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Hi,

I've taken up the Hobby again after quite a few years and have fallen in love with the designs of the Tyranids, I've bought several Horm & Term Brood Boxes, A Warrior Brood(2014) and the Tyranid Swarm Battleforce Box to start me off.

I'm thinking of going a really nice Jungle Deathworld Theme, but I'm having trouble deciding on a color scheme.

I've been Looking at Neal Moss's Great work on this great thread http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/535923.page and am thinking of going a similar route, if not to his astonishing level of talent.

Does anyone know of any other Jungle Themed Tyranids that I should check out


Regards,
Typer.

The main issue is whether you want:
- a 'camo' colour scheme (their colours blending in with the vegetation, which would particularly suit an infiltration theme)
- a 'scary' colour scheme (their colours deliberately clashing with the vegetation, for maximum terror effect on anyone seeing them coming)
- or a random 'just popped in to ravage your planet and couldn't care less whether you can see me' colour scheme

But that in turn leads to another question worth sorting out first: what colours will your vegetation be? Not all death worlds are green, although it certainly makes things easier for you, if you were planning on using aquarium (and other fake) plants as Hive Fleet colossus apparently did.

I'd be leaning towards doing the nids themselves in a deep emerald green.

So say do the armour a nice rich green. Maybe give it a coat of gloss or a glaze or something to make it kinda shiny. Not bettle-like, but something to give it a wee bit of lustre. Then for the fleshy bits a slightly browner green. Not quite an olive green but something along those lines.
As for the claws and teeth and what-have. I'd be really tempted to go with white or a very white bone colour.

For the boney bit I think a base of commando kakhi with bone white brushwd over it, maybe with some agrax earthshade would contrast really well with thw deep darker green but still have a earthy feel.

I thought do the models in bright yellow and black imitate marking of dangerous insects( which nids certainly are)

Tyranids are space Dinosaurs actually...

But OT: I always like Nids with very "unnatural" colours to them, such as bright yellows or purples, or even metallics (yes, there are insects like that IRL, but metals on an organic creature look "wrong", but in a good way sometimes). Look towards poison dart frogs for some off the wall schemes for Nids IMO.

I say go for it man!!

Ill be happy to offer any advice or how-tos on how i did my jungle effects.

Best overall advice i can give is : set a standard and a process you can stick with. Dont set the bar so high you give up and hang yourself half way through your first gaunt squad. Tyranid armies have a HUGE number of models so you have to be able to paint the same thing over a long stretch of time.

If i can ever quit doing commission work i might actually have some time to finish up my tyranids. I have a TON of stuff that is 50-75% done that i need to get off my can and finish up.

I hope you go through with your project and i definately always love seeing a fellow tyranid collector grow his force.

post pictures of your progress


Neal

I have thought something like this green and brown lictor would look cool on an entire army:

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?186620-Tyranid-Hive-Fleet&p=4261500&viewfull=1#post4261500

 Grimtuff wrote:
Tyranids are space Dinosaurs actually...

But OT: I always like Nids with very "unnatural" colours to them, such as bright yellows or purples, or even metallics (yes, there are insects like that IRL, but metals on an organic creature look "wrong", but in a good way sometimes). Look towards poison dart frogs for some off the wall schemes for Nids IMO.

Tyranids might have been conceived as Dinosaurs, they haven't been that way as long as I've been playing 40k though.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 Grimtuff wrote:
Tyranids are space Dinosaurs actually...

But OT: I always like Nids with very "unnatural" colours to them, such as bright yellows or purples, or even metallics (yes, there are insects like that IRL, but metals on an organic creature look "wrong", but in a good way sometimes). Look towards poison dart frogs for some off the wall schemes for Nids IMO.

Tyranids might have been conceived as Dinosaurs, they haven't been that way as long as I've been playing 40k though.

You do realise the link I posted was an article relating to the 4th ed. Nid codex from 2008, right? But I digress...

EDIT: Letting it go to avoid going off topic, lol.

Check out the colors forgeworld uses on their nids, which are from the Anphelion project.




Even though I'm super disappointed with the dex, I'm probably going to be slowly repainting them this way, in the hopes they get a nice "6.5" dex, kinda like what chaos got with the 3.5 book.