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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: