Farsight Enclave - Fire Warriors Teams for Armies on Parade

5 days to go for the Armies on Parade and a good time to showcase my newly painted units of Farsight Enclave Fire Warriors.  I think I have bitten off more then I can chew time scale wise, hence these are not my best painted troops.  I think they will do just fine though and hopefully people wont be looking at the troops, they'll be concentrating and everything else :)  Also the observant of you may have spotted a sneak peak of project "Y".

  

The 2014/15 Hobby Season Alumni

I have been invited to take part in my good friend Dave's "Hobby Season To Do List" sorry it's a bit late I've been away with no free WiFi :( 

 I have had a good 12 months - finished my Nurgle Space Marine army. 

Entered it into Throne of Skulls and won an award or two.  

Painted the Forge world Avatar for my friends 40th birthday and I'm also half way through painting my Tau Farsight Enclave army for the next Throne of Skulls.

I have my work cut out for me if I am to beat that year, that said lets get started on my to do list for 2014/15:-

1.  Enter Armies on Parade in October as goaded by Dave.

2.  Finish project X for Armies on Parade, not stolen the idea from Dave.... honest.

3.  Finish project Y for Armies on Parade....

4.  Paint Commander Farsight.

5.  Paint a Tau Battlesuit Commander or two.

6.  Paint 4 Tau Riptides.

7.  Paint 2 units of Tau Fire warriors.

8.  Paint a Tau Hammerhead gunship.

9.  Enter Throne of Skulls with my Tau Farsight Enclave Army and get one player vote with my ultra competitive list and get nominated for best army. (no pressure).

10.  Complete my Dark Eldar Tantalus which has been in the loft for 2 years.

11.  Paint the last of my 10 Dark Eldar Incubi.

12.  Paint Dark Eldar Drazhar and Lelith Hersperax.

13.  Paint my last Dark Eldar Venom.

14.  Start painting my Vampire Counts Army which has also been in the loft for 2 years.

15.  Outside chance of this happening but... to have one 4000pts WFB army painted, either Bretonnia or Vampire Counts.

16.  Not to give Games Workshop all my money and also to resist buying Nagash,but he looks so good.  

17. And lastly but most important ....Not to get divorced as I have just realised how much I have to paint :)

That's my list and it seems I will have a very busy 6 weeks ahead of me including moving house, I'll just have to take it one item at a time and cherry pick what would look best for Armies on Parade, because they will not all get done in time, but they all need doing anyway.

Good luck to every one taking part, I know I'm going to need it :)

And now a bit of Fun.............Tau Aluminium Casting

Today we were experimenting with Aluminium casting and the previous night I had spent a good few hours creating a 10cm Tau Fire Warrior carved from blue compressed insulation foam or Styrofoam, it was harder then I thought but I perceived.  The method we were using is to create an item and compact that item in fine grade casting sand and pour the molten metal into the mold, let the aluminium evaporate the foam leaving a void for the aluminium to fill.  I couldn't resist the opportunity to create a metal figure now GW have stopped producing their own, I have no idea what I'm going to do with it I might us it as scenery a statue or a large scale hologram projecting the the message "for the greater good" on the battle field either way it was a lot of fun and I hope you like.

Tau Fire Warrior from the front.

Tau Fire Warrior from the back.

Tau Fire Warrior Straight out of the Mold.

Tau Fire Warrior after a bit of sand blasting.

As you can see I completely stole the form from Papah's fantastic sculpt of a 54mm Inquisitor figure http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/showthread.php?36704 

The detail has lost a bit of sharpnes, but I'm hoping to tidy the sculpt up a bit and then experiment with a new type of rubber mold making (well new to me anyway) called Alginate and create some resin sculpts and then I'll be able to tidy it up further with some grey stuff.