40k Hobby Weekend Tau of the Shattered Sword

The Afternoon was spent building Tau suits.

The three crisis suites where built.  As an experiment one crisis suit was built on the flying stand.  The suites where built following the instructions.

To keep with the theme from the Sharksun Bomber, cork was added to the bases.  Sheets of cork was purchased from an office supply store; the cork was for cork board.  The sheets are about 1/8″ thick.  Chunks were torn off and made rough with the hobby knife.  A hot glue gun was used to attach the cork to the bases.

With the bases detailed, the build was complete.

The plane of the paint scheme of the crisis suits was inspired by anime; Robotech and The Gate.  The idea was to use greys from Vallejo to paint the suites like modern aircraft.  Below are pictures of the inspiration, of the Vallejo paint kit, modern Japanese aircraft and of a previously painted crisis suited.

A Broadside Crisis Suit was also assembled.  The assemble process followed the basic instructions.  The base also recieve the cork treatment.  The railgun arm was not attached, so as to allow access to paint the chest armour of the suite.  This large suite will make for a nice centre piece for this starting army.

During the research Japanese aircraft and uniforms, found an article on painting Japanese tanks.   During World War 2, some Japanese tanks had a yellow wavy line painted on each side of the tank.  The reason was that the yellow line would look like a ray of sunship breaking through the canopy of the jungle.  This sounded interesting and is the inspiration to of the Broadside Suite.  Below is a picture of the internet of Ha-Go light tank that has this yellow strip.