Greetings to you all!
I'm Veneficae (or Matt, whichever you prefer is fine with me), and I happened across this website looking for Tau painting tips, and loved all that was here. I read the comments in the topics I came across and found everyone to be quite polite and with a wealth of knowledge they were willing to share with others, and thought that this would be the perfect place to get tips on my painting skills in general, as well as Tau-specific.
For those liking background information, I'm a Web Designer by trade, although my job for almost two years now has had very little design aspects at all, so I've been forced to work with limited creativity. Maybe that was one element to my re-introduction to W40K, I'm unsure. All I know is that I bought $300 worth of Tau and paints, and am enjoying doing the best I can. Hopefully everyone here can give me pointers and guidance to hone of techniques, .
Here's three images of my current array of painted Tau - not very many, and $300 only got me one squad, a Piranha, all the paints and brushes I needed, as well as the basing kit and static grass, PVA glue, and so on.
Regardless, here's those three images (right-click to open, as it seems to open them in the same window as the forums...):
I'm going to be filling in an Admittance Form shortly, if you were wondering why this appeared beforehand.
I look forward to getting to know you all.
See you all around the forums,
- Veneficae
EDIT: As you can tell, I need a lense for my camera that allows me to take closer shots, . It's an 18-200mm, so it's better mid-range than focusing on Tau nostrils. I'm looking into getting a more suitable lense, but in the meantime, I'll do what I can.