Back to Painting

I finally got back to painting last night and decided to start finishing up the crisis suit.  I was trying to think of different ways to add distinction to the jetpacks on the crisis suit.  While running ideas through my head, two major points came to mind:

1.) I was imagining this force as using experimental digital camouflage, since such a camo scheme is not typical Tau design.

2.) The weapons and jetpacks for the Crisis suits are made as removable and interchangeable.

That's when it hit me... 

Why not have them in the normal Tau camo scheme of large, solid, overlapping shapes? That way, it seems as if the countless piece-part options were not yet refitted to this new camo scheme en masse. Such an undertaking would be a logistical nightmare.

The idea has its routes from being exposed to soldiers who had been overseas and had a mix of gear with older styles of camo and the new combat uniforms with the new digital camo.  With the new digital camouflage being distributed to soldiers, the uniforms were the obvious first.  Gear has been slowly replaced over time, as replacing everything at once would have been logistically (time, money, location, etc.)impossible.

What is neat, is that in some cases, photos of soldiers in theater with the new digital camouflage uniforms and older gear show they actually blended more to their surrounding environment, as the difference in patterns and colours actually helped break up their form!

So, enough about the background.  Here's the first pick!!!

I think it actually looks good.  What do you think?