How detailed?

[CylonDorado]

Ok, I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to painting, but I was just wondering if anyone has come up with a good paint scheme without painting the little groove things on the arms and legs. I was just going to leave then the same color as the rest of the skin, but when I said this to one of my friends he was like "NOOOOOO!". But I can't figure out a color that would look good in them. Is this acceptable?

[Scizor]

well, if the nids are black with a highlight you can leave them. if you ink the nid you can leave them un-highlighted and they'l be darker than the rest. or you can paint them in a simple colour thats a good contrast. but painting it is no must

[Pheonix]

yeah not a MUST but... you could try painting them first then carefully painting around them

[CylonDorado]

Well that's the thing, all i've been working on is my brood of spinegaunts to test the scheme, and I've already done the carapases and claws and stuff. I guess I could keep trying differn't colors.

[WestRider]

I don't paint those separately on my Nids, and everyone seems to think they look fine.

What colour scheme are you using? That'll help us make suggestions for good colours to go with it.

[CylonDorado]

It's kind of weird. Half of them have white skin, purple claws and hooves, and a light blue/metallic (ultramarines blue mixed with "mertheral silver) carapase, with black eyes and silver teeth. The other half have black skin, "goblin green" claws and hooves, and the "mertheral silver" mixed with blood red, to make what was origionaly sort of a shiney dark red, but with the new red paint I just baught I think it might be turning more toward the pink side. Its very similar, but I think it's definatly pinker then it was... they have silver teeth too.

[WestRider]

On the White/Purple/Blue ones, I would go with a blue or purple, or maybe a really dark red. For the others, a red of some kind sounds best.

If you've got the steadiness of hand to get it just in the grooves, I think that a wash would probably suffice for the white skinned ones. Use a really small brush to keep from overloading it with the wash so it doesn't go everywhere. On the black ones, you're probably going to just have to paint it normally or drybrush, and then touch up around it. Black covers pretty well, though, so it shouldn't be too much of a hassle.

[Mordheimer]

First, this should be on the PAINTING Forum. I suggest opening a thread there, and posting a couple of pics... easier to visualize & help.

The trick on doing those is using a Wash (Ink). Hell, ask Scizor... he is THE Man... Gaunt... Tyrant... Hierophant! You don't believe me? Jump to the PAINT forum at thetyranidhive.proboards28.com/index.cgi?board=painting&action=display&thread=1196444813.

I USED to think I painted fairly well... HA! Anyhow, throw us abone, so we can help.

[Scizor]

it can help to just ink the details to get a darker shade, for the white skin you can just apply some purple ink

[CylonDorado]

Ok, thanks everybody. Isn't this the painting section?

[wolffang]

i dunno what answers have been given and such or if you have come to a decission or not... but if you have DOW dark crusade then heres a neat idea for coming up with paint schemes (i was having some fun with it even tho i already have a paint scheme for my nids) open up the tyranid mod and go into the paint editor. select the ravener model as this 1 doesnt move around on the screen and fits well. then simply click the random button and itl'l select random colours at random spots then simply stop when you find 1 you like. or you can just select your colours by yourselfe