#modelling project

So they're all built now and in the final stages of painting. 1 guy has been practically completed (barring minor touch-ups here and there and any other little details I think about picking out).

A note regarding the female torso's I picked up a few weeks back - although they go onto the legs easily enough the arm connection is a little 'thin' by about 1mm making the arms look a little oversized. That and the bust gets in the way of most of the Tau weapon arms (since they do like to hug their weapons pretty close to there chests... the reason why the chestplate were painted and lined before adding the weapons on).

So I probably won't be getting any more of them. Thankfully I only used 3 sets of those torso/heads and have enough for the planned Fireblade/Darkstrider & Aun'Shi conversions.

Ideally they'll all be done in the next week or so, then I get them photographed and post a few pics of the results.

So the resin torsos/heads arrived yesterday. Bit more flash on them than I would have liked but still didn't take too long to clean off. They've been prepped and sprayed now.

Legs are also on the bases, with the first stage of the fatigues done (thats the right word for the cloth under the armour right?) its now time to get started on the armour.

So after spending the morning painting the bases for the Pathfinder team I've come to a stark realisation.

I'm enjoying this. Weird. Also I need to get a camera as well.

<> Anyway here's the progress so far this month:

Bits acquired: resin bases, Pathfinder box set

Awaiting delivery: Kadesh/Tau female bodies and heads.

<> Paint/build status: sprues undercoated and base coat applied to infantry & weapons. Drones removed, cleaned and built. Bases finished (bar minor finishing touches but for all intents and purposes they're done now).

Still to do: finish applying the armour colour to the troops, build and base.

So as part of the project I found a couple of Tau-like female torso's and heads for the Pathfinder team that should be started and (mostly finished) within the next month.

So started stripping some paint off a big block of old termagants I still had in a box from a few years back. Terrible colour scheme (and way too much ink wash over pink) and they just needed to come off.

Results from test batch: 1 dead, snapped at the foot (my own fault that one) and one arm dropping off. Out of a batch of 10 there only being the 1 that can't be repaired seems like a good result. 

So another 6 in the tub and a Hydra warjack too, since I really don't like the paint job I did on any of my Retribution so that's all getting redone in between the gribbles.

Colour scheme worked out for new 'nids (green flesh bkue chitin). So guess I need to work on basing. Something that suggests a jungle floor might be a good mix considering the colours.

Must get pics taken of these guys in the next week before we start on the project.

Also the plan is 1k in 6 months. That's roughly 60+ little gribbles, 5 medium sized gribbles and 2 monstrous gribbles (can a Carnifex really be called a gribbly?)