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Many people got Epic Tau?
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Author:  Lextar [ Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:06 pm ]
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I just got out my Epic Tau I purchased before christmas (making th most out of free p&p... yeah, I bought a lot).

Is there many people out there who collect and painted Epic Tau?

Finding it a nightmare. Took the advice about washing them a bit and broke the sword off the Battlesuit commander. Once washed, cleaning it up a bit proved a bit tedious... and then they don't actually fit to the base very well in the respect that it leaves a lot of gap... so looks like i'll be flocking the bases.

Seems a lotta hassle for what they are worth.
Author:  primarch [ Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:19 pm ]
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Hi!

I will be finishing up the 100k army I have proyected this year....

...but I dont paint them...

...I'd have to ask if my painters find them as troublesome to paint... :;):

Primarch
Author:  Legion 4 [ Tue Apr 12, 2005 4:50 am ]
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Got one or two packs of each model F/W makes for the T&K. All are SIB ! :(  And that's my complaint about all F/W Epic ... too delicate.  Fortunately, I've had few mishaps, but they are an accident waiting to happen, IMO ...  :cool:
Author:  Lextar [ Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:04 am ]
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Okay, I officially hate painting Tau  :(

Gave them a base coat of black and even after the wash, the paint just rolled off parts of the figure. So at least two attempts to put the coat of black on them.

Then comes the hard part of painting them. Because of the detials, trying to get the paint in the correct place was hard enough. And because they don't come on a sprue, it means painting them while holding the base with five figures... i can see me breaking these  :(

I think once I have the two stands I  started with, I think I'll go back to something.
Author:  Legion 4 [ Sat Apr 16, 2005 3:32 pm ]
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Yes, besides being very expensive ... the F/W stuff is too fragile ... and in some cases hard to paint.  And we give these people our $$$ because ... ?   ???
Author:  asaura [ Sat Apr 16, 2005 5:53 pm ]
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[quote="Lextar,11 2005 April,21:06"][/quote]
I've got enough for a mid-sized army. Haven't gotten to painting them yet, but they're next up once I finish some other stuff.

I've encountered the resin-painting problems you describe with FW Hydras. Paint just wouldn't stick, no matter how well I washed the models. Since then, I've had success with spray priming other resin models; spray paint seems to stick.

I actually bought an airbrush to work with the FW Tau. Once I get some results, I'll surely post about it... :D
Author:  Legion 4 [ Sun Apr 17, 2005 6:06 am ]
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Good point, I'm guessing water base paints, which I like above all others, maybe the problem ... :{
Author:  Lextar [ Sun Apr 17, 2005 7:13 am ]
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Well I knew about spray paints working, probs is, we're talking about epic here, trying to spray paint these seems like overkill. But may think about this next time when I plan to do a large batch sorta thing.
Author:  Jimbo [ Sun Apr 17, 2005 8:36 am ]
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I found a light white spray worked wonders in allowing acrylic paints (such as GWs) to adhere.

You can find out more on my workbench article on my Forgeworld Gunwagons.
Author:  Legion 4 [ Sun Apr 17, 2005 4:01 pm ]
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So I guess the solution is to blush on a thin base coat of enamel on the smaller models, then paint over with acrylics (water based paints). :)  Another step, maybe but we have no options ... or since F/W Epic is too expensive, very delicate, and hard to paint, stay with only metal models.  Of course that means since G/W-S/G (?) will never produce metal Tau & Kroot, that would be the last option ... ???  But the cheapest and easiest ... :cool:
Author:  primarch [ Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:49 pm ]
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Hi!

Reading these post makes me very glad I pay someone else to worry about these things.... :;):

Primarch
Author:  darkone26 [ Wed Apr 20, 2005 5:54 pm ]
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Hi Lextar,

I have a force of Tau and I mainly spray my figs all black. ?Sometimes it works and others dont. ?I have found that once I sprayed it and parts flake I just paint over using a brush and so far so good. ?I have a lot to paint and I cant say I have 100k like Primarch but then again I havent counted the points cost. ?Needless to say I really like them and enjoy gaming with Tom(Netepic).

A few examples of some of the Tau can be looked at here

http://netepic.org/EPICentre/News/darkone26.php

Tom and I decided we would do some daily logs but Tom only seems to comment on my stuff. ?Hopefully he will be able to take pics and show us what he has got.
Author:  primarch [ Wed Apr 20, 2005 7:10 pm ]
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Hi!

Wow Darkone!

VERY cool painted minis! :)

Mine are all unpainted and will perhaps remain that way, since they arent scheduled until 2006... :(

Primarch
Author:  Warmaster Nice [ Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:14 pm ]
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I agree. Awsome work Doug. :cool:

I've found that a thin white spray works allright to give future layers of paint something to attatch to. However be carefull and only spray LIGHT! When I did myy Grey Knight Terminators I got too much and ruined some of the detail. For my regular GKs I've painted Mithril Silver directly on the resin. It works great but I don't think it will work for thinner colours of paint.
Black spray works perfectly well on larger miniatures but the paint has a tendency to be thicker than white so be carefull when using it on infantry.

Like Jimbo said the paint sometimes still chip off but you can repair it by addding some paint underneath the chip like "glue". Resin minis are a bit annoying in that respect.  My Gargantuan Squiggoth (from EpiComps got damaged on the teetch only hours after the paint job was complete. It is as if the paint is nothing more than a layer "on top" of the resin...it doesn't "bite" so to speak.

Cheers! :)
Author:  Lextar [ Mon May 02, 2005 10:02 am ]
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Well.. I finished three stands for Tau and gave up. Was going to put this up on my website, but then realised I don't have the title image for Tau.

I took the title of the other forces from the old GW site... yeah, i know, the cheek, but I don't have the time (or skill) to do something of my own. So I'm missing the Tau title.

So if anyone got the old image, please tell me, else I'll never get around to having a page for the Tau  :(

Anyway, here are the pics I would have posted
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