r/Tyranids

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I know they aren't the best pictures, but was curious what armies you would build from these guys (I have one more genestealer, but the glue is currently drying, and the swarmlord is missing a base) and I'm working on painting them, but we just moved, so it's gonna be a minute 😅

I recently got back into Warhammer after about a 7-year break, mostly due to a lack of time… and honestly, motivation too…

But I came back around 2 months ago now, and my God, I absolutely love these overpowered insects — and they’re so cool to paint!!
From what I’ve understood, Tyranids are going to get a major improvement with the V11 rules, especially with mechanics that favor Battle-shock and much more!
If you have any good units that might be relatively viable for the next edition, I’d be happy to see what you’d recommend. And don’t hesitate to show me your Tyranid swarms! I love seeing the creativity and ingenuity of the Hive Mind.

this is likely 2500 hours of painting, and i have another likely 500 to do. need half my hormagaunts, most of my warriors and all of my genestealers and ill be caught up. id love to start a skyblight swarm soon, but thatll be the next project after i catch up.

New player here and painting my first couple of models. I want a darkish bone like chitin like in this screen grab of a battle report I was watching.

I tried wraithbone primer then skeleton horde but it was a bit on the yellow side, would you recommend a different contrast or different base colour and if so which one?

Thanks

Is it supposed to have AP on it Gaping Maw?

Not super confident on the blue bits. Maybe orange would work a little better? Or just the standard light pink?

Tyranid prime with lash whip (just another warrior in game tbh)

20 hormagaunts

10 tourmagaunts

3 lictors "hiding"

6 warriors with melee weapons

6 warriors with ranged weapons

3 warriors with ranged weapons

3 Zoanthropes

And a carnifec

So essentially what the title says. I'm new to the faction and in my enthusiasm I kind of rushed into painting my Termagaunts and Tyranid Prime. I am happy with the result of my paintjob, but after seeing all the cool schemes on here, I kind of regret not taking my time and broadening my horizon.

Now I'm thinking of maybe including some varriations into my paint scheme for the army. Like giving the bigger bugs brighter carapaces or giving more standout units some more individual schemes. For reference here is how my Prime currently looks like.

Hello! Started my first journey into painting/minis/and warhammer a month or so ago. Wanted to share my first three larger models (first I did a unit of termagants) Definitely room for improvement, but I never thought I could do anything close to this so I’m really happy.

Picture is from 2004 4th ed codex

So many of these nids didn’t exist on the tabletop when this was published, and have since been introduced. let this be the edition for deathgaunts before another 22 years has passed!

So the Leviathan scheme the SM2 developers went with is a bit of a variation on the conventional look, which I think is a bit too purple for the nids to feel menacing. In SM2, the skin is less pink and the carapace segments have a teal underhue that shines through depending on the angle of the lighting. I wanted to replicate some of that.

I'm particularly happy with this scheme because it's the first time I haven't followed a tutorial but just messed around a bit to see where I'd land. It's pretty easy, and fast to do as well.

The method:

Primer: Wraithbone

Skin/Gun: Drybrush with Pallid Wych Flesh, then give it a thin coat of Agrax Earthshade. Done.

Carapace: Two thin coats of Incubi Darkness for proper coverage. Then a thin coat of Magos Purple contrast to darken it. Then cover the rear half of each segment in a Phoenician Purple glaze. Then cover the rear half of the Phoenician Purple in a Screamer Pink glaze. Then draw some quick lines with Dawnstone.

Fleshy parts: A thin layer of Bugman's Glow with a shading of Carroburg Crimson.

Hooves/claws: Abaddon Black with some Khorne Red.

I’m using the model as an example, we know they are a little bit shorter then imperial knights and imperial knights are only 35-40 feet tall, and telephone polls are 35-40feet tall so I figured Norns should be about 28-30 feet tall. Again I’m just comparing a Norn model to my imperial knight models.

Painted my converted Tyranid Prime with a classic scheme, if you want to know all the colors I did write a paint recipe you can find here: https://spacedinosaurminis.blogspot.com/2026/05/how-i-painted-3rd-edition-tyranids.html?m=1

I received this figure as a gift from someone with a bunch of other materials. I have no idea what it is or how it’s supposed to look.

“Reasonably” meaning their odds in battle are at least a coin toss or better.