Tau Crusede - XV9 Hazard Battlesuit [05.01.2023]

[Alex_Art_Workshop]

Another addition to my tau empire crusade. First XV88 Broadside Battlesuit:

 

[Valkia the Bloody]

Besides your awesome painting work, could I also say I really love your base design?

Everything looks natural.

[Alex_Art_Workshop]

The first squad of XV8 Crisis Battlesuit is ready!

This squad is an elite target hunter, I'm currently working on a second squad that will be aimed at confronting infantry.

 

And after a long break, I was finally able to play tabletop Warhammer 40k. It's really a lot of fun and I liked it, and the crusade mode brings a lot of positive emotions. Therefore, I still intend to significantly expand my army further :)
Thank you all for the kind words!

 

 

[Pearson73]

The blue glow on the battlesuit systems is a nice touch, really complements the rest of the scheme.

[Focslain]

On 11/13/2022 at 8:16 AM, Alex_Art_Workshop said:

 

 

And after a long break, I was finally able to play tabletop Warhammer 40k. It's really a lot of fun and I liked it, and the crusade mode brings a lot of positive emotions. Therefore, I still intend to significantly expand my army further :)
Thank you all for the kind words!

 

The suits look amazing, great work on the army so far.

 

Tau have a really fun and interesting Crusade system. With a little planning the systems fall real quickly and give lots of resources to expand your roster. Plus the sabotage agenda isn't too hard to complete the first level of.  Hope your sector conquest is going well.

[Alex_Art_Workshop]

On 11/16/2022 at 9:27 PM, Focslain said:

The suits look amazing, great work on the army so far.

 

Tau have a really fun and interesting Crusade system. With a little planning the systems fall real quickly and give lots of resources to expand your roster. Plus the sabotage agenda isn't too hard to complete the first level of.  Hope your sector conquest is going well.

 

Thank you! The crusade itself is going slowly, we have played a few games so far. But I liked the planet capture system. I can't wait to continue :)

 

In the meantime, I continue to replenish my army. Started work on the second hero of my army - Cadre Fireblade

Edited November 25, 2022 by Firedrake Cordova
Changed the quoted text back to the original English. :)

[Firedrake Cordova]

Excellent work, again. I'm really looking forward to seeing the completed force. 

[Alex_Art_Workshop]

Finished work on the Cadre Fireblade. Surprisingly, the model is very pleasant to work with, there is where to roam and try something interesting.

Most of the way to 50pl is over and I'm very happy about it!

 

I hope to be able to share the result of the great work done very soon :)

Edited November 29, 2022 by Alex_Art_Workshop

[Firedrake Cordova]

Excellent work, as per usual. 

Edited November 29, 2022 by Firedrake Cordova

[Urauloth]

NICE camo cloak!

[Dosjetka]

That Fireblade is looking great! Is there any chance we could get a full army picture soon, please?

Edited December 12, 2022 by Dosjetka

[Alex_Art_Workshop]

A lot of people asked for a photo of the army, but I have only a few left to paint the 50pl for my crusade. In the meantime, I want to share a photo of my combat patrol on 25pl, with which I played the first games.

And as you may have noticed, here is the second completed XV8 Crisis Battlesuit unit.

And here is a separate photo:

 

Hope to finish 50pl army this year!

[dickyelsdon]

Superb!  I love the colours used and how you integrate the damage with edge highlighting.  Makes it look like worn and dinged high tech armour, rather than 'chipped paint' that is the more common approach with marines etc.

[Firedrake Cordova]

Very nice work! 

[dees]

Fantastic work! The dark green contrasting with the yellow-bone is really eye catching, as is teal detail over the dark grey areas. 

[The_Stray_Idea]

Brilliant work. Lovely to see some Tau looking striking and tasteful at the same time. Keep it up. 

[StratoKhan]

Excellent force, colour scheme is great and the painting is top notch.

I really like your take on the Tau, well done.

[Alex_Art_Workshop]

Thanks for the kind words and support friends!

I still managed to finish my army for the 50p crusade. So far I have taken a general photo on the desktop, I will have to figure out how to do it all beautifully.

Added Fire Warriors squad (did not take a photo, because a copy of the past) and XV9 Hazard Battlesuit with Fusion Cascade:

This year I also have many plans to expand the army. I hope it turns out to be interesting and beautiful. I'll be sure to share my progress with you!

[Valkia the Bloody]

This is not an army.

It is a work of art.

[Alex_Art_Workshop]

Hi all! For a long time I did not paint Tau for my army - it's time to improve.
I started work on a squad of stealth suits and the first one will be this old guy in XV-15.

[batu]

Amazing force so far. Some of the best Tau I have seen. Any Kroot in the future?

[Alex_Art_Workshop]

Hello friends! Lately I haven't been able to devote much time to painting my Tau army, but the new 10th edition crusade requires new heroes :)
Here I painted myself a Devilfish. This combat vehicle had many owners before me, but I hope it will be good on my shelf.

[Naryn]

That is out of this world. Beautiful work!

[Firedrake Cordova]

Very nice work - the weathering is subtle and fitting, the engine glow is very nice, and the camouflage successfully treads the "looks like camouflage but doesn't render the model 'unreadable' like real camouflage would" line very well.  

[ZeroWolf]

That is one slick Devilfish  Nice work!