Hello out there!
The urban camo Tau commission is all finished. This project came to me as a general idea of very light and dark greys, and "camo" on the larger pieces. Early on I did a panel of swatches and some camo samples, and ended up going with the digital over a larger chunky style. The light grey was a really fun smooth color to paint. Not quite white but a soft off grey. The shading and making it feel alive even though on paper it is a monotone "black and white" army made it very enjoyable to paint and very rewarding to step back and see the final result.
The bases are a combination of Elrik's Hobbies for some bases and flight stands, the rest I did up in putty, plus some oddball 3d printed items for fun. The Elrik's Hobbies City flight stand is a really great base sculpt. The drones are solid in 32mm and brass rod. Think they look a little better, and less fiddly that way. Something really pleasing about a gun drone skimming the ground, and the large drones look a bit silly sitting on top of a regular sized GW flight stand.
One thing that is always fun about Tau is working out the oddball Kroot running parallel. Those were done towards the end to sit on the main Tau scheme and let it percolate. We ended up going with, out of several thoughts, the lens color very dark for the Krootox, and light camo green for the Kroot skin. Always enjoy the little side puzzle of Kroot.
It isn't obvious from these photos but just about everything in this army is magnetized, with every codex option. Every suit has a full array, and each Fish has three of each weapon. Fun stuff, and I enjoy sending out a project that should be good for a couple codexes.
Outside of those notes, will let the photos tell the rest, and hope you enjoy them. Quite a few at that. This was a very photogenic and cooperative army, from posing to taking shots. Ended up with way too many and this is the result of hours of culling at that. Projects always behave differently when it comes to the camera. Some are fussy, some smile real big and say cheese and don't want to leave. But I enjoy that it is a thing.
Up next - Night Lords. That new backdrop at some point. Prep for Adepticon and then Adepticon itself. Not playing anything this year, but will have a big, fun booth! See you next time.
