Tau Skin and Sept Markings

THE SHORT VERSION

The skin recipe starts with Shadow Grey and gradually adds Bleached Bone, making each highlight smaller as it becomes lighter. The adjoining marking guide explains how repeated stripes can identify a team and how leaders receive more prominent helmet markings. Examples from several septs show how those signs can change the character of otherwise similar armour. Skin and insignia thus provide individuality within a deliberately consistent military force.

AT THE PAINTING DESK

Paints in this article

Every named colour below is searchable across the archive.

Shadow Grey↗Bleached Bone↗

Only explicitly named paints used in the feature are indexed.

Back to the original

Find this article in White Dwarf 315, p. 53.

This is an original summary. Refer to your magazine for the complete article, rules, images and painting steps.