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...