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New random model! This time of the Tau variety:



Painted for a friend as a gift for his generous donation of his old Eldar army. Drones still to go but they'll be quick, hope to give this to him next weekend!

I'll hopefully do a quick write up for TPC on how I painted this one. Very straight forward with a lot of speed afforded by the airbrush!

Hey sir, nice Shadow Sun; I haven’t seen you do tau since one thous speed painting contest back in the summer.

Looks great man. Always nice to see some finished product from you, and it looks as if your airbrush is speeding up the painting process a little bit with no detriment to your quality.

Awesome as always

Wow, that's a great looking paint job! Shadowsun is such an awesome model... much better aesthetic than the standard crisis suits, imho!

I especially like the slightly burnished barrels of the gun... looks like just enough grit for the tau, and make the guns look a lot more menacing.

Nicely painted, GD, though I'm not a big fan of the Shadowsun pose

Excellent!

Thanks for all of the comments guys, it's always great to work on something that folks can appreciate.

Collins, good to see you here on Dakka, it wasn't a speed painted tau, just a painting night that everyone painted the same model ^_-. That was a red model as well if I remember correctly!

UCPes, Airbrush is really helping speed up my entire painting process. I no longer have to worry about the meticulous multi layering I was doing before for the nice even base colors, now I just take a few passes with the airbrush and I'm done! Careful use of washing helps the lines and plates to stick out in this case.

gretar, thanks as always ^_-

RITides, I do really enjoy the models lines a lot more than the standard suits. I'm also a fan of the FW models, which are heads and shoulders better than the standard versions, while still being big and beefy. I had considered doing more weathering, but decided against it since it would be the only model that had any in the army! Gotta keep in mind the force the model will end up in when you're painting for someone else!

Dysartes, I'm not huge on the post either, but it's more iconic than dynamic and it does make sense. The pose could have been worked out a bit better overall, though I wasn't up for converting metals!

Munch, Thanks!

Really attention grabbing red... Speaking of red, what's happening with your mounted chaos army?

Very cool as I've told you already buddy!

The colour scheme is spot on though I agree with you, the pose is a little dull, GW's fault obviously though, nothing much you can do about that (without busting out the hobby saw, pins and putty!).

Cheers,

Dante

MGS, The chaos army is still on the shelf! I'll get back to it...someday >.>...

Dante, Thanks again ^_^.

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Family photo:



Drones all done!


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More paint! I'm on a bit of a hobby roll at this point. Gotta get it in while I can during spring break! This time it's a Warp Spider Exarch I had started a while back.



Not sure what I'll work on next, we'll see what strikes me as usual ^_-..

Looking good!

That is pretty sweet looking Tau.

That's a very nice job on the Exarch, GD.

Write up for Shadowsun went live as of this morning! Check it out!

Absolutely amazing job on Shadowsun. This is one great blog.

Great work on Shadowsun, good to see a variation of the traditional scheme.

Valk

Reading your posts and WIP has been great grey_death. Very inspirational. Thanks for sharing.

Did you make that helmet on the Attack Bike driver? That look is awesome.

top notch stuff GD

The Dragonforge bases are nice. I'm using the Broken Wasteland ones for my 'nids.

IceAngel, Glad you enjoy the WIPs. The drivers head is from MaxMini's Steam Knight Helmet set.

I posted a Reinforcements up for the Warp Spider Exarch a week or so back for those interested!

I've also did a bit of a product review of the Lost Empires bases I was lucky enough to win as well.

So, random strikes again:



Still a bunch to do, but he's coming along quite well ^_^.

Angels Sanguine, right?
Looking good anyways.

Great work as always. Love the contrast of the dark bases to the deep red of the Tau.

Cheers

Someone's been playing with his airbrush Did you mask the middle of that?

My only beef with the Shadowsun model is that the helmet, while cool, doesn't look like an integrated part of the mini, it looks like it was jammed on as an afterthought.

I been following for along time and enjoying your work and helpful offerings.

I have to ask about the air brushing , I'm old school and just started to get back into painting after 10 years off. Can you tell me more about the equipment and basics behind airbrushing. Or direct me to a good tutorial.

Sorry if this is is a topic widely known I don't want to start from scratch. If there is a better way.

Again. I am amazed!

OI! I finished my Termie!



Was actually a lot of fun to play with the colors with this guy. I'll be doing a Reinforcements with more info on how I painted him for TPC. Zenithal Highlights did most of the work with some light brush work in the red. No mask, the dark grey I used for the black covered nicely ^_-.

C&C/Questions welcome!

Rad to the max, man. I was hoping to see an update here, thanks for not harshing my mellow, dude.

The colouring of the bone on the chest eagle is wonderful, any chance of a tip on how you got it to look so realistic?