One of my first Nids (Wip)

[snotgreen]

Here is a WIP pic of a nid im working on. Im thinking on redoing the carapace, any one know what i can do? All C&C is welcome .




Snotgreen

[Scizor]

its no good idea to paint it without a sturdy base coat or primer(since i see u painted the carapace but the rest is still plastic.

but exept that, the colour combination is great! reminds me of a dinosaur

[snotgreen]

The reason it isnt primed is becase it is so cold outside

[Scizor]

i didnt mean primed as a must, just that you base coat the Whole model in one colour and not paint each colour seperatly on the plastic as u did, more like paint the whole thing black before painting on the rest, all gets more clean and easy that way

[snotgreen]

I have painted the whole model now, I just was to lazy to do it whan i started to paint him.

[Trygon]

I never use a spray can for my priming, I just do it by hand via brush indoors. Though my Chaos marine armoured company may need the spraying since the large models tend to take ages to prime by hand. Painting tanks is a lot different from painting the Tyranids of my old Swarm. If you just want to paint indoors then most of the time priming by hand should work out fine. Though beware that you do not want to slop the paint on. If you do that you'll end up losing the detail and adding lumps to the model's surface that will show as the painting progresses.

[shachza]

I never use a spray can for my priming, I just do it by hand via brush indoors.

I prime in my bathroom by laying down several sheets of newspaper and opening the window for about an hour. Incidentally I also paint in my bathroom, the sink-counter and mirror lights are suitable substitutes while my touch-lamp is broken.

I like the "jungle floor" camo your nids will be sporting.

[krakenfiend]

terribletrygon said:

Though my Chaos marine armoured company may need the spraying since the large models tend to take ages to prime by hand.

Try getting an airbrush...I'm holding off on painting a lot of my vehicles until I acquire one. So my Shadowswords will have to wait a while for their paint. I think gareth uses an Airbrush...thats how he gets such smooth reds over black so quickly...the results are stunning.

krakenfiend