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How to paint Tyranids
Every Tyranids unit, and the colour schemes and paint lists other painters have published for them.
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Tyranids colour palette
The paints a Tyranids force is built from, by area and by role — base, shade, layer and highlight. A starting point for every unit below.
Every paint below links to its equivalents in other brands.
Tyranids signature colours
Deep violet chitin over pallid flesh, bone-white talons built for a single purpose.
Carapace
- Xereus Purple Citadel Base
- Druchii Violet Citadel Shade
- Genestealer Purple Citadel Highlight
Flesh
- Rakarth Flesh Citadel Base
- Reikland Fleshshade Citadel Shade
Talons
- Ushabti Bone Citadel Base
- Seraphim Sepia Citadel Shade
Base
- Astrogranite Citadel Base
- Dawnstone Citadel Highlight
Units
Track this project from sprue to finished
Building a Tyranids force is a lot of pots to keep straight. Track the army, the paints you own and what each unit still needs — free, and without an account to start.