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Safety Factor posted:Crosspostin' Fantastic. Red and green schemes are wonderful.
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MrFlibble posted:Thats supposed to be a magic or Icy blue. I think most people do blue horrors in Talassar blue? Or maybe Ultramarine blue. Yeah I kinda figured it out afterwards  I slapped on a second layer and it's still a very light blue, but I kinda dig it. I think I'll finish this baby up and see how it looks, and if it turns out naff there's always paint stripper. Both yellows I've tried are god drat good though. Tomorrow I'll try to paint some Sigmarines with Templar Black. Those would probably benefit from a black primer, right?
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Der Shovel posted:Both yellows I've tried are god drat good though. Tomorrow I'll try to paint some Sigmarines with Templar Black. Those would probably benefit from a black primer, right? Nooo. Contrast paints all need a light primer. Black templar one coat will give you an old black leather effect, two coats will give you edgy black as my soul black. I think for metal/armour black the recommendation is Basil/space wolves grey and then templar, but my paints still haven't arrived so I can't confirm. EDIT: although templar over leadbelcer would give you a black steel kind of look.
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MrFlibble posted:Nooo. Contrast paints all need a light primer. Black templar one coat will give you an old black leather effect, two coats will give you edgy black as my soul black. I think for metal/armour black the recommendation is Basil/space wolves grey and then templar, but my paints still haven't arrived so I can't confirm. Oh no poo poo, not black, I was thinking of a grey primer as opposed to a white one. But actually, I do have some metal sigmarines here... let's see.
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Jun 25, 2019 20:58
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Has anyone had any success painting robes with Contrast paint yet?
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inscrutable horse posted:I think we've just been bad at explaining what we've been talking about. As far as I can remember, there is only "hinge", or arm-to-gun attachment thing for each arm. But if my memory serves me correctly, it was easy enough to magnetize your way around that issue. No - the bit outlined in red in the picture that was posted is something I had for every weapon that came with my knight. I never had to chose which one to attach it to, only the... mechanical bicep? I have the double knight box set, bought a couple of years ago.
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Der Shovel posted:Oh no poo poo, not black, I was thinking of a grey primer as opposed to a white one. Have you tried using the official GW contrast primers? I have seen some people say that it helps a bit with pooling. I just did my first Contrast Marine today with Ultramarines Blue over the Grey Seer primer. It looks pretty good, not too much pooling. You really do have to slap a lot of it on at once though. Definitely One Thick Coat.
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Marzipan Pig posted:No - the bit outlined in red in the picture that was posted is something I had for every weapon that came with my knight. I never had to chose which one to attach it to, only the... mechanical bicep? Huh, well, looks like there really were significant differences between the kits, then :/
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inscrutable horse posted:Huh, well, looks like there really were significant differences between the kits, then :/ The arms on the kit haven't changed in the various packagings. I bought a single knight kit and didn't have to copy any parts to make magnetizing work, though I did just glue one set of greebles onto the gun arm instead of magnetizing each individual part for the battle cannon / melta
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Jun 25, 2019 22:13
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Has anyone had any success painting robes with Contrast paint yet? The robes on my grot rigger came out pretty well. 
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Agreed. Did you do anything special?
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Has anyone had any success painting robes with Contrast paint yet? I threw some Flesh Tearers Red over Grey Seer on some Custodes I'm working on, pulling it down into the recesses. It achieved an instant base/shade, but the highlights were super desaturated (which I guess is to be expected). This is it after a couple of highlights of Mephiston Red through Troll Slayer Orange, but the majority of it is a single coat of contrast. 
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Agreed. Did you do anything special? Nope. Just a contrast paint over the wrathbone. I think it's either skeleton horde or the dunes color. The only real fiddliness was "erasing" a few bits of cross-paint with the legs with a bit of white paint. It probably helps that it's such a small figure, so the contrast has a lot of relatively small detail to work with. It's also a relatively light paint; if it was a darker paint, I might have needed to add a bit to the highlights to make it pop more. Also, cross-post! JackMann posted:
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Has anyone had any success painting robes with Contrast paint yet? Got a better shot after some more cleanup:  Blades are also contrast (the two blues over silver), which I think has potential but I'm not happy with yet. Base on the right is Space Wolves Grey over some texture paint, which also needs work. All in all I'm finding contrast to be an amazing time saver but not an all-in-one solution, which is fine with me.
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wondering if anyone can help me flesh out an idea i have. I am painting orks, and I want to do some bases to make it look like they're tramping through grass and churning it into mud. So I want some mud (citadel texture) and some flock, and some little static tufts. My first attempt I put on some blobs of texture paint, then put down some pva and flock. It didn't turn out great, it looks like grass rivers on a mud base. I think the grass needs to be the higher elevation and the mud lower, but I'm not sure how to get the effect like I want.
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Jun 26, 2019 18:39
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spacegoat posted:Got a better shot after some more cleanup: That looks great.
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Jun 26, 2019 19:54
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Some of my own Contrast experimentation, although both got a fair dose of traditional painting.
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jassi007 posted:wondering if anyone can help me flesh out an idea i have. I am painting orks, and I want to do some bases to make it look like they're tramping through grass and churning it into mud. So I want some mud (citadel texture) and some flock, and some little static tufts. My first attempt I put on some blobs of texture paint, then put down some pva and flock. It didn't turn out great, it looks like grass rivers on a mud base. I think the grass needs to be the higher elevation and the mud lower, but I'm not sure how to get the effect like I want. You could put a layer of something like milliput or spreadable wood filler on the base, then dig out the area you want to be lower elevation, and then put your texture paint and flock on top of it. Be careful doing that with crackle paint though, as it can also crackle weaker substrates beneath it, like wood filler.
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 Painted a bunch of green dudes with 5 different versions of Dark Green. Also reviewed them for goonhammer here: https://www.goonhammer.com/which-dark-angels-green-is-best-dark-angels-green-citadel-vallejo-instar-and-contrast-head-to-head/
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Has anyone had any success painting robes with Contrast paint yet?  
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Hot drat. What was your method?
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Hot drat. What was your method? Slopped it on, watched out for pooling, blended wet.
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When you're whisking away excess paint, in order to prevent pooling, do you use the same brush that you're applying the paint with, or do you have a separate dried brush on the side for that task? I've never really had to do that before and wondered what best practices are.
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Gunder posted:When you're whisking away excess paint, in order to prevent pooling, do you use the same brush that you're applying the paint with, or do you have a separate dried brush on the side for that task? I've never really had to do that before and wondered what best practices are. I just wipe off the brush I'm using with a paper towel nearby.
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Jun 27, 2019 18:32
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I can't loving figure out Contrasts. Either everything looks white/grey with a thin layer of colour on top of it, or completely saturated.
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Der Shovel posted:I can't loving figure out Contrasts. Either everything looks white/grey with a thin layer of colour on top of it, or completely saturated. Isn't that basically what it's meant to be?
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Another Thursday night, another speed painted Chapter. This week Salamanders A bit sloppy but I only had 2 minutes to spare to keep it under 90mins. Mostly thinned contrast over DG green spray.
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Der Shovel posted:I can't loving figure out Contrasts. Either everything looks white/grey with a thin layer of colour on top of it, or completely saturated. Yeah, uh, you aren’t the issue here.
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Jun 27, 2019 23:38
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Der Shovel posted:I can't loving figure out Contrasts. Either everything looks white/grey with a thin layer of colour on top of it, or completely saturated. to expand - yep. A bunch of colours work like a wash, and a bunch of others just seem to obliterate everything and leave one colour. There's no indication which will do what. It truly is a paint range of contrasts.
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Jun 28, 2019 00:02
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Already posted this in the Historicals thread, but figured it was worth dropping in here as well: Cross-postin' from the Oath Thread. Oath Complete!     
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Yeah I've been feeling pretty lukewarm on Contrast so far. They are fine and I will use them on the chaff but they are by no means anything revolutionary. There also seems to be a deceptively steep learning curve to using them and getting good results. The snakebite leather has been the main standout for me so far and I will probably use it often. Terradon turqouise is my least favorite, although I have not tried using it heavily thinned which I think might be the key. Honorable mentions to volupus pink and iyanden yellow which are both nice.
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Der Shovel posted:I can't loving figure out Contrasts. Either everything looks white/grey with a thin layer of colour on top of it, or completely saturated. I'm not sure what you're trying to paint, but I found this video helpful in understanding how best to manipulate the contrast paints to ensure minimal streaks/blotching. They're never going to look amazing in a close-up shot unless you're prepared to do some extra work after applying the contrast, but they should look totally fine for throwing on a tabletop and not feeling bad about your paint job.
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Question for people with experience using cork for bases: How do you "seal" the edges of the cork? It seems kinda flimsy, to the point where drybrushing it feels like it might make it crumble. Would giving it a wash of water + PVA glue harden that up, or is it sturdier than it feels?
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I painted the burna boyz I had laying around, plus some assorted other boyz. I tried out the contrast paints for stuff like bones and leather and it worked quite well I think. 
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:Question for people with experience using cork for bases: Watered down PVA is great for sealing stuff.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Watered down PVA is great for sealing stuff. Yeah, either watered down PVA or I use mod podge, sometimes with paint mixed in so I don't have to do as much work
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Awesome, thanks guys!
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darnon posted:Some of my own Contrast experimentation, although both got a fair dose of traditional painting. who is frog wizard and where can i get him also, nice paint work
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Silhouette posted:who is frog wizard and where can i get him Those frog men are from the Minions faction in Warmahordes.
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Ilor posted:Already posted this in the Historicals thread, but figured it was worth dropping in here as well: Gorgeous looking truck, Ilor! I love the weathering and chipping. How do you handle the windows and windscreen? I've got a couple trucks to paint and I've no idea how to approach them. Speaking of sandy-coloured vehicles, here's a tonk:  One of Zvezda's 15mm kits. The detail isn't in such sharp relief as Battlefront or PSC plastics so you need to be really sure your paint's nice and thin.
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