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I've decided to paint my swarm in the kraken colour scheme, but I'm not sure what combination of colours and techniques to use. I do have the old 3e bug codex, and I painted one up following that guide but it doesn't really do it for me. (sorry no pics) I'm quite liking this new GW version though:



So to anyone who's painted a Kraken swarm, or knows someone who has etc, post how they achieved the colour scheme.

NB: I have the full citadel colour/wash range, and access to the vellejo range. (although vellejo are pretty much the same, yes?)

This GW guide for Kraken is a good start.

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=&categoryId=§ion=&pIndex=2&aId=4900028a&start=3

It won't give you the crisp look in the picture above, I'm no painting expert, but I guess you'll need to concentrate on bring out the bleached bone with skull white and creating a fuller red by mixing blood red with mechrite red.

I always try out new paint schemes on spare minis or the starter box of 5 termagants is ideal.

I definately want to avoid the feathering on the carapace - solid, bold red is what I want. Also, I've painted a few using the bubonic brown scheme and it's too yellow.

Here's mine



with a couple of tutorials on my website. I found a pretty fast way to paint them: http://kan.org/michael/mkp/tyranids.php

Great tabletop quality! But I'm looking for something a bit more like the DA terminator or the goblins in my gallery. (upon re-reading that it sounds a bit egotistical. Whhat I mean is that I don't mind doing manual highlights at all, even several layers if needs be) And yes, I am doing a large (read: huge) army, and yes, I know how long it will take.
But more than I am a gamer I'm a painter, so lavishing hours and hours of attention upon the swarm will hopefully not just entertain me for a long time, but have a really stunning army that will get a reputation in my locale.

I think the technique is fully scalable to those who want to highlight every joint plate and blend up the carapaces. That's what I did with my bigger bugs.

It's hard to tell. We need bigger pictures. Your heirodule is kickass too.

Also, I'd like to entirely avoid drybrushing and go for a "clean" style. You make some good points though, especially about painting scab red into the carapace recesses.

I think I'm going to go for GW ogryn flesh or gryphonne sepia for the wash on the flesh areas, and baal red on the carapace.


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Okay, I think I've figured it out. New thread with pics in a week.