The big problem I faced was actually walking away from adding more detail to it. Having spent some time on IG and Marine figures recently I've grown acustomed to lots of small bits of alternative colour all over the place, but the Tau work well with a cleaner, more unifed look. The vast majority of this set is either blue, white, black or bronze, and whilst there are a lot of colours in some of the fine detail I've tried to keep it as big, bold blocks of colour. Yes, I like anime-style mecha, can you tell?
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| Flee Tiny Imperial Guardsmen, Flee! |
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| Rear Engine Shot |
I had to freehand the rear symbol to keep in the reversed colours I've used on the Fire Warriors. The Jumppack vents use the flame-effect I've become quite attached to recently, just to give at least one area of different colour on the model. And having read an excellent post on From the Warp recently on integrating your bases and figures, I've muckied up his legs and added some detritus from my IG spares box to try and add to the sense of an advancing figure.
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As ever, comments appreciated.
Well he looks awesome and the base is fantastic, particularly the work you've done around the feet and legs, which really does tie the armour and base together.
ReplyDeleteYou've done the helmet lenses very nicely as well and the red contrasts nicely with the rest of the suit.
I have a lovely offwhite from Reaper you might want to try at some point, just to add a little more depth to the white elements of the armour. It is very subtle and blends easily with white, but makes a big difference to unflattening a white surface.
Also quick question - how do you get thumbnails to appear on the blogrolls? I don't appear to be able to get it to happen.:(
ReplyDeletei, um, don't know. they just sort of do. maybe its something to do with having a break in the page and it picks up the image above it?
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