Yeah I thought it really brought the whole thing together! Also really liked those highlighting details on the curved parts and the glow effect on the crisis suit eyes.
Haha was thinking the same! Once shook a pot of gold paint. The lid was on I swear. At the time I used the kitchen table as painting table. Trousers, shirt and half the kitchen turned gooold! I swear the lid WAS on! 🤪
First time ever painting and I knocked over my nuln oil and it got all over my table, pants, the floor. Just everywhere! Definitely a learning experience
Thank you so much for finishing the army even though you missed your goal. These challenge videos that end in failure, when we never get to see the final army finished drive me nuts. Great work!
Im brand new to warhammer, bought recruit edition recently (waiting for shipping) and im so happy i found you earlier this year, so much great tips and techichues on paiting. Amazing job man
I enjoyed this video right up until the edge highlighting...then I was rocking myself to sleep crying in the corner. You made it look so easy 😫. Great job!
Love to see stuff like this where you paint a start collecting box. Have you considered collabing with Guy from Midwinter minis on his strt collecting Bat-rep series?
At 8m15 when he said they were far from finished I just sat there going, "those already look better than any model I've ever painted, how are they not done?"
my personal answer: it takes me "FOREVER" if you start edge highlighting every single little gun and fire-warrior armor plate... but if you start on 1 you have to do the rest, thats the rule of "ocd" :D
Wow, fantastic! I was waiting for this since the live. I love the turquise and the nmm style, now I must try to make it on my minis (but they are white and blue, it will be hard).
A trick I use is to do the air brush base in lacquer paint. If you make mistakes doing the brush layers in acrylic you can clean up with out worrying about affecting the base coat.
That's a great looking Tau army, and the video has inspired me to paint up a start collecting box myself, or rather, actually paint one of the ones I bought and built years ago but never got around to because they weren't Daemons.
Audible is great for listening whilst painting. I may have listened to the entire horus heresy series on it. Probably best not to think about how long that took or how much it cost to buy all the books...
Awesome video. It sounds silly but I’d never considered being so selective over my highlight placement (only selecting the face and a prominent upper limb) in order to draw attention and speed up the painting process. I’ll be trying this one.
I'm sure it helps a lot. My hand-painted Tau are still in a shameful state after years. I have since learned that clever use of colored spray paint can give you a similar result to generic highlighting with an airbrush.
Awesome work as always! Thought you were going for a Swedish theme at first when you mentioned the yellows. But I love the end result with the whites and blues. I guess you went for an inverted Finnish theme instead!
I don't have an airbrush and holy crap. I didn't realize how much time it saves you. It takes me forever to base coat and you got a lot done in a short time.
Vallejo Blue Green is my favorite paint ever I think, I make excuses to use it all the time. I'm doing my sisters army in it, and I used it to paint a Gunpla as well.
Took my Tau army and divided into three even groups for Kill Team. Allowed me to try a few different paint schemes. But now i start over to do this scheme!
One thing this made me realize is I overcomplicate my layers and paint schemes way more than is necessary. The results I get are pretty excellent, but they're not that much more detailed than this unless you're really looking close and it would take me like 10 times as long to do.
Jaw dropping gorgeous. Tau was my first 40K army, and for many years my only army. I still have them in glorious plastic grey. Not because I am too lazy to paint or because I suck at it. Rather, I have no idea how I want to paint them to this date. I mean, I want them to look like the super high tech civilization they are, but it's not as easy to paint as a space marine (like my Black Templars; black, white, red... and you're good to go.)
Sure it is! They are very practical, so they are never in crazy color schemes. All you need is two colors, one for the pants and another for the armor. Then detail! Simple and striking.
The speed in which you edge highlighted that battlesuit was crazy! I know they are tao and lots of straight cuts and edges but you crazy man!! Really nice finish and makes me want to up my highlight game when you can get simple but sweet results like that in that time
Yh lol but you went over them in one go and controlled and then onto another highlight colour, I always find myself leaving too thick a line or spending longer to get good coverage
I painted an 80 strong space marine company, 6 ten man tactical squads, 2 ten man assault marines with jet packs 4 Rhinos, two predators and a command squad. This was in 2004 so no air brushes, it took about 9 months to do all this whilst working full time too. I never did the devastator squads.
After lunch i did not catch on immediately i was like OMG look how fast he edge highlights no wonder he's so good , then the camera slows down ha ha you had me.
I can very much appreciate the idea of listening to audio books while painting. Have you ever looked into The Wheel Of Time series? One day I want to do a 40k kit bash of all the "Main Characters" of the series.
This is the exact same colour scheme of my Tau army back in 4th edition when my Warhammer addiction appeared. I feel like turquoise and Tau are a perfect match.
Narlee colours!!, I've been looking for inspiration to repaint my tau. I love how you said you need to make the bases simple, then start talking about wet blending. I just slap some rocks on paint them grey, wash and dry brush them 🤣
I paint about 1-2k points of per year (tabletop quality, not too far from the Eavy metal quality), though this year I finally got an airbrush, my pace will increase, the airbrush allows to cut some corners by basically doing some steps super fast. 1-2 weeks for a vehicle, monster or squad of 5-10 guys. I did notice in late years, some of the newer models have a slightly heavier workload, they just are bigger and got more details to paint. Granted some armies are done faster than others, the fastest to paint by far is necrons, tau, especially if you got an airbrush are also pretty fast to do. Now granted some years are more productive than others. Painting a giant army is painful, but painting like a 2k force, you've got no excuse it's very doable for anyone.
Wonderful! A friend of mine use Tau, and is still whole unpainted so i'll point him to this video! Probably he will not start painting right now 😅 but in this way he can't use any excuse
This video was absolutely impressive and inspiring! Such a great result in this short amount of time - insane! And i love the bases, although some have quite a lot of grass 😅👍👍
