Voir'la Sept
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Thanks to Robert Jamieson for this.
Well having had my Tau for a while and finally getting challenged to a battle made me think to myself: 'What should I paint my army like' and 'Which sept are they from?'
After toying around with the idea for a day I decided on a scheme:
- Firstly I undercoat my models chaos black.
- Next I gave it a coat of blood red, I don't worry about it being neat just get most of the armour.
- After the first coat of blood red paint, I paint on another 2 coats; it usually takes about 3 coats to get the color of red that I want.
- Next I use chaos black to tidy up the model, making sure that only the blood red is on the armour.
- Now if there is any skin visible, I use codex grey and highlight that with skull white; a simple yet effective look for Tau skin.
- Any team leader's helmets are painted bleached bone and then highlighted with skull white.
Now for the last few touches:
- The barrels of the pulse rifles and most other guns are painted Bolt Gun Metal.
- The strange little balls at the end of the Pulse carbine and Pulse rifles are painted Brazen Brass (With a Chaos black undercoat.)
- The black areas are highlighted with codex grey and you're done.
Below are a few pictures showing my paint scheme:
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| Comment made by taugundrone on 19:21:21, 25 February 2008
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| very good, all level painters
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| Comment made by insanetau on 12:54:09, 24 February 2008
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| nice colors
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| Comment made by 000676048 on 17:02:03, 5 January 2008
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| If you are doing red in the future, let me make this suggestion
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| Comment made by Robert_Jamieson on 03:34:03, 24 November 2007
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| Thanks for the info Guys, i do have painted up some fire warriors in this scheme and i\'ll see about getting them and the devil fish up on the site. Thanks again for your input guys.
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| Comment made by kanter on 21:47:43, 16 November 2007
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| I love these colors. Thank you so much.
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| Comment made by dooley on 02:02:34, 30 September 2007
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| nice scheme , it would be really mad to see some fire warriors painted like that
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| Comment made by Karashi Lissera on 12:28:18, 29 May 2007
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| dude try a better location, hard to see. intrusting Ethereal/ drones/ battle suit
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| Comment made by Julien102494 on 18:45:05, 30 April 2007
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What are the colors you used for this?
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| Comment made by Ace cipher zer0 on 07:42:25, 9 April 2007
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| Good Job. My Tau are Vior'la too. I would try learning to weather them, maybe with a muddy brown, etc.
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| Comment made by <<Majonga>> on 06:52:05, 28 March 2007
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| cool, the dark red used as a majority colour makes viorla look loads better than the rotting flesh. the drones look awesome
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| Comment made by pedosmile on 14:08:21, 4 March 2007
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| looks pretty cool, tau can be whatever color you want them to be and the codex is ever-changing; don't be discouraged by these noob haters. an all red team is very likely to be added to the codex, you never know.
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| Comment made by Vayne on 03:57:49, 3 December 2006
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| Althoug this is a very good colour scheme and voir'la undoubtably has to be red, perhaps some higlihgting and drybrushing wouldn't go a miss
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| Comment made by Firebird4Life on 07:21:27, 27 November 2006
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| Nice combo. The Ethereal has good detail and the Broadside looks good too. I just don't envision the Tau in red. But very well done.
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| Comment made by noble tau on 15:52:18, 29 October 2006
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its ok but dosn't look "Tau" if u get me
i mean wud the tau have a colour scheme like that ?...
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| Comment made by KingofKlubs on 15:56:32, 23 October 2006
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| Yeah, the red and black really goes well together on the drones. I like the lighter contrast on the broadside's missles too, it'll be the first and last thing the enemy will ever see!
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| Comment made by xv101 on 02:47:54, 7 October 2006
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LIKE THE DRONES
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