advice and inspiration

[thelittlemadone]

Greeting fellow hivers. I am by no means near most of your level of awesome for painiting. i have finally settled on some nice desert bug style photos, but after trying to paint my flyrant tonight was not feeling the buzz. So why am i here, well im asking for some advice on where to go next on the painting (texture/highlights/basing - latter being a big one planning on basing with old Eldar models.

Colours im happy with, just how to make it look more awesome, so looking for some advice and constructive critisim. Thanks in advance


ps sorry for (please do not swear) phone photos

[beefythepug]

I like the desert theme. You may want to look at adding more shades/highlights to your carapace to make it further stand out. For example, fex on right has a lot more going on with your highlights than smooth fex on the left. Doing a combo of wash and drybrush until you're happy would add more depth overall. If you're wanting to add another color into the highlights, I'd suggest a burnt orange/yellow that will both compliment the colors you have going on, but also stand out from the current carapace color.

Best painter I know locally always gives the advice of less paint (in a single session), more layers. Longer painting process but his stuff always turns out amazing.

Keep up the good work, excited to see how the flyrant turns out.

[thelittlemadone]

Thanks for the advice mate I really appreciate it. I have evened out the fexs a little actually that was before I have up for the night.
I will look into adding a wash maybe a brown wash (I don't remeber the name) then a burr orange layer sounds great thanks for the suggestions.

[blucord]

Like pug said less(thinner) paint is better, I use 4 different paints on my carapace, deep red to almost organge with yellow feathering on the edges, the darkest red parts represents the models 'shadow areas' then for the flesh I use a base, wash, dry brush combo, black and purple on the talons/claws and I'm done. I think we can all agree that tyranids don't have the best codex and can bring more than a few empty trophy cases. :-p that being said we have the best looking models, their stunning in their own right! No other faction comes close...we won't always win best general but we should always win best painted army! Take your time with your precious nids and really put in the man hours to craft a master piece... Sorry for going off on a tangent, but I'm an avid painter that's why got into the hobby!
PS try adding a white/gray stone looking paint to the Carapace using the feathering technique to really make it pop! Keep us posted!!

[thelittlemadone]

thanks blu I will have a go and see what I can do. I found some feathering guide so will give it a good sadly work has been insane lately so the models are all still on the shelf. Hopefully next week I will have time to have a paint and update this. Hopefully I can do a good job! Appreciate both your advice