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Armies on Parade.


A liquid slosh effect.

In the process of consolidating all of my stuff into this one blog, rather than having two. Here's stage 1 on a Crisis Suit.

Nice looking force you have there Verv.

Cheers mate. I strive to constantly improve.

And now... for the purposes of diversity on this blog, a Great Wall of Images from my old Tau blog.

That sloshing liquid effect is very nice!

 shasolenzabi wrote:
That sloshing liquid effect is very nice!

Thanks man, I did that as a test of my new W+N size 000 brush. Worked perfectly.

More work on the Crisis Suit. Annoying automatically appended next post thing makes separating my updates from responding to comments hard.



"Can we go to the park, dad?"
"Yes, tiny son."

Kroot Ambush!

Thank you, Peregrine and Buttery Commissar, for helping me with measurements, motivation, and general help in setting this up.
I can finally store my entire Tau army. And it is glorious.
Here's the pile of waste foam.

That's a big pile of foam.

Save some for basing maybe?
Or scrap chunks to pad out difficlt models.

Thanks man, I will. I put in all in a box to use as I want, like to reinforce trays with FW resin on them.

And a Khorgorath. Work on my store's AoS starter set is going well.

Photos from a game I played against some gorgeous Dark Angels.





And a pic of my AdMech army in its new home (for two months).

Working on some camouflaged Pathfinders. Not happy with the camo right now due to it being too mushy, will ensharpen it tomorrow or something.

++IMPORTANT NOTICE++
Taking a break for a while. Will return in several days/a week.

Small update today, mostly involving dragging the OP into the modern era. What do you think of the new banner?

Tau looked good on that battle table!

I see that GW is making the Tau dino-hooves look more pronounced

Thanks, shaso. I appreciate it.

And now some bad news. My Barracuda's base died horribly in a cat-related incident, so it needs rebasing. Planning on using the pin+acrylic rod method to fix it, and building an entirely new base out of those large wooden round decorative things that people love using to base showcase models.
Also, I bought a load of new Tau, two Hammerheads and a Skyray, 44 Fire Warriors (Why Verviedi, why?! Don't you know you have to paint that?!), 10 Pathfinders, a Cadre Fireblade, 2 metal broadsides, and some LE stuff such as metal Ethereals and the Kroot Bird (Thanks BigWaaaagh!)
So big update soon, lots of camouflage. Debating repainting the Barracuda a lighter grey as well, or even adding some camouflage to its top bit.

Also, I have a wish list of things that I'd like, if you want to sell me stuff, click the link in my signature.

Now, for more painting. The Iridium Suit I'm doing for the Dakka painting challenge is coming along nicely. Here's the first WIP. For some reason, the lighting makes it look really rough, but it's smooth in person (and after I sand it)

Sorry to hear about the Barracuda base damage, Cats be cats.

Irridium heavy armor suit is looking great so far!

Damn cat related incidents, they just love knocking stuff over.

Iridium Suit is looking great so far.

EDC

Thanks guys, I appreciate it. While my Barracuda was nice and snug in its foam... the base was not, and made the ultimate sacrifice. At least now maybe the Barracuda won't look so sad flying around at Riptide head height.

The newest wave. Metals.

Nice stash of metal, Verv! I've got a few of those old Broadsides myself courtesy of a friend who didn't want his anymore. It should be cool to see what you do with them.

Ah yeah, I still have my 1st run of Tau Broadsides, and FW resin one with the curved armor.

Thanks! I also managed to acquire the FW Games Day Kroot Bird with that lot.
Anyway, here's pics of one of the Ethereals that I completed already.




My objective is to make an Ethereal Council out of one of each Ethereal model.

There's a distinct feeling of what did I do last night.

That feeling is awesomeness. Go with it.

 Cleatus wrote:
That feeling is awesomeness. Go with it.

I remember making the minigun-with-other-miniguns-as-barrels (meta-minigun?), and then just sort of going into a frenzy of gluing. Time to look up some rust tutorials.

Current WIP on the Ork vehicle.

That's really cool Verve... love it! Wonderful imagination on display there.

Thanks Gits, I have another spare Rhino and some Guard stuff, so if I ever decide to do more Orks, I can do even more crazy stuff. I'd run them as IG Armored Company with BS2 most likely, I don't particularly like the infantry. Just a fan of the Mad-Max vehicles.