done for the night

Very productive weekend, managed to advance a whole lot on the devilfish and skyray/hammerhead. Gonna go to sleep and leave you with a wip for the devilfish which I intend to finish probably next weekend :D

WiP Tau

Ok seeing as I can't paint today I decided to take pictures of what I have done during the week. I set myself a goal; write a 750 list for tau and necron (not very competitive, very few models) and paint them. I then set myself a date in which these armies would have to be completed. This was done a week ago, decided 3 weeks was enough but I added a week in case something goes wrong. So a month to get ready two 750 point armies :D. This week went by without an inconvenient and managed to paint my set goals. Here is my progress as of today:
These are both tricolor tau camo but I don't know why it looks as though it's only two :(

Group picture, I also sanded the monolith as my lack of airbrush knowledge managed to get a terrible base coat on it :(

Still a long way to go but everything seems to be going as planned.

Armies for Saturday's games

First let's start with the tau empire, both lists include basically the same models since those are the ones semi-assembled haha

TAU 511

HQ

Shas'el 50 deathrain

missile pod x2 18

flamer 4

TROOPS

troops

fire warriors (6) 60

pulse rifle

devilfish +80

fire warriors (6) 60

pulse rifle

ELITE

3x shas'ui stealth suits 90

HEAVY SUPPORT

Hammerhead 90

rail gun +50

burst cannons 10

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TAU 750

HQ

Shas'el 50

missile pod x2 18

targeting array 5 = 72

TROOPS

troops

fire warriors (6) 60

pulse rifle

devilfish +80

smart missile system +20

targeting array +5

disruption pod + 5

fire warriors (6) 60 + shield drone 15

pulse rifle

ELITE

3x shas'ui stealth suits 90

Marker Drones x 2 60

Team Leader 5

Marker Light 5

Multitracker 5

HEAVY SUPPORT

Hammerhead 90

rail gun +50

disruption pod +5

gun drones +20

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Next up are the space marines, basically the same applies since those are the models assembled at this time, later on there will be more variety.

space marines 505

HQ

chapter master

power sword 130

TROOPS

tactical 170

free missile launcher and flamer

scout 100

cam cloaks

missile launcher

ELITE

dreadnought 105

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space marines 740

HQ

chapter master

power sword 130

TROOPS

tactical 175

melta bombs

free missile launcher and flamer

scout

cam cloaks 120

teleport homer

melta bombs

missile launcher

ELITE

terminators 200

dreadnought 115

heavy flamer

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wow very boring lists haha, now the necron, they can't fit much

in 750 games so the lists are just as boring.

NECRON 490

HQ

Necron destroyer lord 130

TROOPS

warriors x 10 180

warriors x 10 180

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NECRON 755

HQ

Necron destroyer lord warscythe 160

phylactery

TROOPS

warrior x10 180

warrior x10 180

HEAVY SUPPORT

monolith 235

Ok, let's see how we do against orks, tyranid, renegade space marines :p and eldar

Eldar 500 and 750 pt list

HQ
Farseer - Doom, Mind War 100 pts

Troop
10x Guardians - Scatter Laser 95 pts
5x Rangers - 95 pts

Heavy Support
1x War Walker Scatter Laser 45 pts
1x War Walker Scatter Laser 45 pts
1x Wraithlord - Eldar Missile Launcher 25 pts, Scatter Laser 15 pts - 130 pts

Total 500 pts

Tau XV-25

Some days it's harder to paint, yet with only 15 or 30 minutes on the details you can get through a mini. This happened last night and tonight where I only painted for 10 minutes adding some stuff that I kept thinking throughout the day. Well I think it's very simple yet I don't know what else to add. Maybe the white markings? I should finish the other 2 instead of thinking this.

fast lens tutorial

Ok, so as promised lens tutorial. This is the easy way and I think I did it too fast. I will have to fix something that doesn't look right, maybe the angle but still the idea is the same. Start with black.

then apply yellow to the lower left or right side doing a maybe 45 or 60 angle. try to keep it neat so that it looks more reflective.
Apply gnarloc green to either the lower or upper side depending on whether you like it to look more yellow or green.
Put a big white dot on top and with the white very diluted draw a line on the opposite side of the dot. Like drawing the lower part of the circle, no need to be neat there. Since this detail is so small it looks very cool looking at it with your own eyes, the photography shows the mistakes but still looks good I think :)
Hope you guys enjoyed this little tutorial :D

almost done

With these awesome scouts. I had a lot of fun painting them... a little frustration with the damn white but I think I learned some lessons this time. I'll probably forget them on the next mini. I'll start with a necron for this saturday's games. I want to give my necrons a shot in 500 pt games.

Ok picture time.

Gonna do the bases tomorrow since this glue takes a while. I'm patient :P
A look at his eyes, I think they are the best ones I've done so far. Since they are very very small
Also to prove to Hellboy you can do gems with three colors and make them look good or ok or whatever. I just used iyanden darksun, knarlock green and the mandatory black and white. They look better on this model than on the others in which I used more colors. I'm going to re-do their lenses to make them all look like this, also their scopes. Oh also the white in his pants I didn't want to stain too much but here it looks as if I didn't do anything to it, crap maybe I'll read up on the warmachine manual on how to do white again. Lol it didn't take long for me to realize how my lessons with white were in vain :P

toys

Not warhammer related, just wanted to put here a couple of pictures of my need to buy every toy I like and put it inside a closet :P