My Warhammer 40k Custom Tau Army - 17 years in the making... 

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It's always fun to see personalized armies. Makes them more unique and gives the creator opportunities to be more creative.

I would love to see a Kroot detachment done up in this sept. They seem like they would really fit with the lore too.

now i want to see a riptide with a huge katana in that scheme, they look sooooooo nice!

That colour scheme was genuinely lovely! Can't wait to see it expand :D

I love how subtle the pink details are!! It's so hard for me to pick a favorite visual design between the two armies-- flowers vs bears lol-- can't wait to draw fanart of the battle report!!

I've just started a tau army and had this EXACT conversion scheme in mind. Thank you for showing of your killteam and what can now be easily achieved, it's been a boost in confidence in what I might be abke to achieve myself

Those colors turned out great! The hints of green somehow remind me of twigs getting back to life after winter. Can't wait for the battle

I love your design and scheme. I wish the Tau had more Auxiliary variety. Gue’vesa are at the top of that list.

These look great, I love seeing the creativity in these homebrew vids. And it's good to see some love for the Tau, it makes me want another Tau Fire Warrior game.

Seriously though, you and Jazza NEED to do an army spread sheet like they do in codices for visual identification and variations! I'm just a sucker for how these armies are organized

Yoo these turned out sick!! I LOVE the flower banners!! Its cool to see such a delicate flower moved to such a badass theme!!

Been waiting to finally see these guys! They did not disappoint.

This is... incredible! Great job, I loved seeing your thought process and all the techniques used to make this beautiful army, it's truly inspiring and given me some ideas for my own tau. Keep up the great work!

After such a long time in the planning stage I would love to see these guys in action! Well done on completing them.

Wow! This is fantastic. I play Tau and these are an inspiration. Honestly it's great to see something on this channel not drenched in streaking grime. o.O

These look outstanding! I’ve looked at all the PuppetWar bits but it’s very cool seeing them incorporated like this. Those back banners look awesome!

This definitely got me more excited to see videos similar to it and to work on my own kill teams. It's great being able to add such a personalized touch to a force and kill teams are an awesome way to try those ideas out

I like how you told us about your personal journey in the hobby. Getting to know the people making content is always great and can put things into perspective.

Love this video, well any video where the Tau are getting some love is awesome, those custom Tau are definitely amazing creations that do feel as tho they belong, I honestly hope we can see more of your tau army looking like this

Been looking forward to seeing what you did with this squad…and it does not disappoint. I really like the theme too…great work…now to see which army can dominate!

Bro I loved this it fr made me cry

Ohhh my god!!! I cant even those models look so amazing and unique the only word i can think of is just beautiful they are so cool great job man your so talented id love to see more of these hell id love to see them in person and play against them.

Such a creative take on the tau. They amazing and inspire me a bit. Thanks Dave I'd love to see vehicles. This scheme would look great.

It's been great watching these come together! Love the bases!

Thanks for all the effort you put into these vids! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Nice. On one side brute warriors from cold winter. On the other, elegant ones bringing spring :D

Big fan of the Tau, so I love to see you expand out. Love the battle suits especially. Great video!

Murray!!! BIG HUG! Good to see you introduced outside of the storage locker. 😁👍

Great work dude~! I love the tau and it’s always nice to see more tau allied aliens or humans in this case :). Good luck in the game against the marines

Keep it up, I loved the bits conversions and the basing techniques very cool

good work i like the style on the minis and your backstory for them ;) thanks for sharing mate

Have always loved the Tau! Great project Dave!

Truly awsome. Loved it. Would live to see more

Dude these are gorgeous!!! As a Tau fan this is awesome and I can't wait to see more!!

SUCH A COOL LOOKING ARMY! Love this so much, I never really considered the options kill team opens up when it comes to creative ideas such as this.

Are you kidding me ? Amazing. Man these are awsome. Thanks for sharing.

The ending was a surprise, but made my day brighter.

Love what you've done with these guys! I like how the stealth suits look like they have the classic straw hats. I'm probably the only one who associates those with samurai (thanks to Ninjago's Sensei Wu). I also like the mini lantern on the base. Keep up the great work!

I’ve got to say- you guys do amazing jobs on these custom factions! I love the work you guys do, and you are always inspiring me to try new things! I’ve seen a couple new space bears kill teams, can’t wait to see more of the sák’ura sept! Love the Japanese style samurai banners!

Dude, they are fantastic! Love it

They look amazing, great work!

Love the vid, enjoyed your passion and they came out RAD to boot. Nice one.

Amazing concept for an army. I love the geometric design of the Tao and anything samurai/cherry blossom is perfect

I love the colour scheme and the simple conversions are just great. Would definitely love to see a commander done up like this at some point.

Sweet! Really love the stealth suit design.

I'm really curious how you'd convert a Commander to match your Sept!

Love the Tau! I have been waiting for this since Jazza mentioned that you were making custom Tau chapter. That being said I would love to see your take on a custom Space marine chapter as well!

This looks epic! Nicely done.

Gorgeous work! I love Puppetswar! Great conversions and awesome final product! Can’t wait to see them on the table!!!

I can barely wait to see you painting a whole army of Sa'kura Tau, with air support!

last time i was this early the moria goblin models looked good

100% keen to see more of your sept!

Gotta say as a Tau player this is the most exciting theme I've seen. Keep up the awesome work!!!!

Those look awesome and I admire the amount of projects that Dave has taken on the gundam, the army, the battle report vs the space bears

Dave you did a great job, i love them👍

Finally I've been so excited for this ever since you mentioned t'au

Great job Dave, im looking forward to lots more...

Damn dude, these are incredible!!!! Everything works and blends so well together that I don’t actually know what to say! I love your lore, your conversions, and your paint! I’m just starting my own Tau army, and still need a paint scheme. It’s cool seeing colors on Tau and now I have even more trouble🤣 I just found your channel, and this video was awesome! I love conversion/paint videos. And please more videos on your Tau!!

They look really pretty, well done Dave

Love the sept concept!! I can't wait to see more!!

Insanely cool! Especially like the stealth suits!!!

I'm getting into Tau currently, and I can't wait to see this grow! I actually really like their Infantry Armor, and I gotta say, I really like the Samaurai look you got. My personal Sept is the Kohr-Ah Sept, which is the Tau's answer to rioting planets and untrained insurgency actions that get out of control (so they'd deal with angry civilians as well as things like Genestealer Cults). They also have a reputation somewhat similar to Krieg, that being if they get called in, its hit the fan and no survivors will be found among combatants. Currently they're very anti-hoard, however as they get called to serve against things that aren't unarmored civilians and their cars they've slowly accumulated more and more large Battlesuits to deal with heavier armor, which is actually what one of their dual Commanders specializes in. Their first battle was earlier today actually, them against Harlequins/Craftworld and they did perfectly against the Infantry, but definitely needed heavier firepower, so they've commissioned some heavier weaponry to counter things like that in the future. Best of luck! I will await your tales of glory eagerly (oh, and the current concept for paint is Purple, Black, and Green, gonna need to look and see how that actually looks on models though (the game I played was on TTS)).

That turned out amazing can't wait to see how that battle turns out.

looks amazing!!! inspired me to strip and paint my Tau in the way I've been visualising for a while now. white with a nice orange trim

These are aoooo clean and sharp my OCD brain LOVES them!

for the greater good! Tau are from release till now my favourite species, army what ever.

As a Tau player myself I'm "like"ing this video before I even watch. Seeing the amazing work Dave does, the love and thought he puts into every project, I've been eagerly anticipating this video since Space Bears first teased the fight between them. :D

They're really cool! I might take some notes with the banners for mine!

Perfectly timed, what with the exciting new rules being released bit by bit! Love the aesthetic, wonderful job!

absolutely amazing! great work, really inspiring!

love the models, I want to see a full army, so keep the tau vids coming

These look great. The feudal blend into future is so cool.

Really loved Murray's contribution here, 10/10. Also, curses! Now I need to do something with my Tau too. I could resist the space bears because I play chaos, but this is too beautiful. Time to finally build up my Tau starter set, lol

If I were to make my own custom army I would want them to look like this. You did an incredible job with the painting and the samurai theme is cool 👍🏻

That is probs one of my fav killteams ive seen in a long time

I like the use of pink in a way that makes them seem very serine and calm and not hyperactive. difficult to do with such a loud color I love them

The lore really made the video fantastic!

These are so cool! Would love to see more Tau videos

Absolutely love the colour-scheme and conversion work. Feeling inspired to make my own Tau kill teame.

These are sick! I can’t wait for the kill team video and when you continue this awesome project

Great concept, great execution, and I love how carefully considered the fluff is

Wow, they turned out amazing!

Really love these and super hope to see more of these on the channel!!!

Wow! Fantastic Models!

Those Tau look amazing. I still am completely clueless when it comes to Warhammer, but the models look great! I would love to see more of this little sect!

Bro, I can't wait to see the bigger battlesuuts!

Amazing army. Great theme. Nice!

those models look drop dead gorgeous 🤩🤩🤩

I loved the samurai feel to it. Loved it. 😊

These are so cool, would love to see more!

So neat, the samurai feel really fits with the to tau. Cant wait to see the killteam game between the bears. Definitely looking forward to seeing the rest of the army in the future. Very curious on how the mechs are going to turn out.

Wow they look amazing!

This look fantastic. Love the TLC your channel gives to your KillTeam.

Might pinch this idea love the whole feel of the kill team fantastic stuff👍

These are beautiful! Well done!

Those are GORGEOUS!

Love the color scheme and detailing!

I absolutely love the drone heads on the stealth suits. I've always thought they looked a bit clunky. The drone heads make them look way cooler and give the same visual feeling as a straw hat on a samurai. Great choice!

guilty of seeing your videos till the end. It's worth it. This battle report is years in the making, may the minis stay away from the floor, especially that tau with the sakura tree