Hive Fleet Erebos

[novayne]

Good morning fellow bug enthusiasts!

Just thought I would make a thread for posting pictures of my nid army as it comes together, as well as an explanation to the colouring and naming.

After trying out the leviathan paint scheme, I found it took too long for the size of army I want, I wanted a good compromise between quality for time taken, which lead me to look around and think of a different scheme, and thus I came up with the scheme for Erebos! (I am sure the MTG players here can see why I called the fleet 'Erebos').

Anyway, the army so far (this is about a weeks work, 3-5 hours on a week day, all day on the weekend!);




And close ups;









Let me know what you think!

[monkeychuka]

Great use of drybrushing to blend your colours in on the carapace/claws/swords (at least I think its drybrushing!). Looks like you've used a glaze or varnish to get that chitinous sheen as well. Haven't played MtG for 20 years now so I don't get the Erebos reference

[novayne]

Thanks Monkey!

It is indeed drybrushing (I am absolutely no good at wet blending, though I do also find the effect can be created nicely with an airbrush too.). Though I havnt used any gloss / varnish on the chitin, it could just be the light reflecting off of it, as its just a simple VGC black base and then drybrushed Mechanicus standard grey.

As for the MTG reference;

gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=erebos%2C+god+of+the+dead

I felt the dark colour scheme fitted this!

[monkeychuka]

That card looks broken. And I thought my Lord of the Pit deck was bad (yeah I know he was terrible)

[Davor]

Great job, very well done. Not sure if it's the pic or not but a little criticism is for the Venomthropes. First glance at them from the angle the pic was taken I thought they were potato sacks. Just something with the brown, maybe the lighting or just the angle. Would like to see a side view of them.

Other than that, I wish I could paint as good as you. Great job, and good work on the black. So hard to pull off black.

[novayne]

Thanks for the kind words Davor! Far too kind infact! I took a couple more pics of the venom for you!;

[novayne]

A few pictures of my recently completed batch!;

[jimmyp]

Cool models I like the colour scheme.