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Hi guys, im new to dakka but thought i would try and get the most out of it.

I haven't painted anything really in a long time. Am used to painting armour based armies (CSM, Eldar, Tau, necrons, Space Wolves) but longed for the day i could collect nids. Now that day has finally arrived i gotta say im a bit terrified of giving them a crappy paint job. I currently have a fex, a tyrant, a broodlord, a lictor, 2 broods of 8 stealers, 8 hormies, 8 gaunts and 3 warriors. Am also intending to buy in the near future 2 zoanthropes and more of everything else.
The paint job i have in mind consists of bleached bone for the chitinous areas and scything talons as well as claws and things like that. Crimson red, electric blue (veins and things)and a light green (havent decided which one yet) for the minor details and i have no idea about the skin colour. Any advice from nid army players or people who have seen some cool nids?

Also any tips on highlighting...i didnt really used to do too much of it back in the day. Just a bit of drybrushing here and there.
Thanks in advance

http://thetyranidhive.proboards28.com/

Try this on for size!!!!!

You will be able to find pics of my nids if you look at my profile or click the link below!!!!!!!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/215275.page

One thing I've always liked about Tyranids is the huge range of color schemes that can be done with them.

I took my inspiration from nature and a little from Delkins42 color scheme. After seeing a huge Jerusalem cricket a.k.a. Potato bug in my garage I decided on a reddish-brown color scheme. My suggestion is to look to nature for some inspiration.




and the result was this







So to go with the bleached bone you need a good contrasting color. Here are some Ideas

Here's what I'm doing



Finished

www.hivefleetmoloch.com

has a few examples. The Hive Fleet Ouroboros section comes fairly close to your choice of colours...

See this is why personally I could never do Nids cause I feel like you need to copy them after real world bugs, but I hate bugs to much to stand to study them to copy their paint job. Whereas you did that and it resulted in a beautiful model. Well done I say

wow...alex your models look great. I would love to do something like that. Was it a gloss varnish to make it shiny? I think that i shall use a black skin colour, that would really contrast well i think. Any tips on how to make it not just jet black, but a bit lighter?
Thanks for all the advice and pics so far...looking good!

These are awsome, i have just purchased some nids and wish to apply a similar effect to mine, any tips?

Great work =)

http://album.warpshadow.com/v/
some great armies here

i am in the process of doing my 3rd Tyranid army and as i did with my first ones i am making them Lady Bugs. i love the color scheme and its kinda funny to see Lady Bugs kill marines.

also for some painting advice check out http://www.brushthralls.com/

thanks for that Kardos...was just having a quick flick through brushthralls and it looks good.

@Ifurita: those look sweet all based and finished, how far have you got with the army???????!!!!

@Lukus: I only used varnish on the tounges. The shine comes from using gw brown ink.

For black with depth look into paynes grey. Black is never just black. mix in some of your carapace colour for the highlights, you should end up with a coherent scheme!!!!!!

Post your progress and good luck with it!!!!

@ Alex. I have 2 figures done ... out of about 140. I have 35 that just got their Raw Umber wash and are getting ready for the next step.

I also highly recommend paynes grey for washes. I use Liquitex. It's actually a very deep blue-grey and it does a fantastic job of deepening and shading colors without making them look dirty. I use it on browns, greys, , silvers, reds, blues, and greens.

2 from 140. Ouch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm in a complete your army event at my LGS, 3 x 750 blocks, which will get 85 of the figures painted over 3 months. For the rest of them, I actually have most of the carapaces done, which then leaves the washing. It's actually quite manageable as I do the carapaces with a #2 flat and the washes with a huge #5

I love setting up stuff like that, it will be far more "manageable"!!!!!!!!
You should be fine!!!!!

Frontal and side shot of a genestealer concept model. Primed almond, washed with Liquitex Raw Umber, claws and mouth washed with Badab Black. Leviathan Purple used on the fleshy parts. Teeth picked out in white, scorpion green for the eyes, and a VMC pink for the tongue.

holly hell, very nice, id like to c a holl army like that, keep up the good work.

BDA