How to Paint Tyranids: Hive Fleet Leviathan

[@alderonsabbet7217]

Dude this is by far the best version of this miniature I have seen.

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you very much mate, I appreciate it

[@nilsjager2209]

After 20 years i started this painting thing again now a month ago and i never thought i could get at least somehow close to something like this. But i look at my first termagant now. Wow!!! I have to leave a big "Thank You!!!" Your tutorial helped me so much on improving my painting. Your content is amazing!

[@jwminiatures]

Welcome back to the hobby! Thank you mate, I'm glad you found the video helpful. Appreciate the kind words!

[@Birkenhead.Raver_YNWA]

25 years out for me too and the quality of my painting has shocked me. Either that or it might be I was a kid last time I was into 40k 😂😂😂 ...

[@philimanilie9293]

I don't have any scale 75 around. Any idea what an equivalent would be in Citadel/Vallejo/reaper?

[@jwminiatures]

My best guess is Kislev Flesh from Citadel, it might be a wee bit darker but you will be highlighting it up so should be fine.

[@philimanilie9293]

@@jwminiatures thank you brother! Love your work

[@jwminiatures]

@@philimanilie9293 No worries mate, looking forward to seeing how you get on with this scheme!

[@bensontam]

Imagine to paint 100x of these units....

[@mrhaast5053]

My Leviathan box arrived today and this is definitely the method I'm going to try for my Leviathan nids. Love the results of your method and the approach you take.

[@jwminiatures]

Well jealous, two days early. Thank you mate, I'm looking forward to seeing how yours turn out, share some pics when you are ready

[@pandemic-mi8ib]

Anyone tried dry brushing the Harvester Flesh/Screaming Skull step? For me, that's been the longest/hardest step in the process for me. After 20 termagants, I am starting to wonder if I can keep up this pace through my whole army.

[@jwminiatures]

I haven't tried it but dry brushing these steps would 100% work. The finish will be slightly different but it will get you close enough in less time

[@nathanlamb1601]

Thanks so much for these videos. I really love this colour scheme but there are so many guides/videos that use 100 different paints and I just can't afford to buy that much - especially when some are for a highlight on one small piece of the miniature 😅

[@jwminiatures]

Glad you enjoyed it and found the limited palette helpful!

[@Frosty-ht4ov]

I've started using this paint tutorial on my Leviathan box and it's amazing. I have one question, whens the guide on wings coming out for this scheme?

[@jwminiatures]

Great to hear. How are you getting on with them? Feel free to share some pics. That is a good question. I'll have to see when I get the models built and prepped.

[@tsw11385]

Came here from a reel and I’m like yes 🙌🏻 this is awesome as painting my first nids from the starter box set £40 while not stroke for stroke I’m gonna lift loads of ideas here especially the chitin stripes 👌🏻nice one subbed man

[@jwminiatures]

Welcome in mate, glad you found it helpful. Looking forward to see how you apply these techniques to your nids!

[@OfficialPedroTorrano]

Any equivalent of harvester flesh?

[@jwminiatures]

Yeah I think its somewhere between Kislev Flesh and Flayed One Flesh, this is from the GW swatch on their website

[@bjornredclaws8109]

How many time it take to you to paint it comoletely?

[@jwminiatures]

It probably took me less than 2 hours to paint this model but it can take a wee bit longer than normal when recording all the steps.

[@rthj6446]

How to do this for 60 miniatures.

[@jwminiatures]

If I was doing this for 60 I would batch paint them, do 5 or 10 at a time. Perform the same step across all of them and then proceed to the next step. You might be able to simplify some of the steps to speed up the process but it just depends on the finish you want

[@Void13100]

Maybe my question is obvious, but what undercoat did you use for the figurine? ^^

[@jwminiatures]

I used Vallejo Grey Primer but you could use any grey or white primer for the undercoat

[@Void13100]

Thank you 😊, and really great paint job on this one.

[@kékédesplages-d6d]

I have seen a lot of tutorials about the Leviathan scheme ... and your'e obvioulsy in my top 2 with trovarion minatures if i can use names. Now i need to pick one and it's ... hard. :/ The difference is he uses leviathan contrats for scales. Final result is realy different. And both are great but ... different ... how can i choose ? lol Anyway thanks for sharing your art.

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you very much. I'm probably a bit biased but I think you should pick mine lol. Maybe you could take elements from both and combine them into something new?

[@hamzzey1440]

i like trovarions also,but i find contrasts hard to get as good as he does, im going with this for the carapace. what did you end up going?

[@kékédesplages-d6d]

@@hamzzey1440 Actualy my son asked me to paint his necron army a month ago so ... (i thought he would have picked tyranids, i was wrong) :/ I totaly picked up a necron patern wich i realy love. Basicaly, Szarekhan Dynasty with brass scorp (looks more copper to me with nuln oil), with strips on the head (red for warriors for exemple, to make them look more agressive, and do something like ranks in the army) and basiclay a heavy metal style with edge higlights (battle damages) in canoptek alloy. I may come back later on them to enhance the few battle damages i misses but ... when you just painted 60 necron warriors ... with more than enough table top quality standards ... it's a bit boring at some point to go for something you don't even see on the table. ^^ Going for few necron HQ now. So sorry, i did not start nids. But it's the next army. And yup contrast is a bit too versatile sometimes (it's hard to control). I think that nul oil is easier to control for shading, at least for me. Im' used too it now. It's crazy how ther'e a mini before nul oil and after. it's like vodoo magic to me. Seing the mini coming to life.

[@e-man4967]

You should 100% make these for all the hive fleets! Really enjoyed this one and the Hive Fleet Kraken one.

[@jwminiatures]

Appreciate it mate, I'm glad you enjoyed it. There should be another one soon ;)

[@paulselck1701]

This paint job and scheme are amazing!

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you mate, glad you like it

[@kurtoatway]

What painting handle is that?

[@jwminiatures]

I was using the rathcore miniature holder v3 with a 50mm bow in this video. I usually get mine from elementgames.co.uk/paints-hobby-and-scenery/rathcore?d=10816

[@samhoban2509]

Love the level of contrast in this scheme. Looks great

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you very much, glad you like it!

[@Diggbie]

Was all of this applied straight onto plastic or did you start with a base coat? I am struggling to find the base coat step in your video.

[@jwminiatures]

Maybe I forgot to mention this but I used a grey primer to start the model, specifically Vallejo grey surface primer but any primer will do.

[@Diggbie]

@@jwminiatures cheers matey, great combination of colors, im going to give it a go 😊

[@jwminiatures]

Great to hear, let me know how they turn out!

[@JuanGonzalez-jk4xn]

your videos are top shelf, I love your paint tutorials

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you very much! I'm glad you are enjoying them

[@renetilinski6438]

You really didn`t use a wash in this color scheme?

[@jwminiatures]

Not a single wash but I did use screamer pink like a wash. It was thinned to a wash consistency, so washing is just a technique and can be done with any paint but there are products available to help you do this.

[@renetilinski6438]

@@jwminiatures Thank you! I`m just starting with the whole painting stuff and since I heard and read the word "wash" like everywhere I thought I would ask :D

[@Sparkplug666]

Hey I was wondering what primer did you use? Looks like Greyseer oder white.

[@jwminiatures]

I used Vallejo grey surface primer but really any grey or white primer would work

[@Sparkplug666]

@@jwminiatures Ok a buddy was following your tutorial and thought you didn't prime because he didn't realise it's a different shade of grey. He thought it was a bit different because of the lighting. Maybe add a little text overlay so new painters get a little heads up. Otherwise great tutorial

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you for the feedback, I'll take it on board. Glad you enjoyed it

[@mcschaschlik]

bro thats amazing! you have a new subscriber. love your scheme, but i’m trying to make it work faster, since i cant spend hours on each termagaunt. any recommendations? specifically, which drybrush for the carapace over leviathan purple contrast would you recommend?

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you mate and thank you for the support. I think you could definitely dry brush the skin to speed up the process, there are lot of very well defined and sharp details. If you want to go with something similar to my scheme I would go xereus purple and emperors children over leviathan purple, if you wanted something closer to the box art it would be Genestealer Purple and Administratum Grey

[@leonidaspereirafilho499]

Beautiful, my guy. Simply beautiful. I'll try to use this on my leviathan box. Just help me out, what primer did you use for this?

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you very much. I hope you do try it out and feel free to share some pics of the result. I used vallejo grey surface primer but any grey or white primer would work for this

[@hamzzey1440]

love it, ill probs use wraithbone on mine for a more offwhite to the flesh, but defs doing this on my carapace

[@jwminiatures]

Glad you enjoyed it! I'll be interested to see how they turn out, be sure to share some pics!

[@mroz3]

at last! I have been waiting for this video since you posted pics at reddit!

[@jwminiatures]

Thanks buddy, hope you enjoyed it

[@Itsallover57]

Nice layering technique on the chiton. I don't think it will have the same effect on the actual model though.

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you

[@Jimmy.J.2445]

Might have missed it somewhere but what was the base coat / primer colour. Great video, best one yet I think 👍

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you. I started from a light grey primer, white would also work but I would avoid dark grey or black as it would take too long to build the saturation

[@Raul-od7cx]

Great Works, I love the Cetu Hive Scheme Colour. do you have any advice for it?

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you. I've not tried the scheme myself but I think I would start from a black primer. The carapace is Slaanesh grey with a glaze of Phoenician Purple maybe even into naggaroth night, similar to how I shaded with abaddon black. Then build up the texture with Slaanesh grey and a lighter grey of some sort. The skin would be highlighted with jade/turquoise colours, so Incubi Darkness or Stegadon Scale Green then I would highlight this with the same lighter grey you used on the carapace. For the red tones maybe khorne red and cadian fleshtone. Hope this helps

[@Neiscience]

Liked and subscribed! That nid, looks Amazing!

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you for the sub!

[@zeropointtuben]

Thank you for the vid. Picked up some gants last week!

[@jwminiatures]

Nice one. Feel free to share some pics when you get them painted

[@ThePeckishFox]

"additional...well I think you know" snort laughed at that! Fleshy nids are great!

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you mate

[@windmillsofhatred]

Sick 🤘

[@jwminiatures]

Cheers buddy

[@The_Foil]

I'm still waiting for my leviathan box to arrive but I'm going to follow this video as a guide, love how it was painted Do the screamer killer or the neuro tyrant next

[@jwminiatures]

Hopefully it arrives soon. The screamer killer is such a nice model, very tempted to start it once I select a scheme

[@TheSuperjort]

Sick mustache

[@jwminiatures]

Hahaha thank you

[@thelonepainter4760]

Fantastic work! 👏👍🏽 Do you varnish at all?

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you mate. There is a coat of matt varnish applied at the end but it’s optional.

[@Jezedeth]

This is the best scheme ive seen so far and ill be using this vid alsongside paintjng them. id love to see more of this

[@jwminiatures]

Brilliant. I look forward to seeing some of yours painted in this scheme!

[@mikemodels928]

Looks absolutely great! Subscribed.

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you mate, appreciate it!

[@R.D.R.NIGHTINGALE]

Great video. Helpful. Inspirational.

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you, I'm glad it was helpful. Look forward to seeing how your nids turn out!

[@bradleycottam8661]

can i be cheeky and ask if u have any plans to do behemoth scheme?

[@jwminiatures]

I had thought about it. I'll see what I can do in the near future

[@ZacDavis-y2t]

This scheme is soo cool defo gonna try it out, just wondering do you think that drybrushing the harvester flesh would work?

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you mate. I think drybrushing it would work fine, it will change the finish slightly but other than that it should be all good

[@ZacDavis-y2t]

Thanks man this is such a cool theme, I'm between leviathan or adapting the scheme for cetu

[@bojacksonsuperturtle7411]

Brilliant! Can you do a prime next?

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you, I'll have to see if I can squeeze it in somewhere down the line but it is on my list of models to paint

[@zorca1133]

what did you base coat with (the initial paint)?

[@jwminiatures]

It was a grey primer. Specifically Vallejo grey surface primer

[@Valkelek]

Love the color scheme. Thanks for sharing that.

[@jwminiatures]

You're welcome! Glad you like it!

[@grantchapman8489]

Top work! Easily the best version of this scheme I’ve seen

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you very much mate, glad you liked it!

[@greyrigorism8869]

I have a box of termas I am getting ready to start and yours look WAY better than the GW box art!

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you very much. Good to hear, I'm looking forward to seeing how your termagants turn out.

[@greyrigorism8869]

@@jwminiatures thank you! Going to prime them and get them ready for some paint coming Wednesday!

[@333Dirtbag333]

magnificent guide thank you

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you mate, glad you enjoyed it!

[@TiMtImInYtImTiM]

Fantastic tutorial, thank you!

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

[@Xabierum]

Good job!! I love those saturated colors. How would you paint the carpace with contrast?

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you mate. I think I would approach it in a similar way. Instead of using naggaroth night use something like leviathan purple, this should leave more of the edges showing. You could use black templar to create the gradient then you could still add the lines if you wanted extra texture

[@Xabierum]

@@jwminiatures what about shyish purple to create my dark purple areas? Or you think more contrast to leviathan purple would be better. I love your stile I hope we will be seeing mire videos of your art.

[@jwminiatures]

I think shyish purple would work too, i think it's slightly less pigmented so the colour might not be as rich. Thank you for the support buddy

[@leonardopardo9178]

I d dilute the initial wash of screamer pink even more so the final pink d be a lil bit softer but that s personal opinion, model is a 10 😎

[@jwminiatures]

Cheers mate, thats definitely an option and I'm pretty sure thats what GW do

[@lnSorteDiaboli]

I really like the results you're getting a lot, however, I'm not crazy about leviathan or kraken. Any chance you will be doing some less common schemes?

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you mate. Which schemes would interest you?

[@lnSorteDiaboli]

@@jwminiatures The new hive fleet unkown ones are all pretty fun if it's purely a "how-to. Perhaps a video that is an indepth look in how you went about developing your own scheme could be cool(not sure how that performs in terms youtube metrics vs effort spent though) Either way, I'll be here to watch it! :)

[@jwminiatures]

Yeah the hive fleet typhon one is tempting, it does seem like a lot of work thought but I might try to give it a shot. I was thinking about doing a video on that, explaining my process but a bit more general so not just focusing on the nids. I appreciate the support mate

[@lnSorteDiaboli]

@@jwminiatures I think thats a cool idea. I'm sure a lot of people would enjoy an insight into the process. Teach a man to fish and all that. Go for it!

[@goforitpainting]

Looks cool 👍

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you mate

[@S8337709G]

One of best nids I've seen!

[@jwminiatures]

Cheers mate

[@GrapeHate]

Why not have the active paint visible on screen? You show the name for 2 seconds including animation time. Don't get how KZbinrs cannot understand this.

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you for the feedback, I will take it into consideration

[@allenwixted1992]

All in the description also

[@zeal9901]

amazing

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you mate

[@jeremyrichard4176]

I really love the result and definitely I ll try it! Thanks !

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you mate, share the result!

[@jeremyrichard4176]

@@jwminiatures I will! Waiting for Leviathan box 😁

[@shanemacreadyness7398]

Love that purple Carapace!

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you mate

[@SkelliwagJones]

Awesome as always my dude

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you mate

[@The_Foil]

looks amazing!

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you mate

[@cartervsjordan2000]

the videos are very good. for me would love to see a video on hive fleet gorgon

[@jwminiatures]

Thank you very much mate. Is that the green and cream one?

[@cartervsjordan2000]

@@jwminiatures it certainly is :)

[@jwminiatures]

@@cartervsjordan2000 I'll see what I can do. Couple of other videos I need to wrap up

[@cartervsjordan2000]

@@jwminiatures that would be amazing :) look forward to all content

[@Marshal976]

Looks fantastic!!

[@jwminiatures]

Cheers buddy!