I'm a novice painter so there is nothing really groundbreaking or outstanding here.

I want to paint my Tau suits in TMM. I used an insignificant model to test and write down my scheme.

Building an Priming

1. Build the model, don't glue the head piece yet, just push fit in for priming
2. Prime with Matt Black
3. Remove head piece, prime the insides that didn't get caught with the spray primer with a brush with Matt Black

Base Coat

1. Paint the body, the inner circle of the head piece and the rocket launcher body with Ruby Red
2. Paint the upper panels, the middle panel of the head piece, the risen parts of the rocket launcher and the feet with a mixture of 50% Ruby Red and 50% Obsidian Black
3. Paint the rim of the head piece and the rocket launcher with Uniform Grey

Details

1. Paint the rivets on the side with Red Copper
2. Drybrush the inside mechanics of the the turret and turret head with Red Copper
3. Paint lenses with Deep Azure and/or Scarlet Blood to your liking
4. Highlicht the blue lenses with a bigger dot of Aquamarine , the red lenses with Raging Rose on the bottom corner. Add a small dot of Bold Titanium White on the upper corner.
5. Clean up the rockets and the back of the rocket launcher with Matt Black

Highlights and finishing touches

1. Paint the inner and outer parts of the Tau symbol in the middle with Bold Titanium White , clean up with Matt Black .
2. Edge highlight the metallic parts with Ruby Red
3. Edge highlight the grey parts and rockets with Company Grey . Note that I used Titanium White, which was a mistake.
4. Varnish everything with Varnish Gloss
5. Panel line with AK Weathering AK12102 PRECISION PANEL LINER - BLACK
6. Varnish the metallic parts with Varnish Gloss and the grey parts with Varnish Matt

Base

1. Green Stuff World Martian Textures Fluror Blue, drybrush with a lighter blue tone, light drybrush with white. I have added Green Stuff World Martian Tuffts and a crystal from GSW.

Decals

1. You can put some red decals GW provides on backwards and the will show white. Varnish the model as described above, put on decals as described here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV1odeKdGD8- let them dry, put on Tamiya Mark Fit Strong, let it dry, and apply your varnish again.