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Heyyo Dakka, how goes it?

Anywho, I am looking at doing my guard army as a Tanith army. The Gaunt book series is one of my favorites and I think it would be cool. So, my questions would be quite simple.
how would you go about giving them all stealth cloaks? Would you paint their body armour green or black like they are supposed to be? Anyone know where I can get some Sniper rifles that aren't GW but really Sci-fi -ish? And how would you paint the wooden stocks?

Any and all advice is appreciated. Thank you kindly

I've seen well-painted Tanith squads with black/ darker-greys, or you could lighten to blues rather than greys if you wanna break up the monotone.

If it were me, though, I'd paint them to similarly match some of the terrain/tables I commonly play on and paint them to "camouflage" into that terrain as a color scheme. I think it would serve the Tanith First-and-Only lore well to blend them to a particular environment; they are masters of stealth.

Check out my gallery of tanith platoon for inspirations. Also Victoria miniatures sells Tanith squads with cloaks, you'll just have to acquire more bare heads from Madrobot miniatures so those Tanith don't look like clones.

Those look cool Mac. I was thinking about doing a black to a darker grey. But that still leaves the cloaks and the nalwood stocks. And the sniper rifles. I wouldn't mind the other choice there. With the cloaked bodies. But my Local Game shop is a stickler for GW bits only. Like 50 percent has to be GW

I have only tried painting wood once or twice, but it turned out alright. I have not done it on a super high quality model yet, so this would be my first attempt at 4.0++ pretty wood grain:

For a visible wood grain, I would base to an appropriate brown that is slightly lighter than my intended result. With a super fine (the smaller the better - if I were going to do this, I would be using a liner brush like 20/0) and rather watery (think wash consistency) light tan paint that is at least 3 or 4 shades lighter than the base, put really tiny lines in a lazy wave pattern (better would be to find a nice pic of someone's wooden rifle stock and kind of work off the patterns you can see). Unfortunately, it might take 2 or 3 layers to get the lines to stand out. After they do, run a brown wash over the whole thing to blend the colors back together a bit and lessen the contrast.

Also, what base models do you intend to use? That might help people figure out more suggestions, esp for the cloaks since a large part of that is finding a part that fits well on your existing models.

 hybridmoments82 wrote:
I've seen well-painted Tanith squads with black/ darker-greys, or you could lighten to blues rather than greys if you wanna break up the monotone.

If it were me, though, I'd paint them to similarly match some of the terrain/tables I commonly play on and paint them to "camouflage" into that terrain as a color scheme. I think it would serve the Tanith First-and-Only lore well to blend them to a particular environment; they are masters of stealth.

I second this. I would totally go the camouflage route as well.

Or you could use a urban cammo.

Dark greys, browns and even browny red flashes can work.
Designed to blend into a ruined city.

I have had good luck converting the chaos warrior fantasy cloak bits to 40k models. It takes some work to chop out the arm parts where the chaos cloak was supposed to connect with the front chest half, but the cloak itself is huge and fits around most models armor/shoulder guards. it is a fur type cloak though, so no clue if that works. Also, the cloaks from the dark elf seadragon cloaks work decent and can be got as bits. I've done guard with both of these.
here's a shot of the chaos cloak
http://edwardmystcreations.weebly.com/engineseer.html
and the dragon cloak
http://edwardmystcreations.weebly.com/sculpts-ig-white-widows.html

I am using the basic Cadian Guard models. I know it isn't the best choice but alas, it is all I have. I was thinking about doing a woodland camo colour on their cloaks as that speaks camo to me, but the Urban Camo is kind of a cool thought. But this would be my first time painting camo as well.

What I did was a dark, bottle green cloak that faded to black around the hems. I then muddied it up and in some cases added grass scatter.
Their body armor for original Tanith, I did black.
They have leg wraps which are pale, and darkened leather pouches.

Catachans aren't a bad base figure to put cloaks on, a bit easier than Cadians. They also have Dogtags on the minis like the metal Tanith figures do.