Yeah I thought it really brought the whole thing together! Also really liked those highlighting details on the curved parts and the glow effect on the crisis suit eyes.
Haha was thinking the same! Once shook a pot of gold paint. The lid was on I swear. At the time I used the kitchen table as painting table. Trousers, shirt and half the kitchen turned gooold! I swear the lid WAS on! 🤪
First time ever painting and I knocked over my nuln oil and it got all over my table, pants, the floor. Just everywhere! Definitely a learning experience
Thank you so much for finishing the army even though you missed your goal. These challenge videos that end in failure, when we never get to see the final army finished drive me nuts. Great work!
Im brand new to warhammer, bought recruit edition recently (waiting for shipping) and im so happy i found you earlier this year, so much great tips and techichues on paiting. Amazing job man
my personal answer: it takes me "FOREVER" if you start edge highlighting every single little gun and fire-warrior armor plate... but if you start on 1 you have to do the rest, thats the rule of "ocd" :D
Love to see stuff like this where you paint a start collecting box. Have you considered collabing with Guy from Midwinter minis on his strt collecting Bat-rep series?
I enjoyed this video right up until the edge highlighting...then I was rocking myself to sleep crying in the corner. You made it look so easy 😫. Great job!
Wow, fantastic! I was waiting for this since the live. I love the turquise and the nmm style, now I must try to make it on my minis (but they are white and blue, it will be hard).
At 8m15 when he said they were far from finished I just sat there going, "those already look better than any model I've ever painted, how are they not done?"
A trick I use is to do the air brush base in lacquer paint. If you make mistakes doing the brush layers in acrylic you can clean up with out worrying about affecting the base coat.
Awesome video. It sounds silly but I’d never considered being so selective over my highlight placement (only selecting the face and a prominent upper limb) in order to draw attention and speed up the painting process. I’ll be trying this one.
One thing this made me realize is I overcomplicate my layers and paint schemes way more than is necessary. The results I get are pretty excellent, but they're not that much more detailed than this unless you're really looking close and it would take me like 10 times as long to do.
Audible is great for listening whilst painting. I may have listened to the entire horus heresy series on it. Probably best not to think about how long that took or how much it cost to buy all the books...
I painted an 80 strong space marine company, 6 ten man tactical squads, 2 ten man assault marines with jet packs 4 Rhinos, two predators and a command squad. This was in 2004 so no air brushes, it took about 9 months to do all this whilst working full time too. I never did the devastator squads.
I paint about 1-2k points of per year (tabletop quality, not too far from the Eavy metal quality), though this year I finally got an airbrush, my pace will increase, the airbrush allows to cut some corners by basically doing some steps super fast. 1-2 weeks for a vehicle, monster or squad of 5-10 guys. I did notice in late years, some of the newer models have a slightly heavier workload, they just are bigger and got more details to paint. Granted some armies are done faster than others, the fastest to paint by far is necrons, tau, especially if you got an airbrush are also pretty fast to do. Now granted some years are more productive than others. Painting a giant army is painful, but painting like a 2k force, you've got no excuse it's very doable for anyone.
Took my Tau army and divided into three even groups for Kill Team. Allowed me to try a few different paint schemes. But now i start over to do this scheme!
Awesome work as always! Thought you were going for a Swedish theme at first when you mentioned the yellows. But I love the end result with the whites and blues. I guess you went for an inverted Finnish theme instead!
That's a great looking Tau army, and the video has inspired me to paint up a start collecting box myself, or rather, actually paint one of the ones I bought and built years ago but never got around to because they weren't Daemons.
Vallejo Blue Green is my favorite paint ever I think, I make excuses to use it all the time. I'm doing my sisters army in it, and I used it to paint a Gunpla as well.
Jaw dropping gorgeous. Tau was my first 40K army, and for many years my only army. I still have them in glorious plastic grey. Not because I am too lazy to paint or because I suck at it. Rather, I have no idea how I want to paint them to this date. I mean, I want them to look like the super high tech civilization they are, but it's not as easy to paint as a space marine (like my Black Templars; black, white, red... and you're good to go.)
Sure it is! They are very practical, so they are never in crazy color schemes. All you need is two colors, one for the pants and another for the armor. Then detail! Simple and striking.
I'm sure it helps a lot. My hand-painted Tau are still in a shameful state after years. I have since learned that clever use of colored spray paint can give you a similar result to generic highlighting with an airbrush.
The speed in which you edge highlighted that battlesuit was crazy! I know they are tao and lots of straight cuts and edges but you crazy man!! Really nice finish and makes me want to up my highlight game when you can get simple but sweet results like that in that time
Yh lol but you went over them in one go and controlled and then onto another highlight colour, I always find myself leaving too thick a line or spending longer to get good coverage
I don't have an airbrush and holy crap. I didn't realize how much time it saves you. It takes me forever to base coat and you got a lot done in a short time.
In my experience with 2000 painted points and no airbrush going for a clean and subtle scheme takes a lot of time. but I've always been slow at this sort of thing I only get a handful of models a year so I drag them out. Also Other than my base colors, I mix my own paint. furthermore without an airbrush and living in a climate where rattle cans don't function for more than half the year I use paint on primer and underpainting in grayscale by hand instead of that classic easy zenithal technique. I've painted nids, guard and marines before. guard and nids take a simple paint job really well and look good. marines are in the middle somewhere cus they have lots of detailed surfaces. My experience with tau is that the classic base, layer wash approach doesn't work well if you're aiming for anything above table ready. Wash is practically useless other than on cloth. if you try to wash the big flat surfaces of tau suits you get a messy result or spend more time cleaning it up than it takes to just to panel line or pinwash them. The big thing personally is that you got to do a lot of highlights lowlight, and variant mid-tones. Other armies provide enough detail that you can sort of leave mid-tones as is and just high and low light details. with tau, if you want them to pop, you have to do each surface in its entirety and keep the sharp corners clean. I'm an extreme case but personally, without an airbrush and mixing black, white and a mid-grey as needed, it takes me longer to underpaint a crisis suit than it took you to do this army. so I will say this: if you got money to burn on an airbrush and you got the rest of your layer paints ready to go and you aren't fighting army painters sub-par coverage I'm sure Tau are pretty comparable to other armies. But if you're working with fewer resources I find the gap is wider for getting them to look good than it is with other armies.
I can very much appreciate the idea of listening to audio books while painting. Have you ever looked into The Wheel Of Time series? One day I want to do a 40k kit bash of all the "Main Characters" of the series.
This is the exact same colour scheme of my Tau army back in 4th edition when my Warhammer addiction appeared. I feel like turquoise and Tau are a perfect match.
I am a very slow painter - spending one hour at a time working on a mini, and my Start Collecting: Thousand Sons box is still only one almost complete Rubric Marine, one halfway done Ahriman, and the rest of the Rubrics is only assembled and primed(didn't even touch the Tzaangors yet...). I'm obsessed with meticulous precision and have trouble considering a mini "finished" because I'll notice a tiny bit of paint out of bounds somewhere, or a slightly too thick highlight, etc.
Wonderful! A friend of mine use Tau, and is still whole unpainted so i'll point him to this video! Probably he will not start painting right now 😅 but in this way he can't use any excuse
Narlee colours!!, I've been looking for inspiration to repaint my tau. I love how you said you need to make the bases simple, then start talking about wet blending. I just slap some rocks on paint them grey, wash and dry brush them 🤣
After lunch i did not catch on immediately i was like OMG look how fast he edge highlights no wonder he's so good , then the camera slows down ha ha you had me.
This video was absolutely impressive and inspiring! Such a great result in this short amount of time - insane! And i love the bases, although some have quite a lot of grass 😅👍👍
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can you help me with the paints you used in the tau vidieo id like to by the exact ones from you
Can I hire you to paint a tau army? Or at least pay for 1 figure to see if the color pallet I want is good.
Very cool painting job 😎🎨
I got three days of painting 🎨👌
I barely paint a unit in a month, and the dude paints a whole army in a matter of hours... And it even looks freaking good!
I don’t know why ask you space marines
I've just started painting and it takes me an hour to paint one squig and not even very well 😅 Can't wait to get some Tau as well!
"I just had lunch"
The room is dark.
The true Norrland experience.
Better drink Norrlands guld. Greetings from Finland.
That's Quite a Treasure You've Got There! :-) the yellow near the end is boss.
Yeah I thought it really brought the whole thing together! Also really liked those highlighting details on the curved parts and the glow effect on the crisis suit eyes.
Gay af
Squid your the man! Love it.. I watch your master class often… lol I paint everyday!!! I think that was some of the best advice ever! Thnx!
Hmm...I think I prefer yours GTH, since it came out first lol.
The one stroke highlights are so satisfying to see applied, holy damn...
Even more satisfying to do them.... until your arm slips and you slop your highlight color all over all your hard work that just dried
Finally some video with Tau
This making me want a Tau army just to paint in this scheeemmmeeee! Love it dude!
Glad you like it mate
Then now is your time with the new battleforce. The Tau box is actually quite good value wise.
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@@KrisTomich For the greater good
@@KurtKn1sp3l Yes it is, but those sold out fast!
Shout out to you for being such a good painter that you feel confident wearing white while painting! :D
Haha was thinking the same! Once shook a pot of gold paint. The lid was on I swear. At the time I used the kitchen table as painting table. Trousers, shirt and half the kitchen turned gooold! I swear the lid WAS on! 🤪
@@roguepaintingminiatures7200 Clearly you were under the influence of the warp.
First time ever painting and I knocked over my nuln oil and it got all over my table, pants, the floor. Just everywhere! Definitely a learning experience
Null oil: the 10mm socket of paints.
the mixing of the music is so well done, love how it isnt too quiet or overpowers your voice. too many youtubers mess this up!
So basically, if I paint 5 minutes a day, I will have finished painting the entire Tau army by the time they become competitively viable again?
As a tau player I absolutely love this! Great work, I wish I could paint half as good as you.
Thank you so much for finishing the army even though you missed your goal. These challenge videos that end in failure, when we never get to see the final army finished drive me nuts. Great work!
Finally an army I actually play 😂
Yea its exciting for me to as well, i am also a Tau player
that's great for me is not :P I play imperial guard
F to you bro, T'au got shafted in 9th Ed
@@omnissiah7859 it sucks but I just enjoy painting them so it doesn't effect me to much. Especially since lockdown lol
I play necrons but I have mad respect for tau players
Just in time. Will start a TAU army in the coming weeks great inspiration. Thanks for the content.
Same man I'm also gonna have a tau army :D
Im brand new to warhammer, bought recruit edition recently (waiting for shipping) and im so happy i found you earlier this year, so much great tips and techichues on paiting. Amazing job man
Same
my personal answer: it takes me "FOREVER" if you start edge highlighting every single little gun and fire-warrior armor plate... but if you start on 1 you have to do the rest, thats the rule of "ocd" :D
Tau player here, this video made me crytears of joy, everything looks awesome!!!!!
To be honest when you said you were going with a different color scheme I was a little worried but they look fantastic
Tau look good in any colour scheme
@@michaelalbericci8998 that sounds like a challenge
I started painting my T'au listening to AGST after your video. Thanks for the motiviation Emil !
As a slow painter, always inspiring to see army painting / speed challenges! Even more so when the end result looks awesome!!!!
I’m brand new to the hobbie and I have just started with a tau start collect box, so this is great inspiration for me! Awesome paint job!
I'm unhealthily addicted to time challenge videos
I challenge you to try how many time challenge videos you can watch without sleeping.
Love to see stuff like this where you paint a start collecting box. Have you considered collabing with Guy from Midwinter minis on his strt collecting Bat-rep series?
Not related to Tau but I just got delivered my Squidmar Paint Brushes and am SUPER excited to put them to work!
I enjoyed this video right up until the edge highlighting...then I was rocking myself to sleep crying in the corner. You made it look so easy 😫. Great job!
Finally, a T'au army!!
I love how every time I watch one of your videos, I learn something new :)
Ooooh, my favourite colour scheme
Love the color theme, it's refreshing!
11:32 that whole suit highlight was so effortless what?! SHARE YOUR MAGIC
This took me back, tau were my first minis ever.
Can I like this video more than once? So epic dude!
Take your moms account and like 😊
Wow, fantastic!
I was waiting for this since the live.
I love the turquise and the nmm style, now I must try to make it on my minis (but they are white and blue, it will be hard).
After the seven and a half hours I’d say they are easily table ready. And that’s just insane
At 8m15 when he said they were far from finished I just sat there going, "those already look better than any model I've ever painted, how are they not done?"
4:32 I thought that was playing in realtime and he was just going super fast.
I really like the idea of the series showing people a rough estimate of how long to paint a basic army
A trick I use is to do the air brush base in lacquer paint. If you make mistakes doing the brush layers in acrylic you can clean up with out worrying about affecting the base coat.
Ahh, you've got the new Citadel Butt....I mean Painting handle.
I was searching for Tau videos yesterday but I couldn't find any THANK YOU!
Awesome video. It sounds silly but I’d never considered being so selective over my highlight placement (only selecting the face and a prominent upper limb) in order to draw attention and speed up the painting process.
I’ll be trying this one.
Glad it was helpful!
One thing this made me realize is I overcomplicate my layers and paint schemes way more than is necessary. The results I get are pretty excellent, but they're not that much more detailed than this unless you're really looking close and it would take me like 10 times as long to do.
I envy the confidence and proficiency with which you paint. There is no hesitation in your brushstrokes and the results are always beautiful.
I don't know man, but painting grey knights surely take a lot. Beautiful minis bit full of details. You almost converted me to the greater good.
Love watching these start collecting painting boxes!
Wow I have never seen turquoise t’au before. I’m really digging it. Love the work like always squidmar keep it uo
Audible is great for listening whilst painting. I may have listened to the entire horus heresy series on it.
Probably best not to think about how long that took or how much it cost to buy all the books...
I painted an 80 strong space marine company, 6 ten man tactical squads, 2 ten man assault marines with jet packs 4 Rhinos, two predators and a command squad. This was in 2004 so no air brushes, it took about 9 months to do all this whilst working full time too. I never did the devastator squads.
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I paint about 1-2k points of per year (tabletop quality, not too far from the Eavy metal quality), though this year I finally got an airbrush, my pace will increase, the airbrush allows to cut some corners by basically doing some steps super fast. 1-2 weeks for a vehicle, monster or squad of 5-10 guys. I did notice in late years, some of the newer models have a slightly heavier workload, they just are bigger and got more details to paint. Granted some armies are done faster than others, the fastest to paint by far is necrons, tau, especially if you got an airbrush are also pretty fast to do. Now granted some years are more productive than others. Painting a giant army is painful, but painting like a 2k force, you've got no excuse it's very doable for anyone.
Took my Tau army and divided into three even groups for Kill Team. Allowed me to try a few different paint schemes. But now i start over to do this scheme!
Awesome work as always! Thought you were going for a Swedish theme at first when you mentioned the yellows. But I love the end result with the whites and blues. I guess you went for an inverted Finnish theme instead!
That's a great looking Tau army, and the video has inspired me to paint up a start collecting box myself, or rather, actually paint one of the ones I bought and built years ago but never got around to because they weren't Daemons.
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4:47 felt cute, might edit later
When Email *Emil* said T....au during the intro i feard for a sec he had a small stroke
When you called him "Email", I thought the same thing about you ;)
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It was the auto correct, i swear!
@@dirtmcgirt6531 I figured. Still couldn't resist ;)
Vallejo Blue Green is my favorite paint ever I think, I make excuses to use it all the time. I'm doing my sisters army in it, and I used it to paint a Gunpla as well.
Really like the color scheme, great Thousand Sons army!
Lool
2nd video in the same amount of days?? You’re wild! Keep up the great painting!
Was an intense week haha
@@SquidmarMiniatures I bet :)
Jaw dropping gorgeous. Tau was my first 40K army, and for many years my only army. I still have them in glorious plastic grey. Not because I am too lazy to paint or because I suck at it. Rather, I have no idea how I want to paint them to this date. I mean, I want them to look like the super high tech civilization they are, but it's not as easy to paint as a space marine (like my Black Templars; black, white, red... and you're good to go.)
Sure it is! They are very practical, so they are never in crazy color schemes. All you need is two colors, one for the pants and another for the armor. Then detail! Simple and striking.
Absolutely loved your colour scheme and your absolute enthusiasm painting this army.
I love Tau, and i love these colors. Dude you always make it look so easy and so clean. Very nice work.
Woah, that’s quick! I’m amazed at how much an airbrush speeds up those first few steps. And a great result too!
I'm sure it helps a lot. My hand-painted Tau are still in a shameful state after years. I have since learned that clever use of colored spray paint can give you a similar result to generic highlighting with an airbrush.
This is almost the exact paint scheme I want for my models. I love the color. Definitely saving this for a painting guide.
in 12h I can paint 2 minis at best :/ and they dont`t even look this good . Well done mate !
It's about finding techniques and a process you can do fast and not paint things that's not visible :)
squidmar is litterally a awsome man
Those came out clean!
I really like this video cuz you don’t see youtubers paint tau often
The speed in which you edge highlighted that battlesuit was crazy! I know they are tao and lots of straight cuts and edges but you crazy man!! Really nice finish and makes me want to up my highlight game when you can get simple but sweet results like that in that time
Harks well the video was sped up at that part
Yh lol but you went over them in one go and controlled and then onto another highlight colour, I always find myself leaving too thick a line or spending longer to get good coverage
I don't have an airbrush and holy crap. I didn't realize how much time it saves you. It takes me forever to base coat and you got a lot done in a short time.
it really is a time saver!
So happy a high level painter do some T'au, thank you so much!
They color scheme look great!
Lol considering I bought my Tau start collecting box almost a year ago and have still only painted the Crisis suits... if day quite a while
I am really glad to see a painting video once again. This is my heroin.
It's actually 4th book of that series and it's Spider's Moon. I am glad someone listen to it
In my experience with 2000 painted points and no airbrush going for a clean and subtle scheme takes a lot of time. but I've always been slow at this sort of thing I only get a handful of models a year so I drag them out. Also Other than my base colors, I mix my own paint. furthermore without an airbrush and living in a climate where rattle cans don't function for more than half the year I use paint on primer and underpainting in grayscale by hand instead of that classic easy zenithal technique.
I've painted nids, guard and marines before. guard and nids take a simple paint job really well and look good. marines are in the middle somewhere cus they have lots of detailed surfaces. My experience with tau is that the classic base, layer wash approach doesn't work well if you're aiming for anything above table ready. Wash is practically useless other than on cloth. if you try to wash the big flat surfaces of tau suits you get a messy result or spend more time cleaning it up than it takes to just to panel line or pinwash them. The big thing personally is that you got to do a lot of highlights lowlight, and variant mid-tones. Other armies provide enough detail that you can sort of leave mid-tones as is and just high and low light details. with tau, if you want them to pop, you have to do each surface in its entirety and keep the sharp corners clean. I'm an extreme case but personally, without an airbrush and mixing black, white and a mid-grey as needed, it takes me longer to underpaint a crisis suit than it took you to do this army.
so I will say this: if you got money to burn on an airbrush and you got the rest of your layer paints ready to go and you aren't fighting army painters sub-par coverage I'm sure Tau are pretty comparable to other armies. But if you're working with fewer resources I find the gap is wider for getting them to look good than it is with other armies.
I can very much appreciate the idea of listening to audio books while painting. Have you ever looked into The Wheel Of Time series? One day I want to do a 40k kit bash of all the "Main Characters" of the series.
This is the exact same colour scheme of my Tau army back in 4th edition when my Warhammer addiction appeared. I feel like turquoise and Tau are a perfect match.
What amuses me is that was the color scheme I did for ,my Tau years ago. Not as well, mind you, but the same scheme. :D
Tau, on here?! Where am I, and what alternate reality have i stepped into? 🤣 Awesome as always!
requesting more of these type of videos - awesome work dude🙏
I am a very slow painter - spending one hour at a time working on a mini, and my Start Collecting: Thousand Sons box is still only one almost complete Rubric Marine, one halfway done Ahriman, and the rest of the Rubrics is only assembled and primed(didn't even touch the Tzaangors yet...). I'm obsessed with meticulous precision and have trouble considering a mini "finished" because I'll notice a tiny bit of paint out of bounds somewhere, or a slightly too thick highlight, etc.
That scheme is magnificent! Great job!
Such a good job, I have watched it two times :D.
Great result!
next crazy idea for a video. paint some minis with Start Semple's paints!
Wonderful! A friend of mine use Tau, and is still whole unpainted so i'll point him to this video!
Probably he will not start painting right now 😅 but in this way he can't use any excuse
Narlee colours!!, I've been looking for inspiration to repaint my tau. I love how you said you need to make the bases simple, then start talking about wet blending. I just slap some rocks on paint them grey, wash and dry brush them 🤣
Awesome great paint job. love the Tau just started them this year.
Thank you, great content as always.
I always get jumper envy whenever I watch your videos. That all.
Finally a squidmar video about tau :DD
Great video man.😎 Mad skills (and hats off) for wearing white all the way though and not getting covered in paint! 👌SKILLZ
After lunch i did not catch on immediately i was like OMG look how fast he edge highlights no wonder he's so good , then the camera slows down ha ha you had me.
This video was absolutely impressive and inspiring! Such a great result in this short amount of time - insane!
And i love the bases, although some have quite a lot of grass 😅👍👍
Great color scheme!
That's a very nice color scheme. Also nice to see a faction that's maybe a bit less popular and definitely very different from the usual GW style.
Amazing as always!
fantastic paint job in just 12 hrs wow .
Great video. Fantastic colour scheme. Keep up the good work.
Awesome colour scheme, i love it :) 15:05 did you forget to paint the sigil on the battlesuit guy? :D
Yeah I noticed in editing haha