Metallic Carapace

[zimmn]

hi!
after a break from warhammer for 2 years now, I'm starting up again with tyranids, and I'm thinking about a metallic carapace on the nids, just like many beetles have.

so any idea how to paint this on the nids?

[necrocannibal]

Pretty good idea, that would look really nice on Nids.
From what I understand, you can use Vallejo Metallic Medium with acrylic paints or inks to get a metal color of your choice. Haven't used it myself though.

[jutami]

Mithril silver, a few washes of thraka green, maybe some azurmen blue in the recesses and you're good to go.

Cheers

[dumbdrum]

... no joke i literally played a game against a guy who had his bugs with that kind of carapace.

[zimmn]

Jun 19, 2010 16:36:55 GMT dumbdrum said:

... no joke i literally played a game against a guy who had his bugs with that kind of carapace.

did it looked good?

[Faenar]

Jun 19, 2010 18:16:29 GMT zimmn said:

did it looked good?

Does your spelling looked good?

I think you should go ahead with this, if properly painted it could end up looking very nice. Good luck!

[Zee]

Hey, I can help here-

I have painted some of my nids with a carapace coloring like that. And if you want a shiney reflective sort of surface, I know just the trick.

Not expensive reflective paints but nail polish.

Specifically New York Color Minute nail polish. It comes in just that shade, has a bit of sparkle and shine to it like that June Beetles have. If you spread it thin enough you can even get colors to show up from underneath. The paints can be found at WalMart for pretty cheap, like $2 or so. It offers a very vivid color and is excellently shiny. Just be careful, it does dry quickly.

[saboface]

I have painted my nid's with metallic acryllic paint before and what I have found is this:

buy an actual acryllic metalic paint from, like, hobby lobby or something. My personal choice was metallic red, which gave it a cool shiney feel as well as a kickass blood red feel.

To give the metallic parts some "pop," make all of the other colors you use flat. I, thus, have red carapace bits and black fleshy bits, and I even made a few of the carapace bits (and the spike-y type bits, like teeth, sycthing talons, and other spikes) flat white.

And yeah, use of metalic paint, done right, will REALLY make your army stand out from others; a lot of armies I have seen do not make any use of metallic paint, and being the one guy who has the "shiney" army is cool.

[kingfisher773]

if seen metallic carapaces on nids before and it looks awesome if you have ever seen bluetablspainting on youtube you should know what I'm talking about.

[locust]

Either use a metallic base and a green wash on top or reverse and do a green base with a metallic wash over it and whatever you do don't use any flat colors.