The Devilfish is in the Details

After the previous update giving color to the fish, yesterday, I took back some of the color...

Devilfish in color

You all remember this picture, right?
Well, this weekend I slapped some wash onto the thing and it came out looking OK-ish...
I also told you before that I was going to do an edge drybrush before the wash to make the edges stand out a bit more... well, I was already halfway through the washing process that I remember I was gonna do that... so nope, didn't do it.

Anyway, picture after the break!

Teaser Reveal!

This was the teaser I showed in my last progress update.
I thought it was kinda obvious what it is, and if you took a clever way about this, you could get a big hint from the filename of the image. (how naive of me to think nobody would find that :p)

Look past the break for the big reveal!

Tau: State of the army

(Almost) another month has passed by and this is a new overview of where things stand with my Tau army.

In my last "State of the army" post (here) I finished by saying that I wonder what I would get done in another month's time, and that I hoped I could keep up the momentum.

Well... the momentum has faded a bit, but I have an explanation (or excuse) for that: the weather has become a lot better the last couple of weeks, so less time is spent indoors and thus less time can be spent on hobby-ing.

Since May 21 (when I had painted up about 300 pts) I only finished this one batch of models, comprising 2 broadsides, a marker drone and a Firewarrior. This isn't a lot...
Although, to my defence, the broadsides are the largest models yet painted in my Tau army and the batch represents a little over 160 pts, so that's a painted points increase of over 50% in a month.

Of course, this also means I painted only about half of the points I did the month before and only about 1/4th of the amount of models. Eh well...

Anyway, looking back on the 2 months since first (re-) starting Tau, I'm very happy with what I achieved, and I'm glad the models that have been lurking in my closet for about 8 years are finally starting to really form an army.

After the break, a breakdown of the models I have, what is painted and what is planned...

Broadside Batch Completed!

The drill, it is known to you... above picture is where I left off last week, having just painted and shaded the bases.

Then after some work this weekend and further work yesterday, I can finally say they are finished. Pictures after the break...

Update containing only text!

And we have another mini-update as I didn't think the progress was significant enough to warrant a picture...

I gave the latest batch (2 broadsides, Firewarrior and Marker drone) their coat of varnish and thus prepared them for the final touch: a couple of pieces of static grass.

Since I had set up my airbrush I then proceeded to undercoat my devilfish and 2 gun drones in black primer, like I do with all my models and then started thinking about a camo scheme... I'm not sure what to do with it yet, but I have some ideas... I will explain in a following post what I intend to do...

Next up, adding some grass!

Broadsides mini update

Just wanted to let you know I finished the bases on the Broadsides batch. The only things left to do is spray on a coat of varnish with the airbrush and gluing some static grass to the bases.

Next up, I'll be doing a Devilfish. This will be mostly done with an airbrush, but I will be using the same monochrome highlighting technique followed by a (or several) Violet washes. The idea is that I will spray the vehicle black and then add highlights and a grey/white camo pattern using my airbrush. Then, after the Violet wash is applied, the tank will appear to be painted in several shades of purple.
I hope that turns out ok...

Do you guys have any experience with monochrome highlighting of vehicles?

Broadsides: nearing completion

Here's where I left off this weekend.
I continued work last night, look past the break for more info...

Broadsides: start of detailing

The last days, the weather here in Belgium has been great, so not many hours were spent indoors doing hobby stuff.

Although, I do have a little bit of an update ready as put on another coat of white, just to cover up some blotchy white and I started on the detailing... picture after the break!

Faeit 212: Restored!

Ok, so I'm a couple days late with this, but I thought it was worth mentioning anyway.
natfka.blogspot.com was restored by google on monday, june 3rd. As of that moment, natfka has been posting on that page again instead of the temporary faeit.blogspot.com. Also, this is another temporary solution as his own site (not powered by google or any other blogging platform) is under construction and will appear at www.faeit212.com.

Video by Natfka after the break...

Further Broadside Business

So here we have one broadside with its basecoat of Stonewall Grey on the Rail Rifles and the other without the basecoat. Yesterday, I continued work on them and got a little bit further...

Broadside business

Well, you know how this works. On top is the picture of where I left off with my current paint batch. This was over a week ago (*gasp*) but I finally got a couple of hours of painting done and after the break, I will show you where I ended up this saturday...