Post by wolfracer on Apr 15, 2012 5:41:58 GMT
Hey everyone!
I'm terribly indecisive and not very artistic, so I need some help making a choice on how to base my Tyranids.
Firstly, my 'nids are bone coloured with blue armour carapace and red claws/talons like in this image....
So at the moment I'm thinking I'll use the new Games Workshop texture paints and do slime rivers across the bases. Not all bases will be half/half slime, some will be pure ash and some will be pure slime.
But I'm trying to decide between green slime...
Or blue slime...
For larger monsters like the Trygon, Tyrannofex, Carnifex and the Hive Tyrant I'll have things rising out of the slime like rippers or talons or maybe even hormagaunts on the really large models.
I kind of prefer the look of the green, but the blue matches the carapace on the models, keeping the trinity of colours (red, blue and bone) which I think for an entire army will make the blue look really striking and unifying.
The green was also much trickier to paint, as it uses Scorpion Green (an old GW paint that hasn't been around for years) which has terrible coverage, that Gargoyle base took around 15 coats of paint!! You need a few coats to get a nice transition, but 15 is unrealistic when I have to paint some 60 or 70 models. So to do the green bases, I'll probably buy a green and a yellow "base" from the new Games Workshop range and mix something that looks like Scorpion Green, rather than actually using Scorpion Green (I probably don't have enough to do a whole army anyway). That should make the green much easier and quicker to paint than the one pictured above, but will hopefully look similar.
What do you guys think? Any other suggestions or tips?
I'm terribly indecisive and not very artistic, so I need some help making a choice on how to base my Tyranids.
Firstly, my 'nids are bone coloured with blue armour carapace and red claws/talons like in this image....
So at the moment I'm thinking I'll use the new Games Workshop texture paints and do slime rivers across the bases. Not all bases will be half/half slime, some will be pure ash and some will be pure slime.
But I'm trying to decide between green slime...
Or blue slime...
For larger monsters like the Trygon, Tyrannofex, Carnifex and the Hive Tyrant I'll have things rising out of the slime like rippers or talons or maybe even hormagaunts on the really large models.
I kind of prefer the look of the green, but the blue matches the carapace on the models, keeping the trinity of colours (red, blue and bone) which I think for an entire army will make the blue look really striking and unifying.
The green was also much trickier to paint, as it uses Scorpion Green (an old GW paint that hasn't been around for years) which has terrible coverage, that Gargoyle base took around 15 coats of paint!! You need a few coats to get a nice transition, but 15 is unrealistic when I have to paint some 60 or 70 models. So to do the green bases, I'll probably buy a green and a yellow "base" from the new Games Workshop range and mix something that looks like Scorpion Green, rather than actually using Scorpion Green (I probably don't have enough to do a whole army anyway). That should make the green much easier and quicker to paint than the one pictured above, but will hopefully look similar.
What do you guys think? Any other suggestions or tips?
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Zonthrope base looks good 
