{"id":519405,"date":"2026-03-07T02:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519405\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T02:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:10:13","slug":"how-we-painted-the-new-tyranid-prime-and-berehk-stornbrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519405\/","title":{"rendered":"How we painted the new Tyranid Prime and Berehk Stornbr\u00f6w"},"content":{"rendered":"

I started with a Wraithbone undercoat<\/a>, and then slathered on Skeleton Horde<\/a>, slightly thinned with Contrast Medium<\/a>, over the skin. Highlights of Flayed One Flesh<\/a> and Pallid Wych Flesh<\/a> got me the pale, inhuman tone I was going for.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For the carapace, I started with Flesh Tearers Red<\/a>, shaded with Agrax Earthshade<\/a>, then used progressive drybrushes of Mephiston Red<\/a>, Wild Rider Red<\/a>, and Fire Dragon Bright<\/a>. A glaze of heavily thinned Blood Angels Red<\/a> added some vibrancy and tied the shading and highlighting together.<\/p>\n

The lash whip, joints, and other areas that I wanted to distinguish from the skin were painted with a thinned coat of Volupus Pink<\/a>, and the whip was randomly highlighted with Fulgrim Pink<\/a> to make it look alive (and disgusting). The claws and hooves were basecoated with Abaddon Black<\/a>, and highlighted with Incubi Darkness<\/a> and Thunderhawk Blue<\/a>. The finishing touch was painting the eyes of both the Prime and the lash whip with Averland Sunset<\/a> and Yriel Yellow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed painting the Prime so much (and felt so bad that he\u2019s sitting alone on a shelf) that I picked up a Warhammer 40,000 Starter Set<\/a> and now have 27 more Tyranids on my painting table, all with the skin finished and waiting for their carapaces. A few more, and I\u2019ll have to start looking for a planet or two to consume\u2026<\/p>\n

Jim \u2013 Berehk Stornbr\u00f6w<\/p>\n

I picked this craggy little guy up as my first attempt at a Leagues of Votann miniature, as I like to try out an individual character when deciding if I’ll enjoy painting the army as a whole. I was inspired to do the Kronus Hegemony colour scheme as my friend and I were in a doubles tournament at Warhammer World recently and one of our games was against a League of Votann\u2013Kroot alliance, and the yellow really stood out.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I started with a Wraithbone undercoat, and then slathered on Skeleton Horde, slightly thinned with Contrast Medium, over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-519405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}