DESPERATE for help on some Tyranid Wings!

[nikh]

Hey Hive. So after dragging my heels on it for several years, I finally started painting my Tyranids. I've been enjoying it much more than I thought I would, given my history with paint, and I'm pretty satisfied with the results. It's also pretty good for distracting you from some of the less-cool parts of life, but that's just an added bonus. I'm coming to you guys today because I desperately need help in painting wings/fleshy bits. I haven't touched any of my Venomthropes, Malanthropes (and after the recent rules release, it'll probably stay that way) or anything with wings. I wanna make my Nids soar, so I gotta ask; how do YOU guys handle wings? What techniques/colors do you use? I included a few pictures of my Fleet, colors being Black, White (closer to gray) and Gold. As you can probably tell from the copious amounts of blood and snow, I'm going for a type of John Carpenter's "The Thing" style. So help me out Hive! Give me wings!

[cypheon]

When i am being lazy i just use a wash for wings. Blue would look good on the snow base, and stand out from the white/gray a little.

If not being lazy, then 2 or 3 dry brushings intended to match the carapace colors. base dark gray, heavy drybrush of a medium/dark gray, etc etc until you are doing just the wing tips with white.

Mechanicum -> Fenrisian -> Ulthuan, maybe? Dont remember which gw brand of medium gray works best over mechanicum...

[nikh]

Blue, hadn't thought of that, thanks! I'll probably go with like a pink fleshy color, but the technique is worth a shot for sure

[cypheon]

Jun 13, 2017 21:55:47 GMT nikh said:

Blue, hadn't thought of that, thanks! I'll probably go with like a pink fleshy color, but the technique is worth a shot for sure

Pink fleshy color.... like... the pink horror flesh? Or... catachans on shoreleave flesh?

[clobbersaurus]

I'm currently painting some tyrant wings, and I'm not the best painter. I've been adding purple into my browns, mostly as sort of a connective tissue, so around carapace and where wings meet arms. That sort of stuff. I'm using a warm yellow brown scheme, so the colors likely won't be applicable, but I'm essentially mixing a color then smearing it with my finger. It's pretty crude but created a surprisingly smooth blend.