Greeting from Australia! Just want to say thank you for this video, I have been putting off painting my nids as I didn't have the first idea about what techniques were going to work for me. I have sunk about 2 hours into my psycophage today and I am loving it! Thanks again, and keep up the great work!
Something I do for the carapace joints that help tie the model to a base is to use pigment powders. In this case, I would go over or replace the doombull brown
Hey, love the theme :) Just tried it myself and it looks great. Only thing is I cant get that skin looking as smooth as you do. Might be that I need to go thicker with the crimson but could you tell me what dry brush you're using? Thanks!
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Thanks for this paint scheme. I've been really struggling for inspiration and this is perfect. Love them and it's inspired me to crack on Leviathan 😁 I can't wait for next week's videos 😊
Glad you like it. I am for sure going to be doing a full backstory around my hive fleet and name reveal soon. So check out the website and my instagram for all of that.
You could check out the other tyranid schemes I’ve done on the channel, once you pick one you like you’ll know what paint you need to get started on your own!
Oh now that's a pretty nid! I'm basing mine on various lizards, so this big guy will be based on a gila monster. Hopefully with those flesh tones, there'll still be some army similarities. 🤞 Just gotta remember to film the painting this time. 😂
Lizards are a great source of reference for tyranids! once the bases tie everything together you won't need to worry too much! Haha it's easy to get excited and not hit record-I've done it myself!
I absolutely hate, HATE! When space marine or other races are part of the Tyranid model. The Toxicrein is also modeled in such a way. I do not enjoy painting other races from 40k at all. Takes all the fun out of it and ruins my time.
Totally fair opinion! If it really bothers you, just clip off parts or cover stuff on bases with texture paste! Always make sure you’re happy with your own models!
I almost always use greyseer, wraithbone is a lot brighter. It depends what the plan for the model is, the contrast between chaos black and wraithbone is also a lot stronger. I’d say grey seer for 90% of projects!
@@MediocreHobbies sweet thank you. I actually had some of their blue ones in my cart after recommendations from another painter. Seems like it’s time to order
Yeah I saw that, I think you used the same contrast colors on the wings as the body if im not mistaken. Was looking to make my wings stand more apart from the body, if you have any suggestion for that?@@MediocreHobbies
I really, really love that skin theme. I think, Ill totally rip you off with this. 😂😂😂 Still havent decided what chapter I will go with for the Space Marines. 🤷🤷🤷 I just want one of the main ones.
Greetings from Florida!! I’m being lazy and not scrolling so you may have answered this already, but I have a question about the ratio of water to your brown that you used on the carapace. Maybe it is an issue with my paint pot but no matter how much water I’m adding to the brown, it still doesn’t seem to be runny enough until I add just too much and it ends up a glaze with barely any coverage. What tips do you have for this stage? I really like the scheme you picked for this guy and I would like to emulate if for a box I am painting for a friend. Keep up the great work!
It should be the same consistency as milk. It’s usually around 1:1. Remember that it might dry darker than you think, and you’re not really looking for full coverage, more of a stain to break up the colours. Sorry this reply is so late!
I CAN'T WAIT to paint the 'Nids when I pick up my copy of the Leviathan box tomorrow. My Hive Fleet is called Tenebreon, and the few models I've bought and painted so far have a nocturnal/abyssal colour scheme. Beetle carapaces inspired me to paint the Tyranid carapaces with Shifting colours (namely Scarab, Skyrat and Cyberia from Turbo Dork) because the former naturally often have an alien look to them IMHO and I think dark colour schemes best fit the Tyranids cosmically horrifying nature. My Hive Fleet's name is also a modification of Tenebrionidae, a family of beetles called darkling beetles and I fell in love with the alien flavour of the name 'darkling beetle'.
Cheers Andy! It’s a great scheme. Looking forward to your Leviathan week. Think I will do the Leviathan scheme for my models, but got a few thousand points of Necrons to paint first. Inspired by your Indomitus series so it’s your fault 😂
This paint scheme is great! I want to try it on a winged creature. How would you suggest to contrast the thin flesh of the wing with the bony structure supporting it?
I'm an AOS player but the Tyranids are mighty tempting. I'll be doing a xenomorph paint scheme when I eventually cave. Hopefully after I finish my 3 armies in progress? 😂😂😂😂😂 I've been moving along really well on Khorne
Looking forward to tomorrow then! Ill be painting a unit of Necron Lychguard I hope to get done by the end of the month, based and all. Gonna be great to see your daily video while painting, to see your progress, as compared to mine. Of course, yours being far more complicated than my lowly 5 models haha. Also as a necron player, I can atest to a majority of the foot soldier using the same color schemes and techniques. However, once you do get to those vehicle/monster models, all the HQ/characters, and epic heroes, all that added detail, ornate accesories, and weapons will make that same color scheme fall a bit flat. I cant say the same for Tyranids though. There are a few who have some slightly unique anatomies like the psykers and some of the weirder weapon units but for the most part there anatomies all consist of the same biological makeup and stuctures
Will you respond to this comment too... Jk. But seriously thank you for sharing this material. I have been struggling my way through an icy tyranid fleet. Your tutorials have given me the ideas and strength to get it going! Thank you
Hey Andy - absolutely love the job you did on the Psychophage. And I see Lauren is on the Job bringing up a link to the twitch on the screen since you forgot again :)
I paint quite a traditional Leviathan scheme with a few labour intensive edge highlights, but might park that for this guy and try dry brushing some of those on the skin. Want to see this guy on the table quickly!
Not a big fan of the chitin plates, but the skin looks awesome. I chose to go with the albino scheme from Midwinter Minis and mod it by going with 3-4 layers of drybrushing. If I had seen yours earlier, I might have gone with yours, though.
I don’t paint much, but going to look at following your tyranids. I absolutely love the way you do the skin, but was unsure what colour I was going to do the carapace. I’ve decided to follow your blue as I have decided the nids are on earth, so blue and green. Not 100% where the green will be, but you have inspired me to paint. Thank you.
Looks really good! I finally decided to pick up Leviathan, still trying to decide on a color scheme for the nids. I am thinking blues on frozen base. The space marines will of course become part of my Raven Guard.
Knocked it out of the park again mate. Looks 10/10 Picked up Leviathan yesterday & really looking forward to building my first non-Space Marine models. Your Tyranid videos are about to get a boost in viewership with me trying to figure out colours haha Keep up the good Emperor’s work
Just got the set myself. Been thinking of turning my Psychophage into a giant Assassin bug.They wear dead bugs on their bodies. But I think mine would wear Marine body parts. Definitely liking your color scheme
Great video. I'm not a tyrannid player bu they are the main reason I bought this box. They look amazing and I'm looking forward to building and painting them!
I love this paint scheme, the soft bits look amazing and I feel very inspired to try this as well. I’ve been testing out 20 different schemes and decided on some kind of blue for the armor, but I wasn’t happy with my idea for super light blue for the soft bits. Thanks for sharing!
I think it would! I don't paint much purple so can't give you an exact recipe off the top of my head but the warm pink tones in the skin would suit it really well!
Great job on the Psychophage ( bet I got that wrong 😂). I’m curious about you changing up your scheme by adding that extra area of pink, as you have such a large nid army will you revisit all of them after making a subtle change like this or are you happy enough to just do it from here on? I personally cling hard to my paint recipes even to the point a new product comes out and I can’t take advantage of it because I don’t wanna mess with “the recipe” an area I should probably look to work on I guess. Anyways keep up the good work and good luck for leviathan week 👍
So my current thinking is when I write a list to play a game I will go back to all the models in that list and retouch them up to my new standard. So hopefully I will get through them all that way.
Looking great. I'm finding it too hot, and I'm too tired to go pick up my set. I might see how tomorrow is and go then. But I really do want to get my crimson gauntlet on those new marines and the new nids for my friend's Leviathan army. I still have 24 gaunts, 3 warriors, and 2 rippers to finish painting, plus a tervigon and 10 gargoyles to build.
Hey! Awesome work! One quick question since we dont really see it in the video. How to you do the inside of the mouth? All those teeth.... Thanks in advance.
awesome paint scheme. I took the highlights on the carapace one more step. I used Hoeth Blue only covering about 1/2 the Alaitoc blue. looks really good. Thanks for the scheme, was really struggling with how to paint my Tyranids..
I’ve tried collecting tyranids twice in the past. This is my third time. Always struggled with how I wanted to paint them. You’ve answered that question, but of course I’m going to add my own touches. Regardless, You got a new subscriber today. Thank you for this!
aw thank you so much! Glad you finally found your solution, and I could help you with it! Hope it works out for you and let me know if you have any questions!
Man this is just what I was looking for. I've been struggling to choose a skin tone for a while now. I'm gonna use green stuff world's chameleon line, celestial azure blue. I'm curious to see if the doom bull step you used will work on that as well.
I can't see any reason why it wouldn't, if you're worried, try it on a smaller model or on a part that isn't as obvious. Remember it's only paint, and it can always be covered up again if you need to!
The scheme is good. But this guys tutorial is horrendous. My suggestions to everyone who wants to try this out is to just note down the colors used, and then use your commons sense. If you follow what he says, you will never get the same result. Example: He says he never dilutes his paints. But he forgets to mention that he puts the contrast paints on a wet-palette, something he mentions in passing in another video. This ofcours dilutes the paints. The longer they are on the wet palette, the more diluted they will become. Sooo.... next to useless tutorial.
I do not use contrast on a wet pallet. And I’d suggest if you want to give helpful advice to a group of hobbiest maybe consider starting your own RU-vid channel and you can make your own videos. Instead of spreading false information in my comment section.
Don't worry I know I'm in this a bit late but I love your tutorials and my nids turned out nearly identical to yours so he is spreading false information
