Tau devilfish

[orkblasta]

so I recently started a tau army and only have a small force, 12 fire warriors, 1 battlesuit commander, and now 1 devilfish. I just finished painting my devilfish today and wanted to get some feedback on what you guys thought of the whole scheme and the application of the scheme.

So here are some pics.

this is the devilfish base, the base is removable so I can get a wrecked vehicle easily.

Here are some pics of my small army, and of the devilfish.


And here is a pic of my devilfish and company on my game board by the lava pit.


C&C welcome, as usual. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

By the way I have a seeker missile but I don't know where its proper place is on the hull of the devilfish. Should I attach it, if so where? Or should I keep it off and use it for a model or terrain piece?

[killercroc]

ohhhh, I like 'em

The colors match perfectly and are clean I give you an A+

[Buckshot]

Very Nice! It love the crisp white of your army...

[Reaper]

SICK DUDE!

Reaper thinks this= awesomeness!!

[genun]

I like it. I've heard that painting white like that is hard, but its really crisp and nice. I also like the blue you used for it, I think they go well together. The base also looks really good. I dislike how you can't really see it underneath the devilfish, but other than that it is much better than any I have done.

I must say I like the little wear-like parts near the vents on the devilfish. I think they make it look more authentic.


I must ask how did you do the black on the drones? I like how it fades a little.

[oacup]

I like the models alot, they look so... crisp.

[orkblasta]

thanks guys, positive feed back always makes me feel good.

The crispness of the white is due to layering the color on in thin coats of watered down skull white. A time consuming process but a rewarding one. The black wear on the drones and around the vents is just a simple drybrush of chaos black, nothing fancy but hey, it looks cool.

Thanks again,

Cheers.

[elementalfrost]

Amazing! You paint very neatly! ;D

[Hellbreaker]

Ah, I like how your white looks cleaner now. It feels great knowing that you've helped someone else.
I'll get back to you shortly with some proper constructive criticism, when I've bothered marking out where you can do better. I'll edit this post.

Edit- Ha, when I say shortly I do mean shortly. I sneakily stole one of your pics and edited in the criticism. It works, so why not? Makes it easier too.


Cheers!

[orkblasta]

Thanks for the advice,

Firstly that isn't actually black it's a dark grey, the pics make it look black, there is a highlighting on it as well, the pics doesn't show that very well though.

I'm not to sure about the showing the white, but I'll give it a try.

The grey drybrush would look good but I'm not sure it's quite the color I want. But I'll also give it a try.

Thanks for the advice,

Cheers.

[discoswarm]

The seeker missiles go under the front canards from what I can see on the forgeworld site. The section on tau accessories show a pair of them underslung between the drone guns and the body.

[3ff3ct]

Great job with the white mate, I feel your pain. Nice lava too, where did you learn to do that?!

[orkblasta]

Jun 10, 2010 16:18:28 GMT 3ff3ct said:

Great job with the white mate, I feel your pain. Nice lava too, where did you learn to do that?!

Thanks dude, if you want to know where to get a great lava effect I could send you to the guy that gave me that scheme.

Thanks for the great advice on the lava, your method really worked well.