Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

I think I've finally settled on a color scheme I like and I'm most likely sticking with this now. Just waiting for my basing grit to arrive so I can finish the base and see the overall look.

Great highlighting on the claws and armour plating.

What scheme you going for on the base?

That looks great by any standard, awesome job.

Thanks. I was thinking of a basic rocky desert base since I'm a newbie.

Or I might try some of these:

That looks very good.

I especially like the fact that it is almost completely the reverse of mine.

technically I think it's pretty well painted.
However I worry that the orange is too close in tone to the skin colour.
Picking a desert base will further flatten the model's impact from distance.
Maybe if the sand colour was more in the terracotta shade (ie a dark /dirty red / orange.
Else a contrasting colour like blue?
Note: this is not meant to be a negative comment, more of my opinion on how to make your army 'pop'.
If you have access to photoshop or similar you could digitally recolour the white base in your photo to try different colours.

Bubber makes a good point for a "pop" on the table, yet because the colors are so close, I might go ahead and go with another similar color for the sand. This way it would look like a "natural" camouflage. Kinda like how a brown spider blends in with the brown tree and leaves its living in. IDK. Do what you want, its your model.

He looks well painted!

Looks pretty similar to my guys

Steelmage99 wrote:That looks very good.

I especially like the fact that it is almost completely the reverse of mine.

Hey, you must be the one who did a Carnifex in that exact color scheme too, that was actually the inspiration for my Tyranids color scheme but I ended up reversing the colors while adding some red and orange.

bubber wrote:technically I think it's pretty well painted.
However I worry that the orange is too close in tone to the skin colour.
Picking a desert base will further flatten the model's impact from distance.
Maybe if the sand colour was more in the terracotta shade (ie a dark /dirty red / orange.
Else a contrasting colour like blue?
Note: this is not meant to be a negative comment, more of my opinion on how to make your army 'pop'.
If you have access to photoshop or similar you could digitally recolour the white base in your photo to try different colours.

Good point, I was going for a desert base because it would be more of a natural camouflage, but then again I guess the planets that the Tyranids invade aren't really their natural environment necessarily so I could go with something more contrasting.
As if my choice of base wasn't hard enough I will have to re-think it now. ^^

 Iechine wrote:
He looks well painted!

Looks pretty similar to my guys

Nice, I like those black spots on the carapace, I'd steal that if I had some black paint.

Sorry.

Heh, about half a brood of Hormagaunts done when I realized I probably can't be bothered with this color scheme, the blending is killing me. Back to trying to figure out a new color scheme while my painted models take a bath.

Looking good, keep it up!