Hive Fleet Manakeet

[Urkh]

Hello everyone! Urkh here. I'll try not to BUG you too much, but here I go. At the beginning of 10th edition, I SOMEHOW found myself with a fledgling army of Tyranids *shifty eyes*.  Times have been very busy, but it has slowed down enough that I've decided to try and find a paint scheme for these insidious insects. So naturally, I thought I'd come to the hive mind to get some opinions.

 

Now, I want my armies to all be different colored for the theme. My first army is Black Templars, which are black, of course. Then I have my orange Eldar and my yellow Leagues of Votann. I also have a rescue army of Necrons I got from my old 5th edition buddy, which, I will be painting purple as my dynasty color. 

 

So I'm here thinking to myself, what color do I want to paint my 'Nids? My brother already has red and blue Tyranids, and with the other colors taken by other armies, I fell on green. My first shot at this was to make a more normal green body, with a forest green chitin, bone color accents, with pink muscular tissue.

 

Then I decided to invert the greens, and make a forest green body with a normal green chitin, because I do like the idea of a darker chitin then the body:

 

But then I thought to myself, what I play around with the forest green idea and try to make them a tree?I came up with this:

 

Now,.I like all three of them, but I think I'm leaning towards the tree nid. Here is a photo of all of them together

 

These are all only base coats and a preliminary wash, but let me know what you guys think! This army will slowly get painted to this level to break the monotony of getting my Votann to parade level.

[Focslain]

So welcome to the Hive.

 

The tree one is more striking, It would make the larger bugs pop more then the mostly green versions. The darker green chitin is my second pick. 

 

Also just simply amazing work by the way. 

[Urkh]

Small progress report:

 

 

Five down!

 

Edit: when the squad is done, I'll paint all their bases black at once. I don't want to put basing materials on them until I get base extenders, since they're on the wrong size for modern gaunts.

Edited Thursday at 10:40 AM by Urkh

[Focslain]

Looking good so far. You going 10 or the full 20 for the unit?