BTP- Tyranid Color Schemes

[GakupoTheSamurai]

i hv cool ideas for a nds and marines scheme so if u need ideas just pm me

[PolskaProdigy]

@GakupoTheSamurai I need the ideas on painting Tyranids!

[smeeves]

Hahaha I have Christmas nids.

Red carapace (Red gore base, blood red highlight, blazing orange extreme highlight) and green skin (snot green base, goblin middle layer and scorpion highlights).

[SaintsTerror]

I'm starting a Tyranid army as we speak and just wanted to say thanks for these pointers on colors, I needed it badly :)

[cheech381]

@Warhammer40kWarGamer Waaaaaaaaaagh!!! That's what I feared... (hence not even touching it yet!)

... I'll just stick with it on Space Hulk then!

[TheGamesfreak101]

lol you have spelt colour wrong you put 'color' !

[ronnie299288]

@TheGamesfreak101 american

[mruberduck2]

@TheGamesfreak101that is the american spelling

[sharktokill]

hey what about white flesh and black carapace but have blue flicks on the carapace

[cheech381]

I'm going for the SpaceHulk colour scheme, purple skin. blue bone (or a hues of that) I've not attempted anything bigger then a lictor yet. I'm worried about how my Monstrous creatures will look :(

Has anyone seen any other examples like this on the net? Is so please send me a link... might be something BTP could experiment with :) show me how it's done.

[killgun2]

my color scheme is : green flesh, purple armor(knarlock green and goblin green, hormagaunt purple and liche purple) has a alien look, picked it up at a GW store in the UK

[Blade0047]

can we not get pics of theses color schems?

[JohnDiabol]

I like my Tyranids realistic looking. Also one thing you didn't bring up is that insects often have bright colours on their armour, While their soft spots are kinda dark and less visible. My point is that the bright spots attracts the attacker to focus on the wrong places. I think this applies to the Tyranid's aswell. Nice video!

[sidwidle]

k im embaressed to ask this but at 2:31 what is that pair of creatures being counted as, i must of missed a vid or something lol

[I3ohe]

... Christmas nyds... xD LOL! i imagine that... xD

[Blackivar]

a good buddy of mine is currently doing an "Alien" themed colour scheme difficult but very effective

[TheOnlyLichKing]

well i have to say that the all black works if done right, my friend dose that with green tongues and stuff then dips it in a brown wood stain and it gives it a nice shine. they look like the bugs from Aliens the movie

[RyuuShin047]

christmas nids do not sound so bad.

[till357951]

different shades of green carapace and

bleached bone/delvan mud felsh

[tyberius66]

Mine has an orange carapace and black flesh XD

[Skringly]

Mine have orange flesh, and black carapace.

[WTFTEEHEE]

umm shawn, purple and blue are both cold colours, so you cant have a warm cold contrast with them. sorry.

[3Li0nsD0M]

anyone got some good colour combos??

[Akaitsuki85]

I'm painting mine with Catachan Green for flesh and Chaos Black carapace. drybrushed carapace with Bleached Bone and of course talons also Bleached Bone. I also do 50/50 water/catachan green on the talons to make them look dirty and "swampy" :P

[darthd95]

SHOW MORE, SPEAK LESS,PLZ

[TheOnlyLichKing]

shush.. this was very sound advise! learn to love it dude. any time shawn playes out something for us to learn i take it all in.

[darthd95]

i wasn't so serius in my previus comment,but yea,shawn likes to play chalenging armies and not easy kick-ass armies.(as far as i've seen)

[monpoc40000]

actually the "flesh" is an exoscelaton

[xccckwankly]

do a "christmas nid" army lol

[tatulover01]

doing the tyranids black with a light carapet sound good with the muscle bits in blue or green sounds good.. almost "Alienl" i aint painted any tyranids tho but i think thats wat they would be going for instead of the "beetle look"

[anvilofcrom]

I quite like the color sche,e you came up with for your army, the green looks great.

[enrgie]

Love this vid. Awesome tips

[WhiteKnight402]

Christmas nids! :D

[TLtruffles]

I challenged myself by using just an all red-yellow-orange palette of colors. The skin is a dark crimson red (scab red with some blood red spots) The carapace is done by stippling and shading. It really is time consuming.

[ShadowsSpawn]

I am still painting up my nids... in about 1200 points in (2000 total) they are the HF.B scheme, with the read skin and blue shells... they look great.. but the down side is there not as fun to paint as tau or SM or eldar, which alow for some uniqueness in the units.

By god I love playing my nids more than my Dark angles though..

Large MC deepstrikers and shitloads of flyers tied with terv. spawnd gaunts and tyranofex gun support + DoM. not the best torny list, but fun to play.

[WiredFly]

Great vid.

I would love if you cut exaples in the vids. Can just be stills :)

[baggott11]

wot battle report r u goin 2 do next wif the tyranids

[baggott11]

my tyranids r painted in mechrite red, hawk turqoise and choas black with a citadel wash of baal red.

[The80swasStraight]

Great vid guys, but i want a sequel with lots of picture examples! :)

[spacepaw1]

Yeah christmas nids army! good idea! Maybe red and white stripes as well? :)

[DarkbladeChaos777]

My Tyranids are all melee and in an Icy Arctic color theme. They are a VERY pale blue with WHITE carapaces. The claws, talons, fangs, and hooves are also a very light gray.

I did lots of conversions too! My Lictors are all white and kinda covered in snow since they have chameleon skin I wanted them to blend with the snow. One looks like its bursting from underneath a frozen lake and he's covered in a bit of ice :D

I LOVE MY ICY NIDS!!!

[rgj798]

also the black work wells with grey highlights.

[rgj798]

My nids have a yellow skin built up from mild browns, giving them a natural skin tone. While their 'shells' are black with a bright, distinct red line down the middle. Gives them character. the brown undercoats work really well in giving shadow deception. Those are some nice looking nids

[insanedaemon]

@rgj798 we apparently have the same colour scheme. looks really eye-catching on a table without being obnoxiously bright.

[1cathar]

start a christmas nid army

[xXJetwiiXx]

Wow, I sold my tyranid army to start Eldar and they come out with a new codex and new models... GW Hates me!!

[kevinmcd28]

my favorite nid paint scheme is blue armor and tanish washed bodys

[aldi2500]

Bluetable and pancakes, is there any better way to start a day?^^

[Fug118TheGreat]

@aldi2500 BTP and BACON!

[underfire987]

red flesh, and black carpasas? :D

[ryguy5414]

hey kaotic do a very dark purple, warlock purple and 1 wash of purple wash, dry brush w/ warlock purple, then 1 more purple wash

[redgreen09]

if i get enufe fore an army ME i like bees and wosps and some might get ants big bugs crabs losers very crusations to them WKJR

[clubace090]

beetle, thats a good idea for nid carapace, maybe a dark blue or dark violet and then add alot of blending of rainbow colors to give it a shinny beetle look.....if that makes since?

[kaoticmachine]

can you do one for lizardmen, i just bought the battleforce boxset and everything other than the skin, armour plates and sheilds are painted, i dont want to do blue as i did that a few years ago on a different lizardmen army.... PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!! pics of colour schemes would be AWSUME

[becauseize]

@kaoticmachine how bout orange? is saw this one guys army that was orange skinned and it looked really cool

[MrWolfification]

I think you should make a bluetablepainting special addition minitures, like make minitures dedicated to blue table painting, you can make logos and it would just be awesome

[Ho0ly]

Mine are painted like bees!

[ZerqTM]

hmm.. also reguarding metalic nids... that would look awsome if there was some oily kind of color to use..

that gave of that rainbowy oily feel.. that could look awsome... question is what to do with the flesh

[H3ks1]

Yeah, the natural thing is important. I read some books on bugs before i painted mine, and came up with light/dark scheme. Not too realistic, that just doesn't work like you said, but something a bit like real bugs. So my point was, go with light/dark contrast.

[porcu12345]

Toxic green skin, cream carapace.

[ZerqTM]

also x-mas contains lots of biomass... nom nom nom nom.....

[TheKillPact]

good advice ***** (five stars)

[MetaL0rk]

Back to using the old camera I see.

[Redvexer]

give me a B! give me a T! give me a P! What does it say!!?

[mortuus8]

@Redvexer

intimidate?

do i win :D