What fleet is this?

[aynaar]

Hello, I'm completely new to GW and decided awhile ago I'm going with Tyranids! I found a color I liked, which was Kraken, then I thought they'd look even cooler in opposite colors! I've since found out that this has been done quite a lot! So here's a sample picture, does anyone know if this has a hive fleet name or any decent tutorials?




This Ebay post is more what I had in mind(shading-wise) --- www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Warhammer-Tyranids-04681-Metal-Tyrant-Guard-/390993047927

[ZergLord]

The color scheme looks a lot like the one Tyranids had in the Second Edition. I'm not sure if that Hive fleet had a name...

[eskimo]

There's some tutorials in the painting and modelling forum which are good.

Name your hive fleet what you want too.

[Davor]

That was my colour shceme I made up. Sadly a few people had the same deal. Why is it sadly? Because they did theirs so much better than me, I gave up on it. Sadly again, I still suck at painting lol.

I thought that was a Hive Fleet Behemoth off shoot.

[liberame]

Its reverse kraken

[russellr]

So .... Nekark?

[Davor]

Dec 25, 2014 3:25:30 GMT russellr said:

So .... Nekark?

That sounds so cool.

[liberame]

RELEASE THE NEKARK!!

[overhive]

Dec 25, 2014 17:38:42 GMT liberame said:

RELEASE THE NEKARK!!

Wouldn't it be contain the nekark?

[termagant]

Dec 24, 2014 23:30:37 GMT ZergLord said:

The color scheme looks a lot like the one Tyranids had in the Second Edition. I'm not sure if that Hive fleet had a name...

It's identical, for the gaunt at least
I think behemoth was the only big fleet at the time
Nekark sounds nice though
Considering the necrarchs are vampires from warhammer fantasy you could link your swarm to undead-vampire themes:
Just a bit more of emphasis on stuff psychic leeches, broodlords and regenerating capabilities and voilà a particular fleet is born and ready to coil from the void

[liberame]

Man that hive tyrant had it all, venom cannon, lashwhip, bonesword, and rending claws. And still with 6 limbs

[cypheon]

that color scheme came from before the days of hive fleets having different color patterns.. we did have two hive fleets, but the specific names (leviathan, behemoth, or kraken) escape me, in the codex, but they had the exact same paint scheme, the names were just used for lore purposes.

that codex right there even demanded that all your genestealers absolutely had to have blue carapace, purple fleshy bits,and there was absolutely no deviation allowed. this did not go over well with most hobbyists, as you might imagine, and was dropped in later updates.


also those aren't rending claws on the tyrant, sadly. the actual model used both left arms to hold the venom cannon (a handle on top and bottom), then the right arms were lashwhip and bonesword. so sad we couldn't get a 1handed cannon and rending claws though

edit:  that's 2nd edition? i always thought it was 3rd...i've been playing more editions than i thought!  i swear i'm not an old geezer!

[angelwing]

The gaunt colour scheme is the original gaunt colour scheme found in the 2nd ed codex (pictured above) In it, there is background material on two hive fleets, behemoth and kraken. Colour wise you could paint them however you wanted, neither hive fleet had specific colours until 4th edition. Tyranid armies of the time followed what was painted by the 'eavy metal team, so purple stealers, red and bone warriors etc. Tyranid armies still look good in the classic red / purple / bone.
3rd ed introduced different colours from the painting team. The 3rd ed BrB had a 2nd ed model tyranid army painted in a dark blue / purple scheme, with everything painted the same style. The 3rd ed codex introduced a uniform colour scheme across tyranid armies rather than things being different within the same army. The same thing was done with the 3rd ed Ork codex too.