What's on the Workbench? 9-27-09

Now my first installment of "What's on my Workbench?"....

Above you can see my latest painting projects.

To the left are two US 30cal MG crewmen, with 20mm partisans to their right(bases not painted yet), and a couple of Tau Crisis Battlesuit accessories being painted up(multi-tracker, missile pod).

No these aren't impaled victims of Chaos...they're WWII Germans glued to nails(my prefered way to paint minis). Included are 2 officers, a sniper and six Waffen S.S. infantrymen.

That's it for now...

Tau...For the Greater Good

O.K., so some say they are interstellar communists, but I just like their "Samurai meets Mechwarrior" appearance! For the last couple of months I've been working on a Tau Battleforce and I am pretty happy with the results. Now though I admit they aren't an easy army to play, especially once close combat occurs, I like the raw power of their weaponry and their versatile battlesuits! I decided on a unique paint scheme for this army with a "Fall Forest" pattern. The narrative is that these Tau have chosen a camo scheme to match the autumn woods that they are skirmishing in. I used birch catkin seed pods to make custom 'leaves" for the bases as well as tree roots made from GW green stuff(click on the first two pictures for a closer look at the bases).

Firewarrior squad...

Crisis Battlesuit and Firewarriors

Two Battlesuits....

Stealthsuits- infiltrators for the Tau!...

A Hammerhead heavy support vehicle...

I have also worked on some Kroot, but I will save them for a future post.

So far I have made and painted...
12 Firewarriors
3 Stealthsuits
2 Crisis Battlesuits
1 Hammerhead/Devilfish
6 Kroot Warriors

On my workbench I still am working on...
1 Devilfish troop carrier
6 Kroot Hounds
1 Krootox