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darkcloud92 wrote:Wow that is a great looking tau army, I think the scheme is great! The models also look very real, like they have been out in combat. The contrast with the bright blue/turquoise is really cool and unique I think. Most people would go with red in this situation I think.
What shade of brown is it that you have your army painted in? Commando Khaki?

The main brown color is P3 Hammerfall Khaki. It is close to GW's Commando Khaki. I will post the main colors I used so far for the army when I post my next Crisis Suit pictures that way you have them.

Pipboy101 wrote:

darkcloud92 wrote:Wow that is a great looking tau army, I think the scheme is great! The models also look very real, like they have been out in combat. The contrast with the bright blue/turquoise is really cool and unique I think. Most people would go with red in this situation I think.
What shade of brown is it that you have your army painted in? Commando Khaki?

The main brown color is P3 Hammerfall Khaki. It is close to GW's Commando Khaki. I will post the main colors I used so far for the army when I post my next Crisis Suit pictures that way you have them.

Oh ok, excellent thanks for the info! I think it looks especially nice on the suits, so can't wait to see those!

Well, it time to post another update on work that has been done. Tonight I finished the base on my Suicide XV-8 Crisis Suit. Then while that was drying I wanted to put together a test Fire Warrior with my alternate backpack to the normal Fire Warrior power pack that I showed earlier.

I am pretty happy with the new back pack and the equipment layout. It looks like he can jump in and out of his Devilfish into combat and not looking like he is trying to capture ghosts. After the show and tell of tonight's work I will be posting the list of paints that I have been using for this army to date. Here we go:

Completed XV-8 Suicide Crisis Battlesuit:








The lighting and pictures are not the best since I was in a bit of a hurry because my camera batteries were dying. This suit looks F*ing bad a$$ at the three foot tabletop view. Now that I have the paint scheme down it will be a breeze to knock out all the suits that I will be doing.

Next is my test Fire Warrior mini:








I have some clean up to do of some mold lines, softening of the edges and maybe a lower the back pack a little bit. Other than that I think he looks more how a Fire Warrior should look. So what do you think?



OK, I have been asked on what paints I have used so far. Since I knew that GW was coming out with new paints but I did not know that it was a complete replacement. However, if you want to use this color scheme you might want to hit your FLGS and see if they still have some paint pots. But the great thing is that for the main colors on both the infantry, Crisis Suits, vehicles and bases are Privateer Press P3 paints.

Here is the list of paints --

Crisis Suits:
Main Armor - P3 Hammerfall Khaki (GW Commando Khaki is pretty close)
Secondary Color (Dark Grey) - P3 Bastion Grey
Army/Rank Color - P3 Meredius Blue (GW Hawk Turquoise is also pretty close) and GW Skull White
Head Lens in order of use - GW Scab Red, GW Red Gore, GW Blood Red, GW Skull White
Plasma/Jet Pack in order of use - GW Regal Blue, GW Enchanted Blue, GW Ice Blue, GW Skull White
Sensor Lens - GW Regal Blue, GW Enchanted Blue, GW Skull White
Green Buttons - GW Snot Green
Red Buttons - GW Blood Red
Antenna Tops - GW Chaos Black
Weathering Powder Jet pack - Bar Mills Soot

For the Pathfinder (and all infantry) uses the same colors over most of the mini. However there are several more colors on the infantry that are used and they are as follows:
Uniform Cloth - P3 Cryx Bane Highlight
Leather Equipment and back of boots - P3 Gun Corps Brown
Knife handle, snap buttons and wire - GW Chaos Black
Wrist Pad Screen in order of use - GW Foundation Knarloc Gree, GW Snot Green, GW Scorpion Green

Now for the bases:
Main base color - P3 Gun Corps Brown
Sand and Dry Brush - P3 Hammerfall Khaki
Weathering Powder - MIG Gulf War Sand
Grass - Army Painter Highland Tuft


I hope this helps for anyone wanting to do this type of desert scheme. It's off to bed for me since I have to be at work early. Thanks for looking and reading.

As always C&C is very welcome. Have a good night.

Thanks for the info, I like the way the suicide suit came out! You say the rest are going to be forgeworld?
An I am not planning on stealing your scheme or anything...yet :p Maybe for my next cadre, but that won't be for a long time. So your awesome style is safe for now

darkcloud92 wrote:Thanks for the info, I like the way the suicide suit came out! You say the rest are going to be forgeworld?
An I am not planning on stealing your scheme or anything...yet :p Maybe for my next cadre, but that won't be for a long time. So your awesome style is safe for now

Your welcome. If there is any more info you want just leave a message on the thread or PM me. While I am answering I figure I might as well make a quick post. I am hoping to get some good time in painting today because the fire systems in the building I work in are being replaced this weekend which means no overtime this weekend. So I can stay up tonight and get some paint onto my first squad of Pathfinders. Except at 10 PM when the wife and I are going to watch the Mega Millions drawing. What I could do with that money. I think Forge World would sh*t sideways when they get my order for five Mantas. Got to dream something good when you are crunching government math all day long.

Hello again. The past two nights I stayed up to finish the infantry of my first Pathfinder Squad and I did it. So here they are:







So, it is time to start building my second squad of Pathfinders along the same lines of the first. It is tempting just to sit down and build all my infantry in one day but that would cause the me to feel over whelmed by having a large group of infantry to paint. As I said before, this is a long term project for me so it is one unit at a time.

On top of completing the work on the minis I will be updating me first blog entry. This will show a Completion schedule so you can see what percent a unit is complete, order status of minis and have links to the start of WIP, start of PIP and the fully completed unit. It's time to give the dogs a bath because they are stinky little fur beasts.

I will see you guys soon and keep the C&C coming. Thanks for looking and reading.

Man, I'm loving this. My first ever army was Tau so I've always had a soft spot for them, but more than that, your paint schele is gorgous! It really fits the Tau well and you've executed it greatly! That suit looks ace, good choice of color placements, and those pathfinders are nice conversions, simple, subtle, and effective! Keep it up! I''ll be watching, and with this amount of quality, I'm sure lots others will too

Looking great Mike!

Motivation to kick into high gear on my Tallarn

Those look absolutely beautiful.

These are very nice models, im not a great fan of the tau, but these are very well painted

Thanks everyone. The possitive C&C keeps me movtivated knowing that I am on the right track with this army. While it does not look like I have done much this army has been the most fun to build so far.

I have found that the Tau gives the widest range of possiblities to realistic looking paint schemes because nothing is trully over top. Plus the best thing is that bitz from other armies need very little work to work well with the minis especially with the Fire Warrior kits.

Yesterday afternoon I start one the first two Pathfinders on my second Pathfinder Squad. I will get the squad posted once I get all four built. It should not take too long.

Quick update. Working on my first page openning to the blog with a status completion log so you can quickly see what is going on. Also, it has links to the page for each unit that is completed. That way you do not have scroll through 20 or more pages trying to find the unit you were looking for.

In the near future the Status Completeion log will also have other information such as paints used, bases used and any other info that seem to get alot of questions about. Again, for the same reason as above. The log is still a WIP but keep checking back for updates. Will be posting on my 2nd Pathfinder Squad soon since it is 45% built.

See you guys soon and hope you enjoy the Blog layout change.

Sounds very structured, I like that, looking forward to it. Keep going!

Oh wow. That's a right good idea!

If I ever break 1 page, I'll have to do that! *chuckles*

Your Tau look excellent, you're driven to get them done, and you already have quite the following, so I imagine it's rather necessary.

Baiyuan wrote:Sounds very structured, I like that, looking forward to it. Keep going!

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:Oh wow. That's a right good idea!

If I ever break 1 page, I'll have to do that! *chuckles*

Your Tau look excellent, you're driven to get them done, and you already have quite the following, so I imagine it's rather necessary.

Thanks. I am hoping that the Status Log will help out alot. It is sometimes a chore to find something that people are talking about a few pages back. This should make the blog easier to read and enjoy.

So last night I was pricing out all my FW suits that I need and planning out when to make my purcheses. So, foward progress on the minis physically but planning is about just as important.

It's been a bit since I posted but I have not faultered on my work on my Tau. Last weekend was my birthday so I took a couple days extra off from work. Took that time to work on my Tau by building all my infantry in my 1850 list and work on project for a friend of mine.

So here is what I have done --

Pathfinder Squad Two (95% built. Still have to attach the cable from the receiver backpack to the wrist data pad on the sgt.):






Fire Warrior Squad One:




Fire Warrior Squad Two:



The Infantry is almost complete. The Fire Warriors have the alt backpack. I still have a group of kroot sitting in the bitz box waiting to be put together when I want to push to 2500 pts.

Now, my friend has decided to change from IG to Orks. That is fine with me since that only means I need to change a few weapons on my suits. But since I use to play Orks I still had a Looted Wagon WIP just sitting on my shelf. I decied to finish it and give it to him. So I worked on it for a a couple of days during my long weekend and it is about 80% built. Here is the Looted Wagon I worked on:














Well, I still have some armor repair panels to put on, a bunch of rivets and wiring to glue along with ordering FW Grot Crew and Sponsons for it. Been pretty busy hobby wise so I hope you guy like to see the progress. As always, C&C welcome.

Thanks for looking and reading.

Hopefully this weekend after I come back from the KC Pet Expo I can get some painting done on my infantry. Already burnt out from doing Gov't math all day. Finding myself drifting off into new ideas for minis.

Silly orks, strapping land mines to the inside of their hatches!
On a serious note this looks really good! I'll be keeping an eye on it.

Imperial Monkey wrote:Silly orks, strapping land mines to the inside of their hatches!
On a serious note this looks really good! I'll be keeping an eye on it.

Thanks. There is something always about looting a vehicle that makes the modeller in my feel good. I decided to use the mine since it had a cool switch on it. Plus with the hatch being recessed like it is all you see is the swtich and the top of the mine. Now the Ork Driver can turn on his headlight so he can see where he is going between the Boomgun flashes.

Alot of the interior details at tabletop level might be lost when the top is glued on but when you get close they should all show up well since the vehicle is open on the front, sides and rear. This would let in enough light. So, most likely ten armor repair plates, a couple hundred rivets and a few dozen wires later and the looted wagon will be done minus the FW Grot Sponsons and Grot Crew.

A quick update on the FW ordering:

YEAH! The first FW XV-88 Broadside has been ordered.

Plus a huge bonus, I was able to win a used FW Barracuda on Ebay for $90.00 USD. Friday the 13th has been total win for me.

Sweet!

Very nice looking tau! I'm a big fan of the subdued colors and true camo look. All those crazy color Tau just look funky to me. Keep up the great work, love the bases too, what were they again? Link?

The bases are from Secret Weapon. They are desert mesa 1 and 2 bases.

Oh sweet mother of f'ing sh#t tonight has been a roller coaster. I got home and the used FW barracuda was on my door step. Once inside I opened the box to make sure everything was there and it was. So I closed the box back up and put the box against the wall on my kitchen counter. Later that night I heard a bang. My damm cat knock the box onto the floor.

When the box hit everything came out. I ran into the kitchen and so did my dogs. Before I knew itone of my dogs had the left engine exhust in his mouth chewing on it. Telling him to drop it and he did but not before the damage was done I figure 30% of the exhust was missing. Holy sh#t I was pissed!

Instead of yelling and screaming about it I took everything downstairs and started to make repairs to the exhust. While I am not great with green stuff I was lucky that the exhust was alot of flat rectangle pieces. An hour later I have the exhust 95% repaired with only one slat to replace and some gaps between the damaged slats to fill. There was enough undamaged edges to allow me to recreate the original edges and shape of the exhust. I am glad that the repair is almost done because it would have been a total shame to trash the model over one part.

I will get pictutes once it is cleaned up but it is off to bed for me. Who knew that FW resin was bacon flavored.

Oh noes!

Krikey!

After chewing on your new kit that pet should spend a night in the doghouse but that wouldn't seem like punishment.

Glad to hear the Barracuda is mostly unscathed.

Norn King wrote: Oh noes!

Dark_Gear wrote:Krikey!

After chewing on your new kit that pet should spend a night in the doghouse but that wouldn't seem like punishment.

Glad to hear the Barracuda is mostly unscathed.

I felt the same way when I saw the piece rolling around his maw.

Well about another hour of green stuff work and the damage won't be visible when painted. I am glad I had the supplies and tools to make the repairs because I don't have any bitz that could have been a good replacement.

Oh No! A Noise!

What should I do!?

Run in there and FIND SOMETHING TO CHEW ON!


...I love dogs. But damn they don't make sense sometimes.

It has been a bit since I post new pictures of my stuff but have been busy with work and chores in the yard. But worry not I have still been working on my stuff.

First off is my used FW Barracuda that I picked up on eBay that my dog chewed on. It took a little bit as my previous posts stated but I am about as close as I am going to get to having it 100% repaired. Not only did I repair the engine exhust I filled in some gaps and added a couple of bits to the nose to smooth out the model a bit. And no, that is not my paint job. That was how it came to be so a quick spray with my base coat and it will be ready for paint. Here is the FW Barracuda:






Now for the dog repair section:



As you can see that I got the repair really close to the original condition. Once painted I don't think it will be noticable unless you get really close. Close enough for me.


Now for more infantry. I decided to concentrate on a 2500 point list so I add a group of 10 Kroot and 2 Krootox. I have all the Kroot built but didn't take a picture of the second Krootox because I wanted to some feed back on the first one. All I have to say is I love the Kroot models. I still need to clean up mold lines and drill out the barrels.

On the Kroot I am thinking about giving them all goggles because of the sun glare and dust. I did this with the Krootox and rider along with giving the rider a poncho that will be pained in the Tau Desert colors. This test is on the Krootox because the GS is easier to remove on the metal model if it doesn't look good. So here is my Kroot:










So there is what I have been working on this week. I hope you guys like it so far. Especially on the Krootox because it is works out then I will do more on the other Kroot. So, please leave some C&C. It is so very needed and welcome.

I love the goggles! An glad to see the barracuda got repaired, can't even tell it was damaged