Vejby's nids

[vejby]

Hello Hive,

Been a long time lurker, but decided to share my latest creature with you:








I hope you like it

[vespa]

Ooooooo......interesting scheme. Quite unique. I like it a lot!

[bloodtyrant]

I really like how the carapace is done.
You should do a wash on the white flesh bits though

[gman25639]

Very cool! The snow exocrine!

[werewalrus]

I like this scheme as well...and I'd like to echo bloodtyrants comment on the carapace. The potential for a Haruspex...using this theme is pretty intriguing.

[monkeychuka]

Mar 9, 2014 18:40:52 GMT bloodtyrant said:

I really like how the carapace is done.
You should do a wash on the white flesh bits though

Agreed! Red like the eyes of the weapon symbiote or the piping next to his head! Anyway, whatever you do, that colour scheme is cool. Its like winter camouflage or something.

[vejby]

I have considered washing the fleshy bits, but I can't imagine what colour I would like to go on them. The brief I made for this colour scheme before starting was to keep the number of colours to a minimum and to avoid the warm bright colours of the old orange nids as much as I could. The blue and white fit perfect while keeping the red colours to the eyes and "dangerous bits", like the pipes that allow the gun to control the movement of the beast below on the exo', exclusively. The same principle goes for the hive guard here:



The green parts on the exo' are actually excessive compared to previous models, but I wanted to try a new technique instead of just drybrushing them as I have done in the past.
I am very glad that you like the carapace as that is the real time thief with this scheme.

Edit: spelling of "can't"

[vejby]

Here is a gargoyle - I haven't got a good pic of the whole 10-man brood - where the green is used for the poisoned tounge:



The only red parts are the garg's eyes and the eye on the gun. Even the tube on the back of the gun is kept white in order to keep the cold, uncaring look intact.

[tripwire]

that is crazy unique!

[Inquisitor Stingray]

Those are amazing. Not seen anything like this before. The green spices the Exocrine up a bit, I like that. Also, am I far off in guessing that you're from Denmark?

[vejby]

Mar 11, 2014 0:34:54 GMT Inquisitor Stingray said:

Those are amazing. Not seen anything like this before. The green spices the Exocrine up a bit, I like that. Also, am I far off in guessing that you're from Denmark?

Usually, I would keep the green to the schyting talons on monstrous creatures and the back chimneys, possibly also some of those claw-like things on the back of the legs, but that depends on the balance of colours. The blue and white should be the predominant colours always. 

The armour plating on the MC scything talons would be done in the white and then the actual talon would be green. However, the claws on the feet of the exo are rather lumpy, which doesn't lend itself very well to the technique used for the white. I need to find a picture of some of those MC talons.

Yes, I am from Denmark. How did you guess? Powerfist? Spelling errors? Clairvision?

[Inquisitor Stingray]

Would love to see more pictures. Vejby sounded pretty Danish to me, hehe.

[DinoCop]

those white Carapaces look great

[vejby]

Here is my trygon:

It has some issues with frosting on the claws, so I might redo those and the base is also coming up for a another go, but otherwise I'm pretty happy with it. I have to magnetise some of the mawloc-bits, though, so it is not quite finished yet.

[vejby]

Here are a couple of WIP shots of a hive tyrant:

And from the back:

And a few rippers: