Flesh or skin?

[HiveFleetExotica]

So I was looking into painting the exposed skin/flesh parts on my tyranids and I wondered wouldn’t that area be considered skin and not flesh because flesh is underneath skin and seeing how tyranids are adapted to have good protection wouldn’t they not want to expose themselves by having just fleshy bits out?

[niiai]

Do what ever you want.

I always imagine tyranids having a lot of
cartilaginous to make them sleeker. The shell super hard.

Now I imagine the small slits in the skin are for breading, as well as for releasing pheromones and spores. Also, the lager bugs have small spore chimneys on their back.

Fun fact, real life insects breed through their skin. They will not work if they are bigger. So either the ozygen needs to be richer or they will die if they get bigger. So nids need some form of respatory system.

Also, do not be afraid of using metals. Metals and washes look good on organic forms. (Also google the armored snail. It is a snail with metal plates for armour.)

Also, feel free to do them in regular skin colour. Looks good as well.

Do not feel afraid to think 'they would not have exposed skin'. You can always come up with apologetics.

[bigbadbalou]

Personnally, I would find it really cool to see a model with it's skin/flesh all painted like muscle and all. Even just for the big bugs. Could look really cool, but i'm far from being good enough in painting to achieve this hahaha.

If you are concerned about the fluff of it though (about the question if skin or flesh would be more appropriate for Tyranids), think of it like the tyranids are the kings of adaptations and evolution. Maybe there was an environnement which needed the flesh to be exposed to augment its volume or whatever. Maybe they needed to adapt to a planet which rained metal drops, then they ajusted theirs skin to be more resistant to that akin to metal... You know, 40k universe is almost infinite. As long as you have a good story to tell about your hivefleet, their looks can be whatever you wish for.

[purestrain]

Over 90% of my Army is painted in New age kraken, but the skin I keep as close to human as possible because i think they would too to scare the living (please do not swear) out of them.

[HiveFleetExotica]

May 3, 2021 13:44:26 GMT bigbadbalou said:

Personnally, I would find it really cool to see a model with it's skin/flesh all painted like muscle and all. Even just for the big bugs. Could look really cool, but i'm far from being good enough in painting to achieve this hahaha.

If you are concerned about the fluff of it though (about the question if skin or flesh would be more appropriate for Tyranids), think of it like the tyranids are the kings of adaptations and evolution. Maybe there was an environnement which needed the flesh to be exposed to augment its volume or whatever. Maybe they needed to adapt to a planet which rained metal drops, then they ajusted theirs skin to be more resistant to that akin to metal... You know, 40k universe is almost infinite. As long as you have a good story to tell about your hivefleet, their looks can be whatever you wish for.

yeah so the broodlord I’m painting up that I have a fan fiction for on the forum is going to be almost completely grey except for flesh bits and the claws and teeth so I can get is as similar to how I envision a real ghoul with its human like characteristics

[kingpram]

I always figured that the exposed fleshy bits on the arms and near joints had to be like that so they could breath, expose toxins etc or just for movements sake (like a knights armour).
I like to think of the main carapace as being like super hard armor, then the arms/rib cagey bits (main body) are still hard like a crabs legs or bone.
The exposed fleshy bits would be like our flesh, wet/soft and mushy. But lore wise they would need to have those bits exposed to breath or just do tyranid stuff.

I would do black body/armour and then super pinky human like exposed vents/fleshy bits. That would look super creepy, maybe even amore metal black on the armour/carapace to separate the main skin like niiai suggested.

[HiveFleetExotica]

May 4, 2021 2:50:59 GMT kingpram said:

I always figured that the exposed fleshy bits on the arms and near joints had to be like that so they could breath, expose toxins etc or just for movements sake (like a knights armour).
I like to think of the main carapace as being like super hard armor, then the arms/rib cagey bits (main body) are still hard like a crabs legs or bone.
The exposed fleshy bits would be like our flesh, wet/soft and mushy. But lore wise they would need to have those bits exposed to breath or just do tyranid stuff.

I would do black body/armour and then super pinky human like exposed vents/fleshy bits. That would look super creepy, maybe even amore metal black on the armour/carapace to separate the main skin like niiai suggested.

yeah I looked through the citadel color app and all the examples of tyranids they use put the exposed area of carapace and chitin as flesh not as skin

[niiai]

And who are they to de side? There are no gatekeepers. (Except Zuul.)

[kingpram]

You can always try something like this



A user on Dakkadakka made the original Kronos back in 2011. His army was a blend of blues, green and purple that was featured over skin/carapace.
Without any preset boundaries ,all his models are different but look like they come from the same fleet as they take from the same colour pallet.
You don't necessarily have to distinguish between the flesh/carapace. The rest of the army ( www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Hive_Fleet_Kronos )