Ocean blue/green carapace ideas

[frostknife]

I'm new to painting and 40k in general and I wasn't sure how I should do this.

Once I solidify my feathering technique I want to paint my hive fleet's carapaces black and use feather them with turquoise greens and blues to make a sort of deep sea themed fleet.

I've heard that it works best to start with the darkest colors and go lighter with each layer of feathering. Still not sure where to start tho.

Citadel colors I have:
Teclis blue
Temple guard blue
Sotek green
Kabalite green
Moot green
Screaming skull
Ulthuan grey
White scar
Abaddon black
Biel-tan green shade

Any suggestions, comments, insults? Thanks in advance

[jimmyp]

Looks like you have got some great paints! I learned from this video on feathering and painting ideas simplified, hope this helps...

youtu.be/V8rXOl_m8ew

youtu.be/GvQWWGqux2U

[jimmyp]

The feathering video does blues on carapace it looks great and from your paints you have the colours already

[Davor]

Not trying to discourage you, but using black is really hard to pull off. I tried it and it didn't work. Then again, I use other colours and it didn't work either since I suck at painting.

Problem with black is, the mini just looks primed. Even expert painters can't pull it off and I only seen it done 3 times. Maybe a very dark purple that looks black could work but straight black will just look like it is primed.

Looking forward to your ocean blue/green colour scheme. Do you have a test gaunt to show?

[frostknife]

Nov 29, 2014 2:11:19 GMT Davor said:

Not trying to discourage you, but using black is really hard to pull off. I tried it and it didn't work. Then again, I use other colours and it didn't work either since I suck at painting.

Problem with black is, the mini just looks primed. Even expert painters can't pull it off and I only seen it done 3 times. Maybe a very dark purple that looks black could work but straight black will just look like it is primed.

Looking forward to your ocean blue/green colour scheme. Do you have a test gaunt to show?

I don't know man, have you seen tylertt's hive fleet ghidra/ultramarine painting blog? They seemed pretty spiffy! No test gaunt yet, I'll try to finish tomorrow!

Perhaps I could make the entire carapace blue/greenish.

Side note: I do have ardcoat so that could help the carapace look shiny and not so... Primed

Side side note: anyone else do something similar in color? If so, how'd you do your ocean tyranids?

[Davor]

My skin is blue, not ocean blue but I like it. I tried black carapace but the blue was too dark with black so had to change the carapace colour. Maybe ocean blue/green will work with black, just try it first on a test gaunt.

Only suggesting I can think of right now if going with black use like a grey highlight so it's not all black. Maybe a silver/grey highlight.

[frostknife]

Nov 29, 2014 15:51:37 GMT Davor said:

My skin is blue, not ocean blue but I like it. I tried black carapace but the blue was too dark with black so had to change the carapace colour. Maybe ocean blue/green will work with black, just try it first on a test gaunt.

Only suggesting I can think of right now if going with black use like a grey highlight so it's not all black. Maybe a silver/grey highlight.

Pics?

Also my skin is fleshy bone colored

[Davor]

Here is my blue. Still learning how to paint, but good enough for me for now.

[frostknife]

Hey, I am too! And these guys look great! Really eye catching for sure, I'm looking for something a lot more low key. I think I'll start a paint blog thread and I'll post the test gaunt's picture there.


Here's the thread link: thetyranidhive.proboards.com/thread/48338/painting-blog-fleet-cetus-started

[boppl]

Hi, I've been doing a blue/green carapace too, and I thought i'd share what i've learnt.
Originally, I used black primer, stegadon scale green basecoat, with coelia greenshade wash. This gives a really nice dark base. I then layered sotek green, temple guard blue, and a final highlight/feathering of temple guard blue mixed with sybarite green.


I thought this made the carapace look a bit too blue, so my latest attempt has been black primer, stegadon base/coelia wash, blue green by model color (70808) then 50/50 mix of temple guard blue and sybarite green.


I decided not to feather the carapace this time.
Hope this helps!

[frostknife]

Yeah it does! Thank you. Do you have a link to more of your army? Also do you plan on coloring the fleshbits?

[boppl]

The skin itself is done, except the vents in the skin still deciding what color to put in there (tossing up between green or orange).
I have a thread showing my painting progress here
thetyranidhive.proboards.com/thread/47777/hive-fleet-nocturnis-update-mawloc?page=1&scrollTo=827255
i've just put a quick group shot of my models so you can get a sense for what the entire swarm might end up looking like with that greeny/blue carapace.

[frostknife]

Nov 30, 2014 5:22:20 GMT boppl said:

The skin itself is done, except the vents in the skin still deciding what color to put in there (tossing up between green or orange).
I have a thread showing my painting progress here
thetyranidhive.proboards.com/thread/47777/hive-fleet-nocturnis-update-mawloc?page=1&scrollTo=827255
i've just put a quick group shot of my models so you can get a sense for what the entire swarm might end up looking like with that greeny/blue carapace.

Mind if I ask what you used for the skin?