MiniWarGaming Tau Orca Dropship Video

Beasts of War Video: Tau Infantry Wargear

How to make your own custom decals

Very useful for the decal heavy Tau army, here's a tutorial about how to print/make your own.

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2010/12/tutorial-custom-decal-sheets.html

Simple Green is Awesome!

I had a success with Simple Green product this week.  

I heard a year ago it was good for stripping paint off miniatures while still being non toxic.    I tried it on a tank I had spray painted.   I used Army Painter spray and either sprayed too far away or while it was too humid and the paint had a rough, sandpaper like texture to it.   The results were ok.   I had gotten rid of most of the textured paint but it didn't COMPLETELY remove the paint.

But, this year I had 2 Pathfinders that had the same Army Painter rough/sand paper issue.   So I soaked them in a cup of Simple Green.   After the first day, I pulled them out and used an old toothbrush to start scraping off the excess paint.  Then I put them back in the Simple Green for another day.

The next day i pulled them out, started brushing and the paint just fell off in flakes.   I'd say about 90 percent of the paint came off of the figure with just toothbrushing it.   I used some tweezers and a dentist tool (sharp pointy metal thing) to get all of the paint off.  You can get Simple Green at any big hardware store like Lowes or Home Depot in the cleaning supplies section.   The results speak for themselves....

Painter Showcase: Sirath at DakkaDakka.com

This guy's stuff is FANTASTIC.  Really clean and detailed stuff.   Love the Naga, Crisis Suit and Kroot conversions!  Check him out!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/user/8512-Sirath.html

Painter Showcase: Freeloader at DakkaDakka.com

Here are some nicely painted Kroot, Tau and Crisis Suits from Freeloader over at Dakka Dakka.  Check them out!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/user/19880-Freeloader.html

Crisis Suits Team 01

Here's a first pict of my painted Crisis Suits.  Color scheme is more of the same (see earlier posts).   For these guys i use the magnetic base instead of the crappy clear ones GW gives you.   Its using a construction toy set called MAGZ.   The main pedestal portion has magnets on either end and I just delicately screwed in a wood screw to the main pedestal hole on the actual suit.  Got sooooo tired of them snapping off the GW clear bases.   Take a look.