Warhammer 40K: T'au Empire Kroot Carnivores

10 Kroot Carnivores to provide melee punch and stealthy support for your T'au Empire army. Fast, versatile warriors armed with bladed rifles for both ranged and close combat, plus a tanglebomb launcher. Customise your kindred with a huge variety of heads, poses, baggage, and grisly trophies.

Kroot Carnivores are swift and vicious warriors, employed by the T'au Empire as skirmishers and shock troops. These alien mercenaries harness fieldcraft and predatory instinct to close rapidly with their foes, for what they lack in heavy armour, they more than make up for in stealthy skill and close-ranged savagery, hammering out volleys from their Kroot rifles before charging in to tear their victims to gory ribbons.

This multipart plastic kit builds 10 Kroot Carnivores, agile alien mercenaries employed by the T'au Empire. Each of these stealthy hunters is armed with a bladed Kroot rifle, allowing them to harass enemies at range and wreak havoc in melee combat. You can equip one Carnivore with a heavy tanglebomb launcher, and build another as a veteran Long-quill to lead the unit, who can be armed with a double-barrelled Kroot carbine.

This kit offers plenty of cosmetic build options, including interchangeable heads, a variety of shoulder pad designs, and a choice of poses for each Carnivore. You'll also find loads of accessories – pistols, quill grenades, pouches, ammo, cuts of meat, and even a Kroot Hound pup – to customise your hunting packs and ensure no two Kroot look quite the same.

This kit comprises 106 plastic components and 10x Citadel 28.5mm Round Bases. These miniatures are supplied unpainted and require assembly – we recommend using Citadel Plastic Glue and Citadel Colour paints.

Games Workshop have two broad methods for painting their models. Both are entirely viable options, though have significant differences in the paints required (detailed below). You can find all of the required paints in the 'recommended paint' section below, whether you simply want to get it out onto the tabletop ASAP (i.e. 'Battle Ready'), or want to take your time and make it a masterpiece (i.e. 'Parade Ready'):

1. Classic Method - uses acrylic paints to build layers of colour and depth. Usually topped off with a shade paint to really make the shadows pop. Probably the most beginner friendly method as mistakes are often easy to fix.

2. Contast Method - uses ink-like contrast painsts which sink into recesses, providing depth in highlights and shadows with a single layer of paint. It can take some practise to get this method to look great, but it's highly satisfying when it does work. Less forgiving when mistakes happen, though arguably the quicker method of the two options.