go. Don't get me wrong I love highlights, but they just don't look all that realistic.

I think they look great.

How did you achieve the nice mix? Drybrush?

Thanks disjointed entity, I used weathering pigments and sponges to create the mix. Some of the effect happened by accident, but with damage it is ment to be sporadic and accidental so I am happy with it. Do you want me to post a tutorial?

Yes please!
I've got some US Grunts (Vietnam era) coming through soon and I want to brush up on my weathering skills to make them look right.

Ok I will show you how I did it on my next project!

Cheers dude!

That battlesuit looks incredible! Really nice work.

I would also be interested to see how you painted those marines as you have indeed achieved a very realistic battle damage!