T'au Crisis Battlesuits the Simple Way - How I Paint Things
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Crisis Battlesuits are an iconic part of the T'au range, and it's a rare army that'll hit the table without a few of these providing rapid reaction fire support. Luckily enough, they aren't particularly difficult to paint! READ MORE:
It turns out GW doesn't make Averland Sunset in a can any more! My mistake - there's so many of them available at my local store that I'd never realised they were out of production. Instead, try a primer of Wraithbone!
It's been a very long time since I've actually painted any battlesuits, so it was an interesting challenge to tackle an old miniature with some new tricks. The paints have certainly come a long way from when I was first drybrushing Farsight Enclave Fire Warriors! As I mention in the video, it's worth taking a look at some of the official colour recommendations for different Sept worlds - these techniques will work perfectly well just by swapping the colours you're using, so there's not a lot of complex changes to be made in how you approach the miniature just because you want to play a different army to the original T'au Sept.
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PAINTS USED:
PRIMER:
Averland Sunset
Munitorum Varnish
BASE:
Abaddon Black (or Vallejo Flat Black in this case)
Retributor Armour
LAYER:
Tau Light Ochre
Skrag Brown
White Scar
Evil Sunz Scarlet
SHADE:
Seraphim Sepia
Agrax Earthshade
DRY:
Tyrant Skull
Necron Compound
CONTRAST:
Black Templar
For someone who hates painting Tau, that's pretty impressive!
Past a point it's all just armour plates and a bit of shading - you stop seeing it as 'those blue-skinned xenos scumbags' after a while. :D
As a concept, the light orange with warm tan accents sounds so simple but you made it look amazing! I've been agonizing over how to paint my first batch of Tau since the default white and red just doesn't do anything for me, and this video helped me realize that I was probably hamstringing myself trying to come up with elaborate color schemes. Jumping in with something uncomplicated but striking like this sounds like the way to go. Thank you for sharing your work with us!
This is fantastic! I’ve a veritable mountain of T’au in the shed and I’ve been wanting to recreate the old Vomit Brown/Scab Red scheme of the original Tau launch and I reckon this is perfect for doing just that!
What a great way to end my birthday, watching my most favourite channel on UA-cam! Thank you! Hope you have a wonderful day! 😀👍
Oh nice! :D Happy birthday, and many happy returns of the day as my great grandmother would have said. I hope it was a good one!
Sonic Sledgehammer Studio Thank you so much, Sir! Very kind. 😀👍
I've been after a comprehensive T'au sept colour guide like this for so long now, very much appreciate this!
Glad to hear it! :D
My friend has a newly fledged Tau army as he loves the aesthetic, however, he has admitted to me he hates painting them haha. This turned out great.
10:09 The hobby in one sentence :D
I was really looking forward to this and I was not disappointed!The model looks great and I was interested in what colors you would use and they turned out very nice. I never thought of using the shade the way you did and I learned a lot about how to control it. This is simply an outstanding tutorial. Thanks for sharing this.
Cheers, John! Very kind. :) It only recently occurred to me to take some of the tank painting tricks I'd seen from folks doing Bolt Action and bigger 1/35 scale tank kits and apply those to 40k stuff, but even something as simple as the varnish going on to assist the shade makes a big difference.
*sees the model getting covered in Seraphim Sepia*
Wait, that's illegal.
*sees the Agrax getting pulled out*
Ah, well, carry on, then.
You know I had to think very carefully about how to employ Agrax this time... quite happy with how it turned out in the end. ;)
This was very useful
I’m painting a t’au empire sa’cea so I appreciate this video so thanks man 👍🏻
Wow this looks amazing! Such a smart and easy way of getting the classic Tau scheme.
Looks like a fancy airport in the late 70s 😂😂😂😂 hahahahahhahahahahaha!!!! Awesome!!!
I'm sure I've seen some old leather furniture in these colours, too...!
lol
started building my first army the other week and literally bought an xv88 battlesuit today - nice! :P
Nice work Sonic, great tutorial.
i love the classic color scheme , like it much more than the white one GW is using as their main color nowadays
I have to admit, I do quite like the white scheme, but there'll always be a place in my heart for the classic T'au Sept look. Plus people tried telling me painting the orange boys was hard, and I don't think that has to be the case at all! :D
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio personally i love the classic orangy look but my favorite is the red scheme for the farsight enclaves , funnily enough i have yet to paint any because i cant decide over using red contrast to do the armor or using a red paint trough an airbrush and then having to shade the whole thing
Prime with Mephiston Red, give it a varnish and an Agrax shade, then... maybe a light orange drybrush? Maybe even Eldar Flesh for a slight orange tint? Worth trying on a spare bit of plastic. :D
I’m starting a tau army and was thinking of coming with my own colour scheme and I think I might do something similar to your scheme...
Really love how this came out! It's not "squeaky clean" like it just came out of the factory, and the drybrushing actually helped give the edge highlights some sort of soft glow. Nice of you to show your "Oops" moments as well as it helps us to be more forgiving of our own mistakes Lol! Another helpful, informative and relaxing video! Cheers!
I really think there's something to be gained in getting to see that everybody makes mistakes. There's no point in everything being picture perfect in every frame, especially not when you're trying to demonstrate how someone's probably going to end up making those same mistakes, but how to fix them instead!
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Really appreciate your way of thinking... while others want to appear perfect, you embrace mistakes as an opportunity to educate people even more! #clapping
Great video!
Well done! Makes me want to start a Tau army myself.
Oh, no no... that's how they get you! ;)
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio I am weak... :-) For a white color scheme, would you use Corax White or Gray Seer as a primer?
Corax White, for sure. Pretty much just swap out Corax White for the yellow in this, and you can tidy up with it from the pot nowadays, too! Agrax Earthshade instead of Sepia after the varnish trick, and then drybrushing with a white to get the highest edges looking right again.
Sonic Sledgehammer Studio Thank you , have a nice Weekend 👍
This looks super nice!
You always make it look so easy. I am just hoping i can do something half as good as I start painting in a couple of months. Thanks for the video as always.
The important thing to remember is that everything is practice. Even if it goes a bit bonk, you're still learning something from the experience - even if it's annoying in the moment that it hasn't worked properly! If all else, bear in mind that these things are plastic. You can always repaint them!
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio thanks, appreciate the guidance, I will continue to watch your videos, but if all else fails I have also watched your video on stripping them 😀
Just ordered the Kill Team starter set and have been looking for a T'au painting guide in these colours!
Ordered Jokaero Orange rather than Tau Light Ochre, but I have all the other paints and shades used here, so hopefully will be able to make a decent fist of it.
For the clothing on the Fire Warriors, something darker like Mournfang Brown for their fatigues works pretty well. You can even go down to something really dark like Rhinox Hide if you want to kinda mirror the black parts on the battlesuits on your infantry.
Really nice job!
You got the whole model completed for the greater good
I'm just getting started with Tau Light Ochre and your video gives me hope! Love this color scheme so much, even though it's not the most popular these days lol
I've always had a soft spot for the OG look!
Thank you for the tutorial. I am planning to start with Warhammer 40k, with the T'au, and have been looking for a good tutorial with an ochre colour scheme. I was quite daunted with the thought of painting but you seem to make it look a bit easier. I am likely going to keep the symbols in the same colour as the ochre and considering replacing the brown colour with a reddish-brown; I have seen that on a couple of models and it seems nice.
A red tone to the brown sections would look really good with the orange of the rest of the armour, for sure!
Just found this and used this scheme for my Tau, minus the wash on the entire model as I prefer to just do it in the crevasses. Came out beautifully, not quite box art but hey who can do box art anyway. Thanks for the amazing scheme! :)
Awesome suit!
That video was very helpful. Thank you.
Thanks, very good method :)
very nice video ! Thank you
Nice one Maestro
Thank you kindly! I'm quite happy with that one, myself. :D
Amazing work. Very helpful, I hope mine looks as good as yours haha
Oh that’s awesome.i thought I was the only one using panel line washes over a varnish layer on tau.i like to use Tamiya panel liner,gives you time to fix mistakes.
Love this!
Pretty happy to finally have a battlesuit done, honestly!
Great video!! I’m glad to see some tau on this channel again! Would you ever do a tutorial on farsight enclave armor?
Probably not for a while, honestly - these suits are pretty big! For Farsight stuff, I'd just swap for Mephiston Red and an Agrax Earthshade and do much the same as this for the most part.
Why does that looks so sexy i just tryed this model and did it the box art colors ...wow i hate having that much white to not mess up on
Thank you , Sonic .
I remember that the way I ended up doing my first three Crisis Suits was to do it with Mechanicus Gray primer, then I built up the colors on the plates and raised points.
Found this very helpful
Request: Eldar guardians or farseer. I started with imperial guard and followed one of your guides and my minis came out great :) Im going to start Eldar relatively soon and id love a paint guide. :)
A Farseer is a little outside the usual scope of what I get up to, but as chance would have it I've actually got three Guardians primed and sitting next to my painting table... :D
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Love it when the stars align
Very striking scheme, very repeatable steps at low skill prerequisite. Well played good sir, well played! All jokes aside, thank you for sharing and hope you stay happy, healthy, and safe.
Nice! Greets from Germany :)
Looks great. I'm going for the white scheme for mine, with a sort of Alien Forest style base (probably based black and most stuff kept very dark) gonna do brown, alien blue and alien void tufts (the void are just black, but think they will be cool) so it will sort of be like either at night time, but has some bioluminescence type deal, or it could actually be inside of a cave system or something.
I wanted to do something white to have against this base idea I had, and Tau jumped out at me as the perfect candidate. They have some white, but also black and grey, with a little bit of red, and then blue on the lenses. This combined with the brown weathering on the white plates will go absolutely with a very dark base, with reddy brown highlights and then black, brown and blue flora.
At least in my mind it works, I've yet to get started on it yet. I actually picked up a few packs of laser plants the other day as well, so have more variations for flora. Just baked a load of wood chips as well, which are really nice to use and rock formations. Going to do some vines from green stuff and have them on the rocks as well. I also learned how to make moss from various flocks and then highlighting them up with paint. It's more of a natural woodland recipe though, so I don't know if it'll work on this alien planet( definitely going to use this recipe on my Jungle bases for my Saim Hann, Eldar)
LoL, I think I might be almost more into basing now. At least pairing the right scheme with the right base is big (for me at least)
Anyway man, I think I've just rattled on about my own projects... what you working on? (I just realised this video is 2 years old, so you probs won't even see the comment, LoL)
hmm, wondering if i could see you paint some infinity models some time, curious if the Producer level support would help that along
I have to admit that it wouldn't be any time soon, I'm afraid. The Infinity style doesn't really appeal to me, so it'd be even harder still to try and make it work for a video! That being said, you might find this one on Contrast and typical painting useful given some of the high-saturation colour schemes I've seen on their miniatures: ua-cam.com/video/94EOp7l2jlg/v-deo.html
There's no real rule as to where the darker brown should go... the Codex actually specifically says that those markings are customized for the individual warrior, so they're supposed to be all different.
Hmmmm, now I'm wondering how using this paint scheme on Space Marines from Tallarn......
That would look cool did you do it?
I like the Tau mostly for the battlesuits
So drybrush highlights are kosher with Tau flat armor? I thought it wasn't! Cool!
The figure is not my cup of tea but it was a hell of a painting tutorial with very interesting techniques.A very well done paint job👍
Cheers! Funny thing is that I'm no great fan of the Tau myself, but it's gotta be done eventually, right? ;D
Saying that there are some models in the west wind conflict 47 range of some mechanical walkers which would look great from the techniques you have used.Thou alternative time line scenarios are not my cup of tea either.😅🤣😂
nice!
Fantastic painting, did you prime the model while it was fully assembled, and if so how hard was it to spray the primer into places like between the shoulders and jetpack thrusters?
Beautiful job! I have a question for you. Why did you put down a varnish if you're not cleaning up the panels with chemicals?
The change in the surface will actually keep the shade from adhering as easily as it would on straight paint. It gives you more time and makes it much easier to shift the wet shade around from the flatter panels, quite similarly to if you were clearing areas with white spirit - just without the white spirit!
I want to do a to do one in blues maybe and sliver i think it look swish!
My Tau army was to spray paint all of it in Corax White spray, realize that this is going to be hard, toss it all in the trash.
The drybrush has the benefit of simulating battle damage.
Is Zandri dust a good alternative to averland sunset as primer?
Yeah, that'll work perfectly well. You could also go for Wraithbone, or Army Painter's Skeleton Bone - anything light with a bit of warmth to it will work fine.
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masterly!
Did the varnish do something to the black? Look at the ankles after he varnishes before the wash, they are now grey!
That'll be a combination of the shine and the lighting all this is under. But yeah, there's a good reason I went and blacked over all those areas again! ;)
Hello Sonic! Great tutorial I wonder what would you recommend for a Vior'la scheme doing the same vanish on all the miniature and use an agrax earthshade after even on the white? Thank you!
Sorry to ping you on a comment from years ago! Would this technique work well for even the smaller tau minis like breachers up to the bigger vehicles? Tau sept colours are so intimidating but you make it look a breeze. Appreciate your work
holy hell its been this easy all along?
You know I'm not about doing things the hard way!
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio It's been a week and I applied this guide to a Tau Piranha and it turned out beautiful cheers for this excellent guide yet again
what's a good alternative to Averland spray now that GW doesn't produce it anymore? 🤔
Can this be used for a army in general? the same paint job?
This should work fairly well for infantry, too. Just swap a dark brown in for the black undersuit and you'll get a pretty close result to the T'au Sept on the box.
I was also working while listening, so I missed it - what was the part inspired by the military modelers?
The varnish before the shade! I've seen it used a lot on 1/35 scale tanks, especially using oil washes and similar for the shading effect.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Thanks! I've seen that from other painters, so I didn't catch it! Love the work, thanks!
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Ahhhhh! I was wondering about that, too. Didn't know varnishing before shading was a military modelers "thing" (I used to be a military modeler, but never used it that technique... I do use it now on my Battletech miniatures though... odd... Lol!)
Hi! is there a comparable Varnish on the Vallejo product lines? Vallejo products are more available to me.
There's Gloss, Satin and Matt varnish sprays available through Vallejo. I use their matt regularly, it's good stuff! If you're looking for a closer approximation to Munitorum Varnish, then a satin is probably the closer choice.
Just starting a Tau army (not a rail gun meta chaser I swear XD), what is your recipe for your base and rim here? The bases on the Citadel app have WAY too many steps
Armageddon Dust, Seraphim Sepia, drybrush Tyrant Skull and XV-88 for the rim. Easy!
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Thank you!
What wet palette do you use? I think it's finally time I replace my home made one from a to-go container
Mine's from Redgrass Games. The XL version - definitely worth the extra space, I'd say!
is the wash used over a matt varnish or a gloss varnish?
Munitorum Varnish is a satin finish which works quite well, but if you can get a gloss varnish it'll work a little better. I use Vallejo's spray can varnishes and haven't had a thing go wrong with them.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio awesome. Really nice video mate! Gave me motivation to finally finish those models haha
Can you do a video on a tau warrior or tank using this method? Thanksan
If I want to apply a transfer to the model, should I do it before or after varnish? (I'm new to transfers somebody please help me lol)
You can apply a small patch of gloss varnish to where you're going to put a transfer so it will sit more smoothly, but your overall matt varnish should be a final step - it seals the transfers in and will protect the work on the miniature.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio thanks a bunch!
Not a fan of tau... but I am a fan of great paint work! Nice stuff. Thank you
as someone who doesn't know any of the paints, what alternative paints would you suggest for the farsight enclave?
Khorne Red would be my choice for the armour, something like Eldar Flesh to drybrush the edges, and Carroburg Crimson to shade would be the first thing I'd think of.
Can you prime it with zandri dust?
You could, but you'll be going over it a couple of times with the next colour. I'd suggest Wraithbone might make it easier.
"something I picked up from military painters"
Its enamel paints isnt it? it would be brilliant for those lines
Actually, it's more the varnish and then shade. I'm sure an enamel wash would work well, but fussing with white spirits is a different set of skills.
Pumpkin spice space cows?
Looking at tau to add to my menagerie of armies…..air brush for the base cost go brrrrrrr lol.
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RIP averland sunset spray can.
Whoops! They've still got a couple packs of it in my local game store, I hadn't even realised they'd stopped making it. Ah, well. Wraithbone should work fine in its stead.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Buy them all, NOW!!!!
Haha, tempting! It was really useful painting a Knight, too... might be a wise idea to stock up while I can.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio I definitely would man, I'd buy at least 3-4 cans if I could in a heartbeat
What varnish can I use? I tried my usual matte spray varnish (Mr. Super Clear) but it didn't work, the shade still stuck to the flat planes. Can I use Ardcoat instead ?
Use something that isn't matte. Munitorum Varnish is a satin or semi-gloss, which doesn't let the shade 'cling' as well to flat surfaces. 'Ardcoat might work as well, but if you're still having trouble with it, skip the varnish step and just use the shade with a little bit of Lahmian Medium mixed in.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio oooh I thought Lahmian Medium was to help varnish adhere more to flat surfaces and if you wanted the varnish to go only in creases you had to add water!