Okay, I'd like a fresh opinion on some of my tau stuff as I'm not sure wether or not I've succeded in making them look gritty without being just outright dirty looking, so here are the pics.

A firewarrior I used to experiment with the idea of edging the armour and gun with white



A thoughtful looking broadside



One of my Shas'vre team leaders



...a kroot



And a Pathfinder with a green stuffed cloak



and now for something completely different, just because it's a really nice model...Lelith hespirax >.>

Great start for an army, nicely highlighted. I would however add some other color to the fire warrior's armour plating as right now, it looks rather dull... Same for the kroot! And don't forget your sept markings
I'm watching this one; the highlighting and washing is done great; you got the potential for sure!
Kern

I'm going through my army working on sept markings which are tau ochre (as on the shas'vre and pathfinder)

Your scheme is just like mine and I get how it can look a little dull, just do some sept markings and lense glows as well as highlights and you're good!

I don't think the scheme itself looks dull, when i put the whole army on a table it looks quite striking

I don't get how to do lens glow and i'm not particularly bothered about it to be honest. I don't want my models to look all clean and perfect like the ones that 'eavy metal do. I prefer to think that my models look a bit like the grittier artwork.

It is striking in every meaning of the word, I just think that at least adding a color to they lenses will pop a bit more and add that much more to the models, at least on the battlesuits.

You mean like making the lenses seem light is reflecting off them?

If so, since you're using red like me, I used scab red as the base colour of the lens, blood red was then put over the scab red - I tried to leave a small amount of scab showing through in one of the upper edges - and I saw this bit on the GW step-by-step but a dash of blazing orange down the bottom to add some contrast and a final speck of skull white on the showing piece of scab red to imitate the sunlight.

Thanks for the help, I'll give that a go and see that happens

Okay, just repainted my devilfish



And made additons to my example fire warrior (my attempt at the lens glare and added sept markings)

I have for you perusement, two pictures of one of my stealth suits.





Also I've begun work on a diorama of the two tau in the corner page 13 of the codex including the dron just above them.

Hello KuroRyu!

I'm really liking the look of that stealth suit, especially the lens effect. Well done! My only suggestion for your figures (the FW in particular) is to pehaps add more accent color to break up the red. The Tausept Ochre sept stripes really stand out nicely (and the freehand is much, much better than mine ), but maybe try adding a metallic color to the circular piece on the end of the FW's pulse rifle or to the T'au symbol on his shoulder pad. You don't have to, of course, just a suggestion .

Overall your scheme is very striking. The models have a nice "gritty" feel to them. I have a sneaking suspicion that these look fantastic on a tabletop as well (do I hear a group picture?). A great start to a cadre.

Lynu

They do indeed, I plan to post a group picture when I have several models at the standard you see here as the rest of my cadre was painted some 4 years ago and looks somewhat less... polished, shall we say hehe

Remember I said i'd do a diorama of the tau on P13 of our codex?
Well here's the results of last night's labour

It's been a while since I've posted here but with the new Codex I've pulled out my tau again and begun reorganising my forces. So here we are with my latest works and some older works that I never posted up.

I'll start with this little figure I did for a painting competition a while back. Sadly it lost on public vote but I still like the model and the idea no less.


Then we have improvements to my stealth suits including picking out gold on certain parts of their guns (which I've extended to most of my fire warriors) and more sept colours on the team leader.


And we have my newest addition to the cadre, My colour scheme was heavily influenced by Farsight, as some of you will no doubt have suspected. However I've never owned his model, with the new figure I felt now was the time to purchase him and he is also my first finecast purchase at that.

very nice!
I see you and I went to the same photography school!

I like the diorama. Will you be doing more?

I've got one of Shas'la Kais that's i've been working on for years now based on the cover of the Firewarrior Game/Novel (with Kais kneeling on a pile of skulls) the only trouble is getting enough skulls to make the pile. XD