Weekly Post #14

So today's post is about a week short. Should I be less wordy in my posts? and just use pictures... hmm I'm just going to do what feels natural.

First up



A fire warrior! Ready to fight for the Farsight Privateers (I should probably think of a more T'auish name. Any ideas?)



A second fire warrior! (this is kinda boring =/)



A pathfinder. I liked his running post so took the picture from this angle. This is the last of my old metal ones so I'll be back to painting plastic ones when I do paint some pathfinders. That being said I painted him then varnished all three of the metal pathfinders so their paint wont chip.



And now I'm going to take a break from T'au for a while, seems like white+purple is all I've been posting lately.



Normally wouldn't post pictures of simply primed models but I got my two sisters done. I'll try to paint them sometime this upcoming week. So they can join my kill team.



One big problem the last week or so has been rain. Just constant rain keeping me from priming models to paint. So when I got a couple of nice days I went all out and primed my entire Aeldari force.



I also started on painting the wave serpent but wont get very far since I need a few more supplies. It also isn't glued yet (in the army picture the pieces are simply dry-fit onto each other). The end idea is to have them fit in with my harlequins so I'm going to mask this then prime black diamonds over the entire thing. With half of it being black+red diamonds and the other being black+white diamonds.



Lastly its our Test Guardian again! After some tips from my friend Dylan I decided to paint the backpack black as well to match the quartering of the rest of the model, this inspired me to also make the faceplate half black. My friend Brice said I should highlight the details on the black parts more so I did though I'm not sure its super visible in this picture. Finally I attempted to wet-blend the base with the original scheme of pink->blue. This was a mistake as it just ended up a mess, I should probably start with easier colors to wet-blend. I have another idea for basing though so I'll attempt that and see if it works instead.

(I've just heard rumors that my Harlequins have shown up in the store as well so I'll be picking those up tomorrow! Hype!)
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Weekly Post #13

So likely I'll be updating either Sunday or Wednesday from now on, today being Tuesday is a bit strange but my new schedule has me working Monday's & Tuesday's so I'll probably try for a regular Wednesday update day. Regardless here's this week!

Also I'm going to try and be consistent and place captions below the pictures from now on.



First is a metal pathfinder I got for free several years back.



Hes not in the best shape but he'll serve the Farisght Privateers nonetheless.



Next is another Fire Warrior, this one kneeling. I forgot to do the lens flair on his eyepiece so I'll have to fish him out of the transport box and do that super quick.



You'll notice his base is textured (as is the Pathfinders) Its not finished but I got my Astrogranite texture paint in so I started working on them. When its done it will look similar to the brown parts of the Sister's bases but in a grey instead representing urban rubble (other miniatures have stuff like girders and metallic parts fallen among the debris...)



Another Kroot Auxiliary! This one holding his gun up high! If you don't know much about the Kroot they are allies of the T'au, a race of cannibalistic bird-people who gain new traits based on the species they eat... I guess they don't eat their own so its more carnivorous than cannibalistic.



On Sunday my FLGS order came in along with two more metal Sisters of Battle. This first one is armed with a Heavy Bolter. Laying down supporting fire!



And beside her is a Multi-melta. Both are now ready to join my "Order of the Broken Blade" kill team.



Next is the Eldar Guardian posted last week. Hes painted up now as I've sort of strayed from the idea of Craftworlds. Instead I'll be building Harlequins, the mysterious lorekeepers of the Eldar race and guardians of the black library.... also they are space elf clowns. My craftworlders that I got will become a supplementary force to back them up. I'm going for a "Persona 5" theme with my harlequins and this guardian got to test out the scheme. Red+Black+White with quartering. On the body. For harlequins themselves I'll have two of the colors form a motley pattern in a quarter while the last of the three colors is a solid. For example in the left leg and right arm there are red & white motley while the right leg and left arm are solid black or any mixture of those combinations as I see fit. The idea for the bases here is to paint them as if in some kind of dream world... a solid blue base with splashes of pink wherever the model touches the base (here its emanating from the guardian's feet). I thin it would look better if I use green stuff to try and create a sort of ripple effect on the base and maybe have the edges fade to black or very dark blue.



Here's another picture of the same guardian that shows off the quartering a bit better but is slightly fuzzier. I'm also looking for opinions on what color the gemstones (currently just silver) should be.. I'm leaning either green or blue but I'm not sure. Maybe the bright blue of the base if I can find such a paint.



Finally this Wraithlord has been sitting in my "needs fixing" box for a while. I ordered some 60mm bases and finally got him situated and fixed up. Now he can join his Eldar Brethren once again. (Wraithlords, like all Wraith constructs are robots powered by an Eldar Soul placed in it and used as a pilot/powersource)



Finally a group photo so you can appreciate the Wraithlords height. Hes very big (for you)

Scheduling

I didn't get anything painted until today sadly and had no real time to photograph it. Since I'm working tomorrow I also wont be able to update tomorrow. Look for my next weekly update on Tuesday. After next week it may change to Wednesdays when I update as my schedule is still in flux.

Weekly Post #12

Its a week late but I just got a job so I was kinda busy last week.



First up is a Pathfinder with Rail Rifle. These guys are great little snipers with their little handheld railguns.



Next is an old metal pathfinder. Hes kind of in an awkward pose and has a bunch of wires that were removed from later pathfinder models. I'll need to be careful the paint doesn't chip on him before I varnish.



Kroot #2. I Swapped the hair & cloth color around and it works a lot better imo.



Fire Warrior using a heavier brush for the linework. I think it looks better but tell me what you think. Maybe its too strong.



Shas'ui (squad leader) for my first Fire Warrior squad. I like the blue-grey skin but am thinking I might make it a darker blue... not sure.



The whole group.



And now these guys were painteed & built today. from left to right: Eldar Guardian (just got a box with them), Fire Warrior #6 and Kroot #3

Still waiting on my basing stuff for my T'au but it'll come. I'm also considering building up my Eldar before the big sisters launch.

Late Post

Started a new job so post will be up tomorrow instead since I can't get good photos after dark.