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So, I've got a lot of orks, and a lot of dark eldar. Both have been great fun, but at this point, Orks are nearly unplayable against certain armies. And my dark eldar are getting blown off the table by flyers.

I need a new drug. A Xeno drug. A drug that ignores cover and decimates opponents at 30 inch range.

So I've been painting my tau, and I love these little fish people. They're very easy to paint, and finally give me the opportunity to paint something that isn't all dark colors or earth tones.

I think the suits are 'dated' models. So I spent some time cutting them up to custom configure them to look more like the suit commander they recently released. Everything is magnetized, which is awesome. Its so cool to be able to swap weapons. Or better, its so cool to actually have a codex that HAS weapons for you to swap out too!

Enough rambling. Pictures.






These stealth suits took me 3 weeks to paint. Haha, just kidding. Easiest paint job ever. Took 15 minutes. Lazy? Yes. Most definitely.



The whole family.

WOW! Those suits are astounding! Subbed!

Lucarikx

Damn, I've been painting Tau for like 5 years and I still can't paint that cleanly in such little time.

Thanks

Whats really sped up my painting is an air brush. I can hit a whole bunch of figures with a base coat in 10 minutes, rather than a few hours. Then I take a large drybrush (sized more for tanks than figures) and drybrush a few layers of lighter blue paints, culminating in white edge highlights.

The airbrush is amazing for applying even, thin coats. I can't believe I've lived without this thing for so long. I'm still learning how to use it though, as I'd love to be able to start using it for highlights as well.


My current project are Eldar jetbikes. I discovered my brother's eldar jetbike squad (10 in total!!!). These are on the old hexagon bases. As in, models produced circa 1992. I've been cutting them up to 'modernize' them. I'll get some pics up later.

But the basics are, you cut the engines from the bottom and glue them further up the model behind the rider's seat to make the model more sleek. Then cut the rider's legs and preposition him so he's riding like the Dark Eldar jetbikes. Finally, a little headswap to my dark eldar un-helmeted heads to avoid the whole "second edition" guardian look. My brother glued the bases in the models, so I'm having to re-drill out the holes because the flying stands have snapped off.

I'm really looking forward to using them with my tau. The tau need the fast mobile scoring the eldar jetbikes will bring. That and a farseer guiding my riptide, drones, skyray... etc.

Wow nice paint job indeed.

I cant unseen those diaper crisis suits

I prefer thinking of the codpieces as protecting the greater good.

Truth is though, you make a good point. I probably need to add some sort of armored plates to the sides of the legs. I'm going for a samurai look, and they need more padding.

Honestly its much more just the way they are standing.

it looks like they may have just pooped there pants.

varying there position might help them.

I know this probably belongs with my dark eldar, but I just finished 9 Guardian Jetbike conversions.

Basically, the Eldar and Tau work wooooonderfully together, so I'll be using them with a farseer to supplement my tau.