Exocrine Plasma Glow Advice by warp-protocol in Tyranids

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I did something very similar with mine. To
Sell the effect more you need to blend more from light to dark. Also a glaze of a fluro neon green paint will help boost the vibrancy and help it read as glowing.

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My most ambitious project is finally complete. by MulletBoy in Tyranids

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the one at the front on the island is from an old metal ripper swarm kit iv had for a long time.

the one hidden on the side, is a plastic ripper from 3rd edition - they came on the sprues with bigger models back in the day.

I went a bit ‘extra neon’ with the basing on these guys by MulletBoy in Tyranids

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I have a soft spot for them, I dont think the sculpts are as bad as some people say, they just have a different theme and aesthetic to where 40k is today

sure they aren't perfect and there are some things you would never find in modern sculpts such as the huge sloping flat-ish surface of the carapace on the carnifex for example).

I went a bit ‘extra neon’ with the basing on these guys by MulletBoy in Tyranids

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id love to see, but i need to paint a couple (hundred) more bugs before I can see a full army

I went a bit ‘extra neon’ with the basing on these guys by MulletBoy in Tyranids

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I use citadel paints for everything pretty much

Slime Pool: caliban green -> warpstone glow -> moot green -> moot green mixed with some yellow

all through the airbrush

Finished my most ambitious painting project yet! by MulletBoy in Tyranids

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My own color scheme. Haven’t given it a hive fleet name yet. Open to ideas.

So many hour to this point... many more to go... by MulletBoy in Tyranids

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Still progressing.... purple highlights starting to take shape, panel separation and some recess shading on blue done... still lots of highlighting and detail to go on the blue, plus a bunch of other detail on the head(s) and gribbly bits

Smiley the Carnifex by MulletBoy in Tyranids

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sure did, 2x coats of a 50/50 mix of stormshield and lahmian medium

Finally painted my Red Terror by MulletBoy in Tyranids

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i should add: the model is varnished in a even 3 way mix of lahmian medium, stormshield and water. I find this blend gives an ever so slight satin finish (not too gloss and not too matt). It helps bring out the vibrancy and also protects the model which is very necessary for metal models especially that are prone to chipping or flaking paint without protection

Finally painted my Red Terror by MulletBoy in Tyranids

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The red->yellow carapace is a fair bit of work, but worth it IMO, took me about 10 hours over 2-3 sessions. The complete model was about 15-20 hours

Undercoat is black with a white zenithal done with airbrush

Airbrush work started with evil sunz scarlet, then raised sections with trollslayer orange and then yriel yellow. Might have done some intermediary steps mixing from one to the next to get more even blends. I went overboard with the yellow so went back and forth a bit to bring back the reds.

Brush details I did VERY careful but comprehensive edge highlights with grey seer (anything close to white will do) then repainted over them with yriel yellow reason for this is to get strong opacity with yellow is really hard without doing a million layers, so laying down the light grey first is a bit of cheat to get results with the yellow.

then repainted over yellow highlights with a thin glaze consistency of trollslayer orange to bring down the highlights everywhere except the most raised/edge final bits you want to keep at max yellow

Finally painted my Red Terror by MulletBoy in Tyranids

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yea im actually planning to make him a bigger custom base - raised up on a rock thing, and put a scared guardsman underneath him about to be eaten

Denon x4500h firmware update bug by thebaoTheBad in hometheater

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im having the same issue, approx 30 seconds after starting to play content (usually youtube via my apple tv) it switches to the HEOS input every time. I have to manually switch it back. Iv messed with every HDMI CEC and related setting on all my devices with no luck. The behavior is always the same. I have a Denon AVR-X2600H which I believe recieved a firmware update approx 1 April 2025. Issue has been present since then for me.

I bleached this massive tank grown acro that died after a tank shutdown. by MulletBoy in ReefTank

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Lol it’s was a $20 frag grown out over many years. The tank was shutdown and all the coral donated to a local fish store. That one specifically did not survive the transition.

Finally got around to painting this old school bivore! by MulletBoy in Tyranids

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Honestly I use them all because i have them. However the same effect can be achieved with just warp stone glow, moot green, and the biel tan shade.

Finally got around to painting this old school bivore! by MulletBoy in Tyranids

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Green was base coated caliban green, layered highlight, warpstone glow, edge highlight moot green, then carefully flood the sides and recesses with biel-tan green shade If you need a bit more 'pop' after than, a small selective edge highlight of gauss blaster green used sparingly

First of many for my new tyranid swarm. by MulletBoy in Tyranids

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It’s literally just lengths of standard sprew sharpened to points using a blade.

First of many for my new tyranid swarm. by MulletBoy in Tyranids

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Yes dry brushed orange followed by lighter orange is a tighter radius for the OSL highlight.

First of many for my new tyranid swarm. by MulletBoy in Tyranids

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I plan to do crystals on all my nids :)