e for EPIC

so iv bin running ethag for quite sometime now and hes awesome at beating face but iv decided to go down the opposite route for my 2nd list so iv decided on running elylyth as a tier list so the core of the list wille be

elylyth
ravagore
ravagore
stinger
stinger
stinger
stinger

units
nyss striders
ua
nyss striders
ua
nyss striders
death stalker
death stalker
death stalker

how the list will work
iv come to love shredders for either blocking charge lanes and forcing the opponent to walk round or take out the shredder so iv decided that the stingers will do the same job with elylyth having stealth on her battle group they should stay awhile lol

the next part are the ravagores the bread and butter of this list elylyth casts pin cushion on the enemy caster then feats then the ravagores will double shot with a power 15 aoe3 that causes corrosion that's usually enough to take out a caster

the units will provide blocks like the shredders while the combine range attack to take down larger targets or mass fire on smaller targets they also have stealth and advance deploy to get out infront early

the death stalkers are their purely for high arm 1 box models auto wound fire agen so those 3 should theoretically kill 6 of the buggers or put 6 wounds on a larger model

iv proxied n tried the doule ravagore and this part of the list works lovely jus need to try out the rest

the archangel everblights finest creation!!

my archangel arrived yesterday I spent a gd 2 hours just putting this model to gether  and a further hour near enough green stuffing the gaps. to give people and idea of how big he is  the wingspan is 11" and from base to highest point he stands 10" tall

although archie is mainly resin and plastic with some metal parts their were plenty of gaps which is still my main bug bear with privateer press models.  Im gunna use the excess were iv green stuffed as battle damage/scars

so on to the model  here he is before prime and extra green stuffing and green stuffed and primed ready for washing :D

the next set is me building up the skin  my usual technique has been to  use 1-2 washes for lesser to create a light pink  3 ish for light beasts  to create a medium and 4-5 ish for heavy beasts so im going to build up and compare then stop as soon as the colour is deeper
first pic is the first coat

 

this next pic is coat number 4 compared to a normal heavy warbeast

and by him self

not great pics coz its sunny but u can see how deep the purple has gone :D  next I re painted all the areas that are white and painted the mouth and tongue red

 next is the armour again I want get this to a deep black

now im painting up the claws with brown and the teeth is coming along nicely rough estimate of time bout 8 hours

the next part will be to do the base for this I have decided to do the main column grey with a wash of nuln oil  the floor will be steel legion drab and bones karak stone

 this is the base before washing

now the stone has been done with a patchy semi marbled effect the final thing to do is wash the base and tower

the pillar has now been washed and the model has been finished

finished model!!

 



the prophet of ever blight leads the legion

so iv entered a warmachine tourney and need a 2nd caster so I went for epic thagrosh prophet of everblight hes awesome  P+S 18 rapture quite beefy  def 13 arm17 mat 7 20HP  range weapon has crit cold which is gd

the main reason for choosing this caster is his CC support for his army particularly shredders  manifest destiny adds 1 extra dice to hitting and wounding so a rabid shredder would roll 4 dice to hit and wound dropping the lowest dice that's awesome now add that to bigger things like the archangel POW 19 4 dice will tear even the heaviest of khador jacks a new pooping hole

the next best thing about thagrosh is his feat each warbeast in thagrosh's battlegroup not control area!  can make a full advance and attack so the combo is  manifest destiny for extra dice followed by an extra attack mwahahahahaahha

on to the paint job yea hes done with a near enough step by step guide. reading the fluff on ethag the dragon is slowly taking over his body and as all my warbeasts are purple I wanted a bit of this on the model to show the dragon taking over iv washed most of it and this is my 2nd caster that iv painted and im happy with the out come
as with all my legion I started with a white primer

 

the skin was washed 2/3 times with guilliman blue(gw blue wash) 



   then the next part is adding the purple on the skin I used druchii violet (gw purple wash)

next I decided to the brown as this is the 2nd largest area for colour I used devlan mud (gw brown wash) and the skulls are ushabti bone washed with ogrn flesh (both GW colours)

next is the red using a carroerg crimson (gw red wash)

next I did the black with nuln oil (gw black wash)

I then did the metal with a runefang steel (gw silver) then washed this with druchii violet I then painted the contact points scorched brown (gw brown)

 

ethag done total time 3hours ish

incoming! massive amount of pictures

so its been 5 weeks and 4 days since I bought my tau and here is how much iv done on them so far !!

first up fire warriors u can see in the background that 2 still need doing

 pathfinder unit with 1 more left to do

 unit of warriors with 1 more left to do and stealth suits with 2 more left 2 do

 

riptide base coated

 

 

 

broadsides with commander and drones all need finishing 2nd unit of broadsides below need finishing as wel as the drones

final shot of the entire force

new tau news n pics

the tau are coming along great  I need to do a group shot soon!  so wat have I done recently

all fire warriors have custom bases
all path finders have custom bases
6 broadsides have custom bases

16 fire warriors have been airbrushed and need corrections highlights and lenses left to do
9 path finders have been airbrushed and need corrections highlights and lenses doing
3 broad sides are ready to be air brushed
3 broadsides need weapons painting then their ready to be airbrushed

next steps airbrush the broadsides, do corrections on everything  then highlights then lenses then finally all I have left to do is

spray broadside bases and paint them and paint the rest of the bases

additional  get a 2by2 board for my diorama    

here are some pics

11 weeks till throne of skulls

I have all the models I need so far I have sprayed everything  black except
3 crisis suits
10 path finders

I have also decided that I may need to paint the models then build them then do the final airbrush after that

I have done some test models and pleased  as well as painted to full models

these are the test models which lead me to decide I need to put the arms on before the final highlight

 

 

im really pleased with how the test pieces came out 

 and from the angle u can see the 2 layers they work really well :D

 these are the first 2 finished models for my tau army iv added a little detail to show the stealth suits activating as they walk thru the rubble

tau custome bases

its been a while since I posted any pics so here are my tau bases to fit with my nid hunter theme