The Army of the Earth Caste
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Thanks to Ross Lavery for this.
I start off by giving the models a black basecoat and then painting white on all the parts of the model which will eventually have colour. Then I put dark angles green over the top of the skull white while leaving a few bits of the armour untouched for the rank of the warrior (The parts I leave white on a normal fire warrior are some layers of the thigh pads, knee pads, sections of the large shoulder plate and the large ankle ball on the foot).
Once all green has been applied I then give that green some volume by applying a lighter green around the edges. I do this by mixing dark angels green with regal blue and then lightening it with skull white. Once this has been applied I then clean up the model by using chaos black to get rid of points where I have missed the mark or slipped a bit. Once the model is looking sharp and clean I apply my burnished gold to the eye lenses the bolts on the weapons the sensors on the wrists and so on.
The logo on the shoulder plate is simply done in white; the commander of the squad however has his logo done in burnished gold. Pathfinders are done in an overall lighter green and stealth models reversed (black for the armour green as the under garments).
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| Comment made by Taumeister on 14:11:56, 11 April 2008
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| Great job, but the Tau run a caste system. "Fire caste" serve as soldiers and protect the Tau Empire, they tend to be 6 - 7 ft. "Air caste" are the pilots and messengers of the Tau Empire, range 6 - 7 ft. "Ethereals" are the ruling class of the Tau Empire, range 5 - 7 ft. "Earth Caste" are the builders and architects, range 5 - 6 ft. "Water caste" are the general civilians and fill standard positions in employmant, they tend to be more artsy and creative than the other castes, range 5 - 6 ft.
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| Comment made by taugundrone on 19:15:12, 25 February 2008
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| intermedaite to veteran painterrs. i love the idea of the poke ball
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| Comment made by Daempera on 21:25:44, 24 November 2007
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| why\'s the shas\'ui holding a pokeball?
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| Comment made by Garenas on 19:18:29, 3 October 2007
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| Hmm... Well, I can\'t really say I like or dislike this, because you kind of cheated with the blurry camera shots. For all I know these have coarse, melted edges that have been blurred by your picture quality. On a seporate note, generally the members of the earth caste are not built similarly in bone or body structure to fire caste members, I believe they are supposed to be a bit more portly. But you may disregard that as it has nothing to do with your paint...
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| Comment made by Divinity on 16:28:31, 26 July 2007
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| great paint scheme but unless that's the kind of army that's a last resort, such as they're stranded and forced to take arms, it's terrible fluff-wise.
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| Comment made by Ace cipher zer0 on 07:44:22, 9 April 2007
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| Good Paint scheme. Absolutely terrible fluffwise. Try making the grenade not look like a poke'ball
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| Comment made by Trash-Candle on 07:45:55, 9 February 2007
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| These cannot be members of the earth caste because the earth caste are the Tau ground crew not fighters. (you can actually buy them from forgeworld) 8)
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| Comment made by Commander Frostwind on 14:18:48, 10 December 2006
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| does that fire warroir have a pokeball?
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| Comment made by Firebird4Life on 07:15:28, 27 November 2006
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| Paint scheme looks great, but as someone else said...Earth Caste is not the warriors. I like the fact that you took the time to give some interesting background to your guys though. The paint looks great! I think the Dark Angels Green/Black would work nice for the Darker/Chaos Tau too.
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| Comment made by Sting on 16:35:12, 13 November 2006
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| It literaly glows!
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| Comment made by KingofKlubs on 15:52:49, 23 October 2006
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| The paint scheme is pretty good but how can you have an earth caste army? They're the artisans, labourers and scientists, not warriors. It's an obvious thing to say but I'm wondering why nobody has said it yet.
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| Comment made by RealMenUseCarbines is back in the house on 22:13:15, 15 October 2006
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| I can barely tell the black and dark angels green apart...my first fire warriors squad was painted black/dark angels green. I've repainted them three times now.
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| Comment made by xv101 on 02:46:56, 7 October 2006
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| LIKE THE COLIUR LAYERING
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| Comment made by Karashi Lissera on 16:42:02, 28 September 2006
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| funny hmm looks like you put a light to it. looks easy to paint but it would take me like 1+hours per modle. or paint shop. the pathfinders look like my guys but no white in them.
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| Comment made by HraTaika on 21:10:53, 7 September 2006
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| Nothing really interesting here. But nice to see somebody has bothered to do this.
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