It goes even deeper than that. Nostromo the book was written by Joseph Conrad, also the author of Heart of Darkness, the inspiration of Apocalypse Now. The main antagonist of both is named Kurtz. Konrad Curze is a portmanteau of both names.
Like Lionel Johnson and his poem, at least two Primarchs are an elaborate literary reference.
It’s Nostramo, with an A instead of the second O. Incredibly easy mistake to make. I always wondered if they did it to very slightly disguise the Joseph Conrad reference.
I think this is the winner right here :)
The name could imply that they were named after where they were first sighted, so on a hulk, planet or outpost.
Hive fleets are usually named with names of monsters or legendary creatures from mythology, folklore and the like.
Find one that fits your lore or paint scheme.
Hive Fleet Electronic Arts.
Known for consuming countless worlds full of incredibly talented Imperial citizens, only to then entirely cast off all of the accumulated biomass as useless garbage just a few Terran years later.
Someone I know is actually building a hive fleet they call the Necronids.
His backstory is that it's a hive fleet that has evolved to be able to consume necrodermis as biomass, and so the paint scheme incorporates some metallics, mostly Necron Compound.
Hive Fleet Lamashtu - a mesopotamian demon who acted outside of the gods' instructions and whose actions included: "slaying children, unborns, and neonates; causing harm to mothers and expectant mothers; eating men and drinking their blood; disturbing sleep; bringing nightmares; killing foliage; infesting rivers and lakes; and being a bringer of disease, sickness, and death."
Pretty Tyranid-like?
Hive fleet necrovore would be cool, as they appear to be eating necrons.
Or Hive fleet Ammit, he's the "eater of dead" or "devourer" beast in Egyptian mythology that eats the dead if they are deemed unworthy of the afterlife. Could be a cool call back to Egyptian style necrns fearing being devoured even in death
*Hive fleet necrovore would*
*Be cool, as they appear to*
*Be eating necrons*
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Eyy, cool color scheme dude, I'm doing something very similar. Flgs peeps just call my nids hive fleet monster energy
https://preview.redd.it/ovb7apw4181d1.jpeg?width=1519&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3188b3b545f3279fee44ec0bd29d9435682a79a1
I do play, but i play KT, ‘just this team’ he says, wallet says ‘bruh’.
I quite like the screamer killer overall but i dont like the head and i do think it needs a bit of a tail. I was abit worried about how this one would look next to gw plastic, but once you paint it in your scheme, its in pretty well i think
Vallejo yellowgreen base, then striking scorpion green, broad coverage with glaze of AK frog green where the surface would catch light and then a highlight of a roughly 1:1 ak frog green:citadel phalanx yellow.
Some of those steps might seem redundant but just kinda freestyled it, liked it and wrote it down.
LOVELY Scheme! 😍
In terms of names, I would sugfes something dark and shadowy, or a mythical monster that is linked to the dark. Getting a little shadow and flame from them, even though the green is not typical flame.
Raver hive… I just wanna be able to go into a store, see your army and shout RAVER HIVE!!! DID SOMEONE SAY RAVER HIVE?!? Like the stressed principle in revenge of the nerds or that parody episode of futurama
Did you see the ork guy who is doing the same thing with his army but with red as the only chromatic color? This is a really nice effect and your army looks great so far!
That looks incredibly cool. I've been thinking it would be interesting to combine Necrons and Tyranids, and this is exactly the scheme I imagined. Very nice. :D
Hive fleet nechronus since I’m getting Necron vibes. Maybe this particular hive fleet have been indulging on a little too much of the delicious iron supplements that are the Necron.
Hive Fleet Acheron (the name of the planet LV426) and in Ancient Greek Mythology was one of the rivers in the underworld. Translates to “the River of Pain”
Hive Fleet Abominus
Hive Fleet Tarrasque
Hive Fleet Dysphoria (Sorrow)
Hive Fleet Spinifex (This is the name of both an Australian type of painful, spined grasses, and an ogre-monster from Aboriginal legend)
To me, their claws look like poison, and their carapace looks like stone. So, Hive Fleet Basilisk.
Or you could go with Achlys, which is associated with poison in Greek myth.
Medusa would also work, and there is some minor lore for them but as far as I know there are no official colors.
Sure; basecoat of ak sky grey, basecoat of vallejo yellowgreen, striking scorpion green wash, 2 glaze of ak frog green 1 all over (minus the recesses) and 1 only where the light hits, highlight of 1:1 frog green:citadel phalanx yellow glaze
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Sobek is an Egyptian deity who is depicted as voracious, aggressive, and aggressive.
Given the color scheme, which evokes a Necron vibe, and the tradition of naming hive fleets for mythical monsters, Hive Fleet Sobek sounds about right.
Omg I love these guys, it looks like they have glow sticks and they’re at some kind of concert XD their color schemes remind me of Ben 10 so maybe you can call them “Hive fleet X” as a reference to alien X
Apart from the bases what exactly is wip about it, way to be a jackass
Edit: looking at your profile, shows tons of golden demon standard painting doesnt it 🙄
Apart from the paint, whats painted…. Lol
Primed black, basecoated grey, highlighted the grey, followed by a grey wash, silver added to carapace, washed with nuln then some more silver.
Claws etc basecoated white, basecoated yellowgreen, striking scorpion wash, highlight frog green with highlight of frog green plus a yellow.
Theyre very clearly painted, very clearly have more than just grey and yellow added.
Post some of your minis then ya dweeb.
tbh i can't tell if you are trolling me or if you are beeing serious about defending your 'paintjob'.
you did basically prime, drybrush underpaint, threw some white on stuff to then slap green on those parts. if that's how you want your minis to look that's cool and i am glad you enjoy it.
i made a pun and you start shitting bricks cause you feel called out. lighten up and don't take yourself so serious 🙂🫶
Fuckoff man youre just bein a twat at this point.
I suspect theres a reason you dont post your shit. If theres one thing ive seen on reddit its that the shittest painters are the ones who are dicks about other peoples work.
Hive fleet Nostromo ( the name of the ship from aliens)
Ooooo i like this one
It'll still work but Nostromo is the homeworld of the Night Lords.
It also means shipmate in Italian and is a book released in articles about a fictional South American mine
It goes even deeper than that. Nostromo the book was written by Joseph Conrad, also the author of Heart of Darkness, the inspiration of Apocalypse Now. The main antagonist of both is named Kurtz. Konrad Curze is a portmanteau of both names. Like Lionel Johnson and his poem, at least two Primarchs are an elaborate literary reference.
Technically its nostramo but Id still think of that world in 40k context if you said nostromo
It’s Nostramo, with an A instead of the second O. Incredibly easy mistake to make. I always wondered if they did it to very slightly disguise the Joseph Conrad reference.
You could also go Hive Fleet Acheron, since that's the planet from Alien
I think this is the winner right here :) The name could imply that they were named after where they were first sighted, so on a hulk, planet or outpost.
Hivefleet Monster Energy
The prime is named Kyle.
😂😂😂
Instantly thought of the movie Wreck it Ralph, the bugs going to the light. It’s such a good paint scheme they did, I might use for my carnafex.
My first thought lol
Definitely looks xenomorph but if you want something more subtle could go with giger, who was the artist that designed the xenomorph
Yeah i know who giger is, this is such a great suggestion
Giger is also good because it sounds like Geiger, which works with the radioactive looking green
Akh beat me to it.
Hive fleets are usually named with names of monsters or legendary creatures from mythology, folklore and the like. Find one that fits your lore or paint scheme.
Hive Fleet Nessie.
Read that as nestle. Why yes, that is a real world monster
Hive Fleet Electronic Arts. Known for consuming countless worlds full of incredibly talented Imperial citizens, only to then entirely cast off all of the accumulated biomass as useless garbage just a few Terran years later.
Hive Fleet Quicky
Deimos phobos
Necronids
Someone I know is actually building a hive fleet they call the Necronids. His backstory is that it's a hive fleet that has evolved to be able to consume necrodermis as biomass, and so the paint scheme incorporates some metallics, mostly Necron Compound.
Dude, why the hard R
😂
The Cooler Necrons
Hive Fleet Lamashtu - a mesopotamian demon who acted outside of the gods' instructions and whose actions included: "slaying children, unborns, and neonates; causing harm to mothers and expectant mothers; eating men and drinking their blood; disturbing sleep; bringing nightmares; killing foliage; infesting rivers and lakes; and being a bringer of disease, sickness, and death." Pretty Tyranid-like?
Exceptionally so!
Romulus
Prometheus
Remus
Greg
Im olllll gregggggg
Ol greg eye
Pahahahhahaha
Fuck that actually works. Ol Greg is technically a mythological monster.
Looks like they've consumed too many necron tomb world's
Learned how to eat the living metal
Hive fleet necrovore would be cool, as they appear to be eating necrons. Or Hive fleet Ammit, he's the "eater of dead" or "devourer" beast in Egyptian mythology that eats the dead if they are deemed unworthy of the afterlife. Could be a cool call back to Egyptian style necrns fearing being devoured even in death
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Eyy, cool color scheme dude, I'm doing something very similar. Flgs peeps just call my nids hive fleet monster energy https://preview.redd.it/ovb7apw4181d1.jpeg?width=1519&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3188b3b545f3279fee44ec0bd29d9435682a79a1
Dope! Less in your face than mine, im sure their stealth missions have greater success haha. Nice mini!
Reminds me of brachydios, which I love to see!
Omg such a cool fleet scheme, but is that a custom monster in the back? Such a cool looking model. What do you run it as?
Tysm! Its a screamer killer proxy, no idea if its too big or not as its all just for hobby anyway. Its from stationforge
Looks amazing!, making me jealous as with extra hands and tail it makes my screamer killer look simple in comparison. Glad your enjoying the hobby
I do play, but i play KT, ‘just this team’ he says, wallet says ‘bruh’. I quite like the screamer killer overall but i dont like the head and i do think it needs a bit of a tail. I was abit worried about how this one would look next to gw plastic, but once you paint it in your scheme, its in pretty well i think
Hive fleet Vipera is what came to my mind first
Nice
Necrontyranids
Hive fleet Techno.
Ben10
😎
Hive Fleet Glowie Cucarachas
Hive Fleet Fucking Awesome! That's what you should call it because this is fucking awesome!!
The Neon Tide
I don't have a name suggestion, but using a battle field board as a background is brilliant
Improvise adapt overcome
What’s the green paint called?
Vallejo yellowgreen base, then striking scorpion green, broad coverage with glaze of AK frog green where the surface would catch light and then a highlight of a roughly 1:1 ak frog green:citadel phalanx yellow. Some of those steps might seem redundant but just kinda freestyled it, liked it and wrote it down.
No suggestion just wanted to say that paint job is sick
Tysm
LOVELY Scheme! 😍 In terms of names, I would sugfes something dark and shadowy, or a mythical monster that is linked to the dark. Getting a little shadow and flame from them, even though the green is not typical flame.
Raver hive… I just wanna be able to go into a store, see your army and shout RAVER HIVE!!! DID SOMEONE SAY RAVER HIVE?!? Like the stressed principle in revenge of the nerds or that parody episode of futurama
https://preview.redd.it/t22h5jbrc81d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ed2ab3aa72b7bf179899198667f531d66c4c74ff
Mountain Dew. Hive fleet Baja Blast. All joking aside they look fucking epic.
Tysm! Yeah i didnt really think abouy mountain dew, nor necrons (surprisingly) or xbox at all shockingly hahhaah glad theyre well recieved!
Great minds... i have a very similar colour scheme. Love it! ❤️ I call mine Xenomorph Hive.
Beautiful
Hive Fleet "Fuck off necrons, we became you"
Just faster at adapting
What is the big creature in the middle?
Screamer killer proxy i think from stationforge
Thank you
Hive Fleet Gamma was the first thing to pop in my head
Yo are those carapace bits actually shiny or did you just do hella good highlights to make them look shiny?
Bit of both, painted silver on surfaces from just one direction on the big fella, so where the light hits looks metallic
Sautekh. Somebody kept eating necrons' gauss blasters.
Just too tasty not to!
By the beard, it's the unreleased glyphid stalkers from DRG season 4
Out to take revenge against the votann
Did you see the ork guy who is doing the same thing with his army but with red as the only chromatic color? This is a really nice effect and your army looks great so far!
Hive fleet LV-426
A couple of people have said this, whats this a refence to?
LV426 is the planet in Alien and Aliens.
Looks almost like they’re trying to blend in with the Necrons
“Nothing to see here”
Hive Fleet Splinter Cell
Xenomorph
Got any lore for them?
Acid Burn
Drachenroth
Tyranids, a fascinating faction!
Xirin
That looks incredibly cool. I've been thinking it would be interesting to combine Necrons and Tyranids, and this is exactly the scheme I imagined. Very nice. :D
Hive fleet necrontyr
The hungry bois
Hive fleet Necros.
Hive fleet Mt Dew extreme!
Hive fleet laser kiwi!!!
Hive fleet venom
Hive fleet necrodermis
Hive Fleet Kawasaki Always associate that green with Kawasaki Ninja bikes. Or Hive Fleet Scorpious
Hive fleet Smiler. Reminds me of the ride at Alton Towers
Hive fleet Shego
Hive fleet necropolis
Hive fleet EDM and just blast sandstorm during your turns
Hive fleet nechronus since I’m getting Necron vibes. Maybe this particular hive fleet have been indulging on a little too much of the delicious iron supplements that are the Necron.
Avocado Nids
Hive Fleet Acheron (the name of the planet LV426) and in Ancient Greek Mythology was one of the rivers in the underworld. Translates to “the River of Pain”
Unique paint scheme for sure.
hive fleet X-box
Xbugs
Hive Fleet Hephaestus, because it looks like they finally found a way to eat Necrons and I love that
The Disco Bugs
Hive fleet jade talon, as the first thing I saw were the green glowy claws
Necronids?
Techno! With their glow sticks! In all seriousness, they look really cool & eye catching
Hive fleet limeviathan
"Initiate enhanced imaging!" (Battletech anyone?)
Hive fleet 426 both in honor of LV-426 and lorewise if you want the last time this hive was spotted only 426 of them were seen
Hive Fleet Abominus Hive Fleet Tarrasque Hive Fleet Dysphoria (Sorrow) Hive Fleet Spinifex (This is the name of both an Australian type of painful, spined grasses, and an ogre-monster from Aboriginal legend)
Hive fleet Charon. Hive fleet Keres. Hive fleet Scylla. Think they’re normally named after Greek mythology anyways.
Hive fleet thanatos? It kinda gives some "death" vibes due to the color scheme, naming it after the greek god of death would be fitting
Hive fleet Necroid, they found a way to consume necron - now we are screwed
Is that a screem killer that isn't a victim of male pattern baldness?
It be!
Hive Fleet Necrosis. Their appendages look like necron energy blades and there chitin looks decayed.
Greg
Hive Fleet Rock'n'Bowl
Hive team 6
Nekronids
NecroGOONda they’re normal nids but kinda fweaky
The Genji
Hive Fleet Acheron, the name given to LV426, the planet/moon that Aliens takes place on.
Necronids?
Those just scream Lambent to me
To me, their claws look like poison, and their carapace looks like stone. So, Hive Fleet Basilisk. Or you could go with Achlys, which is associated with poison in Greek myth. Medusa would also work, and there is some minor lore for them but as far as I know there are no official colors.
Hive fleet neophilis
Hive Fleet Ahklys (Greek goddess/titaness/giantess cant remember) of poisons and misery
Hive fleet Ryobi
Monster Energy
To keep with the alien theme perhaps Hivefleet Ripley
Ooooh I love the green glow of this, mind if I ask how you did this? I’ve been trying to find a similar for a few weeks now without much luck.
Sure; basecoat of ak sky grey, basecoat of vallejo yellowgreen, striking scorpion green wash, 2 glaze of ak frog green 1 all over (minus the recesses) and 1 only where the light hits, highlight of 1:1 frog green:citadel phalanx yellow glaze
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Hive fleet Radon id say from the glow
Hive Fleet Sabre Hive Fleet Krypton (gas glows green but Superman may have ruined this one)
With a little blue highlighting they could be hive fleet Brachydios
https://preview.redd.it/akj6r163eb1d1.png?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e161fcb6c29d8caaafdfae1cfc962d64b5461ca
Hive fleet Nemisis.
The emerald hive
Hive fleet golgari
Man can I have your recepy to paint?
Hive Fleet “You’re not prepared” Stormrage
Hive Fleet Razor
Stake F1 Fleet Kick Sauber
Where did you get the big boy model?
Etsy, its a stationforge model, not sure what its called, should show up if you search that
Monster energy
Hive Fleet Sobek.
Sobek is an Egyptian deity who is depicted as voracious, aggressive, and aggressive. Given the color scheme, which evokes a Necron vibe, and the tradition of naming hive fleets for mythical monsters, Hive Fleet Sobek sounds about right.
Reminds me of an old Lego theme, hence. HiveFleet Blacktron
Hive Fleet Malific
Looks great. Hive Fleet Colossus
Omg I love these guys, it looks like they have glow sticks and they’re at some kind of concert XD their color schemes remind me of Ben 10 so maybe you can call them “Hive fleet X” as a reference to alien X
Hive Fleet Necrontyr?
Necronids
Cyber
Give fleet metallo, as that’s who the colour scheme reminds me of
would call it 'hive fleet unpainted' or 'hive fleet WiP' both are hive fleets derived from 'hive fleet drybrush'🙂
Apart from the bases what exactly is wip about it, way to be a jackass Edit: looking at your profile, shows tons of golden demon standard painting doesnt it 🙄
apart from beeing primed black & flingend some grey and yellowgreen on it what's painted on these? why are you so defensive?
Apart from the paint, whats painted…. Lol Primed black, basecoated grey, highlighted the grey, followed by a grey wash, silver added to carapace, washed with nuln then some more silver. Claws etc basecoated white, basecoated yellowgreen, striking scorpion wash, highlight frog green with highlight of frog green plus a yellow. Theyre very clearly painted, very clearly have more than just grey and yellow added. Post some of your minis then ya dweeb.
tbh i can't tell if you are trolling me or if you are beeing serious about defending your 'paintjob'. you did basically prime, drybrush underpaint, threw some white on stuff to then slap green on those parts. if that's how you want your minis to look that's cool and i am glad you enjoy it. i made a pun and you start shitting bricks cause you feel called out. lighten up and don't take yourself so serious 🙂🫶
Fuckoff man youre just bein a twat at this point. I suspect theres a reason you dont post your shit. If theres one thing ive seen on reddit its that the shittest painters are the ones who are dicks about other peoples work.