I grabbed my camera from the car, and painted up a few more variations of the red battle damaged tau. One of the things I learned this go around was to thin my sepia so it did not produce such dramatic changed in the color of the clothing. I kind of like these guys. I will definitely paint up 2 more of them so there is at lease a full squad. If I go this route for troops, my vehicles will be chipped red and blue from the top, and a dirty chipped cream color underneath. I think that would look pretty good. I will use the orange for sept markings. Is this the scheme?
I'd say this one is the best so far. One thing, the paint chipping needs to be a little more controlled on infantry models so tighten that up a bit and these guys will look awesome. great work.
ReplyDeleteI think you are right about the chipping. I went kind of wild with these guys. I am tempted to just keep painting variations and have a squad of random armored fire warriors. My wife thought all of the paint tests went with these guys and thought all the colors were cool. Is there any fluff that would support a broken down rogue tau army from many different septs?
ReplyDeleteThese guys look great.
ReplyDeleteWhy ask for fluff, when one can create thier own!
A Tau planetary occupation force, where the planet is invaded by (insert foe, the imperium, orks whatever) have been cut off for several months. your cmmander has pulled together some remanants, all of whom have been in the field fighting for a very long time.
hence the different original uniform colours, and thier beat-up appearance.
Give the planet, or the commander a name, and use that to describe your force.
:)
This is the coolest Tau paint job i ever seen. Makes me wanna roll Tau.. ha ha! GJ on the painting!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the awesome comments! I need a color scheme for the battle suits now.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous. May I ask what colours you used?
ReplyDeleteAnd by colours I mean paints.
DeleteAnd by paints I mean paint colours.
DeleteI painted these so long ago that I am not sure. I know I used gw paints though. The orange was solar orange or something like that. I think the red was whatever was darker than Baal red at the time. A heavy was of dark sepia makes all the difference. Back then I used devlin mud from gw. Dark sepia from secret weapon miniatures is what I use now. It is vastly better. (Dull coat needed afterwards)
DeleteThank you so much for your reply! Could you hazard a guess at the colour for the cloth / the blue for the exposed face?
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