Caliginous Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 (edited) Hi all, I have been slowly amassing a large Tau collection to paint in a scheme I've always wanted to do. The look and feel of the army is inspired less by the Japanese "gundam" aesthetic - which I hate, and more of hard sci-fi, such as the future scenes in The Terminator and the Aliens Colonial Marines. I actually started the project with probably the two most ambitious pieces. First, my kit-bashed Sun Shark/Razorshark bomber - made from a Sun Shark kit and 1/48 Mil-24 Hind. This was the first real kitbash I have done with two completely different models, and I'm happy how it came out, even though after what I'd guess was probably 100 hours of work, I kind of abandoned it because I was sick of working on it. The real challenge came from getting a Piranha cockpit to fit into the Hind fuselage - this alone took I'd say half the build time. However I had the look in my mind of a see-through canopy with an orange tint, so that's what I worked towards - if I'd gone for a opaque canopy it would have taken half the time. There's an absolute mass of plasticard on here as well, most of which you can't see so I suppose that's a good thing. Anyway, I hope you like it. WIP shots of my second largest piece in the army, the Sturmsurge. I'm working on this now, almost up to the oil-wash stage. I've also finished my test model for the infantry. This was done all with dry-brushing because I hate edge highlighting and I do whatever I can to avoid it these days. Not perfect, but not too bad either and pretty quick. And no edge-highlighting. Still to go I've got: 2x Riptides 2 x Ghostkeels 3 x Devilfish 4 x Broadsides 6 x Stealth suits 30 x Fire Warriors 30 x Pathfinders **** me haha. Cheers Cal Edited June 14, 2020 by Caliginous 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plasman Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 Looks real nice, just needs a Tallarn army to fight! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musterkrux Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 That Tau Gunship is 80s sci-fi as **** and I love it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caliginous Posted June 14, 2020 Author Share Posted June 14, 2020 2 hours ago, Plasman said: Looks real nice, just needs a Tallarn army to fight! Now *that's* an idea! Haha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magos Kasen Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 Nice work, always loved the look of the Hind. That's an ambitious conversion and you've pulled it off. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caliginous Posted June 19, 2020 Author Share Posted June 19, 2020 Oil wash done. Jebus that took a long time haha, never done an oil wash on a model this size. I’m going to have to do a second clean up on it. A million q-tips later.... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magos Kasen Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 That looks awesome dude. You're really selling the gritty, realistic look. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krefey Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Looking great so far mate. Nice one! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caliginous Posted July 7, 2020 Author Share Posted July 7, 2020 Well I just painted about 20 lenses (And even then I ignored some) and I think I’m ready for a scotch or three. The destroyer missiles (the four missiles under the main missile banks) have caused me all sorts of problems weirdly. I just can’t get the colours right. I actually stripped the paint on them by rubbing isopropyl alcohol with a q-tip and then using toothpicks to get the paint off. I’d tried so many colours on them the details had actually obscured. That’s why they are looking a little rough. Anyway - once they are done I just need to finish the base and he’s done. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caliginous Posted July 11, 2020 Author Share Posted July 11, 2020 Well, I’m abandoning him and calling him done haha. Varnish is still a bit wet I think. Sorry for crappy photos, will take some better ones soon with better lighting. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 I really like your choice of paint scheme. The real world urban scheme is done so well. Do you find the infantry don't carry the scheme as well as the larger models? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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