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Basecoating has begun on the project!

God it has been a long time since I've posted, but that's university I suppose! My local GW store is having a diorama painting competition and I've been planning my entry. I've always wanted to create a scene from the Taros campaign itself so I've chosen the defence of the governors palace, and I'm using the amazing artwork of Tarokeen City in the Imperial Armour book. Going to order the parts tonight!

I have 500 points of tau to paint in three days. I am so fucking done with Tausept Ochre at this point.

#It'll be worth it #but so much browny yellow #so so much

I'm now more than half done on the Tactical marines! They were a rush to do towards the end ( so I'm definitely redoing the legion numbers at some point) but the time towards the start I had with them meant that I could experiment with the positions and accessories, especially so with the sergeants.

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Kroot! Finally some Tau(ish) on the Tau blog. I took most of the inspiration for their colour scheme from an Armies on Parade entry, but the warpaint was mostly Viking and Skyrim derived, although there is bit of Australian Aboriginal on some of their shoulders. There are a few Tau things spattered around (including the bandana) because I they will be operating close to the Pathfinders in the whole scouting part of the force, and so they gave them some stuff being friends! And that means I can put Kroot bits on Pathfinders as well…..Tau with sharp knives…..this will not go well.

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Septimus Victor- Captain of the 2nd Company. I really liked being able to take the times over a single model again, especially one as nice as this (four for you forge world you go forge world). The base model is a Mark IV Captain, but I liked the helmeted Mark III head better, so removed the other helmet from under his arm.....definitely didn't nearly cut through his cape.......

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YAY

Last week I won my first battle at my new gaming society! I lost the last 3 ( the last one only just) but I managed to table my opponent (who was a fantastic sport by the way) and his army of footslogging Crimson fists, and do you know why? Drones.

Those blighters are magnificent. The free drones off my piranhas mopped up a scout squad in combat then took out the last heavy bolted devastator hiding in the woods. The two off devilfish 1 took out the last of his missile devastators and off devilfish 2 they managed to wound Pedro Cantor in combat.

And after having almost the entirety of my army shoot Pedro (including 4 fusion blasters, 12 sniper kroot and a fuckton of pulse weapons) do you know what took his last wound?

Drones motherfucker.

#Tau Empire #AI you so bamf

I'll post a better picture when they're all complete, but here's the start of the kroot!

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Currently got a bit of a scouting legion going on

I'm doing Kroot

Dear god do I love Kroot.

#I should be able to put up my test model tomorrow #He's ace wait 'till you see him

The new squad of Phoenix guard terminators! I use them as Assault terminators in the game, hence the winged storm shield on three of them. I had so much fun painting these and they really are great models, and it means the army is going along great guns now!

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My second squad of HH Emperor’s Children, I must say I probably liked painting these better than the first lot, and being back at home with my bits box meant I could mix the poses up a little more than last month.

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