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I did my entire Tyranid army using spray paints and Quickshade, plus a few details by brush.

I used the paint on, paint off method for the Quickshade. In some cases I did a layer of Quickshade, let it dry, then did another layer to get heavier shading. I was using the lightest tone of shade.

I sprayed everything matte at the end.

I painted the army in effectively two long bank holiday weekends. There are four large Monstrous creatures, about 23 medium sized creatures and 66.6 Termagants.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Hive_Fleet_Kielbasa

 stargasm wrote:
Love the name of your hive fleet. Couln't really see much detail in the pics until that bad-ass trigon! surprised such simple techniques work on monsters so well!

You can do a lot more by really careful and detailed painting, but my objective was to get an army done and ready for the table with the least effort and time.

I use the "three feet rule", which is that I don't care about details that won't show up when you are standing three feet away from the table.