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I've nearly finished my marines and with that project comings to an end I find my thoughts turning to the next project on my bench, my tyranids.

Now I was originally thinking about doing a kraken scheme but have decided against it as none of my other armies are a gw scheme it made sense to continue to avoid them. So to be a little different I thought about reversing the kraken scheme. By reversing them I thought you'd get a dessert look (which I want in hindsight as my board is a dessert one) so I mentally ran with it and came up with the following.

Prime white

Chitin

Bane blade/khemri Brown
Zames dessert/bubonic Brown
Sepia wash
Tallarn sand/dessert yellow
Ushbati/bleached bone

Flesh

Doombull/dark flesh
Wash (not sure black, sepia or flesh)

Soft tissue

Ratskin/dwarf flesh
Flesh wash

What do people think, I know it's hard with no pics but do folks think it will work


Thanks
Spanky

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Also, think about your process and how many steps you will need to paint. Depending on your list, you could be painting hundreds of figures and that small extra step on the test figure magnifies into something horrifying when you're staring at 50 termagants. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/505545/5253450.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/505545/5253450.page GMT Re:Tyranid Paint Scheme help, please.
This is the easiest way off getting a lot of effective table-top quality models down fast. After you have the skin/flesh painted, you simply add your carapace colors and celebrate. On a day I'm in the mood, I'll get roughly 24 gants down or 1 Tervigon (or any other MC). The ink drying phase takes the longest. And I do it twice so there is a lot of downtime.




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Lava-based Wastelands.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/505545/5254346.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/505545/5254346.page GMT Tyranid Paint Scheme help, please. id sugary food and which is a big sandy place)? Anyway I think that theme is good. You are using a quite a few browns and I suggest that you make one clearly darker than the other. Your carapace darker than the skin or vice versa. This will help to make them look more defined.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/505545/5254961.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/505545/5254961.page GMT Re:Tyranid Paint Scheme help, please.
You've raised points that I was worried about, especially the possible over complicated/time element.

I'll try a tester and let you know.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/505545/5257326.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/505545/5257326.page GMT Tyranid Paint Scheme help, please.
 Leech wrote:
I think that dessert or is it desert (which of these id sugary food and which is a big sandy place)?


I was always taught to remember dessert is the thing you want after dinner because you always want seconds (2 s's).

I highly recommend the test figure. It will not only give you a good idea of what your figure will look like, but also how much work is required to do it, which is a huge consideration with Tyranids.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/505545/5257763.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/505545/5257763.page GMT Re:Tyranid Paint Scheme help, please. IG scheme I wish I hadn't bothered with.


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Ok, so here's a quick tester I did, apologies i'm not the greatest painter or photographer and this was a rush (start to finish 1.5 hours including drying)







I used a black wash on the Dark Flesh in the end and Tallarn flesh rather than dwarf (as I didn't have dwarf). When I was doing it a couple of things jumped out.

One, not sure if priming white was a great idea, was too easy to notice bits I missed.

Two, the dessert yellow didn't add much after I used water down bubonic on khemri. I was wondering if using a darker/mid tone brown would be better like calthan, as it would make the bleaced bone edging pop more.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/505545/5258544.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/505545/5258544.page GMT