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Having trouble painitng my Nids. I don't know how I get dressed in the morning, I can't put colors together to save my life. Trying to get a contrasting scheme.

Since it is a 3 color minimum to play in tournys, I was looking at the triad combo on the color wheel.

Should I be looking at split complementary, triad, or something else?

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What is the primary color you're wanting to use? Giving us a start point will let us much more helpful.

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Split complementary would be your best bet for Tyranids, I think. Use a pale version of the primary colour for the skin, then dark versions of the two colours adjacent to the primary's complement for the carapace and claws.

For example, a pale ochre/bone colour for the skin, with a dark grey-blue (something like The Fang) carapace and black claws edge-highlighted to purple. Or pale yellow-green skin with dark purple carapace and dark red claws.

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I sometime use this website (sure there are others) if I need to see what the different complimentary etc colours are, then you just need to find a paint thats close to it (or mix your own)

http://paletton.com/#uid=44H0u0kkJlXa8xyfqrgq3gCvsbd


   
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3 questions:

How good are you at painting?
Are you wanting to paint them quickly or paint them well?
Are you after a warm colour or a cold one?
   
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Do not worry that much about the 3 colour rule. It is mostly there to ensure people paibt their models. A basecoat and a wash, bham, 2 colours. Drybrush with a colout slightly lighter then the basecoat, 3 colours.

There are some arias nids get painted on:
The hard shells
The "skinn" (i like to think of them as cartelage, making the flexible)
The non carapace hard bits, like tallons and hoves.
Teeth (somebody have teeth in another colour then the tallons)
Wings (on some models)
The slits in the skin (the breathing slits, or spore fumes, what ever you prefer to think of them as.)
Weapons as a seperate skinn colour
And lastly markings on shells

Pick 1 colour and black/white/grey.
Pick 2 complementery colours. Possibly black white or grey as a 3rd.
Pick 3 colours that contrast each other.

If you are not a good painter then go for dark, washed, drybrushed lightly and then a spot colour on the shells. That looks really neat. Scales well with big monsters and hordes. The spott colour either on the entire shell, or just some thin matkings along the ridges.

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