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Project TA1: Stealth Tau
So, I have discovered the moment when you know that your wife/partner is the perfect person for us nerds (I use the term to label myself and anyone who feels the same, no insult intended). It's when you spend 30minutes with that person discussing how best to complete this month's painting challenge and present it in the right (and easiest way) when she has no interest whatsoever in wargames or model kits. She is a brilliant woman who supports everything I do and I have genuinely amazed her with things achieved sometimes (not being big-headed, more a comment on her willingness to support me regardless what I choose to do, therefore paying no consideration to the final product, hence the amazement).

So my beautiful wife agreed to chat about my thoughts to use orks in a diorama with the Tau sneaking up on them. Good idea she says, but can't you use your landing pad? She then proceeds to tell me I'm wrong about where I planned to place them and suggests two awesome places that produced incredible appearances. Sadly one was physically impossible for a creature to hold without the terrain piece being present, so as these are meant to be potentially able to field on a table, that was left sadly, but I really loved it - suit kneeling in a crip of rock in lava peering over an island at what's taking place. Had I remodelled the figure it would have taken a lot of moulding and I doubt the final result would have benefited.

So here are the three figures now:

This is where the contest challenge piece will be placed with camo painted on after.

And this is where my wife excelled with her second placement suggestion. In the photo above of the three, look at the figure on the left, take his base off and then check this out:

So no base until after the challenge for that one.
If I somehow manage to get those three done I have two orks to paint and some ork upper torso and heads (not dead, but asleep under GS sheets around a campfire

This therefore allows me a kick up the bum to complete the landing pad - that's for you Vik saves making a new dio and allows me to have some different angles for the camo effect.

I'm so motivated now. She's a great woman is my wife

superb!!!!! gotta love the wives

I was genuinely stunned, she said can't you have him flanking from over the brow, and I just paused in astonishment before realising that if I did it right he'd be hugging the slope but able to stand in the same pose.

Great work on the suits, a second opinion is always an eye opener! Take a look in my gallery there for an example of how not to do it! Tried to actually glue sand to them, haha. In games it looks great, otherwise, not so much .

@caminacambob - your stealth suits are a good concept, I think the problem comes from what most people have done which is have the spread coming from the ground or random points. When you are faced with someone in a chameleon shield you won't see them because they will look like whatever is behind them. That's my theory anyway

i often analyse my ideas with my wife too... quite often she has the crucial ideas i need to have for finishing my project... it´s all about the different perspective...
and i love that project... this will look amazing!

Project TA1: Stealth Tau
For the painting challenge I managed to finish this. Not up to everyone else's standards, but I achieved my aim to create a camouflaged Tau Stealth Suit:

"He's Behind You!"

"Close-up of Ork"

"XV-25 Stealth Suit Front"

"XV-25 Stealth Suit Left"

"XV-25 Stealth Suit Right"

It was hard to take the photos to show the transition between camouflage and not, the light gauge on the camera was going mental. Hope you get the idea though.

I WILL finish the other two

That really is splendid!

All I'd suggest is using a very bright color to denote the edge of the cloaking field. Either a pale blue or cold off-white would just make it a little clearer.

I know what you mean. It's been bugging me since I finished it. I think the photos don't show it off well either. This is an iPhone close-up:

It's white with a light blue spattering in it. Blue didn't seem to work. Maybe a heavier blue line stippled centrally in the white might work.

Thanks for the feedback

welcome back matey!
i do get the point... what a cool work! and i am envious that you tackled that really tough subject so successfully!

Vik - thanks man. Glad I used the landing pad even though it's not quite finished - paint not sitting on properly

Project DA4: Vindicator, now with Necron enemies
Finally finished my Vindicator for the August painting challenge. I probably could have been more detailed, but I am pleased:






Hope you like it. There are two more Wraiths I will paint up (ran out of time). I am really getting in to the Necrons now

Few points:
The Gunner is called Bob
Bob likes to Hum "Bob the Bolter, Can He Blast it? YES I CAN!!!!!" as he goes about killing stuff
There is fluff, but not typed up yet.

Nice work, sir!

 TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:

Few points:
The Gunner is called Bob
Bob likes to Hum "Bob the Bolter, Can He Blast it? YES I CAN!!!!!" as he goes about killing stuff
There is fluff, but not typed up yet.

Hahaha, fantastic.

I love me a Vindicator, and Bob really seems to be enjoying himself! Really nice work, the hazard stripes set it off especially well.

Awesome!

The Gunner is called Bob
Bob likes to Hum "Bob the Bolter, Can He Blast it? YES I CAN!!!!!" as he goes about killing stuff
There is fluff, but not typed up yet.

waaaay better than "git some!...."

also... your necrons look awesome...very cool...the glow effects really sell these models!

also...welcome back matey!

The credit goes to Januine, who has been fundamental in warping my head in this one. Thanks for the kind words Vik.

voted for you on the comp.... deserves to win

Ah Vik. That's really good of you. I have to say I am really proud of this one, even if I didn't finish the other 2 Canoptek Wraiths

Bloody lovely stuff TP. Dio came out great. Damned toasters!! Wraith looks fantastic!! You're gonna be needing to get yourself a display cabinet! (The IKEA ones are brilliant)

I have a couple already that are nearly full with various things. It's a lack of floor space that's my problem. Will mull it over and work something out otherwise they will be sitting on each other's laps

I'm needing a second one....soon enough. I casually.....mentioned it to the wife.......her look said it all :(

 Januine wrote:
I'm needing a second one....soon enough. I casually.....mentioned it to the wife.......her look said it all :(

rofl...same boat...

Januine wrote:I'm needing a second one....soon enough. I casually.....mentioned it to the wife.......her look said it all :(

Viktor von Domm wrote:

 Januine wrote:
I'm needing a second one....soon enough. I casually.....mentioned it to the wife.......her look said it all :(

rofl...same boat...

I'm too frightened to ask

^LOL... yup...

So this blog has been empty for a long time. RL has been tricky, but I won't bore, we all have these challenges.

Everyone is setting goals for 2016. I like that word - "goals" - it's more realistic than resolutions, with goals they are what they are - aspirations to aim towards. I don't make resolutions at all, they are simply things to feel bad about in 12 months when you didn't achieve them. All I can manage with hobbying at the moment is aspirations, but that's no bad thing.

I have a huge backlog of models and the new MEdge stuff is coming soon. I therefore will not make a dent in what I've got, but there are some things I would like to paint:
A squad of DA scouts
A Deathwing Terminator squad
Ravenwing Jetfighter
Anrakyr the Traveller
Finish my squad of Necron Warriors
Finish my squad of canoptek wraiths
A Tau crisis suit and I don't care which
Finish my stealth suit team
A squad of tau/kroot troops
MEdge Angel
MEdge Epirians contractors or a Hunter
MEdge karist tempests

And I hope I can make these fit in to Para's contests this year. If I am doing well on this list, I will be rewarding myself by caving in to Januine's prompting and buying a Knight Warden, but that will require a lot of time and therefore momentum to complete this list beforehand. I'd love to finish some Deathwatch, tanks, more Tau, more Necrons along the way too, but goals have to be achievable.

We'll see what happens.

So, as 2015 closed I produced this:

And very pleased with it I am too. Nightmare build and I finally sussed out how I could thin paints correctly etc (was struggling to get consistency right with brushloads, so bought plastic pipettes - works perfectly for the obsessional in me!
There's a thread on how awful the build with and how I painted the flames on here, I can link if anyone struggles to find it.

It got me thinking though how I'd love a vote or five for it to see what the masses think, but none so far, which is fine, I am not being spoilt, but a bit of feedback would help an improving painter a lot. The challenges I enter are fab and I get some feedback there, but ranking 10th (as I am currently) makes slightly less sense than "your model is a 7 out of 10 goodness level". I think it's human psychology isn't it? Only one person can win, but it would be great to know how close to 1st you were. So I looked at how many votes I've had. 5. 239 photos, majority with voting disabled because they are WIP, but only 5 votes for all the photos that could be voted for! Oh well. I've got good friends here who give me feedback, which helps a lot.

Here is my next project anyway, as per the list, SM DA scouts:

I'm gonna have some magnets in it and a glowing power fist, I hope. I'll try to update as I go

So progress was made last night, here is how Veteran Sergeant Dorn is looking and his Dark Eldar victim. Need to pin and prime him and the other scouts next:

NB Tried using the attachment function and it seems to have gone wrong below, apologies. These are the photos I tried uploading:
Colour Scheme

Other shots:

WIP on the scouts:
Here's how the pose looked after repositioning the Dark Eldar-

Took a bit of "extreming" (bending joints more than GW allowed). That meant I needed to cut into the chest slightly for the helmet to bend forward more and I had to make a neck and new helmet base -

Then I had to redo the back of his waist to stop builder's bum -

This is how he looks from the front -

And now Dorn has a cloak -

And from the front -

The cloak needed scaffolding to stop it straightening overnight (let's hope it worked) -

These 4 are pinned and ready for their cloaks now too. They won't be so dramatic though -

Looking good! Really nice sense of motion and impact between the two models!