40k Hobby Weekend Tau of the Shattered Sword

Continuing with painting… Blocking in the Pulse Rifle. Used a dark Grey for the handle and tech bits. Next some Mahogany Brown for the casing; sort of wood like. A touch of gold for accent. Not pictured is the Lead Belcher on the muzzle; but it is hard to see the muzzle anyways.

Tau have hoof like feet and they do not wear shoes. Thus their grey skin is exposed. A Field Blue (its greyish blue) was applied to the exposed feet. Waystone Green was applied to the lenses on the helmet.

A light wash was applied to help pick out the armour plates. While waiting for the wash to dry, the base was painted a Burnt Umbra to match the base on the existing Tau Sharksun Bomber.

A second coat of Burnt Umbra was applied at a later stage.

Once the wash had a few minutes to dry, the armour plates were dry brushed with Hoeth Blue. Care was taken to avoid the areas that were not blue.

In the picture is visible the old and abused brush used for dry brushing.

To make the Tau logo look more like a Hinomaru (Japanese circle of the sun logo), some watered down white paint was carefully added to the recess. A clean and dry brush was used to soak up any excess. The photo was take just after the white applied. Although as the paint dried, the white pulled more into the recess and was thus less visible. A second application of watered down paint may be required.

Some Mahogany Brown was used to clean up the excess of black washer on the rifle. To add some highlight to the rifle, a mix of white and Mahogany was applied to the edges of the panels. This is something that may require further work. For now it is good enough.

To be continued…