Cool color schemes.

[Phenex]

What is the color scheme of your army and why? Share Pics and backstories!

[BattleMetalChris]

My scheme is the guy in my Avatar.

I had originally wanted something similar to a wasp or hornet, partly because you rarely see yellow 'nids and party because.. well.. wasps look badass. I also wanted to challenge myself by having lots of blending and extra detail on the carapace. I went for red/orange/yellow/white blend on the carapace with blue detailing for some contrast.

Once I started actually painting them up I discovered WHY you rarely see yellow 'nids: yellow is an absolute (please do not swear) to paint. I also noticed that the bright colours of the carapace were getting lost against the bright yellow body so I've slowly been toning the yellow down as I paint each model; now it's more of a dirty yellow-green colour which really makes the carapace pop more. I've also shamelessly stolen the little dark dots on the shoulders and head which I've seen on a few models and I think looks great; it also helps to darken the yellow further and provides more contrast for the white carapace edges.

I've also been extending the pink of the mouth to the entire upper jaw and nose area, which I'm really pleased with the outcome, it makes them look really snarly.



I said 'also' too much in that post.

[8bitmummies]

I'm going for a few different schemes within my army. I imagine that organisms bred for a specific purpose would look a bit different than others, so my close combat-y broods all match, the synapse-y stuff matches. I try to use complimentary colors and similar basing to tie it all together. Hopefully it's working, haha.

(This is also a nice cheaty way to keep myself from getting burnt out painting the same few colors over the course of 100+ models.

[Remalis]

My scheme is a purple carapace and 'black' skin tones (actually a REALLY dark purple).
It's in part a homage to early 2nd ed schemes for genestealers (and the old tyranid 'logo').
I currently refer to my swarm as Dark Leviathan. Coloring aside, my back story is that my fleet is an earlier Leviathan seeder fleet that drifts through systems Dark (no shadow in the warp influence) quietly launching seeds of genestealers and lictors to verdant planets. Those 'seeds' that take hold and florish (with genestealer cults) draw a leviathan tendril towards it. When my fleet depletes it's resources it becomes active again (SiTW) and hyper aggressive to feed and resupply before going back into hibernation to drift on again.

[danb]

No backstory (or, I blush to admit, even a name, cool or otherwise).

My current painting scheme is really simple:





When I get better at painting, I may start a new fleet; but, for now, this works.

[Kyokii]

well, danb. Gotta say your paint scheme is pretty damn cool.

Mine is Hive fleet Kami (for god, or paper. ha, cause they crumple)

The colors are black carapace with white bone and red trimming on the shell. The, I suppse, gills on the bone is also red similar to that of fish gills and a purple ichor.

The colors, while super cliche and simple, are inspired by how I started playing: I didn't know if I wanted to so I made cardstock printouts in black and white, made standing models, and proxied my entire army as I decided what I wanted to get and what I wouldn't use. To mark differences on units I used a red pen on the bases (such as A and B for my tervigons Betty and Beatrice)
It stayed in my mind so when I went to paint I decided to have my army match the "colors" of the proxies they were replacing over time. I still have the gargoyles but every other paper proxy I had has been replaced. It's a good feeling on that.
dug up an old blurry photo, even: this only has zoanthropes and a carnifex left on the left (though by my hive tyrant there's a hive guard if you look close. the talon turned up to represent a bonesword) Aaaah, memories.

[vejby]

Here is a Picture of a hive tyrant in my scheme:

To be short, I painted a lot of red 'nids with Rainbow colored details (well, more or less) in the past and thought it was time for a change, so I picked Cold colors and kept the number of colors to an absolute minimum. It's intended to make them seem cold - both emotionally and physically - and uncaring as they come to devour you. while also looking somewhat strinking in big numbers:

(Photo could be better, but hopefully you get the Picture)