Dal'yth Sept
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Thanks to Alex Marlow for this.
I originally got the idea for white Tau at the beginning of the original Tau Codex. Mark Owens's pathfinder team and tanks I thought looked awesome. So I decided to model an army on my own on the basic colour scheme of that (and incidentally use the same Tau sept as him, Dal'yth)
Painting a White XV8
- The unfortunate thing about white is that it takes about 5 layers before you can fully cover darker colours, and by that time it looks very uneven and blotchy. So to overcome this I sprayed the main model white first (in separate pieces).
- The next and most obvious stage was to apply chaos black wherever it needed to be placed, again i mainly got ideas from the codex about where to paint the darker parts of the battle-suit.
- Then using the very old paint, ghostly grey which I had a stash of. I painted in the nooks and crannies. Although this isn't easy sometimes, if the grey is watered down sufficiently, you can wipe off any access paint which covers the unwanted parts with a finger, and it also provides a cleaner finish! Another thing done to make the battle-suit more interesting was to paint random panel's codex grey adding some variety to the model.
- The Final painting stage was applying the detail, I used a detailed brush to create the sept marking in red and also the small crescent moon shape of the eye, I also used this brush to highlight the grey panels in fortress grey (the white didn't need highlighting, what's whiter than white!)
- And finally was gluing the model together, however for XV8's which were on a stand I did not glue the XV8 to the stand, for storage purposes
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| Comment made by MOOMOO on 01:18:44, 24 July 2008
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| niiiiceeeee!
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| Comment made by XV88-2 Broadside on 02:22:39, 15 July 2008
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| When i see Tau in white armour, it reminds me of the Clones from Star Wars, i wonder if anyone would use the rank colours on the clones on Tau?
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| Comment made by Gatlinggauss on 05:48:31, 29 June 2008
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| Alex, there is a way for whites! drybrush your black-undercoated model with for example Astronomican Gray, wait until it dries out, dilute white paint with a bit of clean water and paint all white destined areas in couple of layers. Paint is smooth, and you can do a very effective shading, covering raised areas with more layers of white dilute.
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| Comment made by Gatlinggauss on 05:41:36, 29 June 2008
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"i recomend this to intermedait lvl painters"
"taugundrone", As you said before on other paint scheme comments, Your white colours are slappy, so don't recommend something you can't do.
When it comes to Dal'yth paint scheme, i must say i love white paint work on them, and although I understand nice contrast between white tau and red kroot on the battlefield, i wouldn't go for it. But on the other hand, those kroot are quite ok. Nice work!
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| Comment made by bo2k on 10:28:49, 4 June 2008
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| good xv8/fire warrios but i don't like red kroot.
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| Comment made by Mobius on 17:35:29, 20 April 2008
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"i recomend this to intermedait lvl painters "
you think youre just so much better than everyone else.
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| Comment made by suvantom on 18:55:16, 17 March 2008
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| starwars pops into my mind
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| Comment made by taugundrone on 19:09:33, 25 February 2008
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| i recomend this to intermedait lvl painters
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| Comment made by insanetau on 12:03:55, 23 February 2008
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| i like that so much... must have it!
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| Comment made by taugundrone on 16:55:18, 19 February 2008
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im planing on doing that but
Could someoone please post the sa'cea sept scheme?
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| Comment made by taugundrone on 16:52:01, 19 February 2008
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im planing on doing that but
Could someoone please post the sa'cea sept scheme?
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| Comment made by MOOMOO on 21:28:47, 13 February 2008
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| This.... Looks...... So........ SWEET!
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| Comment made by Mr. Snowman on 17:10:51, 8 February 2008
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| Very nice. This is great for snow camouflage!
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| Comment made by Ghostly tau on 03:14:54, 22 January 2008
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hi everyone,
i am just wondering how many times did you spray the models?
TY
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| Comment made by Ghostly tau on 19:08:53, 21 January 2008
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i looked for a new colour scheme and i saw this one and it looks cool
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| Comment made by Daempera on 21:32:39, 24 November 2007
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| great paint job!
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| Comment made by Guinny on 09:38:13, 4 November 2007
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Nice Battlesuits! I\'ve been trying to work out a way of doing them to match in with the rest of my Tau, but I thought too much white might not work. Looks like I\'m going to have to give this scheme a try. Did you try adding any of the blue/grey camo to them at all? I\'ve been a bit stuck as to whether/where to use that on them.
Cheers,
Mark
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| Comment made by laxlover_bill369 on 22:53:19, 26 October 2007
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| Nice how can I make ghostly grey?
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| Comment made by HardcoreFroth on 18:18:28, 9 October 2007
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I use this color scheme as well, except my kroot are grey.
It makes great snow camo.
I never thought of watering down paint to get into the cracks though.
Thanks for that tip!
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| Comment made by dooley on 01:43:17, 17 September 2007
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| hmm, white fire warriors looks like clone troopers of star wars, but it would be very effective snow camo?, well i d use it lol
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| Comment made by fuzzyfirewarrior619 on 07:40:08, 2 September 2007
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| Cool i painted red on my kroot to show wich one was leader until i got a kroot shaper
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| Comment made by fuzzyfirewarrior619 on 03:28:33, 2 September 2007
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| Cool i painted red on my kroot to show wich one was leader until i got a kroot shaper
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| Comment made by suvantom on 19:22:36, 17 August 2007
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| the battle suits are AWSOME but i hate red kroot. overall agreat paint scheme
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| Comment made by oblivi8r on 03:33:26, 8 August 2007
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| definitely has a clean look but too much like star wars for me :)
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| Comment made by .::cmd.Farsight::. on 15:21:18, 2 July 2007
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i like the paint job i thought about doing sumthing like that for my tau but instead i decided to do codex gray and white trim with fiery orange markings
keep up the good work!=D
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| Comment made by Karashi Lissera on 12:37:54, 29 May 2007
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| if only you could blow up the pichure more love the colors
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| Comment made by Argetlam on 09:31:52, 22 May 2007
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| i really like the kroot, its a really nice mixture of red and brown, and brings out the muscles nicely. also, the battlesuits are wicked, even though they look like they are dancing!
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| Comment made by <<Majonga>> on 06:55:03, 28 March 2007
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| oh yeh about the white coats, GW are bringing out paints with higher pigment so that light colours can be painted over black in just 1 or 2 coats.
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| Comment made by <<Majonga>> on 06:53:56, 28 March 2007
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| the white is really well painted, i wish i had the patience/ability to do that. though i don't really like the look of the kroots skin
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| Comment made by niholas on 11:18:58, 27 March 2007
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| thnx for this, im looking for a good colour scheme coz im repainting my entire army, i wonder how long this will take..........
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| Comment made by BJ_the_Insane on 22:45:49, 23 March 2007
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| sweet paint job!
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| Comment made by Niatica on 01:06:19, 17 March 2007
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| that is really cool! i wish i could paint like that!
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| Comment made by pedosmile on 14:00:32, 4 March 2007
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| you didn't do much painting, you just primed them white. i see mad flaws like plastic bits you didn't cut off, spots on the arms you actually missed while painting. good idea, do more touching up on it, actually paint the white areas skull white and put some gloss on it when you're finished
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| Comment made by Metalstorm on 23:19:26, 11 February 2007
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| 2 words swe-et ok maybe just 1 long word awesome!!!!!
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| Comment made by shortyMcshortshort on 13:32:25, 3 February 2007
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| i have to say those are some of the best painted battlesuits i have seen in a long time!!
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| Comment made by KommandoKrieg on 18:00:06, 14 December 2006
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| Awesome - My favorite colors!
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| Comment made by Inq_Razeil on 07:13:41, 10 December 2006
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| Nice work, nice solid colour too. 10/10
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| Comment made by big tau mech guy on 23:59:57, 9 December 2006
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im gonna paint a bork'an army with similar techniques and colours great job any more pics?
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| Comment made by Firebird4Life on 07:08:47, 27 November 2006
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| Great job. I like the black/white scheme because it looks very clean. No random colors, just good looking, organized troops. Good call with the white primer too.
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| Comment made by Sting on 16:30:00, 13 November 2006
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| Amazing!!
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| Comment made by Irit on 08:25:20, 11 November 2006
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| Is the white just 'Skull white'? Would love to see some more, vehicles, drones etc.
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| Comment made by Commander Arthurein on 07:16:48, 11 November 2006
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| It's really a good scheme.Great job.
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| Comment made by Irit on 02:09:28, 9 November 2006
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| Very, very, very nice scheme. Easy to paint and looks sweet. Will deffo be using this in my new Tau force.
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| Comment made by Banditman on 18:02:09, 6 November 2006
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| It's a lot like the Tau'n scheme.
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| Comment made by KingofKlubs on 16:07:02, 23 October 2006
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| The red missles draw the eye nicely. great job. Just thinking that the suit must take ages for the tau janitor to clean after a days battle, ha ha
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| Comment made by Zanzibar on 04:27:22, 16 October 2006
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| Brilliant! I've been pondering what new scheme my Tau should have, I think I just found it!
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| Comment made by Akkarin on 07:50:53, 15 October 2006
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| Nice!!
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| Comment made by darthmyvader on 16:07:47, 4 September 2006
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| Did you undercoat black or white because im going to undercoat mine white and then paint the clothes black
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| Comment made by darthmyvader on 16:04:23, 4 September 2006
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That Is An Awesome Colour Scheme
John
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