Reinforcements have arrived!

Indeed. In the form of 10 FWs. I don't like painting these guys so I think I won't buy anymore, but try to build some kind of a drone army. I'll count the drones as FWs, They will be in the same height as the FW heads, they will have a pulse rifle and a TA to give them the unbelievable BS 3 of the FWs. What do you think about this idea?

Anyway, here are a few bad pics!

First Hammerhead 3

I think this will be the last post about the painting of HH #20 since I consider it ready. I kinda like the weathering though I think I'll add boltgun metal or something like that on the nose to resemble heavier damage. I didn't really weather the SMS drones because in my opinion these are very mobile parts on a HH and are easier to replace by newer ones than the engines for example (I don't really use SMS on HHs by the way so I'll change them to burst cannons if I'll have the chance). I don't really know what to write about it so here come the pics. Tell me what You think!

On GW decals

I just drybrushed the HH with a lighter color than the original and when i cleaned the brush, I noticed one of the "20" numbers on my hand. I rushed back to the model to notice the other was missing from the engine too. I didn't get to the tower yet, I hope I won't loose that, coz I've already done that earlier but put it back to its place with watered down PVA glue... The same will go with the new decals on the engines, I'm sure. Have You ever had a similar experience?

First Hammerhead 2

As You can see below I got on with the HammerHead. There isn't too much to say, I painted the sensors on the front, a few parts of the railgun, the sept marking on the front, and the back of the turbines which You can't see now.

I added 3 decals as well, They look cool I think. I figured this means 20 in Tau, and now that's the number of the vehicle. I chose this number coz my brother was born on the 20th of Feb. I have never seen this kind of decal on the tower of a HH, but I think it looks good, especially that this method was (maybe even now is) used in many armies around the World.

The other funny part is the railgun with the red stripes. I got the idea from German tank aces from WW2 who painted a circle on their cannons after every tank which they destroyed. I think it looks great on the railgun as well, showing this tank's crew is experienced with 4 victories from previous battles. (We only draw a circle after Land Raiders of course...)

Oh I almost forgot to mention the sensor in the middle of the tank to which I gave a Knight Rider / Battlestar Galactica Cylon feeling with the painting. Since I hate this part on the HH most, I just thought this would be a good joke, laughing out the segment itself, though I kinda like it now.

For me, now comes the fun part because finally i can get to weather RH (Railhead) #20.

First Hammerhead

I got fed up with the FWs (I just can't paint them nice, always mess up sg. I should go with a 1-color scheme on them with washes and drybrushing) so I decided to carry on with the painting of my HH. Here are a few pics about my progress. I'd like to thank the Santa Cruz Warhammer crew for the idea of the camo, I think It looks great.

Before the camo.

With the camo.

Painted a few details.

We Will see how will It turn out, I have to correct it here and there, paint a few more details, apply some decals and weather It as good as I can. Remember, this item is from my first wh40k buy ever so this have to be very worn-out and damaged. How do You like it?

New scheme

I brought home 10 airbrushed fire warriors and my hammerhead a couple of days ago and began to think about colors for the hammerhead. Well It has the same base color as the FWs You could see earlier, that yellowish, but I don't know if I should paint some camo over it, or just paint the gaps, or both. I think I'll just put midnight blue in those gaps and highlight tha parts around it with dark grey to resemble that the vehicle is really war-torn.

When I got the idea to use midnight blue as a kind of wash I just started to wonder if It would look better as my secondary color instead of the grey. I applied it to a FW just to see and I liked it much more than the first combination, so I'm painting the 10 new FWs to this scheme. Alas my painting skills didn't improve so they won't look good, but the colors will look cool together, I hope. I'll post pictures at friday or saturday I think. Comments are welcome about the HH and everything of course!

First Crisis 01

I began to paint my first Crisis battlesuit, It will be a Shas'vre from the commander's bodyguard. You can't see it yet, but It will be a very battle-hardened armor, with 3 shots on the body, and a cut on the left hand. I like this model so far, but painting this type of camo takes too much time, so I will stick with an easier one with airbrush, and say that this is an expreimental camouflage, which I can easily imagine with the Tau. The camo is inspired by the USMC T-pattern which was an expreimental camo as well, used only once.

First figures painted

Well here are the first five fire warriors of the cadre. They look very similar to the T'au sept in colors, but I didn't decide it whether my cadre is part of it or not? I didn't decide the name either, It should be something 'tauish', which would also suggest that these guys aren't fighting stationary. Banestorm, thunderstrike, or something like that. I'm sure I dont want to model exactly the T'aus because I find them kinda boring. All of my vehicles and I think my battlesuits as well will have camo, so they will be different.

As You can see, my painting skills are lousy but I'm trying hard. I really like the leader's head and that's it. I surely have to improve.
These will be my most veteran warriors along with 3 Crisis battlesuits, 3 XV25 battlesuits and a Hammerhead which I bought together on eBay. They were used and not in good condition as You can see for example these soldiers don't have antennas... Of course I can explain that: no ideas why, but on the planet, where they fought against greenskins short range radio didn't work so they chose not to wear the antennas since that's just more weight which is bad when You have to run from Orks. :)

So here are a couple of bad pics, the models aren't ready, I'll upload a few pics when they are. I really like weathering and I already decided that this will be a battleworn cadre, so that's what is still waiting for them. Your opinions are more than welcome!