An interesting Thursday evening. I had planned a gentle potter in the study, possibly aiming to clear the tray of half assembled figures on the tray on top of the printer so that I can actually print stuff out again. Instead a friend of mine IMed me in the afternoon looking for some Tau fire-warriors with pulse carbines to use in a competition at the weekend. Never wishing to let a friend down, and since I did vaguely remember having some undercoated sprues of the aforementioned warriors in the garage, I leapt into action once I got home (via a brief interlude unblocking my parents-in-law’s sink).
A brief expedition into the further recesses of the garage located the sprues in question. A rapid tally of the parts revealed that I could only make 9 warriors with pulse carbines from the sprue, and even then only if 3 of them were actually lobbing grenades and just holding carbines in the other hand (which is a slightly strange posture since the pulse carbine has an underslung grenade launcher begging the question of why you would throw a grenade when you have a machine that preseumably can do it for you much better).
Anyway, I quickly assembled these and undercoated them with Shadow Grey. I painted the various bits of hardware (carbines, backpacks) with Midnight Blue and drybrushed them lightly with Shadow Grey. The bodies I then quickly painted with splinter camouflage in Space Wolves Grey, Ice Blue and Fortress Grey and then gave the whole thing a quick blue ink wash.
Here is a very poor photo of them – I would take a better one but they have already gone off to battle. I suspect a better picture will just show up the deficiencies of the paint job though. Originally I was going to do Tau in a red/brown colour scheme – these are blue/grey to fit in my David’s army better, but I actually think I prefer the blue/grey colour scheme.
