Kill Team: Starter Set Tau

Quick intro

Armour – Apocathary White

I stared off with the Armour, this being the first contrast paint I’ve used I was quite impressed with the results, giving that nice off white effect. It went on well though at first was slightly tricky to notice the coat I quickly got used to it.

Weapon Orb – Nazdreg Yellow

I followed this up with the yellow orb in the weapon, was very impressed with the yellow effect for a single coat.

Icons – Blood Angels Red

I similarly followed this up with the red tau icons again the red came out great.

Cloth – Black Templar

Time for the tricky part, I somewhat regretted not started with the black and it was the most time consuming task, the effect is fantastic given how hard and time consuming painting black can be.

Base – Vallejo US Field Drab (70.873)

I finally tidied up the base with a coat of US Field Drab, basically the same as Citadel Steel Legion Drab

Here’s the finished result, I’ll follow up with some brighter shots in morning as these probably don’t do it justice.

Overall I was fairly impressed with the Contrast paints, with a few exceptions they all proved easy to use and give a good effect. Not the best paint job in the world but perfectly adequate as table ready and a lot better than a single coat in of solid color.

Given I find black and white quite hard colors (and yellow, I’m thinking of doing the space marines from the starter kit as Imperial Fists) to get good effects I think the results for the amount of effort are pretty impressive.

I may experiment down the line on ways to improve the overall look and I’ll perhaps change the painting order.

For now though I’ve got a day to try and get the rest of the squad finished, Oh and I guess I should base them too.

Tools

• Citadel Medium Layer Brush / Army Painter Standard Brush
• Citadel Paint Handle

Paints

• Citadel Contrast Paints
  • (Armour) Apocathary White
  • (Cloth) Black Templar
  • (Icons) Blood Angels Red
  • (Lenses) Aethermatic Blue
  • (Armour Patches) Space Wolves Grey
  • (Weapon Orb) Nazdreg Yellow
  • (Skin) Gryph-Charger Grey
• Citadel Grey Seer
• (Base) Vallejo US Field Drab (70.873)