I think the layer is a little heavy (too bright), but after a wash and against the bright armor highlights, I think it worked out pretty well anyways. Drybrushing the skin highlight came first, before painting the termagant gun or any armor plates, and both was faster and showed more detail than my previous highlighting layer done towards the end of the process previously. I'm starting to take advantage of drybrushing in my painting, and the start is the top stage highlight for the skin and the first highlight of the armor plates.
This one actually was one of my faster completion times at just about a month (yikes), but there was more than a week of no progress made during that month, and plenty of days spent just sitting on my desk. The newest painted addition to the army is a tervigon, the second monstrous creature I've got completed, a successful testing ground for some changes in my painting technique, and a great looking model. Maybe before that, though, I'll make another piece of terrain or two, as much for just having cool terrain as it is tabletop survivability in the form of cover and LoS blocking. Next for painting is probably some plain fleshborer termagants, as I haven't finished any of those yet, and probably venomthropes, since they see so much playtime on the table and I think will work well with this paint style. While I don't think the zoanthropes are perfectly done (and I don't think the older model fits the paint style as well), and there are some things that still need tweaking (like the devourers), but I really like what has come out of that original idea, and I'm glad that the swarm is starting to look like a proper swarm. I made quite a few tweaks (as seen) to the initial idea, focusing mostly on brightening highlights to beyond "natural" to get detail and color to stick out at a distance and extending those highlights over everything instead of just the brightest spots to bring out the detail of the models. The idea was to make an alien-looking creature (the models certainly help), that's camouflaged to blend into a bright, lush jungle - armor with foliage, skin with the ground and debris, and bright bits with the blooms.
I wanted to go for dark green armor that got brighter at its edges and an earth tone brown flesh, picking brighter colors for guns and other details. The older models were painted close to a decade ago (I'm not quite that slow of a painter, but there was a 6 year or so break from 40k), but were the first tyranid models I painted when I came up for the concept for the color scheme.
Painted up six devourer termagants and the remaining two zoanthropes, but pictured alongside the already painted ones to contrast the oldest models painted in this general style and what it has come to.
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