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Project Entry by hairybrains

Return of the Tau

March 20, 2022

Tutoring 5

Skill 5

Idea 5

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With the release of the new Tau codex I though it would be time to blow the dust off my Tau army and see what I had. While I had quite a few battlesuits, fire warriors, riptide & storm surge most needed some fixing/basing.

While diving through the pile of shame I found:

Most of Tau battleforce
A box of fire warriors
Command Farsight
Command Shadowsun x2 (metal and plastic ones)
Box of metal Vespids
A Ghost Keel
Riptide
2 devil fish/hammerheads (primed)
A shieldwall (primed)

I had also ordered:

box of kroot
box of Kroot hounds x2
Krootox

Existing paint scheme on the left, new one on the right

So I thought I would start with the fire warriors, always had a soft spot for them since the fire warrior PC game from back in the day.

First challenge was I didnt write down the paint scheme for these so first I had recreate it, armour is primed desert yellow from an army painter rattle can and then Tau Light Ochre is airbrushed over that with an Ungor flesh highlight and the panel lines are Rhinox hide thinned down and a steady hand. The under suit is Rhinox hide with a gorthor brown highlight. Parts of the rifle are black with a dawnstone highlight.

The last part is the lenses which are vallejo chrome with talassar blue over the top.

Once I worked out the colour scheme I assembled and painted the 22 fire warriors I had and 3 metal pathfinders with rail guns (my favourite 40k weapon).