Hobby Slow Down

I have nothing for Miniature Monday this week. I feel sad and it also shows how I am a little bit lazy: I have Kroot that need painting.

The fiddly little bastards.

They've a lot more smaller details than than the Tau models. Which is a pain for my limited skills and they have natural surfaces like skin and leather. Tricksy.

I was thinking of orange for the  Space Chickens. My Tau are mainly black, so the Orange would both stand out and make a change to paint. Or so the theory went. Being so bright, however, makes my lack of artistry painfully obvious. A dark green is much more forgiving. And boring. Time to work on my skills then....

Pandaforce Onwards

The Pandaforce is making progress! It's time consuming and fiddly, but I have almost a playable force:

• A Crisis Suit Commander and two Fireknife bodyguards.

• Six Stealthsuits.

• Two six Tau Fire Warrior squads.

• A Devildish (nearly finished painting).

In terms of unpainted models I have some Kroot and some more Fire Warriors. The Kroot are being undercoated and are next on the agenda following the Devilfish. The Kroot are going to have as a main colour Orange skin - this will be a nice contrast to the mainly Blacks and Blues/Purple of the Tau in the Pandaforce.

I am aiming to add 3 more Crisis Suits, 3 Broadsides and some Pathfinders to the Pandaforce but this goal is dependent on time and money. By my calculations it runs to well over £100. Better get that new job then! I've had a week of work so this shows me that, given time, it's possible to get a significant amount of painting and modeling done.