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As the title suggests, I am currently painting a Tau army. The painting itself is not too difficult (Seeing as FWs are basically two colors) but in my first few models, I painted right over some of the crevices, accidentally getting blue paint into them. My later models I simply painted around the crevices in their armor, and it turned out wonderfully, but is there a way I can fix the originals without re-painting everything black and starting over?

Micron pen works great go with 005

A wash might work as well. Bursh it on full strenght, and quickly wipe it off of the raised areas. Has the potentioal to destroy the whole paint job if done wrong though ><

Paint on your base colour, liberally wash and then be carefull and paint the panels of the mini. any mistakes can be rectified by quickly dropping a brush full of water in the affected area and using the brush to lift the paint and water out of the gap. All that is left then is to highlight (or not) to your hearts content.

the other way is to use a detail brush and apply the wash directly into the gaps, but this requires a steady hand and is not for the feint hearted.

You could just take a very small brush and black ink.

And then with just a small amount of paint on the brush draw in the lines. This always works for me, although it does take a little bit of time to get the technique down.

This works very well if you have another color besides black in the crevices (as you can use watered down paint) and also saves painting time over washing the whole area (thus painting 2 colors).

Inks and washes for sure ..

I agree, and if you DO end up staining your paint job accidently, just go over the area again with the paint. That should help you out alot