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Hey Dakka,

I started Tau again recently with their new codex, and I would like to do them in the color scheme on the front of the City's of Death book (White armor plating on the fire warriors and dark red fatigues).
The only problem I'm facing with this at the moment is that I want to do a fairly pure, light white color, but with some way to do it quickly so that i don't have to spend hours per fire warrior to do the white (I've done enough imperial fists).

Is this realistic? or will I need to spend the time doing the white.

I'm currently doing Snow-themed Tau and I've run into the same issue. What I've done is primed the models with GW Skull White, then painted the fatigues black. I made a black oil-wash which fills the lines in the armor nicely and wipes clean of the white. I might have to touch up some of the white, but 90% of it is just the white primer. It's saved me HOURS of layering white over black/grey primer.

As a bonus, the white has no brush marks so it's nice and smooth.

Prime in white. Problem solved.