http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/8.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net MCs I get intimidated by all that surface area. I'm painting a Tervigon at the moment and I've just laid down my base coat of Stegadon scale green, and applied some coelia Greenshade into the recesses of the plates. Do I go straight to edge highlighting now or should I lay down a layer or 2 of something else first? ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/773910/10408470.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/773910/10408470.page GMT
I for instance drybrush Enchanted Blue (Caledor Sky) onto all my nids. on the biggies, it gives a subtle mottled blue effect on the flat surfaces.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/773910/10408486.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/773910/10408486.page GMT ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/773910/10408490.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/773910/10408490.page GMT
Darkest purple. (Nagarot night.) Then a wash of black. (Nuln oil.) Now you have a colour somewhere between black and purple and it works well. This is your main colour. Since the eye is not drawn to black this means you do not need to focus on this a lot.

Then i drybrush this with the next purple. (Xerxos purple.) This is just very light. You are not looking to make it purple, just to break up the black a bit. I try to have it more near the edges to sort of 'colour inn' the black.

If you want to you can either colour inn this again with genestealer purple, or do some feathering with genestealer purple. But mostly I do not bother with this.

End step you mix a purple with a lot of light grey. Feather with this near the back end of each 'shell'. This represent where the shell has groqn so big it had started to crack and wear and tear. Imagine a human nail, or a turtle shell that has grown long as has startes breaking off. Works fine.

Leviathan really has a light/dark contrast. The fleshy white contrast with the dsrk purple. The colours do not really apair in nature. Purple/Grey/Black/White. Also the sharp bone weapons are red. On an individual model the eye is drawn to the red. On the army as a whole theye is drawn to the grey patterns on the back shells, as they repeat so many tiles on every model. Looks fine.

I have white guns, so they are a bit more aøbino then regular leviathans.

My GDC use the same pattern. But yellow/Orange instead of the red. I wish I did this as my main nid colour scheme as I like it.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/773910/10408896.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/773910/10408896.page GMT

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Feather a medium color (dark purple) in large strokes.
Feather lighter color in smaller strokes (genestealer purple).
Edge highlight with a light grey ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/773910/10409387.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/773910/10409387.page GMT