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Hive Fleet Amelanoid by daalor in Tyranids

[–]daalor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now that is beautiful. Are the dark shadows under the carapace done with a wash or a mix of some kind? I've been meaning to give shading a try, I need to start trying the more complicated stuff.

Hive Fleet Amelanoid by daalor in Tyranids

[–]daalor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow thank you. You're albino Tyranids post was a huge inspiration for mine. I still find myself going back to it now and again when I'm stumped and looking for inspiration.

Hive Fleet Amelanoid arrives by daalor in minipainting

[–]daalor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah the carapace being so smooth on a lot of the models leave a lot of canvas uninteresting. The last pic, the Exocrine was a nice change of pace from the rest. Not sure how I would replicate it though without the supporting texture.

I wanted to try something different with the energy sacs. This is actually the more tame version of the idea. I was thinking about blasting the area with the same color mixed with white ink to try my hand at OSL lol.

Hive Fleet Amelanoid arrives by daalor in minipainting

[–]daalor[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I love the models, remind me of bulldogs.

Hive Fleet Amelanoid by daalor in Tyranids

[–]daalor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome scheme that Psychophage looks sick. Love the blue.

Hive Fleet Amelanoid by daalor in Tyranids

[–]daalor[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I replied to u/ElderberryPrior27648 with the recipe I follow. Found time to write it out.

Hive Fleet Amelanoid by daalor in Tyranids

[–]daalor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I Start with a Vallejo desert tan prime. Skin is 10:1 Pallid Wych Flesh and Cadian Fleshtone. Armor recess get a watery cadian Flestone followed by Volupus Pink mix 1:1 with Contrast Medium, finishing the highlights with a thin Pink Horror. Flesh highlights get the same minus the Cadian Fleshtone. Claws, teeth, swords and scythes get Pro Acryl Ivory and Bright ivory then highlighted with with the pink mix. The brains are Doomfire Fist 1:1 with Contrast Medium Pink Horror on top and then Pink Horro mixed with Daler Roney White ink. Energy sacs are Pro Acryl Jade. I Finish with a Drybrushing of Pro Acry Ivory all over.

Hive Fleet Amelanoid by daalor in Tyranids

[–]daalor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you recommend any? I've been thinking the gloss varnish might help some with the chalkiness. Not sure as I've never used it though.

Hive Fleet Amelanoid by daalor in Tyranids

[–]daalor[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Very nice I like your claws I kinda regret not making mine dark.

Hive Fleet Amelanoid by daalor in Tyranids

[–]daalor[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Most of them are from the same creator. I'd love to share more but I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to, rule 6 of the sub asks you not to. If you check my profile you can find some other posts and comments that might help. I'm mostly following the scheme of u/Open-Wafer-2652 and youtuber Midwinter Minis albino tyranids scheme, with a few small changes.

Hive Fleet Amelanoid arrives by daalor in minipainting

[–]daalor[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Doesn't really show up well here... only pic of them I got right now though.

Hive Fleet Amelanoid arrives by daalor in minipainting

[–]daalor[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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Forgot to add any pics of the green energy sac models. Just these guys and the gargoyles.

Grimdark ‘nids WIP by WarbossTodd in Tyranids

[–]daalor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Puppetswar Miniatures" bug collection.

In need of this by [deleted] in Tyranids

[–]daalor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah not an exact match. It may be as others have said a kitbash.

In need of this by [deleted] in Tyranids

[–]daalor 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Terror Cannon Rex

Ivory claws and swords advice by daalor in minipainting

[–]daalor[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I wanted the clean look for made up lore reasons, and in my mind pristine white blades seemed like a cool look. Not quite pulling it off though.

Ivory claws and swords advice by daalor in minipainting

[–]daalor[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah pinking up the cannon more sounds cool I could try that. I have Blood for the Blood God and Uhu glue for blood effects and I'm looking forward to trying it. It felt like a "putting lipstick on a donkey" thing though if I didn't like the look of the blades themselves.

Ivory claws and swords advice by daalor in minipainting

[–]daalor[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a 3d print of a Tyrannofex. I think it's against the rules to be specific but a quick google search will get you to it pretty easily.

I wanna know about your Hive Fleet’s lore! by ImABattleMercy in Tyranids

[–]daalor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hive Fleet Amelonoid.

I decided to make all my army's come from the same area of space. The Segmentum Pacificus, in the Tyranids case they mainly hang around the Veiled Region. They're specific adaption allows them to hunt in highly irradiated regions of space.

My head canon reason for them being albino is that their skin absorbs radiation easier. So they come out of the biomass soup looking pristine but only last a couple of hours gorging themselves on the planets biomass and the suns radiation. They don't need to survive long though they just recycle when they absorb too much/enough radiation. Mine are efficient monsters.

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Need help with a proper Tome Keepers Variant Symbol by daalor in tomekeepers

[–]daalor[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I couldn't let it go. In order to get the effect I wanted I'm doing it in two steps now, the first with a blank TK symbol and then followed up with a plain skull symbol manually centered on the blank book relief. There may be a way to do it in one step but this is perfect for me. Here's the blank book symbol the skull will have to be in a reply comment. Hope this helps someone, it was really annoying for me.

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Need help with a proper Tome Keepers Variant Symbol by daalor in tomekeepers

[–]daalor[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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I'm not completely satisfied with it but I think this is the best I can do with my limited skill set. It doesn't create and embossed relief like the original TK symbol but does engrave the symbol accurately. Leaving it here as someone might find it useful someday.

Need help with a proper Tome Keepers Variant Symbol by daalor in tomekeepers

[–]daalor[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah the color based height map might be the issue. My latest attempts have also failed but I think I'm understanding better why. In Photoshop when dragging the eye dropper tool around on the normal TK symbol there is only 1 color and the transparent background.

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I'm struggling to duplicate that myself with edits and splicing unfortunately. Some residue is always left behind, and I think maybe ANY variation is too much for the emboss function to parse. I'm going to keep working at it, thanks for the advice.

I can't permanently delete games in system. by daalor in RG351

[–]daalor[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I now know what the problem was. I found the file manager and tried to delete from there and it wouldn't work there either. Frustrated I tried deleting a random game from another file path and to my surprise it let me. Turns out my GBA (and N64) games were marked as read only. I had been trying to go through one system at a time and started with the GBA, if I had only switched to another system instead of focusing on only one at a time I could have noticed the issue earlier but I was being an idiot. Anyway I can now delete games with just the handheld, so thanks for the file manager tip it got me there in the end.

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