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Hi, Guy! We live in modern times and there are a load of mediums that speed up oils polymerisation to mere days (if not just hours)! Malbutter, Liquine and Megilp are just some examples of those, but they make painting minis with oils quite viable.
@@MidwinterMinis No problem! Also there is still an old fashioned use of some varnishes and thinners, which can sped up drying times a lot, but with a smelly fumes and tricky use they loose to modern means. Overall oils probably one of the best mediums to make speedpaint look fancy, and not just through washes alone
@@Forty-K hopefully he does this and harks on communism and how playing commies is bad, only to have a sponsor segment for a game where you can play as "the red team"
My tip for the Skitarii - non-Chaotic Hereteks. Those who turned back on the Imperium and its teachings, yet did manage not to succumb to call of Chaos. Using forbidden mix of AdMechs' and Xenos' technology, with gritty look of outlaws.
Xenarites are so much fun to build up. Giving them Gauss flayers and pulse rifles and sticking various bits and bobs to the vehicles. It's like building Orks just really really fiddly
I'd love to see this. I've thought of doing something similar and leaning heavily into the creepy horror side of admech with loads of extra pipes and tendrils you can make with those greenstuff rollers.
I was going to suggest similar. Consider he now has a bunch of leftover Tau bits, it would be ironic for the Chaos Tau to face off against Mechanicum that have been seduced by the greater good.
Cool idea. I've always thought a Russian inspired Space Marine chapter would be amazing. Maybe based on Imp Fists. Noble, stoic, never surrender never retreat kinda guys. Rasputin would make a good Librarian. Chapter Masters would be called Czars. 🤔 I might need to get printing. I may have the start of a hell of agood army.
I personally think a necron-worshipping Xenos-cult Mechanicum color scheme like that one found in the Mechanicus game would be super cool! black robes and deep metal accented with glowing green sounds awesome!
Midwinter Minis is the ultimate champion of the "I did it cuz I thought it would be cool" style of painting and kitbashing and I love seeing it. Always prefer it when people have fun and do up minis the way they want as opposed to the strict "There Can Be No Fun In My Grimdark Army Man Game" method some go with. As a T'au player looking to make Orky followers of the T'au'va, I approve!
Farsight's sword isn't actually chaos, its just an ancient xenos sword made by an alien race older than the imperium, out of a material called a 'chronophagic alloy'. The alien race were also themselves very anti chaos, considering they developed many runes to help contain and deny the warp. (Hence all those khorne daemons trapped under Arthas Moloc). Although the dawn blade itself does take the lifespan cutshort of its victims, it in itself isn't necessarily evil.
I think it's ultimately both, an anti-chaos faction that utilizes warp interactive technology, such as time influencing stuff, and vitality buffing, would likely have a tie to chaos physics somewhere along the lines, especially if it's Xenos tech, considering how many aliens are blatant Chaos worshipers.
Yeah lol I don't think its been fully revealed but that is what I've heard is the most accurate Lore for the Dawn Blade! The description makes it sound Necronish in origin, kinda like that guy that has the staff that sucks out the tactical corpse's soul.
Since you went with Chaos themed Tau, how about Necron themed Admech? Green glows and grey metal bits to represent an Admech army thats delved a bit too deeply into ancient Necron tombs.
If you want a recommendation for the AdMech, I say go with some variation of the Styges VIII Forgeworld scheme! The Styges VIII Mechanicum are rife with Xenarites who adapt and venerate xenos technologies, so could make for some fun kitbashes as well. That said, their black and red scheme might not contrast very well with these grim and gritty Chaos Tau.
I love seeing such unique T'au models. I see so many T'au players at every hobby shop I go to and it's so wonderful seeing converted T'au that can stand out. Personally I play "fish people" T'au where they are all sea monsters with a custom Commander in Kraken Battlesuit
tip: if you don't want to use oils for any reason, use a artist ink like Liquitex or FW for the white lining. i recently used some Liquitex titanium white ink on my necons and it works almost as well as oil. just have to be a bit more careful and guide the paint along. it is amazing for recessed glowing details.
I am in love with this. I love that the fall to chaos is a conscious choice with the Tau. This open up even more possible themes and paint choices for Tau armies. Keep this up.
@@MidwinterMinis Chaos tau and dark mechanicum forces battling over long buried chaos artifacts would be really cool. You could give some of the Mechanicum forces a visual contrast to the tau by giving them white robes, as some of the mechanicum members wore white instead of red and held that it was an older, truer uniform. And, it shows stains of oil, blood, and the hideous alchemic mixture of both in excellent detail...
@@blandedgear9704 I think that in the Dark Heresy novels, the tech priests wore white (or it was in another BL novel I had red around the same time frame...)
You could paint them to look like old diving suits from the 1800s. Yellow glows to the eyes, maybe mess around with the bases a bit and make them more sea themed etc. Either that or just Triplex Phall, they are a fun Forgeworld with no special rules but great fluff/lore!
Hey Guy! Huge fan of your channel, it's what got me into Warhammer, and i've been following it from as far back as the old Blackstone fortress tutorials. I was wondering if you ever have plans to do a "How to play" style video for the Horus Heresy? I think it would be a great way to introduce people to one of GW's lesser-known games, and help explain the 7th edition-style rules to those who are new to the system. But once again, cheers, and thank you for all the work you put into making these videos!
What I did with my skitarii was influenced by the NCR veteran rangers from Fallout New Vegas, so olive drab armour, grey-blue under suits and brown leather coats, but I painted the coat linings orange to give them a pop of colour, plus red eye lenses, for the vehicles I use a camo scheme from second world war British soft skin vehicles (trucks) called the 'cloud' or 'mickey mouse' pattern, a light green base with the disruptive pattern done in dark green and any non-armour plated worky bits (legs on the dunecrawler) done in a pale tan colour (i use Portland stone, but pale sand is not that far off) looks pretty cool when it's done and if you want an ad-mech army that's a bit different, this drab, camouflaged look is not a bad way to do it!
I've always had a "Mars Attacks" scheme idea for mechanicus (for obvious reasons), but never got around to it due to already having 2 armys and planning a third, but i'd love to see that idea come to fruition here.
Love ideas like this that have no real canonical reason to not be done, but for whatever reason are less commonly mashupped! Look forward to seeing them showdown in the arena!
For Skitarii I've always wanted to do a proper steampunk vibe, bordering on medieval. So like, lots of wood, a green wooded scenery etc, not grimdark just steampunk. Think that'll be relatively easy to achieve just with a paintjob, some cocktail stirrers and basing material, and it's a unique take you don't see done very often.
Nice to see a well executed chaos Tau army. For the skitarii, maybe Final Fantasy 6 Magitek themed/Gehstahlian empire. Maybe a bit too specific, but it’s what comes to mind.
When the question "Can it be corrupted by Chaos" comes up, I like to point out that soulless, inanimate objects can and have been corrupted by Chaos. Any physical matter can be corrupted by Chaos. Tau have weak souls, and while that helps them hide, it also means that once found, they're easy pickings. One misjudgement to offer themselves, or even one bad trip through the warp, and Tau could become shells of their former selves, enslaved by the ruinous powers. Chaos versions of any army are lore accurate
I wonder how the Mechanicus would look if they were themed after the Institute from fallout 4. Just imagine pristine white coats and clean lab equipment.
This reminds me of an idea I had. Tau infected by Ork spores. I think these guys turned out pretty good. As for the Skitarii, I have only one word, steampunk. Brass and copper and polished steel all over the place.
i think painting the skitarii like construction equipment would be really fun and unique, maybe the admech uses them as reserve fighters when they run out of regular forces?
Tau was my first love in 40K but I was never statisfied with my Tau. My love faded and I went to the Astra Militarium and I'm proud of mine. This right here is what I need to give my Tau some love! I'm gonna pick up the bits and work on converting them soon!
I live how this series turned into awesome experimental paint jobs and conversions ❤ great place to take risks in the small format while getting enough models to see how a whole army would look. These are awesome btw :)
For the Skitaari - definitely nurgle. Lots of places for exposed rust but I like to use green inks for shiny components to mimic machine coolant. Could look quite good in places. Also weathered wood (like dead wood rot) on the weapons could be a fun kitbash
I’ve always wanted to see Skitari that are created from an Ordo of the Mechanicus that studies agriculture. Having plants and nature fused in and part of the horrific cyborgs the skitari are has always been a driving idea for me.
A concept that I heard mentioned once but has never seen actually executed is that of a garden-world or Solarpunk admech. Incorporating foliage elements and contrasting the silver with some more earthy browns and greens.
ANother VOte for HereTek Skittari! AN exploritor that went to far in their Exploraitons! THese are Fantastic Y'all! Love the work you both put in here, and I'm very excited to see how far this Wayward band of blueberries can go!
I think it could be cool to do some immaculate Mechanicus. like the tech priests of the Custodes? or those that upkeep the golden throne? the best of the mechanicus' technologies in regal colours.
regal white and blue skitarri could be sick af. Don't paint them the typical primarily silver or metal, instead give them an actual painted steel look, maybe try White, blue, and Orange for contrast?
I'd love to see you do a non-grimdark Admech faction. Even something as extreme as a bubblegum pop colour scheme. That would radically offset against the grim dark tau.
i think you should try going into the whole medieval cybernetic monk bit and paint them with some medieval robes instead of the normal Red and white of the Mechanicum
There is this one forgeworld in horus heresy lore, called Xana. They became the first hellforge, and they have a great tan/ dark metal/ red colour scheme with a 3-tailed scorpion and mechanized dog skulls as symbols.
You know what models fit PERFECTLY with ad-mech bits? Nighthaunt :D. Dark Mechanicum!! Rust stalker heads fit perfectly under bladeghiest revenants and the arms are the same scale. Dreadblade harrows can be easily converted to serberys raiders, and the manipulus looks great when kitbashed with the scriptor mortis.
YAY! I've been contemplating Chaos Tau,- I've seen some cool Tzeentch vehicles with mouths and things. Very cool! edit; oh!!!! in honour of chaos tau; how about "Tau themed Skitari"? The human mechanicus is always so....messy and disjointed, maybe if we had some humans who weren't afraid of technological progress or 'nicer tech'!?
I loved this conversion! I was just thinking that I would build my new combat patrol to have a sort of khorne feel because of the new farsight book and this has solidified that idea. Also idea for skitarii, you could do like a nurgle theme because of their desire to destroy flesh their rotting flesh has come back and is now bursting from their joints and it could correlate to the copius amounts of radiation that the skitarii endure, or it could be like some kind of risen to godhood skitarii where the ad mech have finally become the ultimate machine beings with like a gold and white base.
You just solved my problem with my necron paint scheme. I wanted to make them look like the necrons from dawn of war soulstorm and I’ve never heard of a sponge metallic and black wash. Thanks!
Necron-inspired Hereteks? Not chaos themed but lots of glow effects to have fun with, and with that... maybe use Florescent paints for that bright, neon pop?
You can also use white acrylic ink with flow improver to fill recesses. For anyone out there that has that but not oils and wanta to do white recess pinwashes, or doesnt have any brushes to spare for separate duty.
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Hi, Guy! We live in modern times and there are a load of mediums that speed up oils polymerisation to mere days (if not just hours)! Malbutter, Liquine and Megilp are just some examples of those, but they make painting minis with oils quite viable.
@@VladimirKharchenko that's great to know, thank you!
@@MidwinterMinis No problem! Also there is still an old fashioned use of some varnishes and thinners, which can sped up drying times a lot, but with a smelly fumes and tricky use they loose to modern means. Overall oils probably one of the best mediums to make speedpaint look fancy, and not just through washes alone
I'm gonna be honest, I don't really care how you paint the skitarii as long as there's a mini toaster somewhere.
@@Forty-K hopefully he does this and harks on communism and how playing commies is bad, only to have a sponsor segment for a game where you can play as "the red team"
My tip for the Skitarii - non-Chaotic Hereteks. Those who turned back on the Imperium and its teachings, yet did manage not to succumb to call of Chaos. Using forbidden mix of AdMechs' and Xenos' technology, with gritty look of outlaws.
Xenarites are so much fun to build up. Giving them Gauss flayers and pulse rifles and sticking various bits and bobs to the vehicles. It's like building Orks just really really fiddly
@@surpriseandterror9698 Yep, just it should have the idea that they are enemies of Imperium as well as its false Omnissiah/Emperor
That’s a awesome sounding idea! I’m a Admech player and I’ve always been interested in the idea of Hereteks on the table top.
I'd love to see this. I've thought of doing something similar and leaning heavily into the creepy horror side of admech with loads of extra pipes and tendrils you can make with those greenstuff rollers.
I was going to suggest similar. Consider he now has a bunch of leftover Tau bits, it would be ironic for the Chaos Tau to face off against Mechanicum that have been seduced by the greater good.
Guy calling the Ethereal a Farseer caused d6 mortal wounds
Legitimately didn’t notice till my second watch
Are you really all that surprised the dude doesn't know what he's talking about? I don't even play this game and I can tell this guy doesn't care.
@@mattpace1026I don’t think he plays much either, I think he just paints.
Just as planned.
@@mattpace1026 Just a quick question?! What the heck are you doing here then?! And if you don't know what you talking about, don't comment!
I think a napoleonic war admech army could be a fun.
I might actually do that!
@@llamapocolypes2875 the irony you think this is irony
Cool idea. I've always thought a Russian inspired Space Marine chapter would be amazing. Maybe based on Imp Fists. Noble, stoic, never surrender never retreat kinda guys. Rasputin would make a good Librarian. Chapter Masters would be called Czars. 🤔 I might need to get printing. I may have the start of a hell of agood army.
Napoleonic all the way!
Nah, an iron harvest inspired AdMech force. They already got the steampunk mechs
I personally think a necron-worshipping Xenos-cult Mechanicum color scheme like that one found in the Mechanicus game would be super cool! black robes and deep metal accented with glowing green sounds awesome!
Guy needs to see this!
The gw corpse heads are from the old zombie boxes. As for the mechanicum make them chaos as well to see who have the true will of the Gods.
ork boyz box too
@@vanillaicecream2385 Yeah I have plenty from a bag of old ork bits I got at a yard sale
Midwinter Minis is the ultimate champion of the "I did it cuz I thought it would be cool" style of painting and kitbashing and I love seeing it. Always prefer it when people have fun and do up minis the way they want as opposed to the strict "There Can Be No Fun In My Grimdark Army Man Game" method some go with. As a T'au player looking to make Orky followers of the T'au'va, I approve!
If by cool, you mean pants on head retarded then sure.
Blood Axes for dah gratah gud!
Farsight's sword isn't actually chaos, its just an ancient xenos sword made by an alien race older than the imperium, out of a material called a 'chronophagic alloy'. The alien race were also themselves very anti chaos, considering they developed many runes to help contain and deny the warp. (Hence all those khorne daemons trapped under Arthas Moloc). Although the dawn blade itself does take the lifespan cutshort of its victims, it in itself isn't necessarily evil.
Look at you comin' at me with ACTUAL lore! Haha
I think it's ultimately both, an anti-chaos faction that utilizes warp interactive technology, such as time influencing stuff, and vitality buffing, would likely have a tie to chaos physics somewhere along the lines, especially if it's Xenos tech, considering how many aliens are blatant Chaos worshipers.
Yeah lol I don't think its been fully revealed but that is what I've heard is the most accurate Lore for the Dawn Blade! The description makes it sound Necronish in origin, kinda like that guy that has the staff that sucks out the tactical corpse's soul.
That's just what Tzeentch wants you to think
Laying down some knowledge. Nice one dude
Since you went with Chaos themed Tau, how about Necron themed Admech? Green glows and grey metal bits to represent an Admech army thats delved a bit too deeply into ancient Necron tombs.
Guys palette is more paint than palette.
If you want a recommendation for the AdMech, I say go with some variation of the Styges VIII Forgeworld scheme! The Styges VIII Mechanicum are rife with Xenarites who adapt and venerate xenos technologies, so could make for some fun kitbashes as well.
That said, their black and red scheme might not contrast very well with these grim and gritty Chaos Tau.
The cloaks of the admech would fit well with a WW1 trenchcoat look.
Be careful, that might be *too* historical, lol
Might ruffle some feathers
Give them little spiked helmuts too.
Guy, as cool as the scheme is, it feels like a missed opportunity for a pun. You should have painted them even darker and call them... Incogni'Tau!
i'm obsessed with wastelander admech, all rusted tech, rags for cloaks, vehicles from whatever was salvagable (not orky tho)
you get the idea
I love seeing such unique T'au models. I see so many T'au players at every hobby shop I go to and it's so wonderful seeing converted T'au that can stand out. Personally I play "fish people" T'au where they are all sea monsters with a custom Commander in Kraken Battlesuit
Steve's parts are absolutely genius
Excited for a Midwinter mini and Painting Phase crossover after the tease this episode 😮
tip: if you don't want to use oils for any reason, use a artist ink like Liquitex or FW for the white lining. i recently used some Liquitex titanium white ink on my necons and it works almost as well as oil. just have to be a bit more careful and guide the paint along. it is amazing for recessed glowing details.
I am in love with this. I love that the fall to chaos is a conscious choice with the Tau. This open up even more possible themes and paint choices for Tau armies. Keep this up.
"Uz da humies!"?! Woah?! We'z not da squishy humigitz, we'z da boyz! Da bästest! Da haaadäst! Änd da greenäzt! Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!😂❤
I love the Steve cameos. Adds a nice element of sex appeal.
SkTAUri rangers
(Tau inspired theme, given the mechanics love of tech, this splinter group accepted the modern ways)
As a mechanicanicus fan, i would love to see another uniquely chaotic conversions with some dark mechanicum
Don't tempt me
@@MidwinterMinis mwah ha ha ha
@@MidwinterMinis Chaos tau and dark mechanicum forces battling over long buried chaos artifacts would be really cool.
You could give some of the Mechanicum forces a visual contrast to the tau by giving them white robes, as some of the mechanicum members wore white instead of red and held that it was an older, truer uniform. And, it shows stains of oil, blood, and the hideous alchemic mixture of both in excellent detail...
Dark mechanicus and dark tau trying to gain the favor or Vashtorr...
@@blandedgear9704 I think that in the Dark Heresy novels, the tech priests wore white (or it was in another BL novel I had red around the same time frame...)
Thanks for the shoutout, Guy! They look great!
You could paint them to look like old diving suits from the 1800s. Yellow glows to the eyes, maybe mess around with the bases a bit and make them more sea themed etc. Either that or just Triplex Phall, they are a fun Forgeworld with no special rules but great fluff/lore!
If I remember correctly, the severed head comes from an ork kit, the old ork boyz to be exact.
Nailed it!
U don’t know how much u have helped me with these videos
full on brass steampunk for the skitarii as a good contrast to the grimdark T'au. Like, clean brass, gleaming metal and all that goodness
enjoyed your m&s food advert voice on this one guy!
I think the severed eldar head is from the old Ork Boyz kit
It is indeed!
As an ork player I can confirm that
Hey Guy! Huge fan of your channel, it's what got me into Warhammer, and i've been following it from as far back as the old Blackstone fortress tutorials. I was wondering if you ever have plans to do a "How to play" style video for the Horus Heresy? I think it would be a great way to introduce people to one of GW's lesser-known games, and help explain the 7th edition-style rules to those who are new to the system. But once again, cheers, and thank you for all the work you put into making these videos!
Lol at the "paint something noncontroversial" shout! Paint what makes you happy.
If we can put a daemon in a soulless piece of metal like a sword, we can damn well put one in a soulless piece of xenos meat like a tau.
Those upright drones came out really well and are just brilliant overall, I love them.
I can't get over how cool this is. Very very impressed Guy! Big props to Steve for those primo prints as well
One of my favorite Admech color schemes I have seen was a fallout vault tech inspired one. It was soo good.
What I did with my skitarii was influenced by the NCR veteran rangers from Fallout New Vegas, so olive drab armour, grey-blue under suits and brown leather coats, but I painted the coat linings orange to give them a pop of colour, plus red eye lenses, for the vehicles I use a camo scheme from second world war British soft skin vehicles (trucks) called the 'cloud' or 'mickey mouse' pattern, a light green base with the disruptive pattern done in dark green and any non-armour plated worky bits (legs on the dunecrawler) done in a pale tan colour (i use Portland stone, but pale sand is not that far off) looks pretty cool when it's done and if you want an ad-mech army that's a bit different, this drab, camouflaged look is not a bad way to do it!
i use a similar glow effect with my tau too, however i use white scar, imperial fist contrast and vallejo fluoresant orange. it still looks great!
I've always had a "Mars Attacks" scheme idea for mechanicus (for obvious reasons), but never got around to it due to already having 2 armys and planning a third, but i'd love to see that idea come to fruition here.
I love love love the sideways droid!
Love ideas like this that have no real canonical reason to not be done, but for whatever reason are less commonly mashupped! Look forward to seeing them showdown in the arena!
For Skitarii I've always wanted to do a proper steampunk vibe, bordering on medieval.
So like, lots of wood, a green wooded scenery etc, not grimdark just steampunk.
Think that'll be relatively easy to achieve just with a paintjob, some cocktail stirrers and basing material, and it's a unique take you don't see done very often.
Make them properly da'vinci looking. This gets my vote.
that would be sick
I love the prussian blue, my first guard army was painted that. Now i use intermediate green
This is a rly cool and creative idea and not something u see big content creators trying. Great work MWM!
Do the skitarri in an almost angelic scheme and style, to contrast the chaos tau
Nice to see a well executed chaos Tau army. For the skitarii, maybe Final Fantasy 6 Magitek themed/Gehstahlian empire. Maybe a bit too specific, but it’s what comes to mind.
Take a shot everytime guy calls the ethereal a farseer 😂 love the vid
When the question "Can it be corrupted by Chaos" comes up, I like to point out that soulless, inanimate objects can and have been corrupted by Chaos. Any physical matter can be corrupted by Chaos.
Tau have weak souls, and while that helps them hide, it also means that once found, they're easy pickings.
One misjudgement to offer themselves, or even one bad trip through the warp, and Tau could become shells of their former selves, enslaved by the ruinous powers.
Chaos versions of any army are lore accurate
guy's channel has such black metal energy even the tau cannot withstand it.
Might've been my favorite opening VO yet.
Had such a vibe to it.
I wonder how the Mechanicus would look if they were themed after the Institute from fallout 4. Just imagine pristine white coats and clean lab equipment.
This reminds me of an idea I had. Tau infected by Ork spores. I think these guys turned out pretty good.
As for the Skitarii, I have only one word, steampunk. Brass and copper and polished steel all over the place.
Maybe do a "shattered mirror" thing for the skitarii: you have evil looking, grim taus, make clean and bright skitarii.
I would love to see some nature themed Admech. I would nicely break the "manufacturing is all that matters" gimmick
The decapitated eldar head is from the ork boyz sprue
i think painting the skitarii like construction equipment would be really fun and unique, maybe the admech uses them as reserve fighters when they run out of regular forces?
Teletubies or super bright fun colours for the Mechanicus or Green and yellow like Norwich football club.
Tau was my first love in 40K but I was never statisfied with my Tau. My love faded and I went to the Astra Militarium and I'm proud of mine. This right here is what I need to give my Tau some love! I'm gonna pick up the bits and work on converting them soon!
Mind bullets?
That's telekinesis Guy
This is really silly. Which is why I like it so much. Well done
Great video, you've got some great feedback/ideas for the admech. I'm excited to see where you'll go for the next one
I live how this series turned into awesome experimental paint jobs and conversions ❤ great place to take risks in the small format while getting enough models to see how a whole army would look. These are awesome btw :)
The glow effects look awesome
For the Skitaari - definitely nurgle. Lots of places for exposed rust but I like to use green inks for shiny components to mimic machine coolant. Could look quite good in places. Also weathered wood (like dead wood rot) on the weapons could be a fun kitbash
I’ve always wanted to see Skitari that are created from an Ordo of the Mechanicus that studies agriculture. Having plants and nature fused in and part of the horrific cyborgs the skitari are has always been a driving idea for me.
For the Greater Bad?!
That looks like a head that comes in the Ork Boys kit.
A concept that I heard mentioned once but has never seen actually executed is that of a garden-world or Solarpunk admech. Incorporating foliage elements and contrasting the silver with some more earthy browns and greens.
That's an awesome idea, merging nature's machines with mankind's machines
Liked for Nessa, and also because this is a fantastic idea and an equally good application
That white oil wash technique is genius, gotta give that a try myself sometime.
Heavenly Host Skittari. Lots of bright whites and golds
For painting your skitarii, I think you should paint them like Jawas from Star Wars
Possibly some aquatic theme Skitarii, could be a nice contrast to the dark reds of the chaos tau?
ANother VOte for HereTek Skittari! AN exploritor that went to far in their Exploraitons!
THese are Fantastic Y'all! Love the work you both put in here, and I'm very excited to see how far this Wayward band of blueberries can go!
I think it could be cool to do some immaculate Mechanicus. like the tech priests of the Custodes? or those that upkeep the golden throne? the best of the mechanicus' technologies in regal colours.
regal white and blue skitarri could be sick af. Don't paint them the typical primarily silver or metal, instead give them an actual painted steel look, maybe try White, blue, and Orange for contrast?
I would personally do a winter kinda scheme, mostly white with a but of green and brown, then some Valhallan blizzard on the bases
I'd love to see you do a non-grimdark Admech faction. Even something as extreme as a bubblegum pop colour scheme. That would radically offset against the grim dark tau.
i think you should try going into the whole medieval cybernetic monk bit and paint them with some medieval robes instead of the normal Red and white of the Mechanicum
The decapitated head is from the 2018 Ork Boyz Box. Source: I've got one and one of my Slugga Boyz has the head as a grizzly trophy on his back. :)
There is this one forgeworld in horus heresy lore, called Xana. They became the first hellforge, and they have a great tan/ dark metal/ red colour scheme with a 3-tailed scorpion and mechanized dog skulls as symbols.
The head comes from the orks kit I think lol
Those look amazing, very creative. Please please finish the Start Collecting Box Tournament with 9th Edition Rules.
Forgeworld Graia in celebration of Boltgun and Space Marine!
You know what models fit PERFECTLY with ad-mech bits? Nighthaunt :D. Dark Mechanicum!! Rust stalker heads fit perfectly under bladeghiest revenants and the arms are the same scale. Dreadblade harrows can be easily converted to serberys raiders, and the manipulus looks great when kitbashed with the scriptor mortis.
This is the first Tau army I liked enough to consider building or painting. Well done sir and lady!
I don't know what's been tortured more, the Tau's victims or your palette!
YAY! I've been contemplating Chaos Tau,- I've seen some cool Tzeentch vehicles with mouths and things. Very cool! edit; oh!!!! in honour of chaos tau; how about "Tau themed Skitari"? The human mechanicus is always so....messy and disjointed, maybe if we had some humans who weren't afraid of technological progress or 'nicer tech'!?
I think a synth wave/ miami vice style paintjob would be cool on the skitarii
Mash Skitari with whatever Necro Bits you happen to have. Make some Heretechs!
I loved this conversion! I was just thinking that I would build my new combat patrol to have a sort of khorne feel because of the new farsight book and this has solidified that idea. Also idea for skitarii, you could do like a nurgle theme because of their desire to destroy flesh their rotting flesh has come back and is now bursting from their joints and it could correlate to the copius amounts of radiation that the skitarii endure, or it could be like some kind of risen to godhood skitarii where the ad mech have finally become the ultimate machine beings with like a gold and white base.
Cyberpunk style corporate solders would be fitting and could be great for skitarii
You just solved my problem with my necron paint scheme. I wanted to make them look like the necrons from dawn of war soulstorm and I’ve never heard of a sponge metallic and black wash. Thanks!
Wver since getting into warhammer, I’ve had the idea for a construction worker ad mech army theme
Necron-inspired Hereteks? Not chaos themed but lots of glow effects to have fun with, and with that... maybe use Florescent paints for that bright, neon pop?
You can also use white acrylic ink with flow improver to fill recesses. For anyone out there that has that but not oils and wanta to do white recess pinwashes, or doesnt have any brushes to spare for separate duty.
The skitarii could be done as vashtors techno cultists
love this idea so much, the concept is something I love when it came to artwork and now some cool minis
Maybe you can try something like john Blanches art work since he did a lot of mechanicus art work
The decapitated head you used for the unit champion is from the classic 90's plastic Zombies kit :)