Finally - Finished Painting My Hive Fleet - (Hive Fleet ???)

[Graymulkin]

Hello Hive!

Long time lurker, but first time posting - so I hope these images work.

I've been collecting and painting Warhammer minis for some time now. I would say I paint more than I actually play the game. In the past I was mostly into the Fantasy minis, but recently got into the 40K lines a couple of years ago. After about 2 years of painting, I finally finished (for now) my Tyranid army. Just in time for the new kits to be released in January! Until then I'll be paining up my Tau army.

Enjoy!

[Graymulkin]

The rest of the Gang.  Let me know if you would like to see any more photos of certain units.

[vespa]

Looks fantastic! Well done!

You finished just in time for the new stuff (hopefully) out next month

[tylertt]

Looks amazing man, really like the detail on all of the models! Can't wait until I finish my fleet, must be such a rewarding feeling!

[The Hive Norn Queen]

that looks stunning. great job!

[Uhtin]

I LOVE IT!!!!

[gman25639]

paint job is amazing... must be great to finish your fleet. I'd love to see some of your tau. On the issue of naming it, how about hive fleet yeti? looks very icy and cold weather kind of nids?

[Davor]

Damn, that is good. More than good, it is Awesome. Great job.

[Ackor]

Hey there.

Looks amazing. How did you get the carapace to look like that?
Your theme reminds me of the genestealers from space hulk.

Yours
CA

[muncher]

great, man, your fleet is very incredible!
so it takes 2 years to reach such an amazing paint job?) ookaaay...

[Graymulkin]

Thanks for comments, everyone! I'm pretty proud of how it looks when massed as a swarm.

gman25639 - Love it! Yeit fits as the weather here on the Canadian prairies the past week has been in the -30's C BRRRrrr. Regarding Tau, I'm working on a Devilfish right now that I have about half finished that I'll try to post a picture of tonight or tomorrow - definitely looking for some tips/comments on the colours as I'm still trying to figure out a good scheme.

Chaos Arachnid - Carapace sounds like a lot of layers but is fairly quick. It's a base coat of chaosblack, then a layer of lich purple, a wash of leviathan purple, highlight of lich purple, a highlight of thinned warlock purple, followed up by a final highlight of warlock purple and then a trim of feathering with skull white. And yes space hulk is where the scheme came from. Thanks!

muncher - LOL - well two years, but I only really painted maybe for 2-3 hours per night a couple times per week. My dog doesn't let me get too much done before he wants to play

Thanks Everyone!

[Bukimimaru]

They look awesome man.
It gives the impression they are under a blacklight, they are all neon and glowey, love 'em.

[rippedoffface]

These look really good. I especially like how the Trygon and mawloc turned out. Great layering!

[Graymulkin]

Took me a while to get this up here, but here it is. As I said I have started working on my Tau, so here's a pic of the devilfish I'm working on (before weathering / battle damage). Not too sure on the colour scheme though... I like the original Tau colours and tried to do a variant on it but not sure I'm crazy about it. I do really dig how the engine intake ducts turned out though

Anyways - any comments / critiques would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[Deathnid]

This looks great (puts mine to shame)