'Nid Highlight color?

[anthoraxe]

Hi everyone,

I've been lurking around for a few weeks and decided to register. I'm just getting into the 40k TT and the Tyranids and I have decided most of my color scheme.

I want to do a skull white for the skin and for the carapace I am going to do a layer of DA green then go over it with snot green. I don't know what kind of highlight colors I want for the armor, as I really don't want to leave it plain. Any ideas with what would look good with that scheme?

Thanks,
anthoraxe

[zark]

Firstly welcome to the hive! and to the hobby. I personally dont have much experienve in greens but I would suggest probably snot green as that is slightly lighter than DA green. Or if you want it slightly brighter go DA green then highlight to snot green the onto scorpian green.

Thats just what i can come up with in my head at the moment, im sure that soem of the more experienced painters will offer better advice

[anthoraxe]

The color of the carapace is going to be snot green, the DA green will be an undercoat for any recesses in the armor. I was kind of thinking of a type of highlight like the Hive Fleet Leviathan (The purple lines pointing towards the head of the Nid).

If someone has another suggestion for the type of highlight please tell me, and definately for the color.

[n00b1n8R]

Yellow works well with green in my experience (playing with the army painter in DOW, I havn't tried it IRL).

Or white.

Also, hi

[WestRider]

Goblin Green is the next lighter shade of Green in the GW line, and (to me) the obvious choice for highlights if you're using Snot Green as your base colour. It's starting to get pretty Yellow, but that's something you're probably going to have to deal with. It's hard to find a much Brighter Green than Snot Green. For my own Nids, I used DA Green as the base and shaded down and up from there, which gave me a nice bright Green that doesn't end up looking Yellowish around the edges.

As far as techniques go, this one here got me on a track that I like pretty well for my Nids. It's not that hard to pick up, and it looks pretty cool.