Painting Tau camo?

[Sonnyslayer]

How do you paint camo like this?
http://us.games-workshop.com/games/40k/tau/catalog/devilfish.htm

My client wants his army like that.. And I have no idea how to paint itlol
help me!

 

[OrkyDave]

never triedit myself, but I would say it looks like it has been \'dabbed\' on with a bit of sponge.

If I were to try it, I would paint the base colour first. Then dab on a slightly darker colour with sponge, then a darker colour dabbed on/around the first dabbage.

Hope this helps (or at least makes sense!)

 

[Ritual]

I would probably apply a few glazes of the base coat over the dabbed-on camo patterns afterwards, to blend them into the base coat a bit.

 

[uberdark]

actually i have done this before. it is just with a simple stippling technique... dip a larger brush in some wax then clean it off and start going at it. it takes no time at all. make sure to separate the bristles somewhat as well for variety. other than that after i did the base coat it took me probably an hour to do the entire devilfish. hope this helps.

 

[Lemmingspawn]

It\'s just called stippling. You load the brush up and then remove the paint, just like drybrushing. Then you Dab it instead of brush it.....sorta blotting into the area and then fan out. It\'s pretty simple. It\'ll be easier to do if you can butcher the brush you use, shortening the bristles to make more of a flared end instead of the pointed end..

 

[rosac]

it loooks stippled to me, and i use that tecnique a lot:bouncy:

 

[Sonnyslayer]

thanks for the help guys.. ill give it a try

 

[multimeltaman]

ahhh

Hi,
I had the same problem 2 days ago and i tried with mum\'s sponge but it didn\'t work. Don\'t do it because you will get a dirty and ugly look on your tank.