I’ve never had much success stripping plastic. My plastic Tau infantry is all fully painted. That smooth space might work on the sides, but I’m not crazy about it on the back.Īnyway, we’ll see if it works out or not next week, I expect. I’m probably going to do some plasticard stuff to the back of the tank when it’s assembled. It feels perfectly smooth, but we’ll see what it looks like when it’s been primed.
Instead of putting the hatches on, I’m filling the space with some 2mm plasticard (not as smoothly cut as I’d have liked) with the gaps filled in with greenstuff and the whole mess sanded super-smooth. Devilfish carry troops, yes, but how many hatches does a Hammerhead or Sky Ray need? What I’m doing here is something I’ve wanted to do ever since deciding to revisit my Tau a few years ago: smoothing out the sides of my tanks. I’ve put together some Pathfinders, and I’m starting in on a… I dunno. As you can see, I’ve got some Fire Warriors basecoated, and I’m starting in on a final test model. Hopefully, I’ll be able to make good, quick progress with these guys. I think I’m going to give that a spin before I hit the model with varnish. The more I think about it, the more I like the rightmost one. I did some quick alternative color mockups below: the second from the left might have hastily been done in Gimp, but it’s not too far from what black-on-white actually looks like. The slightest imperfection in getting lines straight and shapes even stood out. Previously, I’d painted it black-on-white, and I don’t think it ever looked good. The only thing I’m unhappy with is the Fire Caste symbol. In the end, it came down to variety, and thinking I could get the effect I wanted. will likely be happy to note that, in the end, I went with Dragonforge’s Lost Empires bases. Here’s a finished, final model: all he needs is some static grass on the base and varnishing. I’m still not sure that I’m in love with it, but it’s definitely Good Enough. There’s been quite a bit of faffing around with the exact paint color scheme I want to use on my Tau 2.0. Not a lot, but given how the past month’s been: I’ll take what I can get. Sigmar help me, I’ve actually done some painting. Blargh.Ī day late, sure, but it’s got to be Wednesday somewhere, right? (What do you mean that’s not how it works?) I’ll probably finish them at some point (they’re, like, 75% there) and maybe use them as test models for weathering or something. So, I’m shoving these guys to the back of the table.
#Tau empire color schemes full
I could repaint these guys, but given that most of them already have two full coats of paint on them, a third isn’t going to do them any favors… nevermind the psychological difficulty involved in painting them again. So, that’s the last, what, month? down the drain. I assure you, the difference is even more significant to the naked eye. It’s noticeably more blue and not-at-all green here. I pulled my mix from some notes I’d kept… but not the right notes. Then, Saturday morning, I realized I used the wrong wash. But I was blessed with some time Friday so I knuckled down and powered through the bastards: washing them before turning in Friday night. This process has felt interminable: not enough time to paint, going back over stuff I’d already painted, too many minis (7) in the batch, etc, etc. So, I basically redid all of the other in-progress Fire Warriors: another basecoat, more turquoise, etc. I’m pretty happy with the result (especially after settling on a better approach to the Fire Caste symbol). Somewhere along the way, I remembered that I painted up this Demigryph using a turquoise that I was exceedingly pleased with, so I checked my notes, and included it as one of the test schemes. Most of this time has been cycling through different arrangements of turquoise, trying to get something worked up that I’m happy with. So, I’ve been slowly grinding away at some Fire Warriors with what little painting time I seem to have nowadays.