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Hi, Guy! We live in modern times and there are a load of mediums that speed up oils polymerisation to mere days (if not just hours)! Malbutter, Liquine and Megilp are just some examples of those, but they make painting minis with oils quite viable.
@@MidwinterMinis No problem! Also there is still an old fashioned use of some varnishes and thinners, which can sped up drying times a lot, but with a smelly fumes and tricky use they loose to modern means. Overall oils probably one of the best mediums to make speedpaint look fancy, and not just through washes alone
@@Forty-K hopefully he does this and harks on communism and how playing commies is bad, only to have a sponsor segment for a game where you can play as "the red team"
My tip for the Skitarii - non-Chaotic Hereteks. Those who turned back on the Imperium and its teachings, yet did manage not to succumb to call of Chaos. Using forbidden mix of AdMechs' and Xenos' technology, with gritty look of outlaws.
Xenarites are so much fun to build up. Giving them Gauss flayers and pulse rifles and sticking various bits and bobs to the vehicles. It's like building Orks just really really fiddly
I'd love to see this. I've thought of doing something similar and leaning heavily into the creepy horror side of admech with loads of extra pipes and tendrils you can make with those greenstuff rollers.
I was going to suggest similar. Consider he now has a bunch of leftover Tau bits, it would be ironic for the Chaos Tau to face off against Mechanicum that have been seduced by the greater good.
Cool idea. I've always thought a Russian inspired Space Marine chapter would be amazing. Maybe based on Imp Fists. Noble, stoic, never surrender never retreat kinda guys. Rasputin would make a good Librarian. Chapter Masters would be called Czars. 🤔 I might need to get printing. I may have the start of a hell of agood army.
I personally think a necron-worshipping Xenos-cult Mechanicum color scheme like that one found in the Mechanicus game would be super cool! black robes and deep metal accented with glowing green sounds awesome!
Midwinter Minis is the ultimate champion of the "I did it cuz I thought it would be cool" style of painting and kitbashing and I love seeing it. Always prefer it when people have fun and do up minis the way they want as opposed to the strict "There Can Be No Fun In My Grimdark Army Man Game" method some go with. As a T'au player looking to make Orky followers of the T'au'va, I approve!
Farsight's sword isn't actually chaos, its just an ancient xenos sword made by an alien race older than the imperium, out of a material called a 'chronophagic alloy'. The alien race were also themselves very anti chaos, considering they developed many runes to help contain and deny the warp. (Hence all those khorne daemons trapped under Arthas Moloc). Although the dawn blade itself does take the lifespan cutshort of its victims, it in itself isn't necessarily evil.
I think it's ultimately both, an anti-chaos faction that utilizes warp interactive technology, such as time influencing stuff, and vitality buffing, would likely have a tie to chaos physics somewhere along the lines, especially if it's Xenos tech, considering how many aliens are blatant Chaos worshipers.
Yeah lol I don't think its been fully revealed but that is what I've heard is the most accurate Lore for the Dawn Blade! The description makes it sound Necronish in origin, kinda like that guy that has the staff that sucks out the tactical corpse's soul.
Since you went with Chaos themed Tau, how about Necron themed Admech? Green glows and grey metal bits to represent an Admech army thats delved a bit too deeply into ancient Necron tombs.
If you want a recommendation for the AdMech, I say go with some variation of the Styges VIII Forgeworld scheme! The Styges VIII Mechanicum are rife with Xenarites who adapt and venerate xenos technologies, so could make for some fun kitbashes as well. That said, their black and red scheme might not contrast very well with these grim and gritty Chaos Tau.
I love seeing such unique T'au models. I see so many T'au players at every hobby shop I go to and it's so wonderful seeing converted T'au that can stand out. Personally I play "fish people" T'au where they are all sea monsters with a custom Commander in Kraken Battlesuit
tip: if you don't want to use oils for any reason, use a artist ink like Liquitex or FW for the white lining. i recently used some Liquitex titanium white ink on my necons and it works almost as well as oil. just have to be a bit more careful and guide the paint along. it is amazing for recessed glowing details.
@@MidwinterMinis Chaos tau and dark mechanicum forces battling over long buried chaos artifacts would be really cool. You could give some of the Mechanicum forces a visual contrast to the tau by giving them white robes, as some of the mechanicum members wore white instead of red and held that it was an older, truer uniform. And, it shows stains of oil, blood, and the hideous alchemic mixture of both in excellent detail...
@@blandedgear9704 I think that in the Dark Heresy novels, the tech priests wore white (or it was in another BL novel I had red around the same time frame...)
I am in love with this. I love that the fall to chaos is a conscious choice with the Tau. This open up even more possible themes and paint choices for Tau armies. Keep this up.
You could paint them to look like old diving suits from the 1800s. Yellow glows to the eyes, maybe mess around with the bases a bit and make them more sea themed etc. Either that or just Triplex Phall, they are a fun Forgeworld with no special rules but great fluff/lore!
Hey Guy! Huge fan of your channel, it's what got me into Warhammer, and i've been following it from as far back as the old Blackstone fortress tutorials. I was wondering if you ever have plans to do a "How to play" style video for the Horus Heresy? I think it would be a great way to introduce people to one of GW's lesser-known games, and help explain the 7th edition-style rules to those who are new to the system. But once again, cheers, and thank you for all the work you put into making these videos!
For Skitarii I've always wanted to do a proper steampunk vibe, bordering on medieval. So like, lots of wood, a green wooded scenery etc, not grimdark just steampunk. Think that'll be relatively easy to achieve just with a paintjob, some cocktail stirrers and basing material, and it's a unique take you don't see done very often.
Love ideas like this that have no real canonical reason to not be done, but for whatever reason are less commonly mashupped! Look forward to seeing them showdown in the arena!
When the question "Can it be corrupted by Chaos" comes up, I like to point out that soulless, inanimate objects can and have been corrupted by Chaos. Any physical matter can be corrupted by Chaos. Tau have weak souls, and while that helps them hide, it also means that once found, they're easy pickings. One misjudgement to offer themselves, or even one bad trip through the warp, and Tau could become shells of their former selves, enslaved by the ruinous powers. Chaos versions of any army are lore accurate
You know what models fit PERFECTLY with ad-mech bits? Nighthaunt :D. Dark Mechanicum!! Rust stalker heads fit perfectly under bladeghiest revenants and the arms are the same scale. Dreadblade harrows can be easily converted to serberys raiders, and the manipulus looks great when kitbashed with the scriptor mortis.
I've always had a "Mars Attacks" scheme idea for mechanicus (for obvious reasons), but never got around to it due to already having 2 armys and planning a third, but i'd love to see that idea come to fruition here.
Tau was my first love in 40K but I was never statisfied with my Tau. My love faded and I went to the Astra Militarium and I'm proud of mine. This right here is what I need to give my Tau some love! I'm gonna pick up the bits and work on converting them soon!
What I did with my skitarii was influenced by the NCR veteran rangers from Fallout New Vegas, so olive drab armour, grey-blue under suits and brown leather coats, but I painted the coat linings orange to give them a pop of colour, plus red eye lenses, for the vehicles I use a camo scheme from second world war British soft skin vehicles (trucks) called the 'cloud' or 'mickey mouse' pattern, a light green base with the disruptive pattern done in dark green and any non-armour plated worky bits (legs on the dunecrawler) done in a pale tan colour (i use Portland stone, but pale sand is not that far off) looks pretty cool when it's done and if you want an ad-mech army that's a bit different, this drab, camouflaged look is not a bad way to do it!
I wonder how the Mechanicus would look if they were themed after the Institute from fallout 4. Just imagine pristine white coats and clean lab equipment.
YAY! I've been contemplating Chaos Tau,- I've seen some cool Tzeentch vehicles with mouths and things. Very cool! edit; oh!!!! in honour of chaos tau; how about "Tau themed Skitari"? The human mechanicus is always so....messy and disjointed, maybe if we had some humans who weren't afraid of technological progress or 'nicer tech'!?
Welcome back! I LOVE this stuff! Kitbashery! Conversionation! Something new! Rule-o'-Coolness! Also, your basing...er...goop? Totally chaotic! I mean the sheer randomness of the stuff included is just bomb! Anyway, fantastic video as usual. Love your subtle callback to your previous "controversial" vid (myself, I never saw that - always glad to see discussion and debate among hobbyists but it never felt that was the intent.Honked me off when people started getting personal - that's frankly, unacceptable). Glad to see you back and in your usual chill, positive and entertaining form!
Nice to see a well executed chaos Tau army. For the skitarii, maybe Final Fantasy 6 Magitek themed/Gehstahlian empire. Maybe a bit too specific, but it’s what comes to mind.
ANother VOte for HereTek Skittari! AN exploritor that went to far in their Exploraitons! THese are Fantastic Y'all! Love the work you both put in here, and I'm very excited to see how far this Wayward band of blueberries can go!
regal white and blue skitarri could be sick af. Don't paint them the typical primarily silver or metal, instead give them an actual painted steel look, maybe try White, blue, and Orange for contrast?
A concept that I heard mentioned once but has never seen actually executed is that of a garden-world or Solarpunk admech. Incorporating foliage elements and contrasting the silver with some more earthy browns and greens.
I’ve always wanted to see Skitari that are created from an Ordo of the Mechanicus that studies agriculture. Having plants and nature fused in and part of the horrific cyborgs the skitari are has always been a driving idea for me.
Okay, so, just as a note, the T'au leaders are Ethereals, not Farseers. Eldar have Farseers. 😉 Love how this turned out, BTW. Steve coming in with the 3D printer save. For the Skitarii, Xenotech specialists is the way to go! Give them glory green bits for Necron tech, replace their special weapons with appropriate T'au weapons or Eldar Weapons, all that good stuff.
I live how this series turned into awesome experimental paint jobs and conversions ❤ great place to take risks in the small format while getting enough models to see how a whole army would look. These are awesome btw :)
This reminds me of an idea I had. Tau infected by Ork spores. I think these guys turned out pretty good. As for the Skitarii, I have only one word, steampunk. Brass and copper and polished steel all over the place.
There is this one forgeworld in horus heresy lore, called Xana. They became the first hellforge, and they have a great tan/ dark metal/ red colour scheme with a 3-tailed scorpion and mechanized dog skulls as symbols.
Its all fun and games until someone has to play Chaos Tau :P All humour aside; some people will create drama where there is none, for views. Its a shame, but you continue to do you. Love your vids.
For the Skitaari - definitely nurgle. Lots of places for exposed rust but I like to use green inks for shiny components to mimic machine coolant. Could look quite good in places. Also weathered wood (like dead wood rot) on the weapons could be a fun kitbash
You should try the opposite for the white oil. Spray paint the recesses and osl around the area you want, then add the oil wash on top of it in the recess.
i think painting the skitarii like construction equipment would be really fun and unique, maybe the admech uses them as reserve fighters when they run out of regular forces?
Canonically, Tau just have very weak souls. They barely register as a presence in the Warp, which is why daemons usually leave them alone - they're just not very tempting prey. That, and I guess that the resulting lack of psykers and sorcerers means there's no easy entry point for them. I don't think that makes them immune to warp shenanigans, though. Under the right circumstances, Chaos can corrupt animals, machines and even entire planets, so there's no reason to presume it couldn't take over T'au if the opportunity presented itself.
I think it could be cool to do some immaculate Mechanicus. like the tech priests of the Custodes? or those that upkeep the golden throne? the best of the mechanicus' technologies in regal colours.
There actually is a reason why Tau are 'imune' to chaos. they have very weak and small souls, meaning their presence in the warp is negligible. While they can theoreticaly fall to chaos, it would have to be a conscious decition. They couldn't be corrupted by chaos, they would have to corrupt themselfs intentionialy, which is very unlikelly for anyone to do. Especially the Tau.
4:28 that's a ethereal, not a farseer lol. Otherwise, great video! I personally love the concept of chaos tau, just because they have comparatively weak souls doesn't mean they can't be corrupted, chaos tends to corrupt humans the most because it's easier, we have decent psychic potential, and there's just so much of us, but as the tau expand it would make sense for chaos to grab as many as they can, especially in order to attack the new growing threat the tau are.
I love the idea of chaos tau. I love the idea that they don’t even know that they worship chaos… I can imagine them saying something like “Greater is good!” Or something like that! Definitely my favorite way to think of them now!
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Hi, Guy! We live in modern times and there are a load of mediums that speed up oils polymerisation to mere days (if not just hours)! Malbutter, Liquine and Megilp are just some examples of those, but they make painting minis with oils quite viable.
@@VladimirKharchenko that's great to know, thank you!
@@MidwinterMinis No problem! Also there is still an old fashioned use of some varnishes and thinners, which can sped up drying times a lot, but with a smelly fumes and tricky use they loose to modern means. Overall oils probably one of the best mediums to make speedpaint look fancy, and not just through washes alone
I'm gonna be honest, I don't really care how you paint the skitarii as long as there's a mini toaster somewhere.
@@Forty-K hopefully he does this and harks on communism and how playing commies is bad, only to have a sponsor segment for a game where you can play as "the red team"
My tip for the Skitarii - non-Chaotic Hereteks. Those who turned back on the Imperium and its teachings, yet did manage not to succumb to call of Chaos. Using forbidden mix of AdMechs' and Xenos' technology, with gritty look of outlaws.
Xenarites are so much fun to build up. Giving them Gauss flayers and pulse rifles and sticking various bits and bobs to the vehicles. It's like building Orks just really really fiddly
@@surpriseandterror9698 Yep, just it should have the idea that they are enemies of Imperium as well as its false Omnissiah/Emperor
That’s a awesome sounding idea! I’m a Admech player and I’ve always been interested in the idea of Hereteks on the table top.
I'd love to see this. I've thought of doing something similar and leaning heavily into the creepy horror side of admech with loads of extra pipes and tendrils you can make with those greenstuff rollers.
I was going to suggest similar. Consider he now has a bunch of leftover Tau bits, it would be ironic for the Chaos Tau to face off against Mechanicum that have been seduced by the greater good.
Guy calling the Ethereal a Farseer caused d6 mortal wounds
Legitimately didn’t notice till my second watch
Are you really all that surprised the dude doesn't know what he's talking about? I don't even play this game and I can tell this guy doesn't care.
@@mattpace1026I don’t think he plays much either, I think he just paints.
Just as planned.
@@mattpace1026 Just a quick question?! What the heck are you doing here then?! And if you don't know what you talking about, don't comment!
I think a napoleonic war admech army could be a fun.
I might actually do that!
@@llamapocolypes2875 the irony you think this is irony
Cool idea. I've always thought a Russian inspired Space Marine chapter would be amazing. Maybe based on Imp Fists. Noble, stoic, never surrender never retreat kinda guys. Rasputin would make a good Librarian. Chapter Masters would be called Czars. 🤔 I might need to get printing. I may have the start of a hell of agood army.
Napoleonic all the way!
Nah, an iron harvest inspired AdMech force. They already got the steampunk mechs
I personally think a necron-worshipping Xenos-cult Mechanicum color scheme like that one found in the Mechanicus game would be super cool! black robes and deep metal accented with glowing green sounds awesome!
Guy needs to see this!
Midwinter Minis is the ultimate champion of the "I did it cuz I thought it would be cool" style of painting and kitbashing and I love seeing it. Always prefer it when people have fun and do up minis the way they want as opposed to the strict "There Can Be No Fun In My Grimdark Army Man Game" method some go with. As a T'au player looking to make Orky followers of the T'au'va, I approve!
If by cool, you mean pants on head retarded then sure.
Blood Axes for dah gratah gud!
The gw corpse heads are from the old zombie boxes. As for the mechanicum make them chaos as well to see who have the true will of the Gods.
ork boyz box too
@@vanillaicecream2385 Yeah I have plenty from a bag of old ork bits I got at a yard sale
Farsight's sword isn't actually chaos, its just an ancient xenos sword made by an alien race older than the imperium, out of a material called a 'chronophagic alloy'. The alien race were also themselves very anti chaos, considering they developed many runes to help contain and deny the warp. (Hence all those khorne daemons trapped under Arthas Moloc). Although the dawn blade itself does take the lifespan cutshort of its victims, it in itself isn't necessarily evil.
Look at you comin' at me with ACTUAL lore! Haha
I think it's ultimately both, an anti-chaos faction that utilizes warp interactive technology, such as time influencing stuff, and vitality buffing, would likely have a tie to chaos physics somewhere along the lines, especially if it's Xenos tech, considering how many aliens are blatant Chaos worshipers.
Yeah lol I don't think its been fully revealed but that is what I've heard is the most accurate Lore for the Dawn Blade! The description makes it sound Necronish in origin, kinda like that guy that has the staff that sucks out the tactical corpse's soul.
That's just what Tzeentch wants you to think
Laying down some knowledge. Nice one dude
Since you went with Chaos themed Tau, how about Necron themed Admech? Green glows and grey metal bits to represent an Admech army thats delved a bit too deeply into ancient Necron tombs.
The cloaks of the admech would fit well with a WW1 trenchcoat look.
Be careful, that might be *too* historical, lol
Might ruffle some feathers
Give them little spiked helmuts too.
If you want a recommendation for the AdMech, I say go with some variation of the Styges VIII Forgeworld scheme! The Styges VIII Mechanicum are rife with Xenarites who adapt and venerate xenos technologies, so could make for some fun kitbashes as well.
That said, their black and red scheme might not contrast very well with these grim and gritty Chaos Tau.
Guys palette is more paint than palette.
Steve's parts are absolutely genius
Guy, as cool as the scheme is, it feels like a missed opportunity for a pun. You should have painted them even darker and call them... Incogni'Tau!
Excited for a Midwinter mini and Painting Phase crossover after the tease this episode 😮
Thanks for the shoutout, Guy! They look great!
I love the Steve cameos. Adds a nice element of sex appeal.
I love seeing such unique T'au models. I see so many T'au players at every hobby shop I go to and it's so wonderful seeing converted T'au that can stand out. Personally I play "fish people" T'au where they are all sea monsters with a custom Commander in Kraken Battlesuit
tip: if you don't want to use oils for any reason, use a artist ink like Liquitex or FW for the white lining. i recently used some Liquitex titanium white ink on my necons and it works almost as well as oil. just have to be a bit more careful and guide the paint along. it is amazing for recessed glowing details.
As a mechanicanicus fan, i would love to see another uniquely chaotic conversions with some dark mechanicum
Don't tempt me
@@MidwinterMinis mwah ha ha ha
@@MidwinterMinis Chaos tau and dark mechanicum forces battling over long buried chaos artifacts would be really cool.
You could give some of the Mechanicum forces a visual contrast to the tau by giving them white robes, as some of the mechanicum members wore white instead of red and held that it was an older, truer uniform. And, it shows stains of oil, blood, and the hideous alchemic mixture of both in excellent detail...
Dark mechanicus and dark tau trying to gain the favor or Vashtorr...
@@blandedgear9704 I think that in the Dark Heresy novels, the tech priests wore white (or it was in another BL novel I had red around the same time frame...)
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I am in love with this. I love that the fall to chaos is a conscious choice with the Tau. This open up even more possible themes and paint choices for Tau armies. Keep this up.
i'm obsessed with wastelander admech, all rusted tech, rags for cloaks, vehicles from whatever was salvagable (not orky tho)
you get the idea
You could paint them to look like old diving suits from the 1800s. Yellow glows to the eyes, maybe mess around with the bases a bit and make them more sea themed etc. Either that or just Triplex Phall, they are a fun Forgeworld with no special rules but great fluff/lore!
U don’t know how much u have helped me with these videos
full on brass steampunk for the skitarii as a good contrast to the grimdark T'au. Like, clean brass, gleaming metal and all that goodness
I think the severed eldar head is from the old Ork Boyz kit
It is indeed!
As an ork player I can confirm that
SkTAUri rangers
(Tau inspired theme, given the mechanics love of tech, this splinter group accepted the modern ways)
This is a rly cool and creative idea and not something u see big content creators trying. Great work MWM!
Lol at the "paint something noncontroversial" shout! Paint what makes you happy.
guy's channel has such black metal energy even the tau cannot withstand it.
enjoyed your m&s food advert voice on this one guy!
Hey Guy! Huge fan of your channel, it's what got me into Warhammer, and i've been following it from as far back as the old Blackstone fortress tutorials. I was wondering if you ever have plans to do a "How to play" style video for the Horus Heresy? I think it would be a great way to introduce people to one of GW's lesser-known games, and help explain the 7th edition-style rules to those who are new to the system. But once again, cheers, and thank you for all the work you put into making these videos!
For Skitarii I've always wanted to do a proper steampunk vibe, bordering on medieval.
So like, lots of wood, a green wooded scenery etc, not grimdark just steampunk.
Think that'll be relatively easy to achieve just with a paintjob, some cocktail stirrers and basing material, and it's a unique take you don't see done very often.
Make them properly da'vinci looking. This gets my vote.
that would be sick
If we can put a daemon in a soulless piece of metal like a sword, we can damn well put one in a soulless piece of xenos meat like a tau.
Love ideas like this that have no real canonical reason to not be done, but for whatever reason are less commonly mashupped! Look forward to seeing them showdown in the arena!
Take a shot everytime guy calls the ethereal a farseer 😂 love the vid
I can't get over how cool this is. Very very impressed Guy! Big props to Steve for those primo prints as well
When the question "Can it be corrupted by Chaos" comes up, I like to point out that soulless, inanimate objects can and have been corrupted by Chaos. Any physical matter can be corrupted by Chaos.
Tau have weak souls, and while that helps them hide, it also means that once found, they're easy pickings.
One misjudgement to offer themselves, or even one bad trip through the warp, and Tau could become shells of their former selves, enslaved by the ruinous powers.
Chaos versions of any army are lore accurate
Do the skitarri in an almost angelic scheme and style, to contrast the chaos tau
You know what models fit PERFECTLY with ad-mech bits? Nighthaunt :D. Dark Mechanicum!! Rust stalker heads fit perfectly under bladeghiest revenants and the arms are the same scale. Dreadblade harrows can be easily converted to serberys raiders, and the manipulus looks great when kitbashed with the scriptor mortis.
I've always had a "Mars Attacks" scheme idea for mechanicus (for obvious reasons), but never got around to it due to already having 2 armys and planning a third, but i'd love to see that idea come to fruition here.
I don't know what's been tortured more, the Tau's victims or your palette!
Tau was my first love in 40K but I was never statisfied with my Tau. My love faded and I went to the Astra Militarium and I'm proud of mine. This right here is what I need to give my Tau some love! I'm gonna pick up the bits and work on converting them soon!
What I did with my skitarii was influenced by the NCR veteran rangers from Fallout New Vegas, so olive drab armour, grey-blue under suits and brown leather coats, but I painted the coat linings orange to give them a pop of colour, plus red eye lenses, for the vehicles I use a camo scheme from second world war British soft skin vehicles (trucks) called the 'cloud' or 'mickey mouse' pattern, a light green base with the disruptive pattern done in dark green and any non-armour plated worky bits (legs on the dunecrawler) done in a pale tan colour (i use Portland stone, but pale sand is not that far off) looks pretty cool when it's done and if you want an ad-mech army that's a bit different, this drab, camouflaged look is not a bad way to do it!
This is really silly. Which is why I like it so much. Well done
Those upright drones came out really well and are just brilliant overall, I love them.
I wonder how the Mechanicus would look if they were themed after the Institute from fallout 4. Just imagine pristine white coats and clean lab equipment.
Heavenly Host Skittari. Lots of bright whites and golds
YAY! I've been contemplating Chaos Tau,- I've seen some cool Tzeentch vehicles with mouths and things. Very cool! edit; oh!!!! in honour of chaos tau; how about "Tau themed Skitari"? The human mechanicus is always so....messy and disjointed, maybe if we had some humans who weren't afraid of technological progress or 'nicer tech'!?
If I remember correctly, the severed head comes from an ork kit, the old ork boyz to be exact.
Nailed it!
Welcome back! I LOVE this stuff! Kitbashery! Conversionation! Something new! Rule-o'-Coolness! Also, your basing...er...goop? Totally chaotic! I mean the sheer randomness of the stuff included is just bomb! Anyway, fantastic video as usual. Love your subtle callback to your previous "controversial" vid (myself, I never saw that - always glad to see discussion and debate among hobbyists but it never felt that was the intent.Honked me off when people started getting personal - that's frankly, unacceptable). Glad to see you back and in your usual chill, positive and entertaining form!
I threw in some criticism on the previous video and frankly think people carrying it forward are acting super childish at best.
Very good Guy. Glad to see you are still doing this.
Might've been my favorite opening VO yet.
Had such a vibe to it.
For the Greater Bad?!
Nice to see a well executed chaos Tau army. For the skitarii, maybe Final Fantasy 6 Magitek themed/Gehstahlian empire. Maybe a bit too specific, but it’s what comes to mind.
The skitarii should be pimped out!
>Gold metal
>Purple robes
>Diamonds
ANother VOte for HereTek Skittari! AN exploritor that went to far in their Exploraitons!
THese are Fantastic Y'all! Love the work you both put in here, and I'm very excited to see how far this Wayward band of blueberries can go!
The decapitated head is from the 2018 Ork Boyz Box. Source: I've got one and one of my Slugga Boyz has the head as a grizzly trophy on his back. :)
regal white and blue skitarri could be sick af. Don't paint them the typical primarily silver or metal, instead give them an actual painted steel look, maybe try White, blue, and Orange for contrast?
One of my favorite Admech color schemes I have seen was a fallout vault tech inspired one. It was soo good.
A concept that I heard mentioned once but has never seen actually executed is that of a garden-world or Solarpunk admech. Incorporating foliage elements and contrasting the silver with some more earthy browns and greens.
That's an awesome idea, merging nature's machines with mankind's machines
I’ve always wanted to see Skitari that are created from an Ordo of the Mechanicus that studies agriculture. Having plants and nature fused in and part of the horrific cyborgs the skitari are has always been a driving idea for me.
Maybe do a "shattered mirror" thing for the skitarii: you have evil looking, grim taus, make clean and bright skitarii.
coolest tau army i've seen!
Okay, so, just as a note, the T'au leaders are Ethereals, not Farseers. Eldar have Farseers. 😉
Love how this turned out, BTW. Steve coming in with the 3D printer save.
For the Skitarii, Xenotech specialists is the way to go! Give them glory green bits for Necron tech, replace their special weapons with appropriate T'au weapons or Eldar Weapons, all that good stuff.
I love love love the sideways droid!
Liked for Nessa, and also because this is a fantastic idea and an equally good application
I live how this series turned into awesome experimental paint jobs and conversions ❤ great place to take risks in the small format while getting enough models to see how a whole army would look. These are awesome btw :)
This reminds me of an idea I had. Tau infected by Ork spores. I think these guys turned out pretty good.
As for the Skitarii, I have only one word, steampunk. Brass and copper and polished steel all over the place.
There is this one forgeworld in horus heresy lore, called Xana. They became the first hellforge, and they have a great tan/ dark metal/ red colour scheme with a 3-tailed scorpion and mechanized dog skulls as symbols.
I would love to see some nature themed Admech. I would nicely break the "manufacturing is all that matters" gimmick
I dunno what it is about MWM, maybe is Guys energetic way of narrating but their such a comfort channel.
Thanks for making such great videos
Its all fun and games until someone has to play Chaos Tau :P
All humour aside; some people will create drama where there is none, for views. Its a shame, but you continue to do you. Love your vids.
That white oil wash technique is genius, gotta give that a try myself sometime.
For the Skitaari - definitely nurgle. Lots of places for exposed rust but I like to use green inks for shiny components to mimic machine coolant. Could look quite good in places. Also weathered wood (like dead wood rot) on the weapons could be a fun kitbash
A man of my own heart.
I still have to build that Chaos Riptide, Emperor's Children....
Wonderful intros as always Mr. Midwinter!
And those glow effects are crazy!
You should try the opposite for the white oil. Spray paint the recesses and osl around the area you want, then add the oil wash on top of it in the recess.
i use a similar glow effect with my tau too, however i use white scar, imperial fist contrast and vallejo fluoresant orange. it still looks great!
Mind bullets?
That's telekinesis Guy
Who you calling champ, champ...( hits like button).
Teletubies or super bright fun colours for the Mechanicus or Green and yellow like Norwich football club.
Ohhh hellyeah I am all about this!!! CHAOS REIGNS! 🤘😈🤘
i think painting the skitarii like construction equipment would be really fun and unique, maybe the admech uses them as reserve fighters when they run out of regular forces?
I love the prussian blue, my first guard army was painted that. Now i use intermediate green
Canonically, Tau just have very weak souls. They barely register as a presence in the Warp, which is why daemons usually leave them alone - they're just not very tempting prey. That, and I guess that the resulting lack of psykers and sorcerers means there's no easy entry point for them.
I don't think that makes them immune to warp shenanigans, though. Under the right circumstances, Chaos can corrupt animals, machines and even entire planets, so there's no reason to presume it couldn't take over T'au if the opportunity presented itself.
For painting your skitarii, I think you should paint them like Jawas from Star Wars
Forgeworld Graia in celebration of Boltgun and Space Marine!
I think it could be cool to do some immaculate Mechanicus. like the tech priests of the Custodes? or those that upkeep the golden throne? the best of the mechanicus' technologies in regal colours.
I would personally do a winter kinda scheme, mostly white with a but of green and brown, then some Valhallan blizzard on the bases
There actually is a reason why Tau are 'imune' to chaos. they have very weak and small souls, meaning their presence in the warp is negligible. While they can theoreticaly fall to chaos, it would have to be a conscious decition. They couldn't be corrupted by chaos, they would have to corrupt themselfs intentionialy, which is very unlikelly for anyone to do. Especially the Tau.
Great episode and a very cool army, thanks for all the content
4:28 that's a ethereal, not a farseer lol. Otherwise, great video! I personally love the concept of chaos tau, just because they have comparatively weak souls doesn't mean they can't be corrupted, chaos tends to corrupt humans the most because it's easier, we have decent psychic potential, and there's just so much of us, but as the tau expand it would make sense for chaos to grab as many as they can, especially in order to attack the new growing threat the tau are.
Theoretically Tau could fall for chaos now that Vashtor is in the playground because he actually infects Tech.
As a chaos player I feel the need to say… that is an Etherial, not a farseer! Silly goose
Mash Skitari with whatever Necro Bits you happen to have. Make some Heretechs!
The glow effects look awesome
I love the idea of chaos tau.
I love the idea that they don’t even know that they worship chaos…
I can imagine them saying something like
“Greater is good!” Or something like that! Definitely my favorite way to think of them now!
Absolutely ferocious.