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Thank you for posting this. After many days of gaping at your army, I may finally be able to paint like you!

This made me shed tears of awesomness

won't lie.

I'm jealous.

Thanks for your comments guys. I am still painting and will continue to post my lastest stuff in my gallery. Keep an eye on it

Very very nice. Love it. Makes the imagination rumble!

He Nard,
I have a question.
Looking at the pictures in you're gallery I see that you gave the Gaunts Carapace only a base color?

The photos are not that good but it is a base colour with slightly lighter lines painted across it. I will take some better pics one day

I have no hope to paint like this is sooner future. Congratulations for the great style you achivied...

Your nids are one of my all-time fav internet armies, and I always wondered how you achieved your signature look.

Thanks for sharing.

I really wish that you would post some more pics of your benadril tyranids.

Love the base work!

I'm thinking of adapting this for my orks, wish you posted more nard...
Anyway thanks.

Awesome technique i might try it on some Malifaux stuff ^^

Firstly, I love and hate your stuff (please realize this is in jest)
Love: you stuff makes me want to paint tyranids so bad just to try the pink out. My wife also thinks your stuff is seriously boss. In her words "aww they look like really angry bugs who have played with my little pony"

Hate: I know if I get it right.. i'll end up painting another army.

In all seriousness, I think the models I have seen from your selection are excellent. I think your painting skills are really top notch, and am thankful you took the time to put together a how to. Hats off to you

This is fething ART.

....That's all I can think to say.

Well done good sir.

This is amazing stuff. You've got some serious talent, and thank you for sharing it!

I hate the color pink with an all consuming, perverse, methodical, and ageless passion. I'll make an exception just this once though.

Awesome tutorial. Makes me want to start a nid army...

I just was looking at your Tyrannofex thread and thought to myself: 'I wonder if he's ever explained how he paints like this because I'd love to know'.

I did a quick search of your threads and lo and behold this awesome gem!

Thanks for posting, and as I had suspected, the 'secret' to your amazing look is simply lots and lots of hard work (and talent).

I think you may actually take more time painting your Tyranids than I do, but you've managed to keep at it with so much more enthusiasm than me, which makes me insanely jealous.

Anyway, you should totally put a link to both this thread AND your complete army profile into your forum signature so people can always find both those things when they're interested.

If you'd like, I can put those links into your forum sig for you (just let me know).

Anyway, great job, keep it up!

your nids are amazing.

Thank you Nard, I will attempt to do something like this when i start painting!

Wow!!!!! Dam that looks epic

Nard, I think you just solved a problem for me! Thank you.

- J

I have been wanting to start a Nid army, and this is only making that desire become more powerful! Curse your pink Hive!!!

But seriously, I love the highlighting, especially on the claws. Keep up the good work

If ever a tutorial was worth a thread necromancy, it's this one. Fantastic work. These models look so nice... I shake in fear imagining them coming out to play on the table. I'd be so fearful of damaging them!