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Rogue Wolves wrote:this one is my favorite, they didnt make orange too abnormaly bright and their grey looks nice too

this, that is one nice looking Fire warrior. I tend to feel the greys off set the orange and allow for it to catch the eye faster instead of the black which drowned out the orange in jakes picture. Still ether way you cant go wrong

woohoo! I like this, this is perhaps the nets best source for orange tau discussion! A question, i notice alot of people using a paint program to color in outlines of space marines or etc etc for trying out schemes. Does anyone know how to do this?? Id like to do that instead of posting such crappy pictures of my tester models on my precious blog. Its dirtying up the place:(Plus it seems easier, and faster! That way we can try and line up all these schemes and see whats really up! I love that orange and grey tau too !

The best free paint program is called "Gimp". And you use the magic wand or lasso tool (there are tutorials on the internet) to select an area, and then use 'fill' to color in the area.

--B.

Looks awesome, looking forward to some more!

yeah with gimp you are about set for such manipulations of pics...schemes can be tested here too:

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/fwpbeta.php

vik

for some reason when ever i use those bolter and chainsword ones, the color chooser at the bottom of the page dosent work for me

Vik awesome!! I have gimp but I'm a gimp with gimp so that website is good! I'll post some ideas and jakes scheme too to compare. I'll be deleting that ugly tester pic just cuz it uglies up my blog LOL.

Great work on the Catachans! I'm glad I got to see them in action up at Aero Hobbies! I'm looking forward to your work on the Tau.

You've also inspired me to create a P&M blog for my Mordian Iron Guard force.

I just wish I was staying in Los Angeles longer so we could get a game going.

- H

Hugh always a pleasure to hang with you at the shop! Thanks for the kind words and seeing as how my mind is working right now, im not in any hurry to start this army. Im gonna take my time and keep everyone interested with my upcoming special characters for my priests. Also, So you guys dont think im completely nuts, this was the scheme i had in my mind, i think though, that orange, is not so much a color i really like to paint. But in theory i still think this scheme has a lot of style, whether or not it transfers well to a mini.

I'm a bit late, but the chips on the ice wastes guardsman, were they painted on or modelled on? And how did you achieve the blending on the shoulder guards? It looks fantastic.

hmm not to bad color choices although i dont like the pink. i think the pink would be better blue



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it reminds me of these lego walkers my nephew has

second rogue wolves thought about the pink...

the schme is good looking... specially the gun and shoulders me thinks... but on a serious note i cant seems to see it translate well on a 3D sclae ...namly a mini... the flat pic works but i think on the mini it is far too crunched together so that in a practical sense you will have an ornage jelly bay on the table and not a cool and shooty firewarrior...sorry mate i speak is i find...and i think you have it in you to make a cool looking tau...!!!


vik....(if and only IF you want i could give the B&C thing a go too...)

well i like the pink.... but that's because i like to use colors that nobody uses. and my dark eldar are pink

i say try the scheme on the tester and let us see how it turns out

well pink and purples are all right to DE methinks... heck it gives them a very different aproach to other amries...but tau...well...

I would go for a darker brown on the cloth, you need more contrast between the areas to make small figures work, especially on the gaming table. The picture you have of the fire warrior looks good at the size you have it here on the web, but once you scale it down to actual miniature size the different colors merge together.

Have you tried the GW foundation orange as base coat for the orange? It covers really well, even when diluted with water to usable thickness.

Imperial Monkey wrote:I'm a bit late, but the chips on the ice wastes guardsman, were they painted on or modelled on? And how did you achieve the blending on the shoulder guards? It looks fantastic.

Welcome Monkey Thanks for your interest! The chips were painted on. Its extremely easy effect to achieve. You essentially take your shade color, do a dot or line, in strategic spots, the with your highest highlight, which in this case is white, do a line on the bottom edge of the first color you put down for chipping
The shoulder pads and armors not so simple. I wet blended to white away from the light, then glazed many times at random between stages with devlan mud, pooling the glaze often times to the shadowed part. Its subtle but pulls out the shadows more. Hope that helps

Now, the orange: I agree with all of you It wont work on a mini as well as id hoped. I agree with vik and metsuri, It will just look like a cluster**** of orange sherbert But im with fatty, i like the pink, because its strange. Its a direct reference to that masamune shirow landmate on the other page. But either way, it aint workin. Im gonna post another 3D image and see whatcha guys think. Im really stretching it here >_< ! PS, the 3rd sentinel is coming along nicely Pics soon.

PS metsuri, welcome to my thread. Been a fan of your work since i joined dakka

dont be too sad about the orange... i at first wanted to stay true to my DA and paint them in dark angels green... only to see that they hadn´t have any details to be seen lft once they were all dark green... no wash i could use to bring some depth to the minis... i was rather p****off too then...

well i am eager to see some new trys then of yours....

vik

Orange with pink... is soooo funky!

Do a realistic urban desert camouflage like I do on my tau, as it looks good, and its easy to achieve.

bebopdrums2424 wrote:PS metsuri, welcome to my thread. Been a fan of your work since i joined dakka

Thanks for the complement, I paint mostly for my own pleasure these days and the community here is one of greatest sources of inspiration I have. You've prompted me to try my own hand now at the orange and brown, as soon as I get the stormboy done.

Consider me impressed.

Norn King wrote:Consider me impressed.

mee too!

Thanks vik, im not bummed about it at all. In fact, Ive decided to let my tau idea simmer until i think of another idea that has me interested. And on that note, yay, finally a WIP update on the almost finished sentinel! I put some freehand iconagraphy ala 1940's bombers, i like it. Also, i stumbled across a new color scheme (army painter style) for possibly a whole new catachan regiment! Possible ties to genestealer cult maybe?? Its very simple to paint and ive really wanted a camo scheme to have fun with, i really like this one, maybe a few tiny tweeks here and there, but i think i really like it I dont know where i saw the purple, i know its been done, so whoever did it first, thanks It ties in with my psykers and standard too. So i might add a bit more purple to the guys...somewhere...not sure...wanna keep it very simple though so i can paint em quick like my old standard grunts...

heres the sentinel followed by the army painter style catachan grunt and then a regular grunt from my current style to compare...

The Jungle Aces icon looks great. I'm liking the paint and basing on the two guys as well. One thing on the bases. I like the use of GS to stick the planty bits, but you could sculpt some roots or a small trunkish bit to lend to the plants themselves. As it is, the pink thing looks somewhat like it's being belched up by some mud. I don't think it would read that way on the table, however. I imagine it looks great on a table, and I like the over all effect.

Loving the Jungle Ace +1!!

It looks good, but I like your current style myself. Just my $0.02

dsteingass wrote:It looks good, but I like your current style myself. Just my $0.02

Hehe, me too, but i cant staaaandd to paint another one like that. Plus this way, i can add veteran squads, or conscrips, or run an entire blob squad army!! I just love catachans too much, this new scheme has alot of pontential since genestealers may or may not be in the mix

and GG, thanks, thats a great idea! Unfortunately, the pink flowers troops were done within the last 2 years so its a little late, but i will do that with the next batch! I just used blobs of GS, then sand over it so it looks like mounds with plant life growing out of it, but the roots would be the extra mile! Thanks for your input always sir!

hmmm... purple...yeah see that this pot can be a thing that urges you on to use it... i have some colors i want to use but i still haven´t found a way to use them on...so the tad of purple is something i think can add some depth to your already deep^^ catachans... what i am currently not too sold is the kind of camo...there is something lacking there...maybe the main color of the pants a bit brighter and overall not so much glossy looking...dunno... maybe i am wrong completly here...


where i am totaly in the rights nevertheless is your sentinel... looks really cool and lifelike! the very minuscule weathering and covering of bumps in the armor loks very good... the jungle ace... with that small flower...very good indeed...i like that! when will we see the driver?^^ always have somthing up my sleave to complain about^^ even if all is rather not something to complain about^^ just me, ole grumpy^^

vik (and don´t let you detain you from doing tau just because we are picking on you^^)

Yeah, I guess you could always add the differently painted blob as the sacrificial flank. Just normally you don't want your opponent to be able to tell which blob you are using as the sacrificial flank. I always intended to use my Cadians as Second Platoon to my Catachans in a remnants army, but I realized that I don't like the Cadian look, so I would've always used them as the sacrificial flank and used the Catachans as the scoring flank.

looking good!
and I am officially my dream 40k carreer FIGHTER ACE!!!!!! YES!