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Yeah, I agree. Each to their own of course but being creative always ends up in better results. It's so much fun to imagine a background story for your team and make them look special.
I keep wanting to convert some Kroot to a more fantasy use. There used to be a great tutorial for them using wood elf bits that are basically nonexistent now
@@narratordave7831 Once the squads are rounded out more would be amazing to see perhaps a mini diorama between them and the Astra Primursa that you can both work on? Whatever comes next though i know you'll both kick arse
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
Especially since he brought up melee. Gue'vesa would reasonably be kept as a melee force since humans are better than Tau (for a variety of reasons) when compared in hand on hand combat.
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
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.
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)).
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
I like the idea of a T'au Katana not being an offensive weapon but a defence tool. You could lorecraft them as hardened mini-shields that are wielded to deflect incoming gunfire, playing off the tropes of Samurai deflecting bullets with their swords.
While I personally have a grudge towards the T’au for 8th edition, you have my admiration for all of your hard work and all the time you put into making this
Welcome to The Greater Good at long last Dave! Looking forward to seeing more of your Sept and eventually even an entire army of Sa'kura one day. Your idea for the Stealth suits is something I'm totally stealing for research purposes and the paint scheme is beautifully simple yet striking, Jazza's bears won't know what hit them (especially with those tweaks to the upcoming Codex 😈) T'au'va!
Well, Dave, you're doing better than me, because I still haven't purchased or otherwise acquired any Tau of my own, and I was fascinated when the First Codex came out, back in 3E! Yup, back in 2001! 20 frickadellen years ago! Unfortunately for the Tau though, there are so many more projects that have a place of priority in my brain, and honestly, my PoS is big enough already (even if out of my brother, sister-in-almost-law and, in fact, absolutely everyone I know who plays or paints... mine is easily the smallest PoS I know of).
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!
Great video! Can't wait for the battle report against the space bears. Another reason for the Tau carrying swords could be that they play a similar role to the Wakizashi swords carried by the Samurai. A Samurai would mainly use his katana for combat and the Wakizashi remained at his side as a symbol of honour that he always carried with him (never losing his honour). The Sakura could be carrying their swords for sentimental reasons while mainly using their rifles for combat.
It's amazing how close this is to the custom Tau concept I came up with myself! The japanese designs, the swapped out samurai shoulder armor, the black, red, white color scheme, and even wanting to make custom humans in the squad. Just goes to show that great minds think alike! :)
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.
*Clears throat* WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In all seriousness, they look amazing and gorgeous. I love them.
Awesome work! Tau was one of my first armies, and i still have a spot for them in my heart. Having painted a lot of white(ish) and black armor i highly recommend using slightly toned highlights. Skin colors with intermediate blues work wonders on black as a final touch, and a bright sand color or blueish ulthuan gray is great to add some visual interest and natural lightning to whites.
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.
2:20 "ALERT ALL IMPERIAL VESSELS THE TAU LEARN MELEE I REPEAT THE TAU LEARN MELEE WE'RE BEING PICK OF HERE I..." *last vox recording of a guardsmen regiment upon entering the tau empire territory*
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!
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
You could say the swords are more for show than anything else. Essentially being a branch off of the commander farsight enclave that still sticks to ranged combat.
I absolutely adore the way this sept looks and also your Guevesa (sp?) modeling job. I've always been a lover of the more border Tau, who eschew some of the doctrine for practicality and battle advantages (e.g Farsight). For flavor and a future larger army, it might be nice to get some Crisis suits kitted out more for close quarters/melee. Or, as another commenter suggested, Kroot. Maybe in that latter case, do some kitbashing and conversions with some lizardmen and other similarly inclined xenos to really sell the mixed units and open style the sept has needed to adopt due to their line of work.
I have lots of plans for abhumans and xenos - I in particular want to convert a really noble beastman fire warrior breacher who leads the charge. Some mutant who was shown nothing but love born inside the borders of the Tau empire - Free of hatred and judgement, who knows what a beastman could become?
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
In the baes you are creating a circular cross-section of the ground. Maybe you can put something buried. Maggots? Fossils? If you do the same for hero minis, definitively go for something big on the Citadel Skulls set...
You are not wrong about the energy shotgun in halo. The Z-180 Close Combat Rifle/Asymmetrical Engagement Mitigator. It was introduced back in 2012, in Halo 4. It may not be what you had in mind, but I just want to confirm that it is in fact a real thing.
I would pay so much money to get a full army of this. I was thinking of painting my T'au pink, but couldn't think of a good way to pull it off. This is amazing!! Well done.
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!
I love your Tau design and lore, it really inspires me to try and start a "Rising Sun" Sept of my own(white and red, I know... But it will be different!), and much like you, I will be adding plenty of alien auxiliaries. Humans, Kroot, Vespid, and even some other misc aliens I've found in Tau armor through 3d files (mass effect Turians I think they're called). I was thinking of making them some form of vanguard Sept for ronin, ranger, and general free-thinking types that do not do so well at the center of Tau life. Can't wait to see how your force develops, but if I had one single criticism, it would be that your gue'la la isn't a breacher, were Tau are at their most vulnerable.
Don't worry, there will be heaps of variety sprinkled all throughout - Remember, Tau also have supposedly got bad depth perception compared to humans, so a human is likely going to be a better marksman just the same!
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
4:25 if you were a samurai you always had two swords even if they weren’t allowed their large sword that’s why there are 3 major decreasing sizes (katana, wakazashi and tanto) also i’d love if there were in the major base like the largest or command area there was a sakura tree which is the main meeting area for the different members
Your story is so weirdly in line with mine. When i was working my first job (a little over 15 years ago) i picked up some GW tools, paints, basing materials, and a Tau Firewarriors. I Brought it home, opened the box, put it all back in the box and put it in the closet, and it took me until The Starpulse Cadre to decide to go back, and so last year i bought that big box and so this last year i have been (VERY SLOWLY) putting them together, and buying things for a small workshop to do more, faster. Also just invested in an amazon bundle Airbrush kit and also just bought the Elegoo Saturn SLA 3D Printer, and various accessories for that. I'm trying to learn as much as i can as fast as i can so i can start building a table to play on.
Very nice. Thought some of those bits looked familiar, recently been looking into Puppetswar, plan to use them for my Salamanders as well as a couple pieces for other armies of mine (this month was great, got Brainbugs for my Alien Hive, Paqbots for warbikers, and some plagueboys for my Nurgle). Very much looking forward to more of their stuff
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
I’ve literally started a custom Tau kill team too dude, I went a darker approach making my pathfinder team all sole survivors of harsh conflicts brought together as a single seek and destroy unit. Given them a headhunter vibe as they collect the heads of targets and wear the skulls of the most powerful creatures of the galaxy they kill.
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.
these guys are fantastic ! most custom ideas struggle to fit with the Tau aesthetic , but this is perfect i do want to see you bring back the split cloth from 2:09 for some of your guys combined with your new fancy parts and matured sculpting/painting skills, this would be the perfect element to bring that final bit of flavor don't Tau have plasma swords now ? so you can put your melee to use, its not just for show looking forward to seeing more and the debut battle vs the bears
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is it written as "Sa'kura" or "Sak'ra"? i'm just curious
What's the song and artist at 12:16
It's always fun to see personalized armies. Makes them more unique and gives the creator opportunities to be more creative.
I will never not create my own armies. Way too much possibility to create wasted by just copying.
Plus you feel like the army is yours as well like your a general or emperor
Yeah, I agree. Each to their own of course but being creative always ends up in better results. It's so much fun to imagine a background story for your team and make them look special.
I would love to see a Kroot detachment done up in this sept. They seem like they would really fit with the lore too.
Kroot done as straw hat ronin
@@Omniescent exactly what I was thinking!!
Hell yeah, kroot are sick!
I keep wanting to convert some Kroot to a more fantasy use. There used to be a great tutorial for them using wood elf bits that are basically nonexistent now
@@collegeoffoliage6776 Sick from eatin people..
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
Can't wait to expand it! Round out those squads and paint some tanks. Then onto the mecha!
@@narratordave7831 Once the squads are rounded out more would be amazing to see perhaps a mini diorama between them and the Astra Primursa that you can both work on? Whatever comes next though i know you'll both kick arse
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.
Especially since he brought up melee. Gue'vesa would reasonably be kept as a melee force since humans are better than Tau (for a variety of reasons) when compared in hand on hand combat.
Been waiting to finally see these guys! They did not disappoint.
Thankyou!
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
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.
Yoo these turned out sick!! I LOVE the flower banners!! Its cool to see such a delicate flower moved to such a badass theme!!
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
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)).
Nice.
On one side brute warriors from cold winter. On the other, elegant ones bringing spring :D
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
Bro I loved this it fr made me cry
I like the idea of a T'au Katana not being an offensive weapon but a defence tool. You could lorecraft them as hardened mini-shields that are wielded to deflect incoming gunfire, playing off the tropes of Samurai deflecting bullets with their swords.
After such a long time in the planning stage I would love to see these guys in action! Well done on completing them.
for the greater good! Tau are from release till now my favourite species, army what ever.
The ending was a surprise, but made my day brighter.
While I personally have a grudge towards the T’au for 8th edition, you have my admiration for all of your hard work and all the time you put into making this
last time i was this early the moria goblin models looked good
Murray!!! BIG HUG! Good to see you introduced outside of the storage locker. 😁👍
Welcome to The Greater Good at long last Dave! Looking forward to seeing more of your Sept and eventually even an entire army of Sa'kura one day. Your idea for the Stealth suits is something I'm totally stealing for research purposes and the paint scheme is beautifully simple yet striking, Jazza's bears won't know what hit them (especially with those tweaks to the upcoming Codex 😈) T'au'va!
His sergeant isn't wearing a helmet - I know where to aim my pulse rifles!
Well, Dave, you're doing better than me, because I still haven't purchased or otherwise acquired any Tau of my own, and I was fascinated when the First Codex came out, back in 3E! Yup, back in 2001! 20 frickadellen years ago! Unfortunately for the Tau though, there are so many more projects that have a place of priority in my brain, and honestly, my PoS is big enough already (even if out of my brother, sister-in-almost-law and, in fact, absolutely everyone I know who plays or paints... mine is easily the smallest PoS I know of).
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!
Great video! Can't wait for the battle report against the space bears.
Another reason for the Tau carrying swords could be that they play a similar role to the Wakizashi swords carried by the Samurai. A Samurai would mainly use his katana for combat and the Wakizashi remained at his side as a symbol of honour that he always carried with him (never losing his honour). The Sakura could be carrying their swords for sentimental reasons while mainly using their rifles for combat.
You just made my day. This is what I am doing with my own Tau.
My patience would have worn off about half way through the first mini. Great job on these! The Tau armor is awesome!
The 1st Tau army I even saw after they 1st came out was painted as Macross SDF army. The suits painted as the different character's Veritechs.
They look really pretty, well done Dave
It's amazing how close this is to the custom Tau concept I came up with myself! The japanese designs, the swapped out samurai shoulder armor, the black, red, white color scheme, and even wanting to make custom humans in the squad.
Just goes to show that great minds think alike! :)
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.
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.
I can barely wait to see you painting a whole army of Sa'kura Tau, with air support!
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In all seriousness, they look amazing and gorgeous. I love them.
Awesome work! Tau was one of my first armies, and i still have a spot for them in my heart.
Having painted a lot of white(ish) and black armor i highly recommend using slightly toned highlights. Skin colors with intermediate blues work wonders on black as a final touch, and a bright sand color or blueish ulthuan gray is great to add some visual interest and natural lightning to whites.
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.
As a T'au fan who loves mecha and samurai.. this puts a smile on my face. :D
I'm really curious how you'd convert a Commander to match your Sept!
Sweet! Really love the stealth suit design.
3:30 there is a plasma shotgun in halo, or something like that, it’s a hard light gun, but it’s a sort of plasma shotgun.
That is probs one of my fav killteams ive seen in a long time
I'm not a GW games players, so i don't know if someone had done those samurai tau, but, wow, that's a really nice convertion.
Are you kidding me ? Amazing. Man these are awsome. Thanks for sharing.
These are aoooo clean and sharp my OCD brain LOVES them!
2:20 "ALERT ALL IMPERIAL VESSELS THE TAU LEARN MELEE I REPEAT THE TAU LEARN MELEE
WE'RE BEING PICK OF HERE I..." *last vox recording of a guardsmen regiment upon entering the tau empire territory*
Bloody beautiful old chap
I really like the drone top as straw hat. That's fantastic.
Those are looking great. The pink is a fantastic accent color on these guys.
Oh man those tiny cherry blossoms are beautiful
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!
watch the adeptus ridiculous they are good at explaining WH40 lore with a bit of memes on the side
Realworld samurai rarely fought with their swords either, so it makes perfect sense for samurai themed Tau to have swords even if they don't use them.
Gotta say as a Tau player this is the most exciting theme I've seen. Keep up the awesome work!!!!
I love this unique interpretation of the tau, my tau force is no were near as cool. Id love to see more.
the custom head on the one gives it the look of having the wide brim straw hat on
Funny that I'm in the same position. I've sort of put off starting a Tau army for more than a decade and I've just now started a Kill Team myself.
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
the tiny little "yay" at the end made the whole video. Glad I didn't click away
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
You could say the swords are more for show than anything else. Essentially being a branch off of the commander farsight enclave that still sticks to ranged combat.
liked for the kickass conversion, commented for the awkward ending that had no right to be as entertaining as it was!
I absolutely adore the way this sept looks and also your Guevesa (sp?) modeling job. I've always been a lover of the more border Tau, who eschew some of the doctrine for practicality and battle advantages (e.g Farsight).
For flavor and a future larger army, it might be nice to get some Crisis suits kitted out more for close quarters/melee. Or, as another commenter suggested, Kroot. Maybe in that latter case, do some kitbashing and conversions with some lizardmen and other similarly inclined xenos to really sell the mixed units and open style the sept has needed to adopt due to their line of work.
I have lots of plans for abhumans and xenos - I in particular want to convert a really noble beastman fire warrior breacher who leads the charge. Some mutant who was shown nothing but love born inside the borders of the Tau empire - Free of hatred and judgement, who knows what a beastman could become?
@@narratordave7831 I eagerly await the noble, horned champion of the Greater Good.
Finally I've been so excited for this ever since you mentioned t'au
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
In the baes you are creating a circular cross-section of the ground. Maybe you can put something buried. Maggots? Fossils? If you do the same for hero minis, definitively go for something big on the Citadel Skulls set...
I'm gonna retroactively turn the red on my Tau to pink now after seeing your color scheme
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.
Insanely cool! Especially like the stealth suits!!!
Definitely inspired me since im currently working on 2000 points of tau and wanna try kitbashing my last 500 points I gotta assemble
You are not wrong about the energy shotgun in halo. The Z-180 Close Combat Rifle/Asymmetrical Engagement Mitigator. It was introduced back in 2012, in Halo 4. It may not be what you had in mind, but I just want to confirm that it is in fact a real thing.
I would pay so much money to get a full army of this. I was thinking of painting my T'au pink, but couldn't think of a good way to pull it off. This is amazing!! Well done.
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!
those models look drop dead gorgeous 🤩🤩🤩
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!
Beautiful colour scheme!
I would love to see it on some crisis suits or a ghost keel, I think it would really work well on them!
I love your Tau design and lore, it really inspires me to try and start a "Rising Sun" Sept of my own(white and red, I know... But it will be different!), and much like you, I will be adding plenty of alien auxiliaries. Humans, Kroot, Vespid, and even some other misc aliens I've found in Tau armor through 3d files (mass effect Turians I think they're called). I was thinking of making them some form of vanguard Sept for ronin, ranger, and general free-thinking types that do not do so well at the center of Tau life.
Can't wait to see how your force develops, but if I had one single criticism, it would be that your gue'la la isn't a breacher, were Tau are at their most vulnerable.
Don't worry, there will be heaps of variety sprinkled all throughout - Remember, Tau also have supposedly got bad depth perception compared to humans, so a human is likely going to be a better marksman just the same!
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
4:25 if you were a samurai you always had two swords even if they weren’t allowed their large sword that’s why there are 3 major decreasing sizes (katana, wakazashi and tanto) also i’d love if there were in the major base like the largest or command area there was a sakura tree which is the main meeting area for the different members
Your story is so weirdly in line with mine. When i was working my first job (a little over 15 years ago) i picked up some GW tools, paints, basing materials, and a Tau Firewarriors. I Brought it home, opened the box, put it all back in the box and put it in the closet, and it took me until The Starpulse Cadre to decide to go back, and so last year i bought that big box and so this last year i have been (VERY SLOWLY) putting them together, and buying things for a small workshop to do more, faster. Also just invested in an amazon bundle Airbrush kit and also just bought the Elegoo Saturn SLA 3D Printer, and various accessories for that. I'm trying to learn as much as i can as fast as i can so i can start building a table to play on.
Very nice. Thought some of those bits looked familiar, recently been looking into Puppetswar, plan to use them for my Salamanders as well as a couple pieces for other armies of mine (this month was great, got Brainbugs for my Alien Hive, Paqbots for warbikers, and some plagueboys for my Nurgle). Very much looking forward to more of their stuff
Have always loved the Tau! Great project Dave!
Amazing concept for an army. I love the geometric design of the Tao and anything samurai/cherry blossom is perfect
Love the sept concept!! I can't wait to see more!!
The drone heads came out super nice.
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
Next month one page rules is doing samurai tau, you may find the helmets useful for this conversion at the least. Love these models keep it up!
Great choices! miniNatur is my favourite address for miniature greenery!
That snow would be perfect for my space wolfs
I’ve literally started a custom Tau kill team too dude, I went a darker approach making my pathfinder team all sole survivors of harsh conflicts brought together as a single seek and destroy unit. Given them a headhunter vibe as they collect the heads of targets and wear the skulls of the most powerful creatures of the galaxy they kill.
Those drones as hats make the units look like wandering traders :D great job, makes me wanna continue my grey knights
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.
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 👍🏻
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
I like the idea of having an Ork Tau unit, it'd be fun and also would show how vastly varied and diverse the Tau faction can be
these guys are fantastic !
most custom ideas struggle to fit with the Tau aesthetic , but this is perfect
i do want to see you bring back the split cloth from 2:09 for some of your guys
combined with your new fancy parts and matured sculpting/painting skills, this would be the perfect element to bring that final bit of flavor
don't Tau have plasma swords now ?
so you can put your melee to use, its not just for show
looking forward to seeing more and the debut battle vs the bears
That turned out amazing can't wait to see how that battle turns out.
Might pinch this idea love the whole feel of the kill team fantastic stuff👍