40K – T’au Empire – Fire Cast – dudes and a suit…

Mixing things up… And more to come! I might have inadvertently slipped into full pile of shame territory… In short, trying to get a friend back into the hobby, I might have gone overboard and got an Indomitus box… He answered back in kind and got a bunch of Infinity miniatures!!

While he was peeling away the rust of his painting skills with a Mordheim elf, I took a bunch of Tau that had based a long time ago… when they came out, actually, in gold and blue. Gave them a new priming and went to town with them… Trying kinda new (for me) stuff, like some glazing and edge-highlights… Some OSL, even… that looked alright at one stage, but I covered mostly by not leaving that to the end. In short, not using drybrush at all. Not happy with the chipping, but the overall saturation that I wanted is there…

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Used enamels, oils, acrylics and pigments… And it was totally unproductive way of painting things! In the same time I painted this guys I could have had painted twenty or more, I’m pretty sure… If they are going to be all the same, don’t paint four… paint a hundred!

Surprisingly my wife said they are the most boring and uninspired thing she saw in a long time, and that I better stick to Nurgle… Not that she’s wrong, but after this short time of me being back in the hobby, the pox might have gotten to her surprisingly quick!