Tyranid Recipe

I may have finally sorted this

Pick a sort of organic dark colour, like charadon granite (dark)
Pick a not totally white highlight, like pallid wych flesh (light)
Have an alternate like black

Paint the black parts

Dry brush heavily /layer light

Wash black ink on edges that need seperating or defining

Wash a mix of light and dark over the whole area except the black

Brush heavily the light again, with different patterning

Wash in dark only - very watered down

Spray undiluted dark in random spots to create patina and dappling  if required

Lightly touch up with watered down light

Pick out edges in white

Go back and touch up black with watered down black

Make "gleam spots" in white

Coat in thinned black and gloss mix

Add water effect and dark to gooey areas

Do electrical effects if relevant

Recipes

All too often I do some paint job and then.. forget what I did when I go back 2 days later.

So paint recipes. With examples.

Crux Terminatus:
Mix Adeptus Battle grey and Scorched brown to get a nice purpleish gey brown base coat.
Wash with black and brown mix
Line and dry brush 2 layers of grey and lighter grey
Touch of deneb stone on the corners

Lamenters: (WIP- may not be yellow enough)
Iyanden darksun (ID)
blackline
base coat black on guns, rakarth flesh on parchment, scrolls
watered sepia wash
over coat pallid wych flesh on helmets, wings, checker bases
touch up ID
Mix ID with deneb stone and edge or dry brush
wash pallid wych areas in sepia, then drybrush with white-scar
drybrush black with a dark grey/blue and then add leadbelcher to that brush until the edges of the black are metalic
gems in mehiston red+ orange
seals in khorne read, highlight with evil suns scarlet, wash with carroburg crimson