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

on the throne

my ticket for the throne of skulls has been purchased I now need a 1500pt list to take with me this event is in 3 months so in that time I need a list that works and I need to paint all the models that will go with it.

so far iv only played a few games with tau and the fire power is great  but the list needs more ap2 to counter  terminators at the minute I only have rail rifles  and fusion blasters

I could also do with another high av busting unit like 3 suits with fusion blasters

or 3 suits with plasma rifles

sad times and new stuff

well I need money for a new army so im getting rid of the existing armies iv decided that its time for a change so im trading all my armies in and starting a new collection staring with tau as my new shooting force this is mainly bcoz tau tick all the boxes for an army 

anti infantry
anti tank
anti air

im also going to be doing something different with this army as well ill be buying an trying out different lists that I write to see wat works the best

iv ideas for an infiltration devastation list :D with 18 stealth suits 540pts  3x6 units all with burst canons 72 shots deployed on the flank of an enemy army to soak up their fire with a 2+ cover save they'll not be shifted in a hurry :P

ill also be running duel riptides :D

crisis suits x3 with twin linked plasma and plasma rifles :D

9 broad sides  with different load outs
3 hammerheads

etc etc  

varying lists will be up soon