Cadre of Mesme Ukos Refresh

I know I’m meant to be finishing the army but they keep releasing cute models…

Latest additions – 2 Kroot Lonespears.

Little selection of drones all done.

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!