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So I'm trying to come up with a descent scheme for my Tau who come from a volcanic world, what I'm wanting is to have their hard armor be a solid color while their soft armor is a camouflage pattern. I'm just having trouble deciding on which color combinations to use, first I was going to do a dark grey hard armor with the camo being a mix of dark red, light grey and a dark khaki color but then I figured it would be too much grey on the model. Then I figured I would have the hard armor be a dark red but it still doesn't fit because having that much red would stand out in an ash choked atmosphere. I've been searching for the last two weeks and the only "ash camo" I can find is hunting gear patterned after an ash tree or it just looks like urban camouflage. I usually don't have this much trouble with a paint scheme but I gott say I'm stumped and I could really use your help here guys

You may want to look at something like Russian Red Camo, otherwise I would try to mix in some oranges with the reds, afterall most lava at it's hottest point is a bright orange/yellow and fades down to red as it cools. I guess the other question is, how much do you see them fighting on their own world to justify patterning their camo after it?

My Tau are being slated as Urban Specialists, so I will be doing urban digicam.

What type of ash are you interested in? Grey is not the only possibility for ash

Brokksamson wrote:You may want to look at something like Russian Red Camo, otherwise I would try to mix in some oranges with the reds, afterall most lava at it's hottest point is a bright orange/yellow and fades down to red as it cools. I guess the other question is, how much do you see them fighting on their own world to justify patterning their camo after it?

My Tau are being slated as Urban Specialists, so I will be doing urban digicam.

See that's kind of what my issue is, I dont really want the camouflage to be as if they're trying to blend in with lava you know? The planet has terrain that varies from ash plains to lakes of lava and volcanic rock so if they have alot of reds and oranges they wouldn't blend in with the rest of the environment but I figure with at least a little red then at least at a distance it would help to break up their form without being too noticable. Fluff wise they will be fighting on their world quiet a bit, the sept is on the borders of Tau and Imperial space and is also a target for Orks because of its mineral wealth.

Flinty wrote:What type of ash are you interested in? Grey is not the only possibility for ash

Volcanic ash which normally has a light grey color. That's partially why I was considering the dark khaki or a dark brown color since not all ash is the same color, did you have a suggestion for a color?

I appreciate the quick responses guys!

I think this is a cool idea for a lava world. For infantry you would probably want to go smaller with those lava splotches, but the concept is about right.

Is there a tutorial for that tank or a link with more details on it so I can get the colors?

I remembered it from the dark ages where GW would post articles on their site with tutorials and all that. Eyeballing it and with my limited memory of the article, it looks like Mechanicus drybrushed with Dawnstone and Administratum. Then it's not a drybrush, it's a stippling of Wazdakka, Firedragon Bright and Yriel. I assume that you'd wash it last. Obviously the original article was in the old colors, but that's about where it would translate. I've always thought that was a very interesting and original camo scheme, either way.

 noneoftheabove0 wrote:
I remembered it from the dark ages where GW would post articles on their site with tutorials and all that.

You speak of heresy sir, GW has never done anything usefull for its customers those where the days though wern't they?

Anyway it's a good start and gives me some ideas for colors to use in my over all scheme, appreciate it


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I GOT IT!!!! I was looking through my other army books for inspiration and was looking through my IG codex when I remembered that my old IG codex has a slew of paint schemes a couple of which are for volcanic/ash theatres and I found the scheme for the 39th Cadian Veldt fatigues and it fits the image I had in my mind almost perfectly!