Woodland Tau (commision, updated 9/7 with riptide preview)

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**Elmir**

Hey folks, some pictures of a commision of a Tau army I recently did/am still doing. The client gave me artistic licence for the colorscheme... He just didn't want anything to flashy "manga colour"-esque and not the studio desert theme (he thought they looked too much like playmobil toys that way).

But he did like the military tones, so I threw this together:

Some kroot:

Pathfinders:

And some drones to be added to whatever unit wants them:

More shots will be added as the commision continues (currently working on 36 firewarriors and some doggies for the kroot).

Hope you like them!

**ProfessionalAmateur**

Wow, that's gonna be one very happy client you have there

**UnCool Villain**

That is sexy.

**Firehead158**

Very cool. I think the drones could benefit from a tiger stripe pattern or something, but other than that I think it looks amazing. You did a lot of it with airbrush I assume?

**Elmir**

Yes, although far from exclusively. I also used a lot of oil and regular washes, some stipling, weathering pigments and some regular brush highlighting ( on the infantry mostly).

**Firehead158**

Ah okay. Well it looks fantastic! Makes them look more "believable" then normal tau schemes that I've seen.

**ConsecratedIron**

Both the tanks are literally beautiful, one of the best schemes ive seen by far. I feel like Tau work better with less bright colours, and grey and dark green are always in the Tau colour schemes I like.
10/10

**Rhich**

I love it... looks simple but high-tech, pure Tau !!!

**creeping-deth87**

Oh... my.... God....

Would love to see what you do with Guard.

**Elmir**

Actually, some of my guard were already on White dwarf daily: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp?pid=3400036

But they are painted to be "inducted guardsmen" from the old codex: daemonhunters. They were always part of my GK army

**creeping-deth87**

Elmir wrote:
Actually, some of my guard were already on White dwarf daily: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp?pid=3400036

But they are painted to be "inducted guardsmen" from the old codex: daemonhunters. They were always part of my GK army

Wow, I... I don't even.... how... you are amazingly talented man, those look sharp.

**Perkustin**

Wowzer, excellent work!

**winterdyne**

Superb scheme and execution. Go to the top of the class. :-)

**GalePrime**

A friend of mine is doing a Teenage mutant ninja turle themed Tau army and is green themed, his looks good and yours is brillaint as well!

**Earthbeard**

Excellent looking force, great earthy tones.

**nold**

Give us some sexy close-ups of those Fire Warriors

**disel24**

what colors are you using man? Those are excellently done!

**furbyballer**

Those are absolutely stunning!

**Xenocidal Maniac**

Really nice. I like the muted color palette and the brushwork is very smooth.

**Elmir**

disel24 wrote:
what colors are you using man? Those are excellently done!

mostly cayman green as main colour, highlighted with elysian green. The browns started out from beasy brown, highlighted with airbrush to I think vomit brown. The whole thing is mostly washed with black oil wash.

Any "military" olive-green like colour should do for this type of look though.

**SilverMK2**

These look very nice indeed.

**Viersche**

Loving it

**Thokt**

Very slick!

**evolvingeye**

Great job, weathering is sweet.

**wilsjur**

Painting my ta'u like this and junking the old color scheme... Love it!

**40k-noob**

WOW, Just WOW

**Tal Hollingsworth**

Your bases are spectacular. The little bushes and details look great.

**radioaktivemann**

Glorious Wood land tau army!

**Elmir**

An overview shot of what's finished so far. It's all packed now and ready to go for it's testdrive tomorow

Click the image to zoom in, it should be possible to get into some more detail that way, should you want to.

**Kevv6**

Wow, very nice. I think this is scheme is alot like the way I'm going to do my Tau, only painting won't look as nice as yours! Hahaha