Painting My Nids

I am working on a longer post about how I paint my Tyranids. In the meantime, here is a nice trick I have picked up over the years. When you need to do a base coat for a large portion of a model, you can get a solid, even finish with one coat by using ink to thin your paint instead of water. The ink ensure that it gets into all the crevices, but ink tends to pool there and leave the open surfaces only thinly covered. Paint can be harder to get into the crevices (especially if your brush can't reach), but does an excellent job of coating flat surfaces. Mixing equal parts ink and paint gives you the best of both. You get a nice, even coat that is easy to apply quickly. Below is one of my hormagaunts with one coat of black done this way. It took less than a minute, it isn't chalky or patchy, and I don't need another coat. I can move on to the next color layer. Easy!