Looking for painting input for Tau classic colour scheme.

[Emurian]

Good morning all.


I am looking for some painting suggestions for the classical tau colour scheme.

I went to youtube and took out the following 2 vids. Overall the orange part is explained clearly. No issues there.  

My question is: With some of the suits you see them colour a couple of armour panels in a brownish reddish tint to create some variation. What colours do people use for this secondary colour? Is this the XV88 or Khorne Red?  The highlights seem to be ochre tinted rather then a reddish/brownish lighter tone.

While we are at it: The reason why im inquiring here for the colours is obviously because I would like to paint a suit. I have a XV9 hazard suit incoming because I like the looks of the model. I want to use these as Crisis suits as I dont like the Lego look of the crisis suits in general.

Googling the bit section it looks like I will be able to simply drill a hole at the bottom of his hand and in the mid of the gun to magnetize it. I am thinking the best way how to get the tau suit weapons. Ive checked some bit sites but they ask like 2E per weapon. From what I see on the sprue online it has 4x each weapon, thats going to add up to roughly half a box in terms of costs. At that point I migh as well buy the box and see if I can sell off the bodies unless someone can point out a reasonable affordable alternative.

Main issue I see coming are the Broadsides. I want to use the Battlesuit commander shas'o r'alai. This dude comes with one large gun and a shield generator. Now I tried looking at bits online but there is no picture that I can find of the inside of the shield. So I am unsure how this will look. I somehow need to represent missile pods on this miniature so the most obvious choice is freeing up his hand with a magnet and glue 2 missile launchers together. Aesthethic wise I think its not going to look good, but I sortoff want to have the backup option that the suits looks more akin WYSIWYG. I will keep the shield attached when putting them in my display cases. If someone has a good alternative how to represent the missile launchers |(Drones?) or an alternative way to model them on the model (Cuz I see no points on the shoulder that would fit the launcher. Maybe in the middile of his back atop his head? though im not sure about the space I have here to mount it.)

Regarding vehichles, I like the 3 coloured blocky pattern. When looking at the GW pictures I fail to see any form of highlights near the black lined edges. So they don't highlight the vehichles at all?

Any other pointers + tips regarding the classical colourscheme il gladly hear and take them. Thank you for your time in advance.
 

 

 

Edited February 1 by Emurian

[Firedrake Cordova]

I think the dark brown colour was old Dark Flesh, so maybe Doombull Brown?

 

++EDIT: 'Eavy Archive says Abaddon Black + Khorne Red highlighted with Ushabti Bone

Edited February 1 by Firedrake Cordova