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Hey Guys, It's been a long time since I took up a new army.
When I'm happy with my chaos I was looking into taking up Tyranids at some point.

I've never sprayed anything other than black and white primer from the Citadel range, but I'm considering painting up tyranids in some ridiculously vivid colours. I was looking here at the Montana Gold spraypaint range, and all their range of colours. I'm certainly going to be experimenting!! Source.

I'm curious to know if any of you spray your models other colours, and what the effect looks like afterwards. I've seen some purple spray on nids but yaaaaawn. Also any particular brands you support?

I have no idea what colour scheme my nids would be yet, (maybe something with a neon green) I've a battleforce unassembled and shelved for years I should really get out and start tearing up some foes, I bought them years ago and my friends convinced me out of collecting them because they were boring and had no stories or real customising options. I've since decided they're talking crap.

I feel bad for the little monsters and would certainly like to unleash them upon my friends and prove them wrong.

Army painter do some coloured primers that may be of use to you.

I used a rustoleum high heat (almond) on my Tyranids

http://www.kan.org/michael/mkp/tyranid_gaunt.php

I applied Mechrite Red to the carapace and then gave the figure a full body wash of Raw Umber. Results are documents in the article above.

 Ifurita wrote:
I used a rustoleum high heat (almond) on my Tyranids

http://www.kan.org/michael/mkp/tyranid_gaunt.php

I applied Mechrite Red to the carapace and then gave the figure a full body wash of Raw Umber. Results are documents in the article above.

Very nice, Easy, Quick and Effective. The colours you used work perfectly.

I'm considering doing mine different colours though, but still this guide is worth taking note of.

I did my Tyranids with Montana Gold sprays on top of medium grey primer.

You can see I used earth colours.

I finished the details with pink and red oxide, and the light QuickShade from Army Painter for shading and varnish, followed by matt varnish spray.

The great thing about Montana Gold is they dry almost instantly so you can paint the army really quickly.

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

Note, the reason I used the Almond instead of white is because the almond has a little bit of brown in it, that complements the Mechrite Red and brown wash. It's well work spending a couple of dollars to experiment though.

 Ifurita wrote:
Note, the reason I used the Almond instead of white is because the almond has a little bit of brown in it, that complements the Mechrite Red and brown wash. It's well work spending a couple of dollars to experiment though.

I seem to be unable to find the Rustoleum Almond spray after a quick google search. Where'd you source it from? Rustoleum aerosols website has some Almond gloss but I can't seem to find the Rustoleum High Heat Almond you used.

http://rustoleum.com/CBGProduct.asp?pid=112&sid=7750830

I used the high heat because of the flat color ... very possible the same color exists in another line as well. If you do try out different sprays, test out a can to see how it holds a wash, if you don't do any additional painting on top of it.

 Ifurita wrote:
http://rustoleum.com/CBGProduct.asp?pid=112&sid=7750830

I used the high heat because of the flat color ... very possible the same color exists in another line as well. If you do try out different sprays, test out a can to see how it holds a wash, if you don't do any additional painting on top of it.

Ah it's likely down to Locale. I'm sure I'll find a retailer somewhere that can stock or import it for me. Thanks alot. Do you have pictures of your nids fully assembled?

I use Halford primer as both a primer and a base-coat.
They do red oxide, ochre, grey as well as white & black. Mostly I use grey & black.

Here are some examples of 1/2 painted models.
(On the landraider below, the only paint was the prime coat & a bit on the metallic bits - the rest was done with pigments.)

http://www.kan.org/michael/mkp/tyranids.php

There is the link to my compendium of Tyranid articles

Thanks for your help with Sprays mate, I'm still looking into finding that particular spray here in the UK. I'm hoping I can get a hardware retailer to import it.

If I ever get round to it, I'll let you know.

Edit:
Just tried to buy some on Amazon.com and they won't ship it, wonder if it's because it's an aerosol can.
All this just for a can of radiator spray paint!

The nearest thng I found so far is here. This cream colour. But I don't know if it'd work to prime them.