Looks good, to me. And I'm a Tau player myself. Just wondering if you plan on putting any markings or details on it other then a flat coat of paint?

Yeah, I'll probably put the decals and engine scorch marks on tomorrow, I just wanted to get a picture of it after all this time.

Hello cannon fodder, meet my dreadnaught :D

Ah! the hated Tau (long story)

"scout pops up with rocket launcher)

huh, is that a troop transport?

Yep, the Tau use the same frame for their basic heavy craft. The Devilfish simply trades most heavy weapons for carrying troops.

i'm a big fan of ships in general, so i have to ask, are there any medium sized assault ships that require minimum crew capacity? like a two to six man crew?


you did a great gob on this BTW, i really liked the addition of the LEDs you put in there. ^^

Yep, the Tau have a light assault craft called a Piranha, it's two man, and has mounts for two gun drones, plus a main weapon mount.
Thanks again.

i don't suppoose there is any link you could show me for this piranha?

http://store.us.games-workshop.com/.....amp;GameNav=10
thats the store link, it shows a nice picture of the pirahna and a bit of info about it.

the Piranha looks good, but so far the devilfish is my favorite. can you tell me a little about the build? how hard was it? and what about the custom wiring you did?


i really like the coloring you did on yours, much better than the camo colors they used^^

The Games Workshop models are very easy to build, and picture instructions (like for lego blocks) come with each model. if you wanted to build the devilfish as fast as possible, it'd take maybe 30min (to cut the bits off the sprues, cleans them and glue it all together, allowing time for the glue to dry between sections).
The wiring I did was probably the hardest part of the whole thing. The devilfish has almost no room for making a battery compartment door; as troops can go inside it, so I had to find tiny watch batteries and make a small circuit board for the LEDs that fit in the front of the ship, yet can be pulled out through the front landing gear door so I can change batteries if need be.
I wouldn't recommend putting LED's in a devilfish, as it's alot of work for minor results. Many of the tanks in the space marines and imperial guard line are easy to light, as they have big, square areas inside, and nice big access hatches already built in.

My coloring is actually just a different sept (world) in the Tau empire. The orangy scheme is from the T'au sept (the homeworld), and the colors I used are from the Sa'cea sept, a heavily urbanized world.

mmmmmm, excellent! i may just buy the Devilfish^^ i like the style and all purpose usage it can have^^ i'm guessing it's a resin kit? and did you use an air brush on it?

i think i may be able to put a board and battery set in the stand and then run wires thru a hollow tube to the ship. it may work if i don't take it off the stand ^^


i may wind up doing sometging similar for colors, but do some customs ^^ like i said, i really like ships^^

Its a gray plastic kit (not a resin, though super glue works perfectly for construction), and I did use a black spray paint for a base coat (not an enamel spray paint though, games workshop makes special spray paints for them). I then brushed a couple thin coats of their Shadow Gray acyrlic paint on the model, painting lightly enough as to not drag paint into the armor joint lines.

excellent! i'm much better with plastic kits^^

i actually only use acrylic enamel paints for my models^^ so thats no problem there^^
hmmmm, you know, have you ever thought of trying Gundam Markers? they're perfect for doing panel line separations^^ that way you can do a solid color spray paint, and then do the panel separations after^^ may save you some time^^

I use fine point art pens to write on stuff, but I have a few brushes that I can paint the lines in just as well with. The under coating also makes the colors richer, and on some models, makes for pre-shadowing (you just drybrush the main color on it and the areas it doesn't touch are shadowed).

a black base coat? hey, i'll have to try that on one of my models sometime.^^ do you normally recomend a black base coat for all color ship paints? i have tryed the black base coat on the figures, not neccesarily the WarHammer figs, but on other models and figures.


well, thaks for all the help Magos. ^^