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