Hive Fleet Jabberwocky

[xenith]

Hello all,

I'm beginning my foray into Tyranids, with my emergent hive fleet. So far, choosing a colour scheme has been hard, but I think I've settled on turquiose chitin, and a purple to white carapace, and green soft bits.

Hormie


Warrior



Rippers



So far, I'm unsure of how the grey carapace will translater top larger models, so I'm going to paint up a fex and see. I'm unsure how well it will detail, or if it will look good at all!

Alternatively, I'm thinking of a blue/yellow scheme, blur skin, yellow carapace?

Cheers,
Xen

[wasteoide]

I like it, honestly. You'll get mixed reviews with a scheme like this. Blue and yellow is bright, but yellow is difficult to achieve well.

[tyrantgrift]

Looking good! Colour scheme is very different to what I've seen so far!

Could you talk us through what you've done?

[xenith]

Thanks for the feedback, guys, it's really affirming that the scheme works for me - it's been so long since I've painted anything that wasn't in power armour, its hard to get the confidence back!

The hormagaunt was the test piece, and had a couple of coats.

Basically:

Exoskeleton: Skull white base, paint all the chitin sotek green. heavy drybrush temple guard blue, 50/50 drakenhof/lahmian wash, re drybrush temple guard blue.
Carapace: tidy up blue splodges with celestra grey all over carapace, thin shade of leviathan purple into recesses, ulthuan grey stripes/feathering 50% up the plate, ceramite white edge highlight and feathering on last 25% of plate, dashes of celestra grey to ad texture.
soft bits: scorpion green, green wash.
Blades and hoofs: snot green, blended up to scorpion green, yriel yellow edge highlight.

The warrior followed the same method, but with a straight coat of temple guard over the white basecoat, skipping the sotek green stage.

It's still very much experimental. The next stage will be selected edge highlights on the exoskeleton.

[Jbizzy]

I like the look, but the white base is putting me off the white carapace. Just make sure the base is darker and neutral and it will make everything really stand out.

[xenith]

Ah, ok interesting. I was going to go for snow bases, as in the fleet had adapted to white conditions, but i understand this might not be the best for the appearance of the army. What colour bases would you suggest? The alternative was the sector imperialis bases, with some snow, or my standard sandy/Armageddon bases.

[Jbizzy]

Use Eshin grey with some Astrogranite Debris and little bits of snow on top would look good.


Check out GW tips for bases too: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWnE2YSxSS0

[wasteoide]

You could do mountain/Rocky bases and then use snow sparingly and I don't think it would be overwhelming.

[Dingbat]

I like the colors you've chosen. The sector imperilis bases with some snow would look awsome with them. As said, all snow might be too much white, but dabs here and there would be sharp.

[dangsc]

Nice unusual scheme. I agree with the comments above about the bases. At present I can't help feeling like the base/carapace are just primed but unpainted at first glance. I'd love to see one on a darker, rocky base.

[xenith]

Aug 11, 2017 5:49:51 GMT dangsc said:

Nice unusual scheme. I agree with the comments above about the bases. At present I can't help feeling like the base/carapace are just primed but unpainted at first glance. I'd love to see one on a darker, rocky base.

Haha, owch, the carapace is anything but primed, zoom in on the warrior 😁

The bases are just the white spray though. Since I've taken these I added mournfang snow to the rollers and a gaunt, I'll get some pics up. Putting all the Gants and gaunts on sector imperialis bases will be a nightmare, so I might have some thinking to do.

[dangsc]

Aug 11, 2017 8:46:34 GMT xenith said:

Aug 11, 2017 5:49:51 GMT dangsc said:

Nice unusual scheme. I agree with the comments above about the bases. At present I can't help feeling like the base/carapace are just primed but unpainted at first glance. I'd love to see one on a darker, rocky base.

Haha, owch, the carapace is anything but primed, zoom in on the warrior 😁

The bases are just the white spray though. Since I've taken these I added mournfang snow to the rollers and a gaunt, I'll get some pics up. Putting all the Gants and gaunts on sector imperialis bases will be a nightmare, so I might have some thinking to do.

Yeah, I can see it's not just primed, sorry that was not meant as an insult - it was just at first glance!

[hive fleet cicaida]

nice and clean, i like the little touches done to the rippers gj

[nidzy]

I think these will really pop! I like the green accents on the blue flesh and your carapace looks solid. Keep it up!

[xenith]

Thanks guys, I'm still in a bit of a quandary on the colour of the talons and hoofs - currently they are both green and I don't know if having the soft bits and hard bits in the same colour is sensible.

Would orange soft bits work? Should I look at purple talons and hoofs, like the strangler on the warrior?