Q4 Finish It! – Tau Wardens and Messenger Escorts

For the Q4 challenge, the purpose is to finish an unfinished project.  Long (LONG LONG LONG) time fans may remember when I first began painting my Tau Kor’or’vesh fleet.  It all began with a forum post made by an unknown user named Tyberius:

As you can see above, this wonderful person made this (and many other) sheets for Battlefleet Gothic Ordnance.  There is another version with blue instead of red but I liked this one better.

This led me to my color scheme for the Tau: Maroon/red, gray, and bone.

Sadly, my ambition got the better of me.  My scheme was incredibly complicated, requiring black pin washes and edge highlighting over the entire model.  Plus, I got it in my head to label each ship with a unique name in both T’au AND Engilsh!  Hand lettered!  The detail was exhausting.  I gave up after completing the capitol ships and the Castellans.  The Wardens, Messengers, and all other support models fell by the wayside.

Until now.  Behold!  The first installment of the Q4 Finish It challenge!

This concludes the portion of the fleet with this color scheme.  The transports and orbitals will be painted the standard Tau Ochre with a brown pin wash and a simple highlight.  Additionally, there will be four Nicassar Dhows, whose paint scheme I have not decided on yet.  I am considering the fine line of paints from Turbo Dork, whose glittery sheen is stunning!

Next: Orktober begins with Ork Nobs!  Following that, I’ll pick up on the Tau with ten Emissary class transports!