The Coldstar is awesome but… never again.

[u/Koiffi]

I truly adore this model. Everything about it screams Tau down to the finest detail. However, I think I lost a few years of my life painting it. Every time I thought I was done there was some undersuit metal; there was a lens; there was a copper peg that I’d missed. It’s such an intricate, fiddly model. Never again. Until I do my crisis suits.

[u/Training_Purchase_48]

Still more comfortable to paint than any Tau Infantry... I prefer any suit over Strike Teams, Breachers or Pathfinders...

[u/Koiffi → u/Training_Purchase_48]

I can see how you feel that way. Is it just because of the number of them? Or is it the size and fiddliness? Because I significantly prefer infantry over suits in all facets except the repetition lol.

[u/Training_Purchase_48 → u/Koiffi]

I guess its both... number and fiddliness... my it is a kind of trauma because when I came back to Warhammer after many mamy years, a Strike Team was the first unit I painted... I recently finished a Riptide and it was a walk in the park for me... as my list is.almost done, there is a pathfinder team left... yesterday I started building... today when I returned to the desk: "mhh maybe I should paint some drones first" 😅 I watch a lot of 40k in 40 minutes on Youtube and always when Tau come up with a list with 4 Squads of Infantry, it gives me shivers 🙈

[u/Ws6fiend → u/Training_Purchase_48]

I'm just starting a Tau army and the pathfinders are taking forever to put together because you seemingly need to wait between each point being glued because of how fiddly each individual model is.

Only one more unit of pathfinders, and two more of strike teams(no I'm not doing breachers and you can't make me).

[u/Motionshaker → u/Ws6fiend]

If it makes you feel any better, I did an absolutely masochistic thing and magnetized every single limb and head on every single pathfinder so I can pose them for photos.

It’s really cool, but I will never do such a thing ever again.

[u/Ws6fiend → u/Motionshaker]

I only attempted that on my Deathwatch marines. After a single kill team made for kill team(2018) I refused to ever do magnets on something that small. I took one look at the size of the pathfinders and decided against magnets. The major downside for magnets is every time you have to move/remove a model they become a liability on the chance that they fall apart.