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Hi chaps!

I'm currently looking for a unique color scheme for my upcoming nids army. Here's my first take on a tyranid model so please be gentle .

The model took me around 6 hours to paint, I should be able to speed up that process when I got more used to the different paint steps.

Anyways, comments and critics are highly appreciated!

All I can say is approved! looks awsome wish I could blend like that, though I am getting there.

That looks pretty good

Only thing i would say, is that the carapace is maybe a bit to light in places, if you made it just a bit darker (not much at all) it would stand out a bit more from the skin. But thats not too big a deal really, its still easy enough to differentiate, you just don't have a huge amount of contrast, which actually might be a good thing with this scheme.

Tech Guard wrote:All I can say is approved! looks awsome wish I could blend like that, though I am getting there.

Thanks, mate . I suck at regular blending too, good thing is that I use an airbrush for it !

rodgers37 wrote:That looks pretty good

Only thing i would say, is that the carapace is maybe a bit to light in places, if you made it just a bit darker (not much at all) it would stand out a bit more from the skin. But thats not too big a deal really, its still easy enough to differentiate, you just don't have a huge amount of contrast, which actually might be a good thing with this scheme.

Exactly what I wanted to show! I didn't want to use the regular 2 colour high contrast paint scheme most tyranids look like. But I might alter the carapace brightness from one tyranid to the other to get a bit of diversity.

Love the scheme - looks like a big nasty crab. It'd be great to see it across an entire army.

As soon as I saw the pictures...my immediate thought was WOW! Great job!

Mike

My only problem is that.... painting a tyranid army like that would consume a lot of time.

But when its done its an army to be proud of... I have had my Marines for 6 months and have only painted 7 of them.

I love it, great shading and the colors are very unique! I want more!

Sweet! Love the shading on the claws and the overall paintjob is awesome. Good job.

I'm a huge fan of high contrast paint schemes so while this doesn't exactly grab me, it's technically well done. I really like the blends on the carapace, they make it very realistic.

It's an excellent scheme, keep at it.

Thanks a lot guys!

Here's the Carnifex with its finished base. Next in the queue will be some Hormagaunts!

Swish !

Looking awesome!

Only thing i will say is that the Carapace on its back in the middle, where you have to glue that seperate piece on, is SLIGHTLY out of place (you can see the gaps in it)

But looking good

Great work,with some really impressive blending imo.

Awesome BASE. great work

Wow, he looks wonderful! I really love your choice of colour, but I am not a big fan of the grey claws. They look a bit strange compared to the rest of the model. Nice, but strange. Everything else looks amazing though.
Looking forward to seeing more nids in the same scheme.

Great looking Nid.

It's beautiful. Great paintjob and scheme.

Beautiful work man!

I'm a huge fan of the more 'naturalistic' 'Nid colour schemes so a huge thumbs-up from me. Love this!

The base ties the whole thing in

That looks the part very nice work.

I really like it.

The only thing thing that 'bugs' me about it is that some of natures meanest creepy crawlers have bright and contrasting 2 tone colour schemes.....
You don't get very many venomous, evil insects etc that blend into the background.
But I digress, awesome paint job sir!

Oh look! It's a giant enemy crab!

On a serious note, that is a beautiful Carnifex! The base makes it seem even more imposing; how much more do you intend to paint in this scheme?

keep that colourscheme its amazing well done

This is rubbish, you should send it to me to be properly appreciated


The color scheme is really cool, many people have already pointed out what I think could be improved (like the contrast, or the carapace being darker)..

but my first reaction was

You came seeking approval, you leave carrying accolades!

FANTASTIC looking Carnifex - and a Tyranid army to that standard will be a thing of beauty!

Wow, looks great! I love the base work you did, really brings out the size factor of the carnifex, to me. I may be wrong, but don't tyranids essentially evolve their colours to match the biosphere of where they're fighting? I feel like your colour scheme would be a perfectly suited evolution if they were to land on a planet with heavy forests or even desert. Keep it up!

That is freaking awesome, keep that scheme and keep up the painting that's amazing.