Been a busy month with Christmas and all! Wishing everyone a happy new year!
A lot of my modelling gear that I own is (until today) at the Iron Lady's house tucked up in the loft/attic somewhere awaiting liberation!
Realising I needed the bulk of my gear I decided to brave the foul daemon's lurking within the upper house space! I was disappointed, I was sure there were daemon's up there but boy did I have a nostalgia trip!
I have a heck of a lot of minis that I never completed. Half finished squads, nearly done minis with missing arms. From Space Marines to Eldar to Vampire Counts to Tau - Ah, the Tau. My unfinished business!
I had originally bought a battle force of these not long after they were released into the 40k universe and every piece in the end, ended up in a bits-box! So I bought another of the battle forces plus some extras about 5-ish years later and it was intact! I'd found the army I should be doing and I had a stack load of minis to build the core of my army ( and then some!).
Digging a little deeper I found my half done and abandoned Tau minis (I am sure there are more lurking around!) and boy did I have a nostalgia trip!
I found these guys to the left resplendent in black and orange. Okay, they have arms missing but I was mighty proud of these guys! I wondered why they had been left unfinished and I think that maybe it was the period I figured they would never get used so I packed them up! :-(
I am quite pleased with the Firewarrior with the more prominent orange helmet (left). Kind of a cross between the Tron-like scheme and my own scheme!
I also liked the striping on this Firewarrior. Simple but effective, although for sure they are not winning competitions any time soon!
Then I came across these guys;
These are the XV-15 Stealthsuits which I believe I bought before the new codex. I also remember buying a pathfinder team with railgun rifles but I have yet to dig those out. I went for an urban camouflage scheme inspired by the Cities of Death expansion for 40k. I wondered why I chose those particular colours and then I found out why.
Yes that was the reason why it was an inversion of colours to make the black more dominant (black is stealth right?). I remember a Tau colour scheme in the first edition Codex (2003 I think) that had similar camouflage pattern. I Just changed the colours.
One of the gun drones with the camouflage scheme.
I liked the idea of the bleached bone pants, reminds me of Star Wars for some reason!
The Colour scheme was Undercoat: Black, then paint Shadow Grey, paint black camouflage stripes. Then line either side of black stripes with Bleached Bone. I tried to imagine the stripe on the top of helmet as an arrow and the body armour as jagged lines or maybe thunderbolts!
Inspired by all this nostalgia and the fact I have heaps of Tau minis and bits for them I have shelved the Necrons for now to continue by unfinished business. I have decided to go with the urban camouflage scheme for my first squad of Firewarriors. A box of Firewarriors that are untouched! If anything this is a big bonus reducing the price of entry into the GW side of the hobby!
Much to Meditate on, enjoy the grass where it is the greenest.
Over and out.
A lot of my modelling gear that I own is (until today) at the Iron Lady's house tucked up in the loft/attic somewhere awaiting liberation!
Realising I needed the bulk of my gear I decided to brave the foul daemon's lurking within the upper house space! I was disappointed, I was sure there were daemon's up there but boy did I have a nostalgia trip!
I have a heck of a lot of minis that I never completed. Half finished squads, nearly done minis with missing arms. From Space Marines to Eldar to Vampire Counts to Tau - Ah, the Tau. My unfinished business!
I had originally bought a battle force of these not long after they were released into the 40k universe and every piece in the end, ended up in a bits-box! So I bought another of the battle forces plus some extras about 5-ish years later and it was intact! I'd found the army I should be doing and I had a stack load of minis to build the core of my army ( and then some!).
Digging a little deeper I found my half done and abandoned Tau minis (I am sure there are more lurking around!) and boy did I have a nostalgia trip!I am quite pleased with the Firewarrior with the more prominent orange helmet (left). Kind of a cross between the Tron-like scheme and my own scheme!I also liked the striping on this Firewarrior. Simple but effective, although for sure they are not winning competitions any time soon!
Then I came across these guys;
One of the gun drones with the camouflage scheme.
I liked the idea of the bleached bone pants, reminds me of Star Wars for some reason!
The Colour scheme was Undercoat: Black, then paint Shadow Grey, paint black camouflage stripes. Then line either side of black stripes with Bleached Bone. I tried to imagine the stripe on the top of helmet as an arrow and the body armour as jagged lines or maybe thunderbolts!
Inspired by all this nostalgia and the fact I have heaps of Tau minis and bits for them I have shelved the Necrons for now to continue by unfinished business. I have decided to go with the urban camouflage scheme for my first squad of Firewarriors. A box of Firewarriors that are untouched! If anything this is a big bonus reducing the price of entry into the GW side of the hobby!
Much to Meditate on, enjoy the grass where it is the greenest.
Over and out.
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