New Squad

[WarmSoda]

So, my paint came in for Christmas! I spent the day (in between family and food) prepping up a single Genestealer model. I removed molding lines and filled in some of the bad mold lines with green stuff, really treating this model like gold. Anyway, turns out I don't have any primer that works (my chaos doesn't want to spray) so I'm going to have to find some black primer somewhere nearby...

...Which brings me to my plan. I want to do these guy in a traditional-ish Hive Fleet Behemoth theme. With the new VGC set, I'm not sure what colors to use, and I'm not sure what I should do for basing. For basing, I was thinking a desert, mountain or ship interior theme. What do you guys think?

 

[Prophecy07]

Not sure about everyone else, but when I think Genestealer, I think Space Hulk (you can blame my Dark Heresy GM. My buddy almost became a mother...) so one vote for ships interior. Plus, desert is common. To do an entire squad like a ship would really make them pop for me.

 

[WarmSoda]

Just primed and painted the first coat of gorey red on the 'skin'.

I was thinking, as a little bit of a twist, Instead of blending the chitin from black to blue. why not do it from bone-white to blue? (BTW. how should I highlight the skin and what blue should I use for the chitin?)

 

[Tee999]

Can't wait to see pics of the work. I agree with Prophecy07. When I think Genestealers I think of Space Hulk first. The next thing I think of is the Dark Angels Recuitment planet (Plains World) and the story of the Geanstealers infesting it.

Tee

 

[obsidianpainting]

Highlight with brighter reds?

IF that doesn't float your boat, add in a little of a flesh colour. and do edge highlighting type stuff. (or blend) I prefer to really just shade my reds more than highlight them. (check my gallery for my archaon model. you can also search the wip for him, and how i did the cloak)

The blue thing. White to blue is cool. If it's the look your going for then sure! It will come out more pastel blue, like robin eggs blue. Because of the white. But if you blend it right it won't. (Depends on the blending technique).

Cheers, Gary.