Marchosias Splinter Fleet paint scheme

[Rampage]

One lowly gaunt, yes... but now painted for war. After hearing of another player's fleet being the smae name as mine (and him having it first ) I've become naught but a splinter fleet... which amused me quite a bit, and having a garbage paint scheme before, I decided to veer into his colours.

The results amaze me to no end. I've turned a page with painting, I say, never thought I could do this well.

Now to the woe: I'm fielding a swarm list... 128 gaunts... Holy hell I'd better be Masterclass by the end of it all

[hex]

Good luck, The gaunts, while lowly, are actually my favorite thing to paint.

[Mordheimer]

RampagerFex:

BROTHER! Brother from another Mother... great job! I like the paint scheme. Very similar to my own, but with its own distinction... making your consumption machines truly unique. You and I run very different strategies, so it is perfect. Here are few points, to encourage you to continue. For the March Painting contest I will be painting... GAUNTS. You will gt to see mine then

• Love the Carapace! I can't do the 'dots' thing... you pulled it very well. Your carapaces are perfect. Mine, btw are more on the brownish side, with a special blend of metallic copper shades that give the illusion of that roach-like cuticle color. When I tried the dot thing, my Nids looked kindda like this:
  
  
• Great Base Green! It matches Marchosias original strand...
  
• Suggestion 1: This is not much for the Gaunts... but for practice before hitting the Warriors, Carnifexes, Tyrants and so on. After the green ink wash, dry-brush with either Dark Angels Gree, Goblin Green or Camo Green. It will take some of the gloss out, but it will give you great definition. The wash will continue to act as your black-line.
  
• Suggestion 2: Once you are happy with the dry-brush, try to highlight the green areas directly IF necessary with a shade lighter of what you choose as your drybrush. The big guys do get the full advantage of such definition.
  
• Base (flock) them in full brood sizes: After you think of a general theme, base each brood with the same variance. For example, you decide to make the base short grass (not static grass, but the one that looks like powder.) Take brood #1 and use only the base flock. Brood #2, use the base flock and one clump of static grass in the right side side. Brood #3, base flock plus 1 rock on the right side. You get the drift. This will allow your army to maintain some cohesion (look uniform) but at the same time would allow you (and your opponent) to distinguish broods. I hate when I pile 54 gaunts (3 brood of 18 each) in close combat and I don't know which one belongs to which brood!
  

Good luck... and keep at it! Keep up informed. Long live our Hive Fleet Marchosias!

[Rampage]

... What the...? I think uh... wrong pic dood...

But very good advice indeed! And I will be practicing with the gaunts first to get it all down pat, no worries there.

All shall be devoured

[Scizor]

welcome to the green nids, yours reminds me of mine, hive fleet scizor

[Aux]

dude please delete that pic

its sickening

Nice color scheme

[hex]

It's just a babie's bum. I mean, come on, a babie's backside isn't cp or goatse, just a rump.

[Rampage]

Not exactly expected on a Nids forum though

I get what he was aiming at though, heh.

Scizor: Can;t go wrong with green! Though your bugs are far far better than mine, that's one pretty gaunt...

[Trygon]

I think what you need to do is dull down the inked skin to make it work better with the carapace and perhaps do a bit of inking between the carapace and the skin areas. If you plan to paint the eyes I would advise yellow colours, tis generally contrasts with the rest of the model well.

[n00b1n8R]

WHAT THE BLUEBERRY
I hope that was the wrong image, but wtf do you have that on your HD for >___>

[Mordheimer]

C'mon... it was the right pic. LOL Just a joke... The pic was of a baby with the Measles, taken from one of the medical journals.

My 'spotted' nids looked like they had the Measles... glad that RampagerFex got it. It did made a point; I can NOT do spotting right!

Puritan 'Nid players... NOW I have seen it all!

[Rampage]

terribletrygon said:

I think what you need to do is dull down the inked skin to make it work better with the carapace and perhaps do a bit of inking between the carapace and the skin areas. If you plan to paint the eyes I would advise yellow colours, tis generally contrasts with the rest of the model well.

Hmmm, that's a good idea, though ink betwene the scales and skin with which colour? Use some of the brown ink to give it a bit more flow between the two, or black in for shadow? Hmmm, maybe a mix of both... I shall experiment on this lone bug...

And yellow eyes, yes indee dthat sounds like a winner.