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I'm rarely of fan of the garish retro styles, but I gotta say something about those colors over the black wash really dried into something very impressive.
Indeed. I wondered why the colour transitions on the model were so harsh. I hadn’t even factored in the color blindness. They look way more blue than the “official” colour scheme.
It actually looks like a really quick version of one of the new colour schemes they made for nids so it may not be leviathan but it’s a really nice scheme!
For anyone wondering, he has red-green color blindness, so he couldn't differentiate the green in Bria Queen Chill from red, making it seem like a diffuse, pale red for him.
These are all so awesome but I think that the Albino one is my favorite, you don't really see tyranids in that sort of color and its a great contrast to what you usually see. To be fair though all of these are like that!
Thank you so much for expanded xenomorph paintscheme! I’ve been using it on my genestealer broods and was wondering how I’d do it for my leviathan swarms
mantis shrimp have some really nice colours that would look really striking for the tyranids. my favourite of these would be the clown/peacock/rainbow mantis shrimp, "Odontodactylus scyllarus." also, hatties glitter-nids are absolutely hilarious and definetly memorable
There would be a lot of fluorescent green and red color fading transition washes on that, especially on the shell. Then, using edged highlights on the segments aspects of the legs to create painting technique contrast from the washed areas and allow the hard edges to read better than they do in the photo.
@CatgutPainting has a two-part video on painting Tyranids with a coconut crab-derived scheme that is another nature-derived pattern that works amazingly well.
Since you’re going to pick one as an in-house army. You should definitely go the retro inspired style. It’s striking and it connects to you way more than the others.
These kinds of videos really reinforce the "trust the process" aspect of mini painting. Quite a few of these I wasn't on board with at all until they were totally finished. That said, the albinism Tyranids were by far my favorite
Best minis are when both the process and the finished result look good 🙂 When you're in the middle of painting and it already looks great you just know the minis will turn out beautiful
for the xenomorph nids, you could add a bit of acidgreen/yellow to the weapon,eyes, and the inner bits on the fleshy bits to make it look like its got that stuff coursing through it
Perfect timing! I just built my Tyranids from leviathan. Excited to try these out. I also just want to say thanks-your videos on blackstone got me to paint my first minis since high school in…2005 👴, and now mini painting’s become the first artistic outlet of my adult life. Cheers and keep up the great work!
Same. I followed all Guy's turtorials for the Blackstone Fortress mins and they turned out awesome! I liked how Guy showed all of the basic concepts within those videos and it had me trying new methods of painting and got me back into the hobby.
That technique you used on the 90s style one, where you prime white and then use black contrast, seems far superior to the slap-chop fad that almost everyone adopted in recent years. It achieves the same thing but is way quicker and looks loads smoother. I think its the nicest looking one in this video, and I swear that's not just my nostalgia talking (a swarm of 6 red termagants was the first ever Warhammer I owned).
I use both, depending on how I want the final model to look. Basically, priming white and shading black produces a brighter finished model than priming black and drybrushing white, so if you want bright colours do the former and if you want a darker finish choose the latter. I also find that as new Nuln Oil over white doesn't stain the upper surfaces as much as old Nuln Oil did you can use that and not need to highlight back over it!
That's what I do for contrast, white prime, either a black or brown dip wash (which Guy has a video on how to make), let it dry and then paint the contrast. I tried slap chop and it just took too long per model.
One Tyranid style I would love to see : Doing organic/skin toned/hairy Tyranids. Drawing on how Tyranids absorb bio mass, they are basically just repurposing the flesh they absorb to fit their designs. So I would love to see caucasian toned tyranids that have like a couple of moles on them, then put some hair fibers on their forearms, legs, armpits, maybe a little on the back etc. You might be able to get a fleshy stippled effect going to look softer than the shells tone? Then colorize the shell of the nid to look like human fingernails, fleshtone slightly different than the skin's paint, a couple edge highlights like the white tone of the nail or a subtle cuticle at the top of the shell, and then do like a double layer of gloss varnish only on the shell. Lastly, the Gaunt model could have its Nid face traded out for the front of a humans face and then let the alien parts of the head extend out the back unaltered. You could keep the upper scythes unaltered, but then have the little arms attached have human hands. You might even be able to have two hands cut and attached to form "two fingers" of the tip of the arm, etc. Like two human hands grown onto the Gaunt's limb. Picture the xenos biomass like a virus that just reuses and rewrites flesh to bug/lizard bits of the Tyranid.
Thank you so much for these videos! I'm a very novice painter and recently I'm getting into tyranids. I like basing but not painting models so the idea of using texture paint to give the model of 3d effect is absolutely stunning. You've opened my mind a bit on this concept. I will say my personal favorite of the ones you've displayed and I'm going to try painting up a few tests models, are the lava nids.
It makes me so so angry to see ‘Nids painted like this! Because I hate Tyranids and now I want to paint them 😡 I personally can’t pick a favourite. How dare you both.
The glitter nids are easily my favorite and would only look more impressive next to an entire army of the same scheme. Also I think the mantis shrimp could be a cool animal for inspiration
I really like them too. I think on the scale of the model in the video, a finer grit ot glitter would work better. That being said if you wanna get fancy using different sizes of glitter on the carapace plates for larger nids would be really cool.
The Xenomorph nid theme looks AMAZING!! I'd been searching for a manageable way to do that look with my skill level, and I think I'm gonna give that a go.
I love all these schemes. I don't have a whole force, but the one free termigant I got, I plan on painting like a green june beetle. Vallejo has a color shift metallic called "Dark Green Tin" that has the perfect shiny green-brown for the carapace. With a khaki underside, I think it'll look great!
I reeeeaaaally dig the 2nd edition and the Leviathan color scheme, would love to see a table being flooded by these super colorful critters. I also think the albino 'nid color scheme would look AMAZING with the rocky bits of the worm Tyranid, kinda making it look like one of Dune's Sandworms!
that volcanic method is super weak. Its embarrassing to look at and its not even mine. Does the contrast paint really pull and do the striations itself?
Gotta be honest they look really rushed and just not very good, I get that you need to paint a lot of them but these are expensive models and you kinda ruined them. Not trying to hate, I usually love your content but this was a big miss IMO.
@@benjamin2629 Hell I would have taken 1 - 3 decent schemes where they put some effort in. I was actually shocked at how badly these models were painted.
Had a giant nid mini that i was gonna get rid of because he is coated in thick patchy paint from when i was younger. Youve motivated me into fixing that guy back up!
All of these were a ton of fun to see how they were accomplished! I gotta say though the albino scheme was my favorite! Wonderful work as always from both you and hatty!
The comment about Jurasic Park made me feel old lol- I remember walking in to my home town's games workshop vendor and getting blown away by all the minis. Personally I play Chaos SM but Tyranids have always been on my mind and I guess soon enough I'll have to dive in to that to. :) Keep up the good work!
I got the starter set with my friend and I've been looking for a unique scheme for my nids, I'm going to paint my whole army Albino! Great video, thank you for the inspiration x
Glitter 'Nids I could totally see them evolving to live on an industrial/ mining world that is absolutely bustling with gemstones, crystals, and jewels, instead of the usual practical metals and ores. Imagine a whole swarm of sparkly aliens spewing out from the already sparkly ground!
Magnificent! Your first tyranid painting video was what drew my attention to the channel and the first painting guide I actually followed.. Excellent with even more tyranid inspiration here👍
The albino one is my favourite, and I think I'll use it for my own as I've been struggling to decide on a scheme. I also like the xenomorph and blue lobster ones a lot.
5:19 for the xenomorph I'd probably do the same thing but with greenish grey rather than blueish, maybe a mix to show your different units? 10 Blue boys, 10 Green boys, 10 White boys, etc
One idea I discovered recently for good Tyranid bases is using sprue goo with any loose spines, claws etc from spare parts stuck in. Painted with some gross flesh tones it looks like a carpet of biomass that's slowly covering the ground.
I used a similar approach to the xenomorph scheme for my genestealer kill team. Prime black, dry brush fenrisian, shiny metal teeth and claws, gloss nuln oil. For the armor plates on other units like the warriors I base layered in fernrisian and then used skeleton horde to make a brownish bug exoskeleton look that still shares that blue shade to tie it together. Out of all the other schemes in the video, I think I like the blue lobster the best.
I liked the jungle bush 'Nid a lot more than I expected I would when I saw Guy gluing down little plastic fern bits. He's actually kinda cute. My fave of Hatty's is definitely Blue Lobster. But in the spirit of Midwinter Mini I feel like it's gotta be Retro Nids.
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Dam bro i don't even collect tyrranids but god dam deathworld forest bro got me
Hey I love your videos. What got me watching your channal was your how to play 9th. Are you gonna do one for 10th?
Number ten, glitter all the way!
That albino colour scheme looked great
@@Venermous_Hunter and you don't even have to get it right the first time, afterall there are 119 other hormagon models waiting to be painted ;)
I'm rarely of fan of the garish retro styles, but I gotta say something about those colors over the black wash really dried into something very impressive.
I really like the blue lobster one, it seems weirdly calm for tyranids
Love the blue lobster and the lava-nid
Blue lobster is top
really like the blue lobster inspired paint scheme.....
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Guy’s color blindness really showed with that leviathan nid haha. I absolutely love the retro and blue crab scheme though, great video as always!
Indeed. I wondered why the colour transitions on the model were so harsh. I hadn’t even factored in the color blindness. They look way more blue than the “official” colour scheme.
It actually looks like a really quick version of one of the new colour schemes they made for nids so it may not be leviathan but it’s a really nice scheme!
@@thesophistichimp7425 oh yeah it’s definitely a cool look, made me think of a berry themed nid or something lol
@@CronosVids yeah idrk exactly how colorblindness effects things like that, but it was a bit strange to see for the official Leviathan scheme.
For anyone wondering, he has red-green color blindness, so he couldn't differentiate the green in Bria Queen Chill from red, making it seem like a diffuse, pale red for him.
These are all so awesome but I think that the Albino one is my favorite, you don't really see tyranids in that sort of color and its a great contrast to what you usually see. To be fair though all of these are like that!
Yeah, it'll stand out on the tabletop, that's for sure!
Totaly agree, albinos looks gréât!
One mor for the albinos!
Go Albino!
The albino scheme is my favourite, as well.
Use the Worm one. It’s the most insane one in my opinion it’d be hilarious to see you guys trying to expand it into a whole force
I think that is my top, second is the albino love the brighter desaturated carapaces
@@SeanHoltzman seeing as the MWM crew haven’t hearted my comment but one below mine recommending the albino scheme they’ll be going with that.
would be an awesome trygon,mawloc, and ravener spam army
@@fishwithnoname4486you could also run ripper swarms since they have their little work tails.
The blue lobster scheme straight up looks like a new hive fleet.
The albino one or the xenomorph one are very nice!
Seconded on both.
Thank you so much for expanded xenomorph paintscheme! I’ve been using it on my genestealer broods and was wondering how I’d do it for my leviathan swarms
mantis shrimp have some really nice colours that would look really striking for the tyranids. my favourite of these would be the clown/peacock/rainbow mantis shrimp, "Odontodactylus scyllarus."
also, hatties glitter-nids are absolutely hilarious and definetly memorable
There would be a lot of fluorescent green and red color fading transition washes on that, especially on the shell. Then, using edged highlights on the segments aspects of the legs to create painting technique contrast from the washed areas and allow the hard edges to read better than they do in the photo.
@CatgutPainting has a two-part video on painting Tyranids with a coconut crab-derived scheme that is another nature-derived pattern that works amazingly well.
I believe the Death world jungle Tyranids Army would look absolutely fantastic and pop out strongly in any field, Amazing work and very helpful video!
Loved the earthy one! Just the thought of that popping up and devouring a guardsmen is epic
I loved Hatty's Blue Lobster and Albino schemes! Prefer the Earth worm look, but feel the retro look worked better than expected!
Since you’re going to pick one as an in-house army. You should definitely go the retro inspired style. It’s striking and it connects to you way more than the others.
this is convenient, i just got my Nids yesterday and was scared of painting all of those termagants, this will probably help them get finished faster
Hope this helps get 'em done!
Love the albino nids
These kinds of videos really reinforce the "trust the process" aspect of mini painting. Quite a few of these I wasn't on board with at all until they were totally finished. That said, the albinism Tyranids were by far my favorite
Best minis are when both the process and the finished result look good 🙂 When you're in the middle of painting and it already looks great you just know the minis will turn out beautiful
The albino looks soooo cool
for the xenomorph nids, you could add a bit of acidgreen/yellow to the weapon,eyes, and the inner bits on the fleshy bits to make it look like its got that stuff coursing through it
Perfect timing! I just built my Tyranids from leviathan. Excited to try these out.
I also just want to say thanks-your videos on blackstone got me to paint my first minis since high school in…2005 👴, and now mini painting’s become the first artistic outlet of my adult life.
Cheers and keep up the great work!
Same. I followed all Guy's turtorials for the Blackstone Fortress mins and they turned out awesome! I liked how Guy showed all of the basic concepts within those videos and it had me trying new methods of painting and got me back into the hobby.
I remember the glittery tyranids all the way back to the beginning of the channel. It was good to feel such nostalgia
GLITTER NIDS
Albino and 90s retro were my favs. Loved all the alternatives but, very fun!
That technique you used on the 90s style one, where you prime white and then use black contrast, seems far superior to the slap-chop fad that almost everyone adopted in recent years. It achieves the same thing but is way quicker and looks loads smoother. I think its the nicest looking one in this video, and I swear that's not just my nostalgia talking (a swarm of 6 red termagants was the first ever Warhammer I owned).
I use both, depending on how I want the final model to look. Basically, priming white and shading black produces a brighter finished model than priming black and drybrushing white, so if you want bright colours do the former and if you want a darker finish choose the latter. I also find that as new Nuln Oil over white doesn't stain the upper surfaces as much as old Nuln Oil did you can use that and not need to highlight back over it!
That's what I do for contrast, white prime, either a black or brown dip wash (which Guy has a video on how to make), let it dry and then paint the contrast. I tried slap chop and it just took too long per model.
Awesome schemes! Not sure if it's a nostalgia thing but something about the 90s scheme just really made me smile, loved it!
One Tyranid style I would love to see :
Doing organic/skin toned/hairy Tyranids. Drawing on how Tyranids absorb bio mass, they are basically just repurposing the flesh they absorb to fit their designs.
So I would love to see caucasian toned tyranids that have like a couple of moles on them, then put some hair fibers on their forearms, legs, armpits, maybe a little on the back etc. You might be able to get a fleshy stippled effect going to look softer than the shells tone?
Then colorize the shell of the nid to look like human fingernails, fleshtone slightly different than the skin's paint, a couple edge highlights like the white tone of the nail or a subtle cuticle at the top of the shell, and then do like a double layer of gloss varnish only on the shell.
Lastly, the Gaunt model could have its Nid face traded out for the front of a humans face and then let the alien parts of the head extend out the back unaltered. You could keep the upper scythes unaltered, but then have the little arms attached have human hands. You might even be able to have two hands cut and attached to form "two fingers" of the tip of the arm, etc. Like two human hands grown onto the Gaunt's limb.
Picture the xenos biomass like a virus that just reuses and rewrites flesh to bug/lizard bits of the Tyranid.
Thank you so much for these videos! I'm a very novice painter and recently I'm getting into tyranids. I like basing but not painting models so the idea of using texture paint to give the model of 3d effect is absolutely stunning. You've opened my mind a bit on this concept. I will say my personal favorite of the ones you've displayed and I'm going to try painting up a few tests models, are the lava nids.
The albino one is my favorite. The lava ones, the 10th and the retro one are also fantastic
Love the retro 00s style! Bring back memories!!
I'm torn between retro, jurassic park, and glitter-nids. All of them are amazing. Great work!
These are absolutely incredible. Loved the Nessa clips in the ad read
It makes me so so angry to see ‘Nids painted like this! Because I hate Tyranids and now I want to paint them 😡 I personally can’t pick a favourite. How dare you both.
Hatty really knocking it out of the park in this video. The best scheme was the albino, but the blue lobster was great too.
The albino one is by far my favourite. Bravo!
Why do you always realease awesome tutorials the day after I've painted the thing in the tutorial Guy? ;)
Tyranids+Glerpes=perfect. :) Loved the Albino scheme! looked great!
The glitter nids are easily my favorite and would only look more impressive next to an entire army of the same scheme. Also I think the mantis shrimp could be a cool animal for inspiration
I really like them too. I think on the scale of the model in the video, a finer grit ot glitter would work better. That being said if you wanna get fancy using different sizes of glitter on the carapace plates for larger nids would be really cool.
The Blue Lobster scheme looks so good! Defs my favourite.
I honestly really love those earthworm ones the most. After seeing them all its gotta be earthworm jims
Briar Queen, chill!
Love the nature-inspired ones, feel like people could develop all sorts of amazing schemes from your ideas 👍
I think the best thing you did in the business was get Hatty involved, she brings so much, and I've been absolutely loving the content ever since
2nd, Death World and Glitter are my favourites. Awesome video. Really happy to see different paint schemes. Nice video. Keep up the good work.
Awesome ideas for nids from the leviathan lunch set they look awesome! The new leviathan ones are my favorite.
The Xenomorph nid theme looks AMAZING!! I'd been searching for a manageable way to do that look with my skill level, and I think I'm gonna give that a go.
I love all these schemes. I don't have a whole force, but the one free termigant I got, I plan on painting like a green june beetle. Vallejo has a color shift metallic called "Dark Green Tin" that has the perfect shiny green-brown for the carapace. With a khaki underside, I think it'll look great!
Cult of Paint scheme is really amazing. I'll be trying it on my new models
I reeeeaaaally dig the 2nd edition and the Leviathan color scheme, would love to see a table being flooded by these super colorful critters.
I also think the albino 'nid color scheme would look AMAZING with the rocky bits of the worm Tyranid, kinda making it look like one of Dune's Sandworms!
I like the blue velociraptor scheme seeing a while army like that would be awsome
that volcanic method is super weak. Its embarrassing to look at and its not even mine.
Does the contrast paint really pull and do the striations itself?
The albino color scheme was my favorite, it turned out very well.
Mad, Hattie's 5 minis look waaayyy better compared to guys
Hatty's Albino scheme is legit awesome!
I really like the albino one it’s really striking and cool color scheme
Not gonna lie. I actively despise most of these. Blue Lobster is pretty good though.
Def go for the worm. I really like the idea of terrain painted on the actual models
Gotta be honest they look really rushed and just not very good, I get that you need to paint a lot of them but these are expensive models and you kinda ruined them. Not trying to hate, I usually love your content but this was a big miss IMO.
I agree, to me it had a big "we need to make 10" feel to it, when 4 good paint jobs would have sufficed.
@@benjamin2629 Hell I would have taken 1 - 3 decent schemes where they put some effort in. I was actually shocked at how badly these models were painted.
Had a giant nid mini that i was gonna get rid of because he is coated in thick patchy paint from when i was younger. Youve motivated me into fixing that guy back up!
All of these were a ton of fun to see how they were accomplished! I gotta say though the albino scheme was my favorite! Wonderful work as always from both you and hatty!
Lobster and Albino are great !
I really like how the retro 90s came out!
For the MWM Tyranid army..... That "Blue" from Jurassic World scheme is 👌👌👌
The comment about Jurasic Park made me feel old lol-
I remember walking in to my home town's games workshop vendor and getting blown away by all the minis. Personally I play Chaos SM but Tyranids have always been on my mind and I guess soon enough I'll have to dive in to that to. :)
Keep up the good work!
HA Ha Hatty, Glitter! This been the running joke in our house. We once used glitter spray for a posh night out, finding glitter for years after!
I got the starter set with my friend and I've been looking for a unique scheme for my nids, I'm going to paint my whole army Albino! Great video, thank you for the inspiration x
Honestly the Albino Tyranids are the nicest looking to me. Reckon it will also scale up really nicely into the bio artillery and thropes!
The retro 90's and the blue lobster one were the best. Good contrast colours and looks the neatest of all the types
I love the glitter scheme!
I like Patti's Albino, and the Blue Lobster. That would be so cool to see a whole army those colors.
Worm one was really impressive. So different and I totally van imagine it in the battlefield. And I need to distinguish albinos and blue crab.
Glitter 'Nids I could totally see them evolving to live on an industrial/ mining world that is absolutely bustling with gemstones, crystals, and jewels, instead of the usual practical metals and ores. Imagine a whole swarm of sparkly aliens spewing out from the already sparkly ground!
Glamorous Tyranid with that glitter 😂
The Albino one is by far the best from all of them!!!
Them: Vote for your favorite schemes!
Me: But I love all of them!
90’s style and Lobster ‘nids really caught my attention! The Jurassic Park version was nice too.
The blue lobster is really nice, maybe a little lighter on the pink bits. But a whole army of glitter-bids would be fantastic!
Blue Lobster Nids look amazing!
Really loving the Blue Lobster look, those and the Deathworld 'nids
I love the albino and blue lobster schemes!
The albino scheme looks really good!
Actually love how the classic one looks with just the dry brushed white carapace and red skin
Hatty did WORK today, the 93's scheme was nice too
I layer of PVA glue underneath warmed up with a hairdryer makes mordant earth work soo good!
I quite like the albino one but ultimately the blue lobster one is my favourite. i think it felt the cleanest, especially on the carapace edges
Lol Guy trying to go for the beige/white official Leviathan Nids and ending up making a bright cyan Nid was very funny.
This is the video I've been looking for ... 👏👏 thank you!
Albino-one was looking awesome!
These ways are indeed pretty awesome.
I'm definitely using that glitter idea to create an army of Disconids!
Albino and blue lobster look great!
The blue lobster one looks like a new hive fleet
Magnificent! Your first tyranid painting video was what drew my attention to the channel and the first painting guide I actually followed.. Excellent with even more tyranid inspiration here👍
The albino one is my favourite, and I think I'll use it for my own as I've been struggling to decide on a scheme. I also like the xenomorph and blue lobster ones a lot.
Absolutely the albino one. Definitely the most striking
5:19 for the xenomorph I'd probably do the same thing but with greenish grey rather than blueish, maybe a mix to show your different units? 10 Blue boys, 10 Green boys, 10 White boys, etc
The Albino scheme looks sooo good
The one Jurassic with yellow flowers is awesome
Albino Nids are the most interesting, love to see a horde of those!
The lobster and jungle ones are my favourites 😍
Honestly I like the idea of the in-house MM scheme being the 2nd edition one, it's a classic look that doesn't get enough visibility anymore!
One idea I discovered recently for good Tyranid bases is using sprue goo with any loose spines, claws etc from spare parts stuck in. Painted with some gross flesh tones it looks like a carpet of biomass that's slowly covering the ground.
I used a similar approach to the xenomorph scheme for my genestealer kill team. Prime black, dry brush fenrisian, shiny metal teeth and claws, gloss nuln oil. For the armor plates on other units like the warriors I base layered in fernrisian and then used skeleton horde to make a brownish bug exoskeleton look that still shares that blue shade to tie it together.
Out of all the other schemes in the video, I think I like the blue lobster the best.
I liked the jungle bush 'Nid a lot more than I expected I would when I saw Guy gluing down little plastic fern bits. He's actually kinda cute. My fave of Hatty's is definitely Blue Lobster.
But in the spirit of Midwinter Mini I feel like it's gotta be Retro Nids.