So, I've done something incredibly dorky. I'm getting back into Warhammer 40k. The last time I blogged about Warhammer 40k that I can think of, was way back in 2003 when I bought the Tau Boxed Army Set. I never actually played it. It's not even put together. My friend Ryan had painted a few of the models, and put together a few more. I now need to finish putting the rest of that boxed set together. I don't even know what's in it. This is what I've found so far:
- Three Crisis Suits (one with its feet broken off, I need to pin them on)
- Two Ethreals
- 12 built and painted Fire Warriors (with what looks like bits for 12 more)
- 12 built and painted Kroot (with what looks like bits for 12 more)
- 3 XV15 Stealth Suits (old school!)
- 3 (?) Pathfinders and two blister packs of Pathfinder with Rail Guns
- Various Gun Drones (some not assembled)
- One Devilfish Troop Transport
- Two Hammerhead Gunships (I bought an extra)
- One Broadside XV88 (feet also broken, sadface)
On top of that, I have the Tau Rapid Insertion Force boxed set from Armageddon's release. Had I known they were going to disappear I would have bought a second one, and one of the tank sets too. I also bought the Tau Battleforce and a Fire Warrior Squad boxed set the other day. All in all a big army.
The one thing I'm trying to figure out is how I'm going to paint them. I wanted to do a white and black, clone warrior from star wars inspired theme, with different colours for different ranks. While there's nothing in the tau background stories about that, there IS something about each sept having a separate sept colour that show up in markings on units. So I need to ponder this and see how I can make it all pan out. Expect a lot more about this, and some pictures.
