Painting schemes

[coolnannybros]

Can I get some examples of colour schemes for the tyranids I’ve not played warhammer before and wanted to start with the tyranids because they looked the coolest, thanks

[beetlejuice]

Google is your friend. I seriously regret following the box art leviathan scheme, it’s a lot of work for not so much effect. I’d prefer something that’s just slapping 2-3 types of contrast paint for a custom scheme if I were to start over.

[niiai]

Welcome to the forum, hobby and to painting tyranids.

Tyranids are quite fun to paint if you do it right. If you do it less right you will consider doing a libotomy on your self. Find a scheme where you do a lot of the job very fast. I am talking main body. If that can be done by some form of wash or contrast paint that would be great.

How you get a good looking nid army if you wnat to 'invest time' into it is doing cool schemes on the shell. When you field a lot of tyranids everybody will be looking at the shells. It looks so great. You can also do the tallons and nails in another colour. Just go nuts!

[hivefleetkerrigan]

Welcome to the hive! For tyranids, the sky is the limit when it comes to your color scheme. There's no right answer. Bright colors to signal danger? Go for it. Muted colors for camouflage? That works too.

For official color schemes, try searching for official tyranid hive fleets. There's also some other really interesting created ones (such as the coconut crab scheme).