Cadre of Mesme Ukos Refresh

It turns out my Son has been given a Kill Team box that included some Kroot and he decided that they needed to be in my army. Some shuffling round later and I now have a full squad of very cool kroot with a couple of custom conversions built ready to paint.

My son was very chuffed to have ‘added’ something to an army that’s much much older than he is…

I love painting but do not like the assembling at all so it’s handy that I’ve ‘made’ my very own awesome conversion & assembly person.

Still waiting for paint I  have:

• 10 new style firewarriors with 2 gun drones (I prefer my firewarriors in 12’s)
• 12 firewarriors (old sculpts) making up my squad 3 to accompany the already painted Devilfish transport
• 5 drones to accompany my forgeworld Shas’O R’myr & XV81, XV84 & 2 XV89 crisis suits
• a baby missile turret
• new Krot squad of 20 plus 4 kroothpunds & a randomly discovered in a bits box Krootox
• 4 character models – Darkstrider, the original Farsight, 2 non-GW models that just sort of fit, one that I’ve named Aang & the other Painted Lady. I need to find a model to be the cabbage merchant & make a scenic piece for the ‘secret tunnel’…
• a new style crisis suit team of 3 with shield drone
• Tigershark – drone bomber
• 2 Barracuda escorts
• Aun’va & bodyguards
• new Farsight model
• new Twin Lance models Sunsear & Scatterflare
• 3 Riptide Battlesuits & 6 shielded missile drones.
• 1 supremacy suit (which I have renamed to fit in better with the other suit names to The Siphonophore)

I currently have 7 scenery pieces built.

A landing pad made from half a cake box.

Three houses/ barracks with roof landing pads made from half a hamster ball with a cd roof.

Two watch towers made from a couple of yoghurt type pots and half a circular toy capsule probably from a blind bag type thing.

The largest piece is my mech shop. Made from part of an old broken blender.

Starting to feel exciting now – the painted items now outnumber the undercoated.

So, time to double check through the army lists, update them to include new items and decide which drones belong with which squads.

While I have been quiet on here, slowly trying to complete my Tau I have also been distracting myself completing other things…

I have been working through my Fish team for Guildball, they were completed but then I got extra characters and limited editions to add in.

Finally decided on basing for my Warmachine too. Had the Cygnar painted for awhile so just needed finishing off.

Salt is the model that got me into Guildball. When they released a veteran captain salt for April fools it was top of my list.
I painted him up at last and based using real tiny shells, bits of glitz and treasure including a tiny gold frog I have had for years just waiting for its moment.

I just love him 💛🐾💛

Finally finished the vehicles.

4 hammerheads with rail guns, the squadron leader is a hammerhead with ion canon.

Finished off with a sky ray 💛

In my head the Tau use a screen-type tech for camouflage and the viens are actually moving and rippling across the vehicles and armour in an adaptive chameleon style.

These are currently displaying their home planet colours which is a red/orange desert sort of landscape with vegetation and foliage in dark reds, oranges & bright yellows. Chosen and imagined of course because they are my fave colours to paint.

I got impatient and rather than keep doing a little on each vehicle I went ahead and finished one. Three down & three to go!

Yellow done.

Time to re-black any smudges areas so the lines are crisp and then onto the red gore.

Seen as the vehicles are coming along slowly but with very little difference (lots of coats of yellow) for a post I thought I would share a quick run down of all the models I have been distracted by between my last spring clean challenge and this one….

A little diorama of a special ltd edition fairy I’ve been hoarding and a random chubby crocodile I have.

Alas, its been so long I forget where either one was from originally.

I love a yellow dragon. The little one was a speed paint challenge mini from Games Expo Birmingham using Duncan Rhodes Two thin coats paint which it turns out I love!!

The little one inspired the big one which was a gift from my husband.

Next up is a Stitch my daughter gave me in a Birthday past. I had been too scared to paint him as I was worried I wouldn’t get the colour right.

Last year she made me a Stitch cosplay mask and picked out perfect colours so I stole the leftover paint and finally finished him.

The last one is Grobblenook, a paint your own gargoyle from a shop in York. I went with a splat scheme and just love him.