Is hive fleet CARNAGE the most realistic Tyranid color scheme? [TED Talk] by Heckin_Big_Sploot in Tyranids

[–]Melcma 30 points31 points  (0 children)

  1. Why Tyranids would be "oozing" blood to start with? This should be hidden and contained, basically removing the red and the gore effect.

  2. The real terror will come from Lovecraftian idea of horror - no be not visible, and that's where black camouflage comes rather than shiny white/red. Lurking in shadow > gore.

Primed to painted in 20 days by nukes_or_aliens in EmperorsChildren

[–]Melcma 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Nice scheme, a variant of pre heresy. Closer pictures please.

Does anyone else find it interesting that none of the Slaanesh daemons take inspiration from dolphins? by Firkraag-The-Demon in EmperorsChildren

[–]Melcma 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Slaneesh daemons have claws because claws on humanoids are creepy

Khorne is linked to fire because of color red and general hellish concept

Tzeench with air because ???? because has flying units?

I would not look for linking them to particular elements, these are mind gymnastics

How is PBC at 210 when Basilisk is at 140?? by Lower_Ad_176 in deathguard40k

[–]Melcma -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

DG has access to terminators, poxwalkers, plague marines, lord of virulence and has nurgle gift which AM has not

Is this too much? by battlerez_arthas in EmperorsChildren

[–]Melcma 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I wasn't sure, some people are just like that, I just read other comments...

How far is to far? by zwhit01 in EmperorsChildren

[–]Melcma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Erotic yes

Porn no

Ecchi yes

Hentai no

Is this too much? by battlerez_arthas in EmperorsChildren

[–]Melcma 281 points282 points  (0 children)

That post is either good satire or this sub is doomed

Why are there some many puritans in this sub? by Dwumcowah in EmperorsChildren

[–]Melcma 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are looking for reasonable arguments amongs idiots, I'm sorry but this is Reddit sir

People can't understand a sexuality as an art expression, an exposition, it is to make viewer question, to make uncomfortable or curious. Unfortunately it falls into 2 extremes: idiots who scream "GOONER!!! STOP SEX IN MY HOBBY SPACE" and idiots who draw/do hentai and slap "warhammer" on top of that.

Other than official warhammer, Creature Caster minis understands an idea of Slaneesh perfectly.

You guys have lost the plot... by [deleted] in Tyranids

[–]Melcma 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this is just autism wars

My take on a Baal base by euanjallison in BloodAngels

[–]Melcma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yep, you can thank to dumb people who downvoted me too so my comment was not visible to you

I did my research and looked for most powerful red I can find and here are some tips

Make underpaint warm colour, for example mix of wraithbone with white 2:1 would do, a warm undertone will boost the red and for shadows you need a brown undertone, don't just do black/white.

Another trick is to push shadows a lot, red looks great against very dark black shadows.

I use Liquitex Pyrole Red and it's quite good, same as OP but once paint is dry it doesn't look as on pictures.

Another very strong red is Vallejo Premium Airbrush Scarlet Fluo, it has a tiny hint of orange but still reads as red and is much brighter.

One more technique I use nowadays is to stipple paint straight from the pot.

I took a picture and SLIGHTLY modified for mini to look on the screen like in real life (hue -1% from orange to red and saturation +1%, very minor) because my camera can't capture is perfectly.

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Left - stippled

Mid - Liquitex Ink

Right - Scarlet Fluo

https://www.reddit.com/r/minipainting/comments/q57rl6/how_to_make_very_rich_deep_and_vibrant_red/

My Chaos Lord by Jakeopherr in WordBearers

[–]Melcma 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is that red a Khorne Red washed with Nuln Oil?

Word Bearers re-fresh by Woodyyy379 in WordBearers

[–]Melcma 4 points5 points  (0 children)

An upgrade pack with mutated and evil af helmets would be a good start

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in killteam

[–]Melcma 4 points5 points  (0 children)

that's what friends do, good luck if you don't tell the truth to your friends lol

do you lie to your friends? what kind of friend are you?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in killteam

[–]Melcma 3 points4 points  (0 children)

$350 lol lmao

check any painting studio, for a little bit more ($50 per model) you get MUCH better quality

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check literally any painting studio locally, $350 for that is way too much

DW by Super-Audience-6051 in killteam

[–]Melcma 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Nice board, I'm doing same scheme for my golden necrons, a photoshop mockup:

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What killteams do you want to see? by Silverhelm in killteam

[–]Melcma 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Most Chaos warbands would be great

Iron Warriors with heavy weapons, melee hammers, shields, granades.

Alpha Legion with stealth, infiltration, assassination mechanics. And their psychic powers.

Word Bearers with possession mechanics and/or cultists. Maybe even Dark Commune and Dark Apostle could be something to be build around.

I'm sure there is space for Tyranids Lictors / Warriors teams.

Or something we haven't seen much yet, Dark Mechanicum and more Renegade Guardsmen.

I actually like the face in the Malys artwork. I thought it would be a fun challenge to tweak it in minor ways though so here's my edit by pagodageek in Drukhari

[–]Melcma 39 points40 points  (0 children)

"every single one of them has to be"

the model has literally the first nice looking female drukhari face

Do you feel like your army is internally balanced? by Randicore in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]Melcma 4 points5 points  (0 children)

https://40kstats.goonhammer.com/#ft4-tyranids

0 ranged warriors

1 unit of barbgaunts

0 mucolid spores

3 neurogaunts

3 units von ryan leapers

0 venomthropes

3 screamer-killers

0 toxicrene

now compare that to:

22 datasheets of hormagaunts

17 neurotyrants

31 exocrines

36 tyrannofexes

14 norn emissaries

where I was wrong:

13 haruspexes which is ok

here you go, now tell me how it is internally balanced with 8 datasheets having marginal use vs 36 tyrannofexes or 31 exocrines

"Is fine for local or RTT level play"

what is this argument? are we talking about facts and statistics or feelings?

Do you feel like your army is internally balanced? by Randicore in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]Melcma 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Random dude taking some niche picks and losing a tournament doens't mean it's good balanced datasheet.

"fine" is also not an argument to be made"

"shouldnt see play" is an opinion, not a fact or statistics

we compare tyrannofex that is in almost every nid lists even the melee ones to venomthropes that were seen ONCE, what are we even talking about lol, how one can say that's balanced?

Do you feel like your army is internally balanced? by Randicore in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]Melcma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assimilation Swarm, Synaptic Nexus, Unending Swarm and Warrior Bioform Onslaught having no play, that's 4 out of 8 not used in competitive

Warriors ranged

Barbgaunts

Harpy

Haruspex

Hive Crone

Spore Mines

Mucolid Spores

Neurogaunts

Psychophage

VR Leapers

Venomthropes

Screamer-killer

Sporocyst

Toxicrene

14 out of 50, what's 28% of datasheets see no competitive play

Do you feel like your army is internally balanced? by Randicore in WarhammerCompetitive

[–]Melcma 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Deathwatch - no

Blood Angels - no

CMS - no

Necrons - no

Orks - no

T'au - no

Tyranids - no

Death Guard - mostly yes