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Spectacular work mate, lovin' it!

Space Marine modelling is all nice and stuff, but since I also enjoy painting just as much, I continued my Tau army some time ago.
Have a look herer if you missed it:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/386215.page#3138259

Now that 80% of the army was done I kinda got the motivation to continue it and finish it to a status where I can officially call it done.
Note that this army is about 7-8 years old, it was the first army I've ever played.
Many models fell victim to conversion rages and other more or less stupid stuff I did across the years.
Still parts survived, and I'm really proud of those old models now.
(Even though some of them where painted 2-4 times now)

But what is left to do now?
Well, first of all I upgraded the painting of some of the one week models:

commander and the big boys


the suicide suits (tau players know why they look like that >.< )


MISSILES


and the other guys


hammerhead with markings


and the infantry with painted bases



To play decent battles you also need objective markes however.
3 should be a good number, so here they are, wip.

Earthcast member recovering some data from an attack drone


Pathfinder with important battle information



And the generic wounded VIP with emergency beacon

Nice Tau. I like the battle damaged suicide suits. The objective markers are cool too. I can't wait to see all of the objective markers (DW included) with their GS on.

Looks great... the fire bases are really well done.
Thanks for the close ups.
I can't wait to see the rest of the models painted.

love the work so far. That conversion of the firewarrior programming the drone is awesome. Keep on it!

Amazing sculpts, I can hardly wait to see them painted.

Ook, won quite some battles with the tau force, had lots of fun and collected tons of bits in the meantime.
Adittionally I upgraded my tools and ordered some instant mold, so the duplication of the schoulder pads can begin soon!! HARRHARRHARR

In short, it's time to get back on the Death Watch.

So let's begin with a small update on the heavy weapons (I changed to a new system where magnets are added on the hand rather than on the weapon itself, it hepls a lot, really.)



And I spent quite some time planning an exact army list (for regular space marine codex 1000p.) and what marines it should contain.
So here's a little teaser of what's to come some day, hopefully soon.^^



oh I also finshed all the other marines for priming.

Hey, glad to see you back on the board. It's been a little while. Good idea on the magnets. I'll bet there's a bit more room for them in the wrist. That last pic reminds me I need to get another one of those bitz organizers.

Nice teaser too. I'll looking forward to seeing moar!

Looking forward to the Blood Angle

Seriously though, I am looking forward to all the cool work ahead. Why the 2 heavy bolters, are there going to be 2 Heavy Weapon folks?

Just noticed the spot for Angry Marine too

Thanks^^
@whalemusic360
There will be 4 heavy weapon guys, since I'll field two veteran squad

Little update..
Pose the Blood Angel.


Hmmmm, no


NO!


hm not bad


close


YEA!

Yes yes he is member of the Death Company blabla, can't do that, but damn the Death Company is awesome!
(Just imagin he is "only" insane, not totally freaked out like the rest of those guys...)

ok a little update from the weekend

The Hammer of Dron with his heavy Bolter.
Looks a bit small right now biut the greenstuff will fix that (some nice furr on his back, and several chains will make him look even more badass)



(credits got to doubleT for his barbed wire tutorial, wich is quite awesome )

That looks great and the sergeant of the deathwatch is amazing!

another little update
the next one for frieday is allready on the way^^

The Howling Griffon will be most likely the manliest marine of my killteam.
Also he's one of the taller guys, even fo a space marine.

Shield an sword are as allways magntised, so that I can use him for non HQ units as well.
(However bolter and chainsword are just not noble enough for his default pose...)
He's wearing a brand new IIX armor, and will get lots of ornaments and engraved honours on his armor.
Also quite a lot of parchments everywhere.

Very nice! I love the "Pose a BA" gag. The Griffon marine's pose looks a little awkward to me, though it may just be the camera angle. Mostly it's his front leg.

Are you going to assemble all of them before doing any green stuff work or will you do a bit of one then a bit of the other? I'm really looking forward to all of it.

OMG! i want it all, it is fantastic, love it.

Marines are looking awesome!

Love your Tau colours and your objective markers! I recently started my own Tau so i'll be checking back here again!

thanks^^

did some work on the legs, better now?

OOO- Much better. It looks like he's really putting his shoulder into it now.

Wow, great Green stuff work on those marines, cant wait to see them painted!

Wow, lots of great Greenstuff-fu in this thread. I'm definitely impressed. Looking forward to finishing off the Howling Griffon and eventually the ANGRY MARINE.

I'm super impressed with the work on that Chaplain in the very first post! I've been on a chaplain kick lately, so just in time!

Glad you like it^^
Yea I'm really looking foward to the angry marine as well, allready got quite a lot of ideas for him.

And another one!
A Minotaurus Marine. He might look a bit extrem right now
but if you know the fluff, those guys are extreme. >.<
So here he is, the High Lords personal thug.



@The Good Green:
I like to have at least 3 marines to work on with Greenstuff at once, so that you don't waste so much time and greenstuff.
However atm I just don't feel lik doing any Greenstuff work.
If it wouldn't rain all the time here I would start painting some of them next week, we'll see.

IPS wrote:
A Minotaurus Marine. He might look a bit extrem right now

Oh, he looks extreme alright. What are those? Grenades? Or did he need to modify his armour to make space for his huge balls?

Some great sculpting, painting and modeling, IPS. I'm looking forward to more.

Awesome models! Really like the shells coming out of that one marines HB!

IPS wrote:

I am totally conflicted on this guy, as there are things I love and hate: The alternative chainsword being the former and the grenade/balls being the later .

I am enjoying your PMblog, btw. I like the proportions of your true scale marines better than most of the TS projects.

Keep up the good work!

Cheers,
Rawson

Well, looks like I've been beaten to the punchline about 3 times already. I love the majority of the conversions on him and especially the brass knuckles thing.

Hehe^^

@Rawson:
That's kinda what I was going for.

I thought a marine as crazy as those Minotaurus guys woul probably
wear such a "trophy" just to tease other marines arround him.
Or to swing them in the face of the next alien, after he ripped out his guts and spread them all over the place.. >.<

But in the end you can't take that guy 100% seriously,
the main inspiration for them balls came for the video to the song "hold on" from korn.
In combination with some kroot bits it just couldn't resist to add them.


about the truescale

Thanks^^
That might be because I'm not necessarily going for the classic "true scale" marines, but more for individual proportions for each of my models that support their role and character.
For example that Minotaurus is more of a small and strong guy, which suits his thug image imo.
My Srg in contrast just got an enormous battlefield presence, he really dwarfs a standart IG soldier.
But that's not only because of longer limbs but more because of his general pose in combination with his base and the banner.


Hm, I totally forgot to upload a picture of his backside...

A rather small update but still.
I just finished the most important model of my army, the one to test my color scheme and new painting techniques on!

Ingame it will be some kind of servitor, or marker for a model that needs a bolter somehow, or just an additional marine if I should ever need one.

I would modify the servitor to look like it holds some sort of human anatomy such as a case for a brain. Something to make it seem less Tau

Very cool updates. The Minotaurus marine is pretty funny. That leg of his is crazy though. All the wires just curling around like that... that's gonna get GSed over, at least a bit, isn't it? Looks crazy right now though, very chaosy.

The drone is very cool. Can we get a 360 of it?

Yes, there will be greenstuff.^^
The chaosy look however is intended, I mean those guys where to be outcasted several times, but the highlords of terra allways saved them somehow..

Anyways, here is your 360 of the drone.



Tried several paint techniques on there (that's why it's a bit messy now...)
but I think in the end I found some rather satisfying ways to paint my Deathwatch.

CC welcome!