GW paints the Tau skin in a grey-blue colour, but I want more colourful blue skin on my Tau, so I have made a short and simple way to paint Tau skin my way. I tried to get a photo for each step of the skin painting, but I didn't  get a good enough quality photos to use sadly, but at least a photo on the finished head.

As usual all paints are to be thinned before applied.

Colours needed;
Skin
White primer
Turquoise
Light Grey
Blue Wash/Ink/Shade


  1. Base & Layers - The head is primed white and layered with two layers of thin turquoise applied
  2. Highlight 1 - Turquoise 1:1 Light Grey is applied to the raised areas
  3. Highlight 2 - Turquoise 1:2 Light Grey is applied to the raised areas, at this point the high lights is a smaller area then the previous highlight.
  4. Highlight 3 - Light Grey is applied to the most raised areas,some parts are more dots the painted lines.
  5. Shade - Apply blue shade all over the skin, work the shade so it don't pool up where it should not be any shade.
  6. Re-Highlight - After the shade have dried you might want to go over the skin to re highlight some parts to make them stand out again if shading flatten them too much.