Yoritomo's Next Project

[yoritomo]

So I've given a lot of advice over the years and it occurs to me that not many people have actually seen my work. Part of this is because my tyranids are 20 years old and most of them were assembled and/or painted before this forum was made. I've also got a full marine army, however, I can't really take pictures of it (that has to do with the high dynamic range of most cameras). Well, this year I finally finished off my space marine battle company (I'm 20 marines and a couple rhinos shy of a fully painted battle company) and have played it until the fun wore off. So that means it's time for the next project, I've had some tau fire warriors and suits in a box for several years not and with the sexy new suits that just rolled out it seems like a good time to bring them out of mothballs.

Here is the first stormsurge I made and the first half of the second stomrsurge.


And a close up. My appologies, it seems to be a little out of focus.


And here are the bases for my stormsurge and 2 ghostkeels.


And a close up of the ruined building base because I like how it turned out.

[WhisperingLictor]

Don't tell me you layed each and every brick on there. All jests aside, this is very inspiring! What colors do you plan on doing your models?

[tylertt]

Looked at some of your other photos in your album and I really like the creative bases you've done up on other models. Looking forward to seeing the suits painted up.

[yoritomo]

Of course I laid every brick by hand. Doesn't everyone have that kind of time? The real trick is finding a plumb bob small enough to do the job.

Finished my second stormsurge and ghostkeel


I don't really want to get into painting too much here. If and when I post painted pictures of them it will be on the painting board. But if you must know the color scheme I'll refer you to my test model.



Still haven't figured out what color to paint the tau symbol. Maybe orange?

[BattleMetalChris]

I think the Tau symbol looks fine in white, nice and contrasting.

[mattblowers]

Nice work! Looks great.

[jimmyp]

Nice conversions on the bases, the green looks tidy too on the troops.

[yoritomo]

If there's one thing I can do its make a sexy base. I've got some black cotton that's really going take the melted rhino to the next level.

I like the green I used for the armor and I like how it contrasts with the khaki. I'm not too sure how it's goi g to scale up on the suits though. The green isn't going to contrast as well with whatever color I paint the metallic parts. I'll figure something out though.

The next thing I need to do is come up with an idea on how to base my riptide.

[erzatsweird]

If you're worried about the the paint on larger models, trying using a slight gradient. This will stop it looking like a flat colour and give it more of a metallic appearance. But seriously, this looks amazing yorimoto.

[blackrainbow]

The colors look good, and I second the keeping of the white symbol - ties it all in with other armies and fluff and such. For the larger models, remember you don't have to keep the same ratio at that level. Honestly, I don't imagine the contrast being that bad, perhaps keep the metalics simple so they don't compete with the green is one way you could do it. Lastly, yeah, totally diggin the base work. One reason I like bigger bases, that seems to be where a lot of personality of the army comes out or ties stuff together. Cheers!