[Catsy]

Hey all. As you can tell from the post count, I'm new to TO, and in fact I'm new to miniature wargaming as well. I used to do scale modeling when I was a kid, and for the last 20 years I've been wanting to get back into it. Finally have a stable career and the money to invest in the hobby, so I figured I'd start out with miniatures to get the hang of painting. Now I'm hooked on the hobby side of things, and haven't even played a game yet.

I chose Tau because the models really struck me as something I wanted to assemble and paint. I painted a few Skaven for practice, and then a random miniature that my friend had lying around. I feel more or less comfortable enough with the painting end of things now to move on to my precious Tau--if I can only decide on a color scheme! I've been spending the slow nights at work looking at every 40k site I can for inspiration and ideas.

Unfortunately (or fortunately), one side effect of looking at all these cool things that the pros have done is wanting to try them myself. So I've refused to do anything except clean and prep my Crisis Suit, for instance, because I intend to do the rare earth magnet swappable weapons thing with it--as soon as my magnets arrive, that is.

So as the title says, be prepared for lots of questions from the newbie as they come up.

[stealth_cat_xv88]

well welcome to Tau Online! I'll see you around the Tau boards...feel free to ask lots of questions, we'll answer them as best as we can (with my answer being the best, of course ) (jk)

[RJay]

Ahem... What was that?

Well it seems to me that theres been a sudden influx of cats in some way or form here, i wonder where that started from...

Anyway Catsy: 'Welcome to the Tau Online forums, abide by the rules, have fun, get posting'

bark

[Catsy]

Heh. Mine goes back about 12 years to the handle I was using on a BBS at the time--Catspaw. We all knew each other in person, and because there were two people in our group who had the same real name as me, we all called each other by nicknames based on our handles--mine was quickly whittled down to the diminuitive of "Catsy". It stuck.

And regarding the random miniature I painted, I just put up pictures of it in the Showcase forum. Apologies if that's not the right place, please let me know.

[RJay]

Originally Posted by Catsy

Heh. Mine goes back about 12 years to the handle I was using on a BBS at the time--Catspaw. We all knew each other in person, and because there were two people in our group who had the same real name as me, we all called each other by nicknames based on our handles--mine was quickly whittled down to the diminuitive of "Catsy". It stuck.

And regarding the random miniature I painted, I just put up pictures of it in the Showcase forum. Apologies if that's not the right place, please let me know.

Interesting...

Regarding your minature, the Showcase board is the place to put images of your models so you can showcase them to any who might want to view them.

[Catsy]

Regarding your minature, the Showcase board is the place to put images of your models so you can showcase them to any who might want to view them.

Okay, cool. Since it was a subset of the 40k forum, I wasn't certain if it was okay to post pics of non-40k stuff in it.

[RJay]

Originally Posted by Catsy

Okay, cool. Since it was a subset of the 40k forum, I wasn't certain if it was okay to post pics of non-40k stuff in it.

As long as its vaguely along the modelling line of things then theres not much of a problem, even though it is supposedly meant for 40k stuff only. Any more questions?

[Catsy]

No thanks, I think I'm good for now. Have to go do some actual work for a few minutes to earn my salary.

[MalVeauX]

Welcome aboard Casty! Be sure to read the Forum Rules and enjoy your stay!

All your questions via Tau will be answered of course, and all your painting needs can be taken care of in the Painting board and Showcase boards. I actually have a handy website tool for colors that I'll send to you via PM, so keep an eye out for it. It gives you a Firewarrior and lets you put whatever color you want on the various bits of him to give you ideas of how it will look on the battlefield while you paint. Great tool and it helped me a lot for deciding my own scheme.

So stop by the Tau and Painting/Showcase boards and you'll get tons of help! See you there!

--Mal

[Catsy]

Cool, can't wait to check out that site. I think that'll help a lot; for some reason I'm having trouble visualizing my ideas.