Games Workshop Painting Tutorial: How To Paint A Tyranid Termagant
November 13, 2014 by brennon
Another painting tutorial for you today popped up from Games Workshop where Duncan Rhodes is taking you through How to Paint a Tyranid Termagant in the style of Hive Fleet Behemoth...
A pretty awesome technique for painting a whole bunch of Tyranids in one go. It's certainly one of the coolest ways to get your Hive Fleet done and I like the dark and deadly look of Behemoth!
What do you think?
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He keeps says “his” but I was under the impression that ‘nids don’t have gender? Maybe he will be painting a female hormagaunt next?
So far as I know most ‘Nids are ungendered in the lore. Norn Queens, Dominatrixes, and Tervigons are female. I think Hive Tyrants are male, and I remember that in their unit entry it is mentioned that Hormagaunts can lay eggs beneath a world’s surface that rapidly gestate and hatch to help maintian their numbers, which makes them either female, functionaly hemaphroditic, or some more alien equivalent. Genestealers take a leaf out of the Xenomorph’s book when it comes to reproduction, corrupting their victim’s genetics to propagate intermediate hybrid stages between their own morphology and that of their victim that… Read more »
Since they are basically insects? most of the soldiers will technically be female.
Of course there are female nids, who do you think sends them to work…
A very simple neat paint scheme that looks startling when finished.
as i said somewhere else…. this is NOT a good tutorial for beginners!
why?
it presumes an average steady hand wich you don’t usually posses if you are a newbie…