Cadre of Mesme Ukos Refresh

Here is Squad 2. I finally found some Toms to get these done, thanks to a day case foot op where I could enjoy my time waiting painting up some Tau…

Wow, that went by so fast!

So, in May I went from being a full time Mum to being a working Mum, so time has been even shorter than usual. Despite not updating for far too long I have managed to squish in some pairing time.

Updates to follow!

I finally finished undercoating the bottom half of my Tiger Shark Bomber.

I have the drone bomber version. The drones have had paint on for years, although I only recently decided on their final colour-way and refreshed them as part of my spring clean challenge.

I would have loved a Manta, but never quite had the several thousand quid spare to drop on it. I bought my Tiger Shark back when I was at Uni, and decided my student loan payments were clearly there for crazy purchases rather than food….

The Tiger Shark has been my ‘maybe one day I’ll be good enough to paint it’ model. Too scared to try in case I ruined it. Getting involved in the spring clean challenge made me realise, I’ll never believe I’m skilful enough to paint it, so I should just get stuck in and enjoy painting it!

The cockpit is made so it can slide off and open up.

I really want to leave it so it can be opened but I don’t know how to protect the paint so sliding it on and off will do the least amount of damage? Any handy tips?

Also should I leave the pilots so they can come out of the seats or glue them in?

So an in an unexpected twist I won a little prize!

I decided what better way to use my voucher than on basing supplies for these lot.

Of course I had to drag out the basing supplies I already have and pull together my ideas.

Inspired by the original trees and basing colours I used on my diorama & original pathfinders I found all the bits I still have from way back when.

Next I searched up some inspiration for what their planet might look like.

Then I had some fun shopping for extra bits & I’m now ready for my final step of basing the army!

….. Well, almost. I have to finish painting everyone first…..

These guys have been creeping along. From pure black to full colour, they took me ages but I love them!
These are my forgeworld battlesuits XV84, XV81 & two XV89’s and Shas’O R’myr (the purple guy) is the squad leader.