This is my Tau army. I started it some years ago, and took a long break from it for reasons I can't remember. I've recently dug up all my models, pains, books and the rest and continued working on it all, with the same amount of passion for it as I originally had.
Since there's a new set of rules out I can't guarantee what my final army is, but this is a force I put together for thousand point games. It was a pretty solid selection, and sported some awesome killing power in some games. Here are a load of photos I took to get this blog started. My army is still in the really early stages, some models not being finished in assembly, some unpainted, and a small few which actually are finished.
This is my Tau Commander. The original kit is just a Crisis Battlesuit kit, and I used a drone antennae for the middle of the head, to indicate that he is my commander. I saw the idea some few years ago while browsing Tau images online, and thought it looked really good, so I decided to use it.
He has no weapons because all of my systems(Even the ones I haven't chosen to take in my army selection) have magnets on them, so I can continue using the models if I should choose to take a different systems or additional ones.
This is one of my Broadside Battlesuits. Just generic weapons on the suits, with the Smart Missile Systems. The suits do have target locks on my army selection, but I haven't glued them on or added magnets to them at this point. Not sure if I plan to anytime soon as well.
My other Broadside. Again, unpainted but assembled.
My Broadside suits together.
On the left, my latest Fire Warrior team. On the right, the first Fire Warrior team I ordered. The left one was done with a black undercoat spray, and the right was a white undercoat spray. I found painting on the black undercoat a lot easier than the white, and the paint didn't dry as quick, and spread a lot smoother.
Tau Fire Warrior with the black undercoat.
Tau Fire Warrior with the white undercoat.
My whole team of white undercoated Fire Warriors.
The base that I tried to do for the white undercoated Fire Warriors. At the time that I did this, I had not yet finished painting or assembling and decided to see if it would work out well for these guys, before doing it to my 'better' Fire Warriors. I'm not as impressed as I could be, so for all of my 25mil and 40mil bases, I'll be removing the models from the bases, and adding them onto custom bases I'm ordering in from back2base-ix.com. The bases have a desert theme on them and are really well detailed. I understand that I didn't detail the bases myself, but in my defense, base art isn't my forté lol.
My first Crisis team together. Again, the battle suit systems are magnetized, and can be put on any of the four hardpoints originally intended for battlesuit hardpoints.
This Crisis suit's pose I found on the the internet, and near fell in love with. So, I had to use it!
Not sure how I came up with this pose, but it seems a bit on the boring side. Sure enough, all of my suits should look pretty impressive when painted, or at least that's the aim!
My second team of Crisis suits. One of them is missing a Multi-tracker because one of my Multi-trackers went missing in transit while I was moving house(unfortunately). I have a spare, I just need to drill the magnet hole in and glue the magnet in.
This was probably my favourite suit pose. The left arm was customized to look like it was slightly extended and gives a little bit of feeling and elegance to the model. It definitely stands out over some of my other models.
Not sure how I managed to use this pose as well, but it still looks alright, for a generic battlesuit with no conversion. I kinda like my army a bit on the boring side, although I do plan to make future models look a bit cooler.
My Pathfinders. 6 of them to be exact(obviously). I'm afraid to paint them as they're metal and I really don't like the idea of trying to get a paintbrush into the really tight spaces on the models. That's definitely not one of my key skills.
My very first Devilfish! this one was done in a similar fashion to my first team of Fire Warriors, and it may help to add that it was ordered, assembled and painted at around the same time. White undercoat, again, but I still didn't like it as much. It has less of a gloss finish, which puts me off and sorta fades the colour of the final coat.
This Hammerhead isn't actually a part of my army. This was given to me(I think) by a friend who bought it simply because he thought it looked cool, but he never actually used it. He noticed that I was playing Tau, so he just gave it to me free of charge(Bonus right!). It wasn't assembled by me, and I probably won't be painting it until the rest of my army is well finished.
My second Devilfish. All of the smaller and moveable components are not glued on so I can paint them without the issue of getting into tight spaces, and will be glued on after painting.
Third Devilfish, same deal as the first one.
And last but not least, my whole Cadre(so far). Oh and my keyboard. My desk is my workplace, which I like because I don't use the keyboard tray(Because my keyboard is simply just too big!) which allows me to use it for other things. I'm still yet to get a lamp though, to give me some better lighting to work with. Hope you guys enjoyed the pictures! I'll be uploading more as I expand, assemble and paint more models, and I certainly won't only be working on Tau models. I DEFINITELY want to put together some Imperial Guard tanks just because they look cool, but this is it for now.
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