Tau - Part 2

Have kept things moving - managed to complete a marker drone that will be attached to my stealth suit team, and almost completed another fire warrior....

Tau - Part 1

I am free of the chains of self-expectation.

So wound up in 'getting things right' that I was 'getting nothing done', I have put the Eldar and Dark Elves I have been painting reverently on the back burner, as it were and picked up an army that I had until now not been so much interested in.

And it was that lack of interest that has re-sparked my desire to get into the modelling and painting side of the hobby that I have been involved in for so many years...

I wandered around my GW and considered the armies that I'd never considered before...a steampunk inspired Nuln Empire army clawed at my imagination and perhaps that's something I'll come back to at some stage..in the end, my eyes kept being drawn back to the Tau - an army that I've written off in the past due to the designs of the battlesuits (they seem to me to be the Volvo of the 40K universe!). Having said that, I've enjoyed playing them quite a bit in the Dawn of War PC game - their manouverability and weapon choices inspire enthusiasm in that context - and the battlesuits don't seem so boxy when on the move.

It's all in the posing, I suspect.

In any event, after reading through the fluff (I didn't want to be distracted by making up something of my own), the 'sept' that leapt our at me was "Se'cea" a highly militarised and honourable group of Tau - they also have a blue scheme that I've not used before that is pretty easy to paint, but can take a lot to master.

So here's to a new path for the time being.