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I think you should strip the barracuda, it looks like that paint is thick


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I agree regarding stripping the Barracuda, just make sure you don't use break fluid. While the stuff works like a charm on plastic minis, it fully dissolves resin miniatures.

A friend of mine found out the hard when his Remora drones were lumps of slag at the bottom of a pan. Not a happy day.

whoa! That's some awesome work, I love the Desert paint-scheme on the Tau

Thanks for the C&C. I will start working on more GS work on the Kroot this weekend.

I agree that it would be best to strip the Barracuda. He did put the paint on kind of think in places. However, I tried to soak a small part in Simple Green for a couple of days and the paint laughed it off. Now it does flake off with a little bit of pressure from my hobby knife but that would take forever. I know know what kind of paint he used but it almost has a house paint kind of feel to it.

I am afraid to try anything stronger than Simple Green on FW resin as I too have made my own lumps of FW resin before from once good looking minis. So, I have to make the choice on hoping that a good base coat of camo Krylon will cover the paint already on it or try and soak it for a few days in an attempt to strip the paint.

Now a plus to base coating over the paint that is already there I have done it before with my urban Tau using the Krylon Camo paints. They lay a good coat over thick paint like that and if I want to strip the paint the Krylon bonds with the undercoat. This will make it so much easier to strip as the camo basecoat and the paint below become bonded chemically thus pretty much once layer of paint. I know Simple Green works on the Krylon so if the basecoat doesn't look good it will be much easier to strip.

Well, yesterday I also put together the FW Crisis Battlesuit Commander. Didn't take a picture as the glue was still drying. Will get some pictures of it if I like the pose. FW suits look cool but their legs and feel are a super pain in the butt to glue in place.

It's been awhile since I have posted in the blog but fixing my gutters on my house has taken a lot of my time. During the few free hours I finished the FW Tau Barracuda I picked up used from eBay. You can see the pre-painted of the mini near the end of the 3rd page of this blog.

I didn't strip the mini as I was worried on what Simple Green would have done on my GS work on the engine repairs. I was very happy with the my choice since I was able to cover the the base coat really well. The spray paint gave a super flat coat and evened out the old paint. The underside was hard to figure what I wanted to do. I found a picture of a color WWII BF-109 in North Africa. It was perfect for my mini so the paint was 5:1 GW Ice Blue to P3 Exile Blue. All the colors are the same one that were used on the Pathfinders and Crisis Suits. You can't really see the Desert weathering powders in the pictures but it removed 95% of the shine on the mini.

This is what I learned by using this pricy mini as a test vehicle for my paint scheme. The darkened camo tan only works on minis up to crisis suit size. Any vehicles will have to be a lighter tan and must use weatheting powders on the large surfaces. How the darker tan is created is by exploiting the pooling effect of GW devlin mud wash and the new GW color equivalent. When you get to this much flat surface area the wash streaks badly even when thinned down. That streaking is not noticable on infantry or crisis suits so the wash darkens the tan well.

So while the vehicles will be lighter it will make sense because as skimmers they will be higher in the terrain and closer to the skyline hince the blending in to the terrain. The infantry and suits will be darker as to blend with the ground cover.

Here is pictures of the the Fighter:







Hope you enjoy the mini and C&C is very, very welcome.

That looks great Mike! The way you talked on the phone, I was expecting the top to blotchy--but that looks smooth. Looks great.

I Like it, but I think the Underside could do with a bit more powder, and the exhaust vents would look cool with some soot. Also, Its really clean, I know your army isn't chipped, but I think a big model like this could benefit from a small chip here and there

Da Boss demandz updatz!

That's great. Havn't posted in several days but I have spent all my free time at work and did got my first test repair complete on my house gutters. Big storms today and the repair worked great. Hopefully will be able to post more soon. Did get one devilfish together and some drones.

awesome!

I have hit my downward slide with 40k. Just with all the price hikes and my group getting more competitve just wanting to do tournies to the point that it wasn't any fun anymore. I made the choice to sell off all my 40k stuff. So this blog is closed as I just sold this army to another Dakka user.

Well, this is one less project over my head and I can concentrate 100% on the game I am producing with a friend that owns an company that produces products for the D&D and Pathfinder.

That's sad! Overcompetitive gamers who forget there can be other aspects to the game are a curse. Pity you decided to drop the army instead of finding more sensible guys to play with.
Good luck with the game development!

Thread necromancy!

But with a good reason - I bought Pipboy101's guys, and just finished them up.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Redbeard%27s_Bork%27an_Sept_Tau