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Hello,

So I'm starting this new army because my friends and I are doing a 40k 40min tournament.
For the first week, we have to bring 100pt painted and based.
Each week the army has to be 50pt larger, until we reach 1850.


I chose to start a Tau army and I kinda want them to be jungle themed.
So I was wondering if anyone got a painting scheme for this.


I was wondering how it would turn out if I used a brown undercoat, paint armor dark green and eyes red, highlight light green and finish with ink (don't know which yet).
Or vice versa, undercoat dark green, paint leather brown and eyes red, highlight light green and finish with ink.
And ofcourse use some gold for the symbols and stuff...


Thanks in advance!

I think green as you described would look much better.

Green armour and brown combat fatigues would be a pretty standard jungle warfare scheme. If you need to paint really fast, I would probably have a brown and a green primer. Use the green for anything that has lots of armour (e.g. suits) and the brown for anything with lots of material (e.g. firewarriors, pathfinders).

They used to have a Sept (or at least a firewarrior painted that way) that had that scheme in one of the old codices, so if you can dig up a copy it might give you some inspiration. It used orange as the spot colour, and I think maybe green, black or grey for the weapons.