Love the coconut crab pattern it’s so organic looking. Probably the most eye catching Tyranids I’ve ever see.

@warface4881

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it looks fantastic.

Loving the consistent content on Tyranids.

What can I say other than thank you? I started miniature painting around half a year ago and these videos have been such an inspiration that I just got two boxes of tyranids to make my own color scheme based on this "NPS" method. Thanks a lot, catgut, keep going!

I really appreciate your work, not just your excellent painting skills, but your succinct delivery. Top notch stuff.

The best tyranid painting channel by far

I started 40k 25 years ago, and always wanted a Tyranid army. Last Christmas I got the Tyranid starter box and finally got round to building the models and started thinking about a scheme, and I'm so glad I found your video. Now I'm off to look through the interwebs for some inspiration, thanks for a great video, and you have painted some fine Tyranid schemes there.

@CatgutPainting

4 жыл бұрын

So glad to hear that! If you post anything to social media, I'd be interested to see what you come up with.

I miss those variations that Forge World brought out of the Hive Tyrant, they were so badass... those models remind me of the 3rd Edition Codex cover, which is the best Tyranid artwork ever.

Saw your nids on reddit the other day and thought to myself: "this guy needs to make a tutorial" and now look at that, its as high in quality as your minis. I dont even play nids, but it was interresting to watch nonetheless. Thank you, have a great time :)

Excellent tutorial! You have a talent for clarity and structure.

Thank goodness the KZread algorithm showed me your channel, your paint schemes are incredible and your effort to make these high quality, complex looking nid schemes is greatly appreciated! Thank you for all the help so far and keep up the great work :)

This is great stuff! I'm really impressed with how much you can do just with a couple layers of wash.

I seriously appreciate and love your videos. Found you on Facebook and I’m following you on all your platforms! Keep up the great work

This is a ridiculously good video, and such a great timing for it too. I'm just about to start building my Tyranid army and I'm planning to have my own colour scheme for it, this video will help so much with it. Thank you!

Great video! Love the focus on designing a custom scheme. A lot of tutorials out there show you how to paint certain schemes and the painting techniques, but you focused on the conception stage. I like the examples of animals to draw inspiration from.

That coconut-crab looks amazing! Thanks for sharing the NPS method, it sounds logical!

This has got me amped for when the leviathan box comes out. The guilliman to crimson to screaming skull to wraithbone is awesome. Might change the carapace but man thats cool

Thank you so much, videos like this help out new hobbyists and veterans looking to branch out alike.

Heck ya! Thanks for this and I almost started a Tyranids army because of you. And HOLY SHIT your big models are gorgeous

Such a great tutorial! I’d already been thinking about using real-world animals - specifically, orchid mantises - but it didn’t really hit me how important patterning is for minis! I’ve always thought the studio schemes were missing something and I think that patterning nails it on the head! I’ll have to give this process a shot.

Really good and detailed tutorial, well done and thanks!

Great video and looking forward to what comes next

This guy's tutorials are unique af.

That earned a sub. Nice ideas and well presented.

What I like about your NPS method, and your recent videos, is that it applies to more than just Tyranids. You can use these same methods (tweaked slightly) for just about any army period.

Amazingly helpful...thanks!

Damn!! I wish a tutorial with these beautiful colour variations would exist before I had started my actually colour scheme 😥. Thank you very much for this informative and very good described methods. Sorry for my bad english Regards

This was an awesome video, thanks a bunch.

Thanks! I tried pattern-painting Tyranids without researching and it turned out terrible! Saw this video and after applying some of your advice, I've had much better results!

Thank you so much for this video. Although you are covering tyranids I would go so far as to say that the concepts apply to all miniatures. My favorite thing is that you are basing it on real world examples for inspiration. Marco Frisoni says (paraphrased) If you base your paining style on a miniature it can never be more than a less than copy of a miniature where as when you base it off of a picture or artwork it will stand on its own as a miniature. Your work exemplifies this well.

With the new Leviathan boxset. Its nice to find your content.

Thank you for making paint content for Tyranids! I mean space marines are cool and all but it's nice to see somebody do interesting patterns and color schemes for a race like Tyranids. Not only that but also make easily digestible in video format. Again thank you! Also out of curiosity, how did you do the tails on the larger models? That rattle snake/ spine tail looks sick!

@CatgutPainting

4 жыл бұрын

The tail on the old Forge World Hive Tyrant is the unmodified sculpt, painted the same way as the rest of the exoskeleton (so just two washes).

I just picked up a Tyranid combat patrol today and this has helped so much with figuring out what scheme I was going to use. I think ill go with a Blue monarch Butterfly scheme.

I'd love to see a compilation of how other people have adapted this approach!

really cool video!

I would love to see your take on other armies!

Fantastique !!! Merci 🙏

incredible man, great content :)

Im gonna be honest, that coconut pattern looks so fucking good and its so cleanly painted it looks like printed on

excellent stuff!!

your schemes are beautiful.

Your Tyranids are amazing

Nice dude

I would love to see you paint more complex creatures.

Thank you very much for this, I think I am going to build a Tyranid Kill team later down the line as my fourth team (as I have a space hulk game that has sat on my shelf since 2015 with no paint on anything and the Genestealers in it can be used for Kill team so I would only need to buy some Warriors and some Gaunts to have all the allowable models for Kill Team

Please don't stop creating content. Ever.

Hi. Since this is the first of your videos that I've stumbled upon: Do you have more which are this abstract? I can learn all about applying paint on other channels, but *this* is something new to me.

Love your videos! Do you think you could do an imperial guard video?

The coconut sheme reminds me of the peadot patter pn i used for marines and that i wanna use for my tau combat patrol

Subbed!

that big guy looks so badass

I think I'm going to base my Tyranid hive fleet on the Shin-Gojira scheme. :D

I can confirm...although not exactly like yours. Using your coconut crab scheme..my hive tyrant looks like hes about to win golden demon. Good work

You know what? Thank you for all the work you‘ve put into tyranids. It‘s a shame that - despite your undeniably huge influence you‘ve had on the scene, your channel has comparatively few viewers, and by far too little attention.

Would love to see if you could figure out an arachnid scheme from starship troopers for the tyranids.

I can't wait to see your next one. I'm kind of leaning on using something like your scorpion color scheme but with the plates done in a different color than the body. Any recommendations for other colors I could add?

@CatgutPainting

4 жыл бұрын

It would depend entirely on what sort of effect you want to go for- keep it subdued, or add a splash of color? The best thing is to find something IRL that inspires you; it makes the creative process much easier.

@Whitewing89

4 жыл бұрын

@@CatgutPainting maybe browns and blacks. I do like the idea of using the spot patterning like what you did on the mantis shrimp. I like the idea of using shades, glazes and washes to do the lion's share of the work. Hmm.

@CatgutPainting

4 жыл бұрын

@@Whitewing89 You could start with a medium brown and do the spot highlighting up to white, then follow the dune devil scorpion tutorial from there onward. That'd give you an earthy, somewhat roach-like look.

@Whitewing89

4 жыл бұрын

@@CatgutPainting So white by the edge of the plates?

@Whitewing89

4 жыл бұрын

@@CatgutPainting Yeah i think i like that.

I wanted to use the official hivefleet Hydra color scheme but you opened my eyes. I dont want to replicate the coconut crab pattern ( the temptation is real tho) but now i have to find my own killed pattern for the cannibal fleet.

@CatgutPainting

4 жыл бұрын

How about using the Hydra colors with whatever pattern you like best? Blue with black patterning and some purple details would be a solid look.

@michaelgimenez4032

4 жыл бұрын

@@CatgutPainting I was kinda going for these colors because the official Hydra theme is around these but that dirty pink or turned cream shade for the exoskeleton simply turns my stomach. You did knock off a few walls there and now the possibilities are very, very interesting.

After the following sample scheme what are your plans for future videos? Glad you've been getting the subs, long may it continue!

@CatgutPainting

4 жыл бұрын

One or two more samples going through this process, then getting into all the non-Tyranid-scheme content I have planned- mostly shortcut techniques and tricks (that will work on most models, not just Tyranids), along with magnetization.

@Nortic111

4 жыл бұрын

@@CatgutPainting Fantastic, looking forward to it.

I love the green one it reminds me of Perfect Cell from DBZ

Can you make a video where you try contrast paints for washing a custom tyrand scheme?

Now I want to dump my 'ghost' theme and do the Crab style... Aaaaaa, all the decisions! :D Great job. On painting and tutorial! Thank you!

CRABS!

Im doing macragge blue carrapace and naggaroth night body, im thinking now what patterns should i paint on his carrapace

Hey there, first of all great explenation and beautiful painting. And second i've got a question. I have old tyranid models (not that great painted) and now I am thinking to re -paint them all. Is there a way to get rid of the old color, without damaging the model ?

@CatgutPainting

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely- do a google search for '40k paint stripping' and you'll find lots of methods.

@5Guildwars5

4 жыл бұрын

@@CatgutPainting thx for the quick response. All I could find so far was a florcleaner which is working fine on most of the paint but is sadly not working on every paint even though it's all citadel paint.

@CatgutPainting

4 жыл бұрын

@@5Guildwars5 You should be able to find either isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol) or denatured alcohol (methylated spirits) most anywhere. Those will remove the paint pretty well without harming the plastic.

@5Guildwars5

4 жыл бұрын

@@CatgutPainting I will have a look at these thx 👍🏻 u are awesome 💪🏻

@0AbsolutZero0

4 жыл бұрын

@@5Guildwars5 SuperClean (purple bottle) shreds paint off of minis without damaging the plastic. It can undo thin, weak plastic glue bonds though so you may have to reglue small dangly bits

Is there a color wheel sample or diagram that also demonstrates the color scheme selection?

Is it possible to do a similar scheme but with citadel paints?

I seriously wanna get into this (with tyranids as my army), but I just don't have the time or money for it

hey... with a 3d printer, it's possible to print an army right?

Its all fun and games until you realise you have to paint 200 of em Nids in that sceme...

would using gws contrast paint give you the same results as the inks/washes you used?

@CatgutPainting

4 жыл бұрын

Not quite the same, but reasonably close. The custom mixes I use for the all-over wash provide a bit better shading and faux-highlighting, but Contrast can sub in directly for all the other washes without issue.

How did you do the wings on the coconut crab scheme?

@CatgutPainting

4 жыл бұрын

I wash it the same as the 'fleshy bits' (one layer Red Tone, two layers of the exoskeleton mix), but before washing I traced veins (just simple lines) with VMC Brown Rose.

You should have shown pics of the thirty different test schemes

ever since I first saw this vid I've grabbed a box of niddies here and there and painted them all a different way experimentally, I don't even play 'nids... maybe I should play 'nids

Next time on the channel - 'nids with cutie marks!

I Miss the old hive tyrant

2:06 love this dude pretending to be a tyranid SO CUTE

Where did you get the head on your Hive Tyrant?

@CatgutPainting

4 жыл бұрын

The model is an unmodified, out-of-production Forge World Hive Tyrant.

Your white is so white. Mine needs multiple coats. So I can't seem to do the dot efficiently.

Anyone knows a coop looking predominantly purple animal?

Hiya, How do you bend the rails of the gaunts

@CatgutPainting

4 жыл бұрын

Boiling water and brute force- dunk in hot water for a few seconds, then bend with fingers.

@Pierre845

4 жыл бұрын

@@CatgutPainting is it best to do before painting?

@CatgutPainting

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely; the paint might crack if it's done after painting. Small bends might be okay, but I wouldn't risk it.

No 2 of any of the dozens of Tyranids in my army have the same paint scheme…

what was the nid in 8:09?

@CatgutPainting

4 жыл бұрын

OOP Forge World Hive Tyrant.

someone make a damn generator for this.

How do you transfer the paint schemes from the small guys to the big guys ? I find when trying to use wash on the bigger models it comes out very blotchy.

@CatgutPainting

4 жыл бұрын

Are you using one of the mixes I detail in this video? I find that the addition of the mixing medium + water helps the washes flow very nicely. You can see an example on a larger model at the 8:03 mark.

@darkzentai7417

4 жыл бұрын

CatgutPainting I’ve only ever added medium to wash never water I’ll give it a go thank you

Where the F**K where you 2000 points ago?!

boring, repetetive? have they ever painted CSM?

Gteat painting, but dude....take some time to clean up the mold lines on your figures.

Ugh...I don't care if the studio used "interesting patterns" to break up the monotony of the schemes in the 3rd edition codex. The models from that era - e.g. the wannabe Alien look - were HORRIBLE. Teeny tiny legs, goofy smiles, and big giant heads that tipped over constantly. Forgeworld hasn't even had the decency to pay the Tyranids a visit in 10 years as they still use that awful aesthetic. One of the reasons why Tyranid schemes are often boring is because a lot of the models are boring (and old - Termagants and Hormagaunts are from 3rd edition), and there are no mechanical parts to breakup the organic parts. I'm not saying they should suddenly become part bionic, but they could definitely use some new troops models. To top it all off, they are all on bases far too small for their footprint. Genestealers on a 25mm?? They take up twice the space of a Space Marine!!! Every other faction has at least been updated to the correct bases. Back on topic... Exoskeleton on chitin is always going to present limited options compared to armor with dynamic edges and curves, connective hydraulics, sharp angles and contrasting textures between gloves and guns and swords, squad/company/faction markings, etc. The new Primaris Marines are a painter's dream, for example, whereas Tyranids are not. It takes an extraordinary effort to make them look good.

@TheWonkster

7 ай бұрын

Tyranids largely look great and are one of the most visually interesting armies in the game. The variety of monsters and unique designs while still maintaining design cohesion is far beyond most other armies, especially any marine faction where you're lucky to have anything that isn't just an astarties with some shit glued onto him and no/a barely modified helmet. A nid army will feature a scattering of gaunts, of course, but I honestly fear for your mental health if you can look at an average nid table and say they all look the same unless your opponent just speedpainted them an hour before you played.

Meanwhile here I am with my Rustoleum going brrrrrrrt.

Saw your nids on reddit the other day and thought to myself: "this guy needs to make a tutorial" and now look at that, its as high in quality as your minis. I dont even play nids, but it was interresting to watch nonetheless. Thank you, have a great time :)