some of my tau

[march10k]

Just thought I'd post a link to my minis as posted in coolminiornot.com.  Go vote!

http://www.coolminiornot.com/browse/submitter/marnepup

[Avor]

White, purple, neon green, sage green, red and yellow do not mix.

And try to add depth, see how these ones use a lighter colour on the edges to make them look better.

http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~syndrom/Mini/images/main/crisis03.jpg

http://www.tauonline.btinternet.co.uk/CrisisSuitHQ.jpg

http://www.minivault.com/images/FBMPTeam.JPG

[Hive Lord]

Yeah, basically what Avor says.

You have used a few too many colours, and they don't all go together very well. They also need some shading and/or some highlighting on the armour and cloth. Your actual painting is pretty neat end even in most places, so you can paint pretty well, you are just using the wrong colours and/or techniques.

[march10k]

I'll be much better equipped to do the shading when I get out of the hellhole known as baghdad...

As for my colors:

Fire warriors:  scaly green armor over white suits, some red gore highlights, and a bit of black on the rifle.

Pathfinders:  scaly green armor over kommado khaki and fortress grey suits with reg gore highlights, weapons similar to FW weapons.

Stealth suits: dark angels green over black, with red gore highlights, scaly green cannon and aerials. 

crisis suit: white and scaly green, with some shadow grey and red gore.  Actually, this one has more different colors than any of the others, with smurf blue on the multitracker bumps (looks more like shadow grey to the naked eye), and some yellow and much lighter green on the plasma rifle.  Strange that this gets better scores than the ones that have 3-4 colors, with 2 being very sparing.

I was already thinking of changing the burst cannons on the stealth suits a different color, either black or shadow grey.  Any other specific changes you guys want to recommend?  I really don't see much room for reducing the number of colors on most models.  I could possibly do so on the crisis suit, especially the plasma rifle, but it's really hard to go below 3-4 colors, and I'm there already...