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I added a chart with the paints i've used so you can quickly see what colors i'm going for. Its a bit small, and the numbers are not 100% correct, but the main idea is red = carapace, blue = flesh, black = bones/scything talons/hooves, green=eyes/details.
I thought i'd share my tyranid paint scheme with you guys. I've been struggling a long time trying to find out what color scheme to go for, but I think I finally found out!
I split the paint scheme into the carapace (scales amour), Flesh/shooting weapons, Bones/talons/hooves and eyes/other details.
1. The entire model will be primed black
2. The carapace (red in the image) will be get a base color of Dryad bark, then i will airbrush the center of the carapace and the shadow between the scales with xereus purple, then mephiston red, then gradually fade the red into trollslayer orange and then into flash gitz yellow the closer i come to the edges.Then finish it of with a edge highlight/light drybrush of screaming scull.
The technique Lucas is using on the wings is the one i'm planing on using for the carapace, but i will use it in reverse (dark centre and bright edges) Beautiful combination of colors.
3. Then there's another technique I will use on the painted carapace where you fade the washes into each other. I start with reikland flesh shade at the edges of the carapace and work my way in with carroburg crimson and then druchii violet. (this technique is also in the video)
Now for the flesh
4. The flesh is quite simple. I'll do a layer of mournfang brown, then do a light highlight with balor brown and then a fine highlight with balor brown/screaming scull.
5. The claws and bone will be mainly black. I do a layer of abaddon black, then a light fade with the airbrush on the tip of the talon with warpstone glow into moot green and then a really thin edge highlight of warpstone glow and moot green. But, I won't go crazy with the green, It'll be more like a shimmer of green in the black.
6. I will use a "glow" technique on the eyes where i airbrush the eye socket with caliban green - warpstone glow - moot green, then dot the eye with flash gitz yellow and a black iris if im feeling lucky.
7. The shooting weapons will be the fleshy color, but I'll do the glow technique in the tip of the barrels, and on the ammunition, I'll also use some nurgle's rot in the gun barrels and maybe as drool in their open mouths.
Personally I prefer more realistic and naturally toned Nids so your scheme isn't for me. Godspeed.
I think that having both the eyes and weapon openings glowing the same colour would make the models confusing to read. Painting the eyes on the weapons makes more sense fluffwise if you HAVE to go for gloving eyes at all.
Either way do a test model or two i'd recommend a genestealer, a termagant, a warrior with scytals and a gun and a carnifex with both talons and a big gun.
This should give you every variation of surface within the nid army and at every scale. Scaling up or down the colour combos is pretty important as what works on a gaunt may not work on a hierophant. It'll also give you a good idea of the speed that you can paint each model if time is a factor.
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Alex Kolodotschko wrote: Personally I prefer more realistic and naturally toned Nids so your scheme isn't for me. Godspeed.
I think that having both the eyes and weapon openings glowing the same colour would make the models confusing to read. Painting the eyes on the weapons makes more sense fluffwise if you HAVE to go for gloving eyes at all.
Either way do a test model or two i'd recommend a genestealer, a termagant, a warrior with scytals and a gun and a carnifex with both talons and a big gun.
This should give you every variation of surface within the nid army and at every scale. Scaling up or down the colour combos is pretty important as what works on a gaunt may not work on a hierophant. It'll also give you a good idea of the speed that you can paint each model if time is a factor.
Thanks for your input!
Well, insects in nature does come in a great variety of colors, pretty much every color imaginable, i guess the most common is black, tan and brown, but those colors are so boring.
That's a good point about scale, I'll do a test, maybe post it here to see what people think.
