BILEBEAST's Hive fleet occassus

I actually prefer the gaunt to the stealer, because duotone beats monotone every time, but I don't have any constructive suggestions on how to improve the stealer. How about the 5 head bumps and the veins on the temples, can you do something with those?

I really like the gaunt scheme, btw.

Looking good so far!

thanks for all the feedback so far the gaunt scheme will be used on everything other than genestealers and was the original scheme, i just thought that tyranids adapt to their surroundings, so therefore the blue would be the main adaption colourwise, so i wanted the genestealers to be like you said, ninja-ish

how do you recomend improving the highlighting? just working up to a lighter tone, or sarting darker and working up to this colour? as it is the model looks very chalky, which i like, as i did a number of drybrushes ovger the original layers, although you dont quite get a feeling of the texture of the model in these pictures.

as to improving the genestealer scheme in general, how about painting the carapace and viens in the greys i have used on the gaunt, or even somoe camo-like markings on the head and back in grey scale? im quite happy with the scheme atm, but obviously suggestions are welcome at this stage of the build

thanks

-bile

can u put up ur tyrant ? its awsome
awsome scheme and awsomely painted- and them feeder tendrils would look good in orange.

nope, the blue isnt irridescent, just plain layering i worked up from black through hawk turqoise, to a final extreme highlight of fortress grey (very extreme )

alright, heres my unfinished fyrant.. im glad it made enough of an impression for you to remember

i think im gonna go back and touch up the carapace a bit though, blend it a bit better, im workin on finishing it right now though. the photos arent so good, but il be getting better ones once its all painted up





-bile

Haha using that Dart frog as a model would definatly make your stealers less Ninja like. That could be good or bad, depending on your position.

As for the highlighting, I was reccomending that if you didn't want the Ninjaness. Since you do, I'd say leave it. You could probably get away with doing everything a touch darker, even. Not to much though.

I agree, nice Flyrant

yep, im working on the tyrant as i type, i should have it finished and up in a few days hopefully

as to the genestealer, ive decided not to go with the frog idea, i just didnt want to over complicate the model with spots and numerous different colours. what ive done instead is tryed to blend some more grey into the scheme, i basically just worked at the top of the back and head of the model to bring it closer to the grey skin colour of the gaunts. ive also added some head markings in spacewolves grey to the gaunts and genesteal. im really happy with the effect actually, it really highlights the faces from the rest of the model

the pictures havent turned out too well on the genestealer so im not sure how well you can see the changes ive made but il post some pics anyway









ive also finished 3 more gaunts, all with the face markings:





and hers some pics with some of my chaos minis:





-bile