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They look really nice so far, but I feel like a group of rebel scum should be dirtier. Maybe some sponge weathering?

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Verviedi wrote:
Did I?

You and I both know you did, you little powergamer!

Foiled again!

Nicely executed paint scheme on these Tau.

 LeCacty wrote:
They look really nice so far, but I feel like a group of rebel scum should be dirtier. Maybe some sponge weathering?

I'm not exactly confident in my weathering skills. I'll have to do more research.

 Verviedi wrote:

 LeCacty wrote:
They look really nice so far, but I feel like a group of rebel scum should be dirtier. Maybe some sponge weathering?

I'm not exactly confident in my weathering skills. I'll have to do more research.

Saturday, come and talk to me while I read my Kau'yon book. Have some questions written up and ideas as to what you might want to do.

 Verviedi wrote:

Completed Ghostkeel!

Done that soon? Damn but you're fast! The model looks pretty good, too!

Nice Ghostkeel.

Very quick work indeed!

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Thank you! I'm currently working on tidying it up.

Kan, I should be able to be there. Thank you.

Nice work on the Ghostkeel, it looks like one hell of a kit. No idea how i missed your Tau blog before.

You know you're about to have fun when assembly takes 2.5 hours!

 Verviedi wrote:
Thank you! I'm currently working on tidying it up.

Kan, I should be able to be there. Thank you.

JE and I are planning on playing a game as well, I'm bringing my Raptors(Raven Guard Successor) stuff and we're doing like 1k.

Wow, you actually managed to get him to agree to a small game?
I'll probably just be painting, but if you guys have time after the game, I'm all in.

Oh, right! Some more eye candy!

Before I forget; what kind of weathering are you thinking about? Soot, mud, dust, what?

Most likely just light soot or dust. I don't see why my legion of jetpack-equipped battlesuits would be that muddy.

 Verviedi wrote:
Most likely just light soot or dust. I don't see why my legion of jetpack-equipped battlesuits would be that muddy.

Because they make jump pack moves and impact the ground hard when they cut their jump packs?

PS--don't forget that our manager can show you how to weather.

I like to imagine them softly floating an inch above the ground for the entire game. Makes it all much easier!

Pffffffffft.

If it ain't dirty, you're not playing it right!

I am working on doing some little metal dings and scratches on the Ghostkeel, will take a pic when done.

I was going to paint my Hammerhead...
But I'm afraid an immovable object is blocking me.


Also, I added little scratches to the Ghostkeel. The bottom of the thigh and the chest.

But such a cute immovable object. Awww...

She seems to enjoy sitting in inconvenient places and trying to drink my paint water. The true hobbyist's bane!

Shas'El Salas'he Sha'nas (Noble Hiddenblade)


Shas'El Vior'los Shase'por (Noble Darkwater)


Shas'El Vior'los An'ilane (Noble Deathrain)

The ghostkeel looks great! I was wondering if you'd do a favor for a fellow tau player. Could you post a pic with all the various suits you have in a line from shortest to tallest? I don't know if you have any newer style broadside but I was curious how the ghostkeel visually stacks up next to the enforcer commander, broadside , and riptide. I know the ghostkeel is between the commander and riptide but I haven't found any pics online showing the frontal and side profile size differences.

Now that's a big cat!

My cats also enjoy drinking my paint water and knocking my models off my paint table.

Nice suits.

EDC

Warboss, here you go!



(Stealth Suit, Old Crisis, New Crisis, Farsight (Enforcer), Ghostkeel, Riptide)

Thanks, much appreciated! That's a nice size progression there in terms of suits. I can't help but think though that the Ghostkeel is $5-10 too expensive compared with the riptide. From the look of the bulk, there should be more than a $10 difference between the two.

Is your iridum suit on a 60mm or 50mm base? The dynamic posing along with the bigger base really do make them look bigger than the old crisis suits even if they're not actually much bigger. Also, out of curiosity, how come you don't have any broadsides? Do you not like the rules or the models? Or do they just not fit in with your playstyle? I'm curious as I'll be adding a broadside soon to my Farsight "ally" subforce (I too have a main tau force and decided to make a small Farsight offshoot).

Deathrain (Iridium) is on a 50mm base. Farsight is on one also.

I don't have Broadsides because they don't fit with Mont'ka. I really, really hate gunlines, which is why generally the only thing I'll have in the table turn one is Fire Warriors in Devilfish and Stealth Suits with Homing Beacons. Everything must move. Everything.

And also, so damn expensive for a 65 point model.

Have you taken a look at the retaliation cadre? The broadsides in there deepstrike and get relentless iirc.

 warboss wrote:
Have you taken a look at the retribution cadre? The broadsides in there deepstrike and get relentless iirc.

I'm just pissed enough that Farsight can't take a Retaliation Cadre that I'm a bit leery about running it. I want mah dropblob of death!

I'm in the same boat as you (and sorry I meant retailiation... I corrected after you posted). I'll ask opponents if they don't mind the subsitution but otherwise I'll be using my farsight as a vanilla commander with an onager "blade". At least he'll get an upgrade to t5 and 2+ as well.