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Heres my first go at painting tyranids. This is my Carnifex, obviously, and next up will be my Doom. Feel free to offer tips and painting advice! In fact, theyre needed....




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Love it. That stark contrast is aces. Love the dark shading (reverse highlighting?) on the red. Very nice to see somebody going darker than the usual lighter red or orange.


Ghidorah

Think it's pretty good! If you are looking for areas it can be improved, there were three things that grabbed my eye immediately.

The horn and the hooves were the first two. While you may have intentionally made these a flat black, it looked unfinished. If you want to leave them plain black, consider just doing a faint highlight on the hooves edges and tip of the horn just to break the solid black up a little and make it look intentional.

Otherwise though, I like the white areas, very clean and they make a good contrast. The bone areas were letting them down though, there isn't enough delineation between them. You highlighted the red, perhaps consider doing some weathering on the bone also. It will make the white stand out that much more I think.

Feel free to ignore all this though, that is a great tabletop standard model which would be fine as is when fitted in an army similarly painted.

Nice job love the dark finishing on the red carapace. Maybe Surloch is right about the white and bone areas needing a bit distinguishing I think. Otherwise, great job!

Pretty awesome!

Awesome, i think the red goes really well with the white

Reallly like it. Got any more?

Thanks guys for the comments! I was going to ask you all what I should do with the bleached bone.
What highlights work well on nid bones, Particularly the blend between gums and teeth?

I used talaran flesh for the gums and bleached bone of course for the teeth. Dont know how to wash them :/

I do have a converted Doom im working on ill post up tonight. I painted the carnifex in a late night and a brief morning bake. The Doom will be done soon, but I will need help on how to get "crackling energy" coming from the brains of normal Zoes. Pics coming soon.