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Urban Tau Cadre

My White Dwarf showcased urban tau units all together in their own album. This was fun project, working with only the few parts available to me in Tau kits, but eventually developing some unique models using parts from all over the place. Predominantly Space Marines, including an old MK1 Rhino hatch part!

I recently discovered that GW Australia had been kind enough to send me the PDF format version of this article, you can download it here [2.5mb]

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14 Comments »

  • GunnerHawk said:

    AWESOME painting…

    but the better one is the Crisis…

    # 28 February 2012 at 1:46 am
  • Seb (author) said:

    Cheers Gunner :D Enjoyed putting this combat force together.

    # 28 February 2012 at 7:49 pm
  • sam said:

    can i get a list of the paints used for this urban scheme?

    # 7 March 2012 at 1:28 pm
  • Seb (author) said:

    Hi Sam, I’ll do you one better :

    Under the Resources tab of the bar menu above, at the bottom of the list is:

    “Painting Tau : Urban Scheme”
    http://eastern-empire.com/resources/painting-tau-urban-scheme/

    All the paints and details are in that tutorial :)

    - Seb.

    # 7 March 2012 at 1:44 pm
  • sam said:

    Cheers brah, frackin love this cadre. inspirational

    # 7 March 2012 at 3:11 pm
  • Seb (author) said:

    No problem chief :)

    # 7 March 2012 at 3:36 pm
  • nistrum said:

    massively epic. im totally stealing this :P im gonna Tale of X gamers it on LO if you want to watch? im going to convert the nuts out of my suits too :D did you freehand that camo by the way? its fantastically well done.

    # 10 April 2012 at 5:25 am
  • Seb (author) said:

    Hi Nistrum,

    Feel free, really enjoy seeing folks interpret this scheme in their own way. I did indeed paint the cammo and go slightly crazy in the process :D

    # 11 April 2012 at 9:26 am
  • Jayy said:

    I love those drones. Can’t wait to try to build some to replace my old marker drones.

    # 6 September 2012 at 3:49 am
  • Seb (author) said:

    If you do, send in some pics – be great to check another variation out :)

    # 13 September 2012 at 12:30 am
  • zl33 said:

    Wow, I really wanna do a XV8 in these colors, they are amazing and the purple glow the lenses make really look wicked.
    Free handing the whole camo? How long did that take?

    The paint looks really smooth, did you thin it a lot, how many coats did it take?

    # 4 March 2013 at 8:44 am
  • Seb (author) said:

    Thanks Z133, absolutely gits to paint. Took awhile to paint, but the difficulty is the grey matching across more than one suit. It tended to change hue as the paint dried; only learnt that after the second attempt. Argh!? hahah.

    Application wise I am watering it down 1/3 as in drop of paint/water. A couple of smooth coats can go on easy and fast.

    # 16 March 2013 at 7:29 pm
  • Vancopland said:

    Hey Seb, I was wondering what parts you used for the majority of the bits on the Crisis suit? They look amazing, adding a whole new perspective to the Tau army.

    # 29 March 2013 at 1:34 pm
  • Seb (author) said:

    Hi Vancopland, I received your email, thanks for stopping by. I’ll send you a reply shortly.

    # 31 March 2013 at 5:06 pm

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