dont know what colours to use on my new tyranids force cus i dont whant them to look like every1 elses Can some1 help. And whats the best colour to undercoat them in:
Chaos black or Skull White??

If you want them to look bright and refreshingly alien, go with a white undercoat. If you're after a darker, more mysterious and scary bug look, black undercoat.

Will Dark red and Dark green go well, cus i want them to look grusom and horrifying.

The best thing to do when trying to pick a Tyranid scheme is to go get a book filled with pictures of bugs, then look though until you see something with colours that may work for your army.

ok gd idea

I wouldn't be too sure about red and green, unless one was played down a lot.

Red and green are both very striking colours, whereas predominantly 2 couloured models like tyranids look best with a main colour, then a less noticable second colour, like grey, white, black, or a similar shade of the first colour.

Look at some lizardmen colour schemes too. See if there's any that particularly catch your eye.


Actually, there is a colour contrast that looks great that a friend and I want to put to use on something. Ice blue, highlighted up to a sharp bright blue, and black, look great together.

But yeah, look at bug books, lizardmen designs. Try mixing and matching colours you like. You'll come up with something good.

how about different shades of green, purple and a bone colour for the biomorph wepons

That sounds very good. Using bone as the neutral colour is a good idea. Green and purple would go together to make a very dangerous, gruesome and poisonous looking tyranid.

Try a test model, then post pictures up here. We'll be happy to comment.

Hi Erny

Welcome to the Palace.

All your ideas so far sound quite bright, so go with a White undercoat. You could then give it a brown ink wash (cos brown is a 'neutral' colour) This will make all the details stand out better for you to see, which'll make painting easier for you to do; and it'll leave your highlight areas with a light undercoat and your shadow areas with a dark undecoat.

There are 3 sets of primary opposites

red and green
yellow and purple
blue and orange

these sets of opposites argue with each other and bounce against each other noisily, they dont look too good against each other unless you want things to look bright and Clown like. That said, a lot of one and a little of the other can look very striking and vibrant, but try and resist a 50 / 50 approach, be one more than they other.

Neutral colours, browns, greys, whites and blacks, can be used to 'calm things down'.

Like the others have said, base it on nature, look at bugs, frogs n toads, snakes and reptiles... there are some astounding colour combinations out there.

I have painted only one in my life but I used a white undercoat with the blackplates being green and stuff... But while using white I but blood read all over the mouth to show that the tyranid has been eating some creatures of somesort.... To sprucen up the figure add strings of intestines coming from the mouth and say that the tyranid was running add tall grass on the side pointing outwards to show better running physics.... B)