This tutorial aims to replicate ThirdEyeNuke's amazing Tyranid paint scheme.

https://taleofpainters.com/2018/05/showcase-tyranid-tyrannofex/

Priming

1. Coat of White Scar to establish a bright base for painting.

Pale White Flesh

1. Apply a coat of Nuln Oil or mix of Black Templar and Contrast Medium to add depth and shadow. Drybrush the model with White Scar to highlight raised details.

Chitin Armor

1. Apply Black Templar Contrast paint over the chitin armor sections to achieve a dark, glossy finish with natural shading. Apply Abaddon Black .
2. Drybrush using any grey or frost blue that you may have. In this case we use Stormvermin Fur for the initial drybrush, followed by Skavenblight Dinge - after that apply light drybrush of Fenrisian Grey and to finish, drybrush Blue Horror

Bloody Area

1. Apply Reikland Fleshshade to the area that we want to highlight. Once dried, apply Reikland Fleshshade again liberally - the messier the better.
2. Drybrush True Blood onto the dried area that we applied Reikland Fleshshade to. This will make the area a bit brigther and looks fleshy.
3. Stipple True Blood on to the area liberally - be careful not to overdoit. After this step, we lightly stipple to select area using Dry Blood .

Finishing touch

1. We apply Seraphim Sepia to the joints, any creases and also any point of interest.
2. Apply Volupus Pink to the mouth or any exposed internal organs or area. Finish with a glaze of Magos Purple once Volupus Pink has dried as required.