We wanted Space Dwarves and instead got 5"11 in power armor.
Well, there's your first problem.
And there's your second about to rear its ugly head. The plan's still flawless with no downsides at all, but it just needs some minor corrective precautions taken before it can begin.
There's every chance he's curious as to how deep the rabbit hole goes, since collaborating with xenos is one thing the Ordo Xenos actually does a lot of. Since they're dealing with external, physical threats as opposed to traitors, heretics, and the Warp they're allowed and even required to be a lot more flexible in their approaches since xenos can be useful in their own foul ways, and there's no shame in playing one foe off against another.
Funny, I actually liked the fact that starting in late 7e shit started getting real for them and they realized they had to grit their teeth and start fighting like devils for every single square inch of barely-habitable soil out past their relatively-safe core holdings. One of my fav pieces of Tau art has a battle-hardened Fire Warrior casually eating some rations in a trench, giving zero fucks about anything but their meal despite the pockmarks and impact craters in their armor as a FNG with pristine kit tries to avoid shitting themselves next to them.
Just lead him into Tau space and disable his engine and leave him for dead?
Look into Panel Liner from Gundam Modeling. They're not water based, but basically they're nuln-oil like things that JUST seep into the panel grooves.
"muh grimdark!" which somehow just means filthy all the time for some people
You mean GW instructing people to use more of their paint? Can't imagine why they'd do that lol.
That may work. If he turns out to be an ultra-radical, I did plan on bringing him to visit the Protectorate since planets with Tau openly serving the Imperium is right up an ultra-radical ordo xenos inquisitor's alley and Mr. Rogue Trader would very much like to prove the value of his ideology to an Inquisitor. Worst case scenario, if he's turbo pissed, we pretend we're oblivious to that fact, tell him we have something even more to show him, get him out into Tau space and strand him there.
The Heretek Turducken hasn't happened yet so it won't be a problem. The chaos cult and tzeentsch-daemon? on board are, however, but they can be obfuscated for the meantime. Mr. Rogue Trader only read about Imperial Protectorates once in a textbook decades ago and doesn't actually know if a) they're still legal and b) if he's even allowed to create them. His argument is that since his warrant is signed by the Emperor, he doesn't have to listen to the High Lords and any new fangled laws they've come up with since the Great Crusade.
Well, him being around means you can't start work on the Heretek Turducken quite yet, so him sticking his nose into things is an issue there.
Oh no, the adept wasn't sneaking around, he was invited on our ship along with that Harlequin. He was just obviously there to spy on us for the inquisitor. But yes, I have a plan to de-vvitchify the ship, and it involves a power sword, shutting off of power armor, and a whole lot of bolter fire. That should only be necessary if the adept didn't realize he wasn't a sanctioned psyker through his disguise.
There are few things more powerful than a Rogue Trader, and an Inquisitor is one of them.
The only issues I see is Tau may not take the bait and destroy him but board and capture and later release. Or he has a network in the Tau human auxiliary. Last time we got into a similar situation in Dark Heresy the DM’s said they had a telepath on board who relayed our betrayal and on our next planetside trip we had to deal with PDF because the governor was trading chaos artifacts with the rogue trader
I don't think it's likely he had much of a network since the closest worlds were all controlled by cold trading rogue trader houses before the tau rolled in when they were cut off by warp storms but a distinct possibility. I think worst case scenario, we just board the vessel, kill everyone on board, and send the thing careening into a nearby warp storm. Hopefully, it doesn't come to that. And I know, at least, that the foundling worlds wouldn't turn against us if the word got out since "Guy who is happy to let them keep living alongside the tau they befriended and keep their standard of living" versus likely mass executions by the Imperium seems like a simple choice.
Between an anti-theist ideologue rogue trader, an explorator who doesn't believe the Emperor is the Omnissiah and is happy to commit tech heresy, and, potentially, an ultra-radical inquisitor, we could have the makings of a proper minor Imperial conspiracy.
They should really bring back imperial beasts men that was a fun thing to play friend of mine has the old oy models painted in those colors the super cool why couldn't be smen think the emperor was a chill dude.
I actually own some of that panel liner. It was recommended to me by my brother and yeah it does work pretty well. I used it on my crisis suits, but a lot of other models don't have groves deep enough to actually hold it. I still need a solution for fire warriors for instance. I ended up going back and painted over the panel lines in favor of the full wash. I thought, at least with my colors, the black lining was too harsh. In a month I'll probably change my mind again and re-add the panel lining.
You can get the tamiya liner in multiple colors, including shades of gray so it doesn't have the harsh look you're talking about on a lighter color. Of course as mentioned in the thread, you can basically do the same with oil paints and thinner as well, just need a little more patience and then clean up any smudges with a cotton swap and thinner after.
Honestly, just varnish the things after and get whatever surface finish you want. Winsor and Newton aerosol varnish from an art store for the main finish, and then go back and pick out specific parts with brush on varnish to make gloss or more matte as needed. No need to rely on the finish of the paint itself.
I personally just use spray on cleocode sometimes it works pretty well there's also this one clear coat that's used for pools it's toxic and highly smelly but it is basically 100 percent waterproof.
Why do you hurt me so? I mean, you arent wrong, but wasnt isstvan bad enough?