Urban Snow Camoflaughe
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Thanks to John Holmes for this.
When I decided to build a Tau army, deciding what I wanted wasn't difficult. It was the colour scheme that was the tricky part. Eventually (after much deliberation) I decided to go with an urban snow camouflage feel. Firstly I basecoated the models with Chaos Black.
I then painted the armour in Enchanted Blue and highlighted the edges with Ice Blue. With the piranha design I simply painted Ice Blue patterns over the ship and edged it off with Skull White.
To distinguish the Commanders I painted various armour parts in Skull White.
To add variation to the designs I used Regal Blue on the rifle.
Any metal areas (especially on the Crisis Suit) I used Boltgun Metal as the base colour and highlighted it in Chainmail.
Once the armour was painted, I went back over any areas with Chaos Black to neaten the models up.
For the Stealth Suit, I used mainly Regal Blue to keep the slick look. And again, edged the armour in Ice Blue.
For the bases I used polystyrene for the rocks and snow flock.
Here are some of my models once I had finished them... Keep in mind the Fire Warrior squad (above) aren't finished as of yet.
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| Comment made by taugundrone on 18:59:58, 12 May 2008
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| u r a pretty good painter!!!
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| Comment made by wood on 06:45:04, 20 April 2008
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| love it
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| Comment made by suvantom on 18:38:16, 15 April 2008
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| I love it and i really like the heavy highlights. it looks great
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| Comment made by dooley on 00:52:58, 12 April 2008
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| i love that scheme, do u mind if i use it???
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| Comment made by suvantom on 17:57:13, 18 March 2008
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| I love the paint scheme, i really like how you edged all the armour with ice blue!!!
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| Comment made by taugundrone on 19:15:58, 25 February 2008
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| intermedait lvel. a bit heavey on the highlights
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| Comment made by insanetau on 12:53:42, 24 February 2008
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| thats really nice
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| Comment made by MOOMOO on 21:25:37, 13 February 2008
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| Very well done
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| Comment made by The thousandth whisper on 17:04:31, 16 January 2008
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| My friend collects Tau and his scheme is Ice Blue and Black. But I love the Stealthsuit.
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| Comment made by Mr X on 02:54:25, 25 November 2007
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| That piranha is awesome!
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| Comment made by Daempera on 21:27:23, 24 November 2007
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| if this is snow camoflague, wouldn\'t the blue sorta stick out in the snow? try using lighter shades of blue, like space wolves grey for example.
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| Comment made by SkullzD on 09:15:17, 18 November 2007
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:o This is soo Nice!
This is probably how im gonna paint
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| Comment made by Daempera on 12:10:32, 14 November 2007
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lol, like the crisis suit. he\'s like,
\" Ahhh! my back!!!
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| Comment made by fuzzyfirewarrior619 on 03:22:13, 2 September 2007
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| I like the crisis suit! i may get two in two days
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| Comment made by Jon-azz on 01:43:56, 18 August 2007
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| NICE ;P
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| Comment made by Trash-Candle on 13:00:56, 7 August 2007
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i love your spelling!
'Camoflaughe'
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| Comment made by Divinity on 16:30:32, 26 July 2007
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| good scheme but not at all camoflage. sorta a stick in the mud.
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| Comment made by Olle P on 06:20:25, 5 July 2007
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| Like others before me I don't get where this become camouflage...?
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| Comment made by Karashi Lissera on 12:30:17, 29 May 2007
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| wow, the blue and white clash just a lil but great, better then mine
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| Comment made by Julien102494 on 18:43:59, 30 April 2007
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Awsome color. what are the colors that you used?
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| Comment made by Joebob22 on 14:41:07, 25 February 2007
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| The heavy highlighting looks great on the stealthsuit.
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| Comment made by username on 14:35:13, 19 February 2007
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| that stealthsuit is awesome
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| Comment made by Metalstorm on 23:16:15, 11 February 2007
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| sweet very nice trim on the armour especially the stealth suit XD
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| Comment made by sargentbilco on 12:32:12, 23 December 2006
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i was just looking and i love how you got the stelth armor looking so high-tech
ps.merry christmas all
burn the humbugs!!!!
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| Comment made by Tony on 16:42:04, 10 December 2006
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| How do you get the highlights so precise on the cracks in the armor?
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| Comment made by Yummifoamycoffee on 10:57:15, 10 December 2006
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| Nice, but... Urban snow? Doesnt it melt? Nice scheme though
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| Comment made by Aunvre on 15:11:54, 9 December 2006
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| like the stealth suit. Good job.
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| Comment made by Vayne on 03:51:22, 3 December 2006
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| This is a truly awsome colour scheme, and is very tau like, i think the highlighting particulaly works not too bright and not to indistinguishable
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| Comment made by Firebird4Life on 07:17:51, 27 November 2006
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| Wow! I think this looks great! The details are amazingly good. The only thing I don't like is the ice blue. I would've went with white or the Regal Blue instead. But much better than my guys will look!
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| Comment made by jammie on 07:24:43, 25 November 2006
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| how did you do the white?
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| Comment made by dragoniccam on 13:44:30, 16 November 2006
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| i dont get how it is snow camo
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| Comment made by Sting on 16:37:01, 13 November 2006
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| Teach me how.
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| Comment made by PaxAnteBellum on 10:23:16, 5 November 2006
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| I really like that Pirahna, very purty
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| Comment made by MechTau on 20:52:49, 4 November 2006
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| Very clean, very "Tau-ish"
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| Comment made by Tau Online on 11:02:35, 30 October 2006
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| Yeah my thoughts exactly. This scheme is really nice... if I was a Fire Warrior in battle I wouldn't fight as I'd be too busy checking out my armour! Or something like that... Good scheme anywhoo! :-P
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| Comment made by noble tau on 15:49:56, 29 October 2006
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Bloody nice models there , :D
paint scheme,basing, deatails, all work nicely together
* congrats *
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