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Short and sweet army. This was originally intended to form a highly mobile force used to extract high priority targets from battlefields, but became a force all of itself.

The battlesuits are conversions, and I've named them the 'Acuity' Pattern.

Really enjoyed this project which will be for sale soon via eBay.

For more pics and a little background hit up:

http://loserstudio.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/tau-scout-crisis-force-snow-cadre.html

LilLoser

Those are gorgeous; all of them look great. The paintjob and basing is great and goes really well together; provides a really weathered, realistic look too. Stunning models all-round, excellent job.
Love the varying conversions too: the drone, the ethereal, the fire warriors capes and of course the battle suits. Are those war walker parts on the latter?

Those are probably the best Tau I have ever seen. Damn You! Now I want some....

Seriously those are out of this world.

Excellent looking force, great conversions and scheme.

Spoilt by the ethereal having a nose for some reason

Really good white, will there be a tutorial?

Love them! Simple and the little bits of green detail really bring it together. Lovely work!

Cheers Guys!

@ Earthbeard; Take a closer look; there is no nose. You must've missed that.

@ Satan's little helper: No tutorial sorry; but I can tell you it was white primer with nuln oil and tharka green wash with re-highlighted white. It's not quite wet blending but it's close enough.

And we have a winner for my daily perusal of the dakka painting and modeling showcase. Congratulations!

Amazing looking Tau force. I love the colors scheme and the bases really tie in the tau colors to their environment. Clean looking work, definitely an army to admire

Amazing work. Would you mind going into the steps you took and which paints you used? I love the look of this and would like to try something similar!

Very nice painting and conversions

That little burstcannon drone-walker is an epic use of bits.

These are simply beautiful!

 LilLoser wrote:
Cheers Guys!

@ Earthbeard; Take a closer look; there is no nose. You must've missed that.

@ Satan's little helper: No tutorial sorry; but I can tell you it was white primer with nuln oil and tharka green wash with re-highlighted white. It's not quite wet blending but it's close enough.

That is my kind of painting! A simple method that starting does not look like much but once done right. . . UGH! BEAUTIFUL!


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On a side note. . . Icanhaz walking gun drone tut or at least what you used to make it!

Damn good-looking miniatures!

It's the conversions that do it for me.You have made the suits look less block like imo.

That will be all.

Holy , These are freaking fantastic. I love it all!

Cheers guys!

REally excited about the tau release today. I will be picking up a Rip tide and Farsight.

Will post pics when they are complete.

Those shield drones are nice. Be cool to see some like that painted up with a sort of energy field in place of just the clear bases, but the idea is still solid and a nice alternative to the actual ones.

I love your Ethereal!
and his drone(walker?) too!

where did you get battlesuits back cover?

Looks a bit like it's from an Eldar warwalker.

Wow, nice job, these are awesome!

Wow, these boys are beautifull, the shield drones with the flying base trick look great, and the overall color scheme is staggering!
The ethereal conversion doesn't really do it for me, but it is well executed.

Did you just brush on the Wash in layers? or was it a single thick coat?

Stippling?

I can see the oil went over the whole model but what about thraka green? Was that just over certain parts?

Beautiful work. I almost want to play Tau now...almost.

Congrats on making the GW Blog front page! Well earned.

That is pretty damn good sir!