My son's Tau

Following on from last week's post about magnetising my son's Tau, I thought I would show the rest of his force which he is building and painting by himself, which I think is a good achievement for a 10 year old. I think that the painting is definitely a better standard than my first serious effort. He chose the colours and scheme by himself, the only alteration I made was to suggest a red helmet lense colour rather than the original blue, which didn't stand out at all. 

Fire warrior strike squad

Another angle of the strike squad

The strike squad leader

Drone, leader and support turret

In addition to this he has his Stealth suits, 6  in total, his Ghostkeel, a Cadre Fireblade and an ethereal, plus the specialist kill team pathfinder box. I have some plans to help him out and am trying to get some cheap Cadian bodies off eBay, which isn't as easy as you'd think! I plan on kit bashing these up with him, using the breacher squad parts left over from the strike squad to make some Gue'vesa cannon fodder.

We'll see if I can get some Cadians at a decent price to make it worth while.

Also I thought I should show some pictures of my daughter's chaos army. I'm less sure on whether she actually want this army or if her brother has told her she wants it, either way she has enjoyed painting up a few models, including a hellbrute. I've been very surprised how carefully she has painted up these models seeing as she is only 7.

Her chaos marines, some berserkers, havoc and classic marine

A pair of hellbrutes, the one on the left painted by my son and one on the right by my daughter

 I really like the fact that the kids have been enjoying painting up the models and it's nice to just be able to let them get on with it as they are not my models (or not ones I plan on using). I doubt that the young lady will take this up longer term but watching the pair of them sit down together to paint is wonderful to see.