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Hey all, you might remember me from such threads as,

My Blood Ravens, my Sanguinary Guard, (2nd Best painted army, Adepticon, 2011, 10th Overall), and my Adeptus Custodes.
Check them out,,here:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/237152.page

So, now I am moving onto Tau Empire.

I have moved back to Japan, so I don't have 'friends' distracting me in the evenings anymore, so more time for painting/conversion work, YAY!

So I am making a Tau Empire army with 'counts as' Orks using Kroot models as allies.

I will be running commander Farsight, but it won't be a 'Farsight Enclave' as such.

I haven't decided the fluff for them. In fact, while I have been building and converting them heavily, I can't settle on a colour scheme....

Urban Tau.
I really like the realism of this type of colour scheme. I always
imagine the Tau being the most practical, not wearing bright colours
like marines. And this gives them a drab, mass produced feel.

My issue with this colour scheme set up is it won't 'pop' on the
tablefield, thats my worry. I would try to overcome this with glow
effects, I suppose.

This for the tanks
http://www.advancedtautactica.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=16207&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&sid=1c86d9c825f4df82077c3d86c58b58d3&start=20

And this for the infantry Suits*
http://eastern-empire.com/gallery/urban-tau-cadre/


3rd Phase expansion tau.
Basically bright white Tau. I think the colour scheme can look nice,
and will pop, but not sure how orginal it would be. I am considering
replacing the orange with like, hawk torquise and also going heavy on
the glow effects. I'd do tabnks with cammo patterns similiar to the
urban tau, and no camo on suits/infantry.

http://www.electricocean.com/gtpics/022/Tau_Firewarrior_byJ_akob_Rune_Nielsen.jpg
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/36898-.html

Farsight Elclave
I have painted a lot of red.
This scheme looks amazing on the infantry, but I don't think it
translates well into the tanks/flyers or into the kroot....
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/BrOOcH/WH40K%20WIP/FireWarriorSquad01.jpg

Bork'an Sept also have a cool colour scheme....
http://i594.photobucket.com/albums/tt29/DragonKnightBob/IMG_0678.jpg
Again using a camo pattern like the urban Tau (but changing the
colours) for tanks and flyers.

Bone Tau
Using a bone colour scheme...is another idea I had....I am sure you can google a　large number
of examples.....

And last this multi-colour scheme one...

http://www.advancedtautactica.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=14384

Again not that enthusiastic about painting orange enmasse....but I like the idea...


Anyway, thoughts and help would be greatly appreciated in choosing a colour scheme. If you have any thoughts about these ones, or any ideas/links of your own, please post them here.

I am an advanced painter, and am looking to try new techniques. (Tho I wont be painting an entire Tau army in NMM, I am not a masochist, LOL).

Anyway, looking forward to some helpful replies.

Obviously I have to say Farsight, but perhaps you could do some sort of spetnatz inspired urban scheme? Like maybe red-white-black triangles or something. For kroot what I did was jsut grey, with red quils. it actually looks pretty nice too.

Im partial to the Farsight as well (what a surprise). I agree with you that the urban blends too much. Tau are always practical. But sometimes you just need to show off.

As for the tanks, you could try a stealth color scheme to represent disruption pods and docoy launchers. I've seen a couple interesting examples on both stealth suits and full vehicles that make it look as if they are appearing or semi-translucent.

Okay so, I dont have my camera set up here in Japan....just my iphone...

But here is my Broadside Shas'ui with targetlock/drone controller, and3 of my firewarriors.

The theme for this cadre is all female cadre, sort of like the way the genders are seperated in the Zentraedi in Robotech...so like, an elite division





When I get access to a better camera I will try and take better photos...

I like that. The colour scheme suits the models well.
I like how you've stuck the missile launchers together, makes them look better than the 3 missile alone.

That broadside is both simple and effective. Wouldn't have thought to use the hand armour things like that for the knees. At least I think I see some Gundam parts there.

So I am running a far sight list, but as an All female Cadre.

Here is Commander Farsight counts as



My Crisis suit teams





And the other 2 broadsides.



I am also running 60 Kroot as 'Counts as Orks' Allies. So here is the first batch.

Mekboy with KFF and Power Klaw.




Rokkit Boyz


Nob with powerklaw.

I will watch the development of this with great interest.

Wow, this are just plain impressive!
how do you make those xv8 improved head (with the targetting array)?
I am considering a tau army, and i think it would look great to represent hard wired targetting array

Wonderful models once againI

These look amazing! How did you paint the red?

Some great conversions here! The Kruts are very interesting and fresh.

I like this army! Has a very Gundam vibe to it, I like that! The Broadsides are excellent.

Consider me on board!

Bone with black lining, very nice, I had considered that kind of color scheme for my eldar but lacked the skill to really pull it off. You on the other hand, well very dapper indeed

The colour scheme is great yet simple really stands out just gose to show that ya dnt have to do some complex design for a model to stand out .