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Okay, I've been rather flaky with painting in the past, but now that I've settled into a new home and have a nice work space, I plan on painting pretty regularly. Before I'd take paintstaking time to apply layers and highlights and I'd burn out way before an army got painted. my new creed is cut corners and get on the table with an attractive and uncomplicated method. the first unit I've painted with this new method is a hormagaunt box for my Tyranid Hive fleet. the first picture was my test model

this model was painted in about 10 minutes if you don't count the shades drying time, which are fairly long. that includes priming, painting and basing. It's low on details, but for gaunts, I can live with that. I would like some ideas for a third accent color for some of the gaunts tongues and also for the larger bugs. Light blue or dark red maybe? I'll post this finished squad when I get off work and get a chance to take some pictures.

Looking great, especially when it only took you 10 minutes!

Personally I'd leave this one as is, and bring in a third colour for your larger units.

Da Mediokre Painta wrote:
Looking great, especially when it only took you 10 minutes!

Personally I'd leave this one as is, and bring in a third colour for your larger units.

That was my intention, the larger bugs are going to pick up atleast a third color for the bigger bugs, for weapon hosing, and muscle tears and tongues etc.

I agree, I think it looks great with two colors. I think something in the blue range might look better than a red, but that is something you can experiment with. I might try a green, as it would contrast nicely with the purple and the metallic in my opinion.

frozenmilk wrote:
I agree, I think it looks great with two colors. I think something in the blue range might look better than a red, but that is something you can experiment with. I might try a green, as it would contrast nicely with the purple and the metallic in my opinion.

I like the idea of the contrast from the green, but Im worried in practice, the shade of green that would pop may come off cartoonish on the larger models. I'm not quite sure.

Green would be my colour of choice to it will just work well with the purple IMO. I'd go GW Moot Green if it where me.

Nice looking gaunt to BTW.

Losteriksson wrote:
Green would be my colour of choice to it will just work well with the purple IMO. I'd go GW Moot Green if it where me.

Nice looking gaunt to BTW.

Thanks, I'll try green, I'm using just washes on these models, so I'll either mix my own green shade or figure out how many shades of Gw's look right.

I would say that these look great as-is. However I wouldn't put it together with this 'cuz well, I don't see a lot of animals that're purple and green(purple, for that matter) Perhaps a lighter shade of purple? Like in flowers. They'll look quite realistic, imo.

 Know No Pear wrote:
I would say that these look great as-is. However I wouldn't put it together with this 'cuz well, I don't see a lot of animals that're purple and green(purple, for that matter) Perhaps a lighter shade of purple? Like in flowers. They'll look quite realistic, imo.

This was my concern as well, the green would have great contrast, but it may come off as hokey.


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Here's the finished squad, my lightings off because I don't have any daylight to work with right now. The remaining 11 models took me about 2 hours to prime paint and base. during the drying times I also got well into my tyranid warrior test model.

They look great Googletron! I agree that green might be a step too far but what about a blue?

The squad looks great. I have 3000 points of Tyranids waiting to be painted, and I like the style you're going with here. For me, balancing a quick process with a quality result will be top priority. I think you're hitting it pretty good.

like the idea of the contrast from the green, but Im worried in practice, the shade of green that would pop may come off cartoonish on the larger models. I'm not quite sure.

Thinking about it some more, you may be right.

I would say that these look great as-is. However I wouldn't put it together with this 'cuz well, I don't see a lot of animals that're purple and green(purple, for that matter) Perhaps a lighter shade of purple? Like in flowers. They'll look quite realistic, imo.

This. I like the idea of a lighter shade of purple.

OR, perhaps just a touch of something even lighter, like off white? It might make the model pop, but not overwhelm or look cartoonish.

I like the idea of a lighter shade of purple.

OR, perhaps just a touch of something even lighter, like off white? It might make the model pop, but not overwhelm or look cartoonish.

I think I'll end up going with a darker or lighter shade rather than a strong contrasting color. either off white or pink, or a burgundy/red. Here's a pic of my Hive tyrant, counts as a daka flyrant. I'm waiting on testing the paint scheme on some less significant big bugs before I try my hand at him

Here's a pic of my Hive tyrant, counts as a daka flyrant. I'm waiting on testing the paint scheme on some less significant big bugs before I try my hand at him

Wow, great model! Looking forward to seeing him painted up in the future!