They call themselves ....The Tau

The army so far

The Tau force above is the progress of Enza. As a newer additon to the hobby world they decided that they were less keen on the initial attempt they made at Fire Warriors based off of the blue/grey guys from the codex and having watched Tron Legacy decided that the shiny nature and high tech feel would lend themselves well to Tron style Tau.

Each section of force organisation has its own colour and you can see in the fire warriors and the Kroot that the troops are signified by an ice blue colour, the Kroot sporting it on the rifle bandages.

Elite choices sport a red colour for their markings and the Stealth team team displayed below usually seem to be the star performers in games they are involved with. They have even managed a couple of close combat wins but certainly not against my Dark Eldar Incubi, that was someone else honest.

Fast attack choices get a nice bright yellow which looks very strong on the drones that have been done so far. Both Vespid and Pathfinders are being looked at as a next addition and the yellow I'm sure will either look strong on a Devilfish and there is a lot of decision making going on for vespid skin colour to go with the yellow (current choice is the grey/blue and purple of the Daemon Prince skin)

This leaves us with Heavy support and my personal favourite model for the force, the Skyray. The tank has also had the rain gun and ion cannon painted to change to a Hammerhead. I love the way the engines have achieved their glow and earlier in the blog is a stage guide to how this was done. It has certainly been interesting to watch a newer hobbyist set their own ideas and make use of the How to paint book and the 'eavy metal masterclass book to gain ideas and thoughts on techniques.

The Tau have all been painted with the new Citadel colours and Enza was advised to make use of the glazes over the models to link and intensify the colours. What are people thoughts on this as it is one area that is still uncertain on.

The basing uses the texture paints and I think works well for the uniform look of the army. Next to add apart from the fast attack options is the HQ section but the purple attempted colour Enza isn't pleased with so anyone with tips for a nice bright purple that would work with the black give a comment with ideas.