Hive Fleet Zyz Update Log

[phayze]

Hey hive mind, I've been away from the board for quite awhile now, but I've been hard at work at repainting my swarm and bringing them up to my current level of painting.

So here's a snapshot of what I've been working on for the past month. I've got the general "trouble in paradise" or "beach head assault" theme down, as well as the colors I want to do, I'm just finalizing precisely what colors I'm putting down with slight variations in inks and layers. probably should have started with the small bugs for that, but I love working on the big models first.

Basing scheme test:

First proof of concept model: Carnifex (The cannon feeder tube arm thumb claw has since been fixed)

Hive Tyrant

Malanthrope (WIP)

This guy still needs some cleanup and varnishing before I tackle his base

Exocrine (WIP)

I'm really proud of how this cannon is coming along, took forever, but it looks great!

More coming along as I churn them out! C&C appreciated!

[hivefleetkerrigan]

Looks good!

How did you do the purple skin? My minor critique is that I think it could use a bit more highlighting in places.

The carapace and green look great. Bases are awesome as well.

If you ever want to do a deeper water base, check out woodland scenics. They have a good water basing material (I got a diorama pack that had it for about $20).

All in all, great job and please post more!

[phayze]

Mar 11, 2020 14:07:48 GMT hivefleetkerrigan said:

Looks good!

How did you do the purple skin? My minor critique is that I think it could use a bit more highlighting in places.

The carapace and green look great. Bases are awesome as well.

If you ever want to do a deeper water base, check out woodland scenics. They have a good water basing material (I got a diorama pack that had it for about $20).

All in all, great job and please post more!

Thank you very much! the purple skin was done with Naggaroth Night, Druchii Violet wash, Xereus Purple drybrush, and Genestealer purple drybrush. Then I ran it over with a purple ink, did a thin layer of genestealer on the raised surfaces so that the underpainting comes through subtly, then an edge highlight of genestealer purple on the prominent edges. The brightness of the greens and blues makes the purple look darker than it really is, I could probably do another full layer of genestealer to brighten it up, and then have the edge highlight in a bright pink like screamer pink or Drachia Lilac, but I'm a little apprehensive about it because the current purple is where I envisioned it to be, and if I go any brighter I'll start hitting synthwave style.

I wanted to do deeper water effects for the bigger gun bugs since I wanted them held back while the little bugs storm the beach, but I didn't want to have the water on the back edges of the base be "higher" than the beach at the front, if that makes any sense.

[hivefleetkerrigan]

Makes sense on the paint. It's definitely a trade off to get the right scheme. I'd tried the naggoth night to genestealer purple build up and found it to be a bit dark to my taste. I ended up using reaper minis purple gem and doing a wash with a drybrush and liked that better but an still experimenting. Good job getting the purple the way you want it

As for the bases, I have one bug I want to put on a beach and was thinking about making the whole base tilted to accommodate for the water. I was planning on building an angle with greenstuff or cork board and then having the lower portion be under the water effect. It's an idea but I don't know how it would work out in practice.

[timcz]

That exocrine Cannon looks awesome!

[thepounder]

I'm loving the vibrant alien looking colour scheme!

The crystals on the bases look great and add to the other worldly effect.

[phayze]

Update time! Finally got 2 of my exocrines done, just have to finish up their bases and they'll be table ready! Next up I'm thinking of doing either my custom flyrant or my smaller based characters. Also coming down the pipeline soon will be a neat project of titanic proportions! More on that as it comes closer.

[naviedzony]

Veeeeeery good job. Youre greens are juicy and the bases are awesome!

[timcz]

Wow those blues and green look awesome. Badass exocrine

[thepounder]

Looks great!