Tyranid Lictor WIP

[Tin-Bucket]

Hello everyone. Once again here with another mini.
I would like to get some C&C on its skin and a few suggestions how to move on with the carapace. I like the blue as a base colour of the carapace but I am stuck as to how I should move along with it.
I am pretty happy with the way the skin has turned out, yet I feel I might need to add further higlights and shadows.. base colour was a mix of dwarf flesh and leather brown with progressing highlights of the original mixture with added elf skintone and a thinned flesh wash. what do you think on that? I need to touch up some places but I will do this further..
It is going to be based on a scenic base.. I haven't add everything I want on the base, possibly there is going to be a little stream runnin on the bottom... I am still stuck whether this is going to be a an alien looking stream green coloured etc or just muddy water...

 

[Avelorn]

Well there are many ways to move from here I think. Right now in this state I think the colours are good separately but not really complementing each other. Myself I'd probably change the colour of the carapace to a very dark deep blackbrown and add some final highlights to the skin. That would lead to a pretty subtle and natural looking colourscheme. Another way entirely would be to go for a much more saturated purple on the carapace for further highlights and add highlights all the way towards white on the skin, a variant of the 'Eavy Metal colourscheme. These were the two ideas I had from the top of my head. As for the stream on the base, decide once the miniature is done and have the colour complement the miniature.

 

[Tin-Bucket]

thank you for your comments. I have moved on a bit on this WIP. I need to get on with the highlights of this a bit further. I have decided to get on with a green coloursed swampy stream.

 

[BPI]

Hi Tin-Bucket, the base looks to be going well, nice one.

More highlighting yes but I think there's room for more shading too, particularly the red bits. Are you going to highlight the orange up through yellow, or go for a peachier effect? Dwarf & Elf Flesh in the mix?

Keep up the good work :good:

Cheers, B.

 

[Tin-Bucket]

I am going to keep this in the fleshy tones. I would like it to have an organic feel. Hard thing is to try and keep a balance of the whole thing.
Cheers,
nestor