Hive Fleet Myrtus

well the hive guard is absolutely stunning.

the termagants are good but not nearly the same quality as the guard.

cheers.

Orkblasta: Yea well, I passed around 4 hours per Terma, and something like 15 hours on that Tyrant Guard >< (I'm a very slow painter) But thanks!

6thdegree: Yeah I'm very proud of it too, I tested a lot of colors to get to this choice of color!

Very nice, but... you did a fantastic job on the carapace and the skin and yet the talons are just...meh. Why not put in the extra effort to make this model really kick butt? You're almost there. The base work could use some work too, other wise looking good.

Carapace: Thanks everyone!

As for the skin, it's already washed with Devlan Mud, and somewhat 'a lot', but we don't see quite well the recesses. I don't really want to wash it even more as the skin will get too brown for what I want, so any suggestion on how to make the recesses even darker? (or I'll just wash even more and get used to brownish skin!)

As for the talons, I'm really, really bad at blending, like I just can't do it. Even worst for a black to purple transition. Any ideas to make them stand out a bit more? Here's what I did to give you an idea: I coated the talons with Chaos Black, painted the point with Liche Purple (about 20% of it), then drybrushed the edges with Fortress Grey, followed with a drybrush of Liche Purple to make a transition of black to purple.

The only solution I see for those is to make a mix of White Skull and Liche Purple to get a wider variation of color, but I'm pretty lazy as for mixes since I have like 4 custom greens >< Anyway, suggestions welcomed too for this!

Finally, the base is 'flat and boring' for a good reason : I want the focus to be on the model. Another reason too is about fluff, my Tyranids are on a planet already dead and there is no more vegetation, so I thought that a burned-overworld theme would be nice for my bases (plus I love to drybrush grey on black ) So for the base, they'll stay like this, but I got really nice ideas for my MCs

I will second what arsonfire said. Just carefully paint the wash directly into the recesses. As far as the talons go, just find an appropriate color and give them a nice hard defining edge along the "cutting side".

I thinkt that Warlock purple would be too red. Maybe Hormagaunt purple/mixed with liche purple. maybe 1:3 ratio, just to get a lighter edge on the talon.

Very good, they look really cool