CUSTOM Samurai Tau for Warhammer 40k - The Sakura Sept 

Yes mate! We need more of everyone’s custom homebrew 40k armies on the channel! Love it!

That Cadre Fireblade is STUNNING, especially the lighting effect on the katana blade!😊

Man, making your own bits and bobs...that's really neat. :D Y'all are expanding what you can do pretty handily, huh? Would love to see more of y'alls homebrew stuff. Easily my favorite part of the channel. :3

Yesss! Tau parts for the win! Now we just need Jenn's SoBs and Murray's 'nid bits! maybe we can finally get Shrike winged warriors. Awesome video, gang! Was a fun way to spend a Sat evening. Also, congrats on the 250K!

For anyone looking to get into 3D modelling specifically for 3D printing I highly recommend the channel Artisans of Vaul. The problem is that a lot of 3D modelling guides are for videogames which has different requirements than 3D printing. Edit: as Dave says at 14:22 is a key example of the differences between 3D designing for 3D Printing and 3D designing for Videogames. For videogames nearly everything has to be made out of quads since most game engines don't like Ngons and it will cause problems in the rendering stage. For 3D printing however, Ngons aren't a major issue, the file is going to be broken down into triangles anyway when you convert it to STLs. The main thing to look out for when 3D printing is something you don't care about for videogame assets, which is making the object manifold (aka a sealed object with no holes in the mesh), an object MUST be Manifold otherwise it can cause major issues in the printing stage (and I do mean major, it might not just a failed print but it can lead to bits breaking off and piercing the FEP which holds your resin and thus leaks all over the machine...which is hell to repair and you're better off just buying a new printer if the resin got inside the machine). The other problem is intersecting faces, however it's only flickering intersecting faces (ones where you move the camera in blender and they flicker) that are really an issue. The other thing you'll see a lot of Hard Surface 3D modellers do is bevel the fuck out of everything to give it definition...do not bevel everything when 3D printing, the reason 3D asset makers do this is to make it look more 'real'...which you don't need to do because you're object is already going to be real because it's 3D printed instead use bevels where you want to exaggerate this. Also 3D builder is a free piece of 3D modelling software that Microsoft made that can repair a LOT of the issues you find so once you've fixed all the major issues (making the object manifold and flickering intersecting faces), take your STL, put it into 3D Builder and it'll fix the remaining issues.

Including the flower on the faceplates is such a cool idea. And a round of applause for the first organic sculpted piece, Dave!

Well, now you've gone and done it. You've gone and made me want to start a tau army. Absolutely awesome. ❤🔥🔥🔥

I’ve been loving the customized factions you guys have been making. Will Jenn be joining the fun with a custom Order for her Sisters? Or starting a new army for this campaign?

Very cool! I printed and painted come Samurai Tau on my channel last year as well! Love the paint scheme here!

I love these! I JUST bought my Sisters army because of Jen, and i look forward to paint more armies, i am definitely getting me some Taus to try this one day!

Nicely done. Great team work in getting this done.

Wow. Some Absolutely amazing sculpts and painting. Well done. This is making me want to build some Sakura Tau

Love to see more of this Tau sept

Another great vid from the team! I think using the same scan tech from the cinematics vid to help with scaling would be a great addition to your workflow. That way you could scale everything up for modelling, and then scale it down before exporting for print. Congratulations on the 250K, very well deserved!

I Love your custom Tau! Keep it up!!

I'm a vanilla T'au collector, and I might need to make a unit of these. Very striking. Well done all around.

These look gorgeous. Amazing job

Great video! Dave, great sculpting...

Am literally midway through my own tau force heavily helped by auxiliary forces thanks to seeing these videos. Incredible work

Glad to see them back

Those are great!

Love it, they and the Space Bears are so cool.

Spectacular design! Way to go, Dave. And Murray and Jen the painting job is just stunning. The expanded lore that came out of the prayer tags is just gorgeous.

I love the Sakura Tau. So great to see another episode for them, and they look fantastic.

This is great! I got given some old tau minis recently and was thinking of starting a Tau army with them, using a semi Japanese theme myself based off an old game I played. This vid is really pushing me to start doing it

This is all so unbelievably cool!

Its hard to say what hasn't already been mentioned - but man these are just so cool! Im determined on setting up my printer in between work when I get back, and these along with scrap will be the firsts on it! Really nice job on the sculpts, Dave! Its really cool seeing how far your 3D skills have come!

They look beautiful

wonderful!

I LOVE THESE !!!!!!! We now need the sisters and tyrinads ones I love how much time and effort you all put into your videos and minis keep up the amazing work

Great job on the 3d hand sculpting

This is such a neat concept

DAVID I HAVE BEEN SO EXCITED FOR THIS

Looks superb! Great job. These would fit right into my kickstarter of Cyber Samurai!

big tip for future bits creation. there are many bits creators the have cheap or free bits for models. to create your own you can use them as base for reference. i also created my own soulderpads for tau and I started by importing a free shoulderpad from someone else. that way I will know they are the right scale and helps invision how they will look.

These turned out great, nice job guys! Making me want to start a Tau army

That is some great sculpting! You guys are probably the one youtube channel that pushes their limits more than any others

Thanks for sharing this fantastic episode, the Sakura is freaking cool dude! very much enjoyed it!

I always appreciate Murray’s energy & enthusiasm

Love the bits will def be getting them . Tyranid style carapace armour similar to the one one of the Marines wear in 10th would be a be a useful custom bit

I need more of Tau

I too have an aversion to painting like the box art. DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO GW, YOU’RE NOT MY REAL DAD!

im new to 40k but your channel and this project really got me excited to start my journey. on a side note, katanas have the blade facing upward when sheathed. what you model is more of a tachi. the design is still top notch!

We need more ❤

Just a thought - maybe for the wish tags - you should print them separately and have them to be able to attach like purity seals. In some of the arm positions it almost feels like they are defying gravity.

All of you are so talented, damn!

Already got my first print going with these bits!!!

I would have liked it more if the blade edge would be facing upwards when held, like Samurai used to wear them. But overall this looks amazing !!

Subtle but really fitting, I love the designs and they really look like they would fit in the universe

Can I like this 100x? Bravo!

Love the PiperMakes miniature

Love all your videos, but. Pls do more of this man, these are my favourite things.

Something i think should be addressed in lore is why they're standing on natural bases. Because they live on an orbital platform of some sort i think their bases are synthesized, kind of like a museum diorama with simulated weather, so the T'au soldiers feel more like they live somewhere other than the desolate void of space.

So freaking cool! Not a Tau fan but these are great

I love your lore for the Sakura Sept

congrats on the quarter of a million subs!

These are stunning, now we need a custom commander farsight! 😁

This is so cool!!!!!! I bought some fire warriors the other day and im glad i didn't put them together yet :3

I want to start collecting tau now

Sweet more Tau been made

These are great! Are you aware of Netsuke, they could be another nice little detail item with plenty of theme and character.

Yay!

we are gonna see a battle report were the Sakura fight the Space bears right,RIGHT? :) love this army ...keep going!

This is fantastic love seeing your army developing Hopefully you’ll be doing some games with the army when your finished?

holy mold lines batman

Incredible work once again, I love the unique Japanese take on the tau. I suppose the advice I could give is the fire blade has the ethereal caste symbol on his armour; though apart from this everything was perfect.

Pretty sure the issue where the swords get in the way of the ahoulder pad would be fixed if the swords were held the traditional way, being upside down with the blade facing the armpit

Those are amazing. The only thing i'd change is turn the katana sheaths upside down, since thats the historic way they were used. Just a nitpick, but those look brutally good anyways.

Really cool designs..cant help but think the shoulderpads should overlap the other way around. Top overlapping lower. So that strikes slide off. Would make more sense. Also, all katanas were worn curve down even with armour. It was loose so it could be twisted when drawn.

You guys should sell and ship printed bits for those of us who don't have printers but love these bits.

So glad I just do Kill Team. Can't imagine customizing entire 40k army.

Could you possibly 3D model some tyranid armor pieces for space marines that we could buy from your website?

I want to see some samurai spacemariens

Random thought here, but a naginata would be neat to see.

Welcome back, Sakura Tau!

you huys rock love the content

I love this army can't wait to see more

I'm really stingy with buying 3d STLs, but these are so nice that I had to pull the trigger on them so I can customize some of my prints.

Like see this tau army get fleshed out

I don't have a 3d printer, is there a way I can order these parts at all? Thanks, love it

Now I'm imaging some poor tau so weighed down with his dead mates tags, he can barely move

We need to see space bears vs the sekura scept

Is the size of the 3d printed files for these parts already fitting for the tau, or do I have to do any scaling ?

Were the previous parts that were made for the crisis suits cos I would love those as well

I‘m sorry to ask so fast, but can you make the shorter swords Held in hand, and I want to create a leader, that has two of them. Also, because I want to make it a kill team with house rules, that will be used with into the dark terrain, I would really like some custom ranged weapons, with maybe some tags from the shoulder pads on them too. Maybe a small rifle, and a shotgun?

What if i wanted to do something like this but i dont have a 3d printer? but these parts are amazing.

Honestly, it would be dope if they had heavier armor (basically exo suits that look like samurai armor)

Dammit, these sakura T'au make me want to start back into T'au haha

The only lore-related problem is an ethereal-caste emblem on a Carde Fireblade breastplate. Still, every detail is stunning! +

its a bit too late now that you're done but to help with the space issue of the swords and the shoulder armour, I believe samurai wore their swords with the edge up so scabbard curves downwards instead of upwards. It's how the sword is drawn. For examples, look up "Iajutsu"

Well damn. Looks like I’m spending the weekend stripping tau minis again

They look awesome! Makes me wonder how much skill is required to make a custom Xenos army and everything lol

Nifty

"Would you be ok if I cut his hand off..." - Dave 2023

Onimusha in a steampunked style battle report TAUSHIMA

Bro... ive been working on my tau samurai themed army for a while >.

try to make a sakura tau in heroforge it is posible because i did it but it might not look the best

Tbh i'd like to see some fire warriors from other species like the human members (i cant remember the actual name)

Traditionaly the katanas should be facing up otherwise the blade will become dull but you can leave it as it is

It's a pauldron. Or a sode.