How to paint Tau Sept & Vior'la Armour - Quick box art recipes. 

There’s something oddly satisfying watching those line highlights be applied. Quality content as always my dude. Congrats on hitting 10K btw.

How to improve your quality: Go to med school to become a surgeon. Once you get the milimetric precision, you will be able to paint edge highlights without issue. Great video. The craft is top notch.

Sitting here thinking how to do the white floors on my mechanicus terrain and this pops up awesome

Would love to see more Tau painting. This style is awesome 👏

Lord I hope I can one day make my Tau lining and highlights half as good! Immaculate!

Man... now I want a Tau army with that T'au Sept scheme! So lovely! Thank you for the video!

Just picked up a box of 2012 tau from a friend, thank you for the Tau Sept tutorial its gonna make my life so much easier! It's so sleek!

Great recipes and demo, thanks! I love AK white, their black is excellent as well.

I just started on a Tau project and this is perfect for me. Love your content

Wow. Amazing skill. Thanks for taking the time to share. Great work.

OMG! I guess this is first tutorial on how to paint Vior'la Sept. Really I was looking for it for some time and found only a few videos with very low quality... Thank you so much!

Love watching these painting videos im just way too lazy to move past basecoat, wash, maaaaaybe highlight. Great job man looks bloody amazing 😊

Superb tutorial as always.

Another awesome video Dave! The work you do is fantastic!

Just what I needed. Thanks!

The smoothness of your higlights :o Lord it is gorgeous! Great video mate. I think you also nailed it with your voice tone and rythm! I don't mind the premiere, I think it is a good way to tease and help the video to be seen a lot when it is released (and probably help with the algorithm), so keep up the good work

Best Tau how to I've seen.

Ooooh, exciting!

Damn those look good! Wish this video was around when I started my T'au Vior'la army a couple years ago. Gonna have to give this a go on this Ghostkeel I just built!

Please more box art painting tutorial! 😍

Great video as always. This was really informative, thanks for sharing.

Thank you so much for sharing! I don't have any excuses now to avoid my TX4 Piranha box ))

This is massively helpful, thanks! Was having trouble working out how to get a look I liked for my Tau Sept kill team. This works great.

Another great video, Dave! The pacing and narration is 👌

Amazing! You're an inspiration.

Woo hoo! New awesome video incoming!

Might be useful for someone Tau Sept: - Primer: Citadel Chaos Black (Spray) - Basecoat: Citadel Tau Light Ochre - Black parts: - Basecoat: - AK 3rd Gen Black - 1st Highlight: - Citadel Corvus Black - 2nd Highlight: - 1/2 Citadel Eshin Grey - 1/2 Citadel Dawnstone - 3rd Highlight: - Citadel Administratum Grey - Dot Highlights: - Citadel Greyseer or White - Armour panels: - Panel lines and recesses: - Citadel Skrag Brown (thinned down) - Glaze bottom parts of panels: - Citadel Skrag Brown - Smooth the transition with a mix of Skrag Brown and Tau Light Ochre - Panel lines: - Citadel Doombull Brown - 1st Highlight: - Citadel Ungor Flesh - 2nd Highlight: - Citadel Screaming Skull - Dot Highlights: - AK 3rd Gen White Vior'la: - Primer: Any light primer like Tamiya White or Grey - Basecoat: AK 3rd Gen White - Black parts: - Basecoat: - AK 3rd Gen Black - 1st Highlight: - Citadel Corvus Black - 2nd Highlight: - 1/2 Citadel Eshin Grey - 1/2 Citadel Dawnstone - 3rd Highlight: - Citadel Administratum Grey - Dot Highlights: - Citadel Greyseer or White - Armour panels: - Glaze bottom parts of panels: - Citadel Baneblade Brown - Panel lines and recesses: - Citadel Baneblade Brown - Deep shade: - Citadel Gorthor Brown - Chipping in edges: - Citadel Gorthor Brown

Please do a full Tau paint video!

Great video!

that is smoooooth

extremely useful!! just happened upon your channel but definitely subscribing!!

I love this, I finally have the technique to do it, thanks! Which brush you do you use for layer ?

Just wish the description had a list of paints used/recommended for each color. Or as you started them, list the paints.

@InfernalBrush What brushes are you using? They look very precise.

Amazing as always! Your brush control is really satisfying to watch! When doing fine edge highlights, is your grip on the brush / cork relaxed or tense?

Hi there, just stumbled on this and really appreciate your technique! Question for you: how do you rig your sub-assemblies? I'm very new and not sure how I would attach the leg to a stand like you have.

Does chipping on the T’au sept look good? In going to make a T’au sept army, but I wanted to give them a worn down look, and I really liked how the Vior’la box art models looked.

How much glaze medium do you need to add to the paint in order to get these blends? I've been trying myself but it's far too opaque

how many layers of this glaze did it take to get the desired effect on the feet for the vior la paint scheme.

Where did you go? Your videos are amazing!

Thinking about picking up Tau soon. I thought you might have done some of the schemes for the box art, so came to check for recipes. Specifically wanted to know how you did the Vior'la stuff. It's different, looks clean. Think I want to go for this kind of recipe. I was seriously going to start Orks next, but I have Nids to paint right now as well, so that's one Organic Army. Maybe doing this white scheme is the perfect, alternate project to work on. I have always wanted to have a white army as well, they'll just look great on display. Also I have a Black Templar army as well, so very contrasting. | I'm, not sure what kinds of bases to do for this Tau yet though. I thought maybe a Volcanic-style base, so a lot of black soil, occasional lava (not on every base though) and use those red and alien alien tufts to go with the red spot colour on the minis. This is just my first thought, but I think something like this could work. The Minis are mostly white, wo will have nice contrast with the black bases. I could do sparse amount of the cracking paint as well with lava painted under it. Just small patches of it though. I think I'd save any real lava work for the bigger bases and HQ's and stuff. Always wanted to try lava bases though, and also want to learn to use resin for my ice bases (for nids) so maybe I can do something with resin here as well. Sure there are a lot of tutorials I can check out.

Amazing work. I'm definitely at the stage where I need a bog old magnifier, but I wanted to ask - what's the brush you're using please?

To do the white base coat with the AK white did you do it through an airbrush or brush?

By "glaze" do you mean simply watered down, or mixed with a medium?

hey man, great tutorial. have a question: could you show us how you set up your wet pallet and thin your paints? I use one and can't seem to get my pigments to look anything like the "beaded" thinned version like you have on yours. Thanks

Beautiful, I’m doing a Farsight enclave colour scheme and will try to replicate this What colours would you suggest ?

When will you do a painting tutorial for the Necrons? Such as the warriors and scarabs? What about showing off greenstuff skills to craft pelts and facial hair?

I would really love to see a full scheme for the white armour. like how you did the other parts. I take it it's just pretty standard edge highlighting stuff for the most part though? I would love to know how you did the gold bits though, and what paint you used for this. I friend told me that pro acryl make amazing golds, and bronzes etc, so might try those out. I don't want to do NMM for these (as it's something I have not tried yet) and this paint scheme really looks like it's going to be something simple I can more or less switch off for I'm working on some more technical schemes with glazing and stuff right now, so having this white, tau armour as a more chilled scheme is going to be nice. Getting some minis this weekend, and gonna see if I can find a gorthor and baneblade brown replacement in the AK range. I have both of those paints, but really want to try out AK. EDIT: seems that AKL do not have a Baneblade or Gorthor equivalent. Weird, I really thought they'd have them.

What I really want to know is what brush are you using for those fine details and how the heck do you keep it so crisp?

i know this is from a while ago but could you also show how to paint the farsight enclave scheme too?

Great video but does anyone know how he thinned his skrag brown down to a glaze, did he just use water or a medium if some kind?

also, what are the tamiya primers you use, please? the standard surface or fine surface?

Whem you're making that gradient, how do you make sure you get that smooth transition? I've been trying something similar but I always end up with a fairly sharp transition.

Recent subscriber, and excellent videos in terms of explanation and pacing. Would love to see the technique for traditional blue and purple genestealers, love the eavymetal teams look, but cannot find any expert tutorials anywhere for colour pallet

For Viorla some vids say its aggrax earth shade yet some say its gorthor brown. Which is better/ the right one?

cool thanks for the info GoblinGreen recommended this channel

I'm working on copying your Tau sept colour scheme shown in this video and I have a question. When applying this scheme to the body of a crisis suit would you treat the body as one large panel that goes from dark to light or would you shade each panel individually? I'm having trouble wrapping my head around how to apply this technique to other surfaces such as a battlesuit head. I really appreciate your video! Thanks for all the help!

Hey do you know why GW decided to change the 'default' Tau colour scheme from the ochre to the white?

How do you get the paint to that consistency? Every time I put my paint on the pallet and thin it it doesn’t bubble up like it does with yours, is there a special thinner you use? A special pallet? Your paint looks like it has a hydrophobic consistency

What does he say around 9:20-9:40? He is recommending something to smooth out the base layer painting

This is more awesome content! Would you be able to do one on Cadian armour or even just share the recipe? Cheers

Did you airbrush the white and then painted black or reverse? Thank you for the great tips!

would seraphim sepia be a good orange wash to darken the tau sept armor like this?

Can make the same tutorial but with farsight enclaves now?

how come your paint doesn't stick to the palette ? is it something to do with the palette sheet or something you added to the paint to dilute it (except than water) ?

We need to clone Dave, the Dave army would take over the painting world. Great video, took inspiration from the very best to only paint legs on video ?

i wonder if scrag brown glasing will work similarly if done through airbrush?

So would you still recommend recess shading with skrag brown even though you shade with doombull brown later on?

One thing I wonder, when you were working on Box Arts, were you required to use GW Paints? Or was it "We'd appreciate if you did use GW paints but if you absolutely need another paint range, use it" or completely whichever paints you want?

This technique work for the larger tanks? Hammerheads

What brushes for you use

as much as i like the tau sept scheme, i think it needs the battle damage of the vior'la to really sell the idea of armor

Been sitting here with all my built Tau models going "Holy shit, painting white sucks. I really don't want to mess up my white paint job, I wonder if the RU-vid algorithm will give me something useful for once." Literally 30 minutes later this pops up. Also, why wait until Friday at 8am? Is it like a weekend thing?

PLEASE SHOW US HOW TO PAINT NECRON ^^

dunno if you still upload but could we get a Dark Angels tutorial

WTF is your brush control?!?!?! insane

maybe it's just me I just struggle with tau light ochre

How do you paint tau grimdrak!!! Or are they always prissy

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Please stop using the premiere , It is so annoing, I get exicted about new video only to find this still image

The only criticism I have with this video is how often you start sentences with the word ''So''. I'm not sure if it's nerves or a verbal tick, but it got to the point where I thought it might be an in-joke. It adds nothing to your commentary and it makes you sound like someone with a limited vocabulary (which clearly isn't the case). It belongs in the bin alongside ''basically'', ''literally'' and ''to be honest''. That aside, keep up the good work.