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Hi guys. I was wondering if anyone had any tips or tricks to painting Tau to a reasonable table top standard in a reasonably quick time?
I realise that to get the best results I need to take my time with each model, but frankly I'm more of a collector/gaming fan than the painting. My army is going to be primarily suit based with some mandatory strike teams/ethereals and ideally it would be going over a wolf grey undercoat. Any advice is welcome.
Thanks in advance

What colour do you want them?
Get good at drybrushing, using transfers, interesting basing, and weathering and pick a few spot colours.
You should be able to get 1500pts of suits to tabletop standard over a weekend and spend a few extra hours as and when with details, cables, painting lenses and stuff like that.
Look into 'batch painting' and 'big brush techniques'.

Buy colour primer. If you are doing all suits, learn to panel line. To get to three colours you can spray a colour, panel line. Paint mettalics, wash then add a detail colour. Three colours.

Paint armour
Paint cloth
Give everything a wash (which ones depends on colours)
Paint sept symbol (or other source of 3rd colour)


Nothing to write home about, but it would give you a 3 colour minimum super fast without it looking terrible.