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Put these dusty bois on their bases, tonight. Every time I look, I see something more I could do, but I'm going to call them ready for the tabletop. I'm very happy with how the armor turned out. I used Talassar Blue over Vallejo Metal Color Gold to give it a metallic effect. It does green up the contrast a little, especially with only one coat, but it really grew on me as I continued to work with it. Bases were done with a roller from Green Stuff World. It was my first attempt with it, and I've already learned some valuable lessons about using it. I will probably be buying at least one more, as it is a great way to crank out bases.

It's finally here, the coolest "loyalist" chapter has it's Eavy Contrast Marine tutorial! I'm extremely proud of this one, green is always a pleasure to paint and this came out beautiful. I really hope you guys like it! As always all Contrast with extra Highlights. Next in line, the Iron Hands!

Hi! A friend of mine has made some experiments, with Terradon Turquoise (Contrast), to show me a good combination for Sons of Horus. He used, a first layer of (In four separate miniatures, left-to-right): -Silver (Vallejo) -Boltgun Metal (Vallejo) -Wraithbone (Citadel) -White (Macota) And those are the results (More pics in my blog). I really like Terradon Turquoise over Vallejo's Boltgun metal, but i need more opinions/ideas/suggestions. Thanks in advance!

I started a series on painting Space Marines using Contrast paints, we are starting with the White Scars! I hope you guys like it: And the subject in all his glory Hope you guys like it!

Hey guys. I noticed a few years ago that Dark Angels Green was a little bit different to Caliban Green when it was replaced. After some googling I found out that Instar had a great line of repo paints. I decided to do a bit of a project to figure out what green worked for me and I thought that my fellow Dark Angel players might be interested in the results. Vallejo Game Colour Dark Green, UV-15 Sheen and Matte (1998 spec Dark Angels Green reproduction), Caliban Green and Contrast. I did a slightly more indepth review over at goonhammer if people are interested.

Forgive any amounts of potato this brings, I took quick pictures with my phone while I worked and then cropped them down later. So some background: I wanted to have an easy side project while I work on my #Everchosen entry that I could make large amounts of progress with in a short amount of time, and this turned into me working on a Feral Orks army that will also be playable as a Bonesplitterz army in AoS. The thing is that the Contrast paint definitely has a layer of depth in the color, but I wanted a higher quality result that helps pull the highlight and shadow further than the paint can do on it's own over a flat primer coat. This lead to me treating the paint more like a heavy glaze and doing a bit of prep work on the base coat to get the effect I wanted. I started with a base coat of Mechanicus Standard Grey out of a rattlecan, followed by a layer of Grey Seer applied from a 45 degree angle to the top of the model and finally a straight down shot of Corax White to hit the highest points. Here's a bottom shot to try and illustrate the way the paint creates a gradient of shadows to highlights. The first step washed out the model's texture so I gave the model an all over wash of Nuln Oil, keeping it thin so it wouldn't pool on the high points. To pick out the high points I did a directional drybrush of Pallid Wych Flesh, only flicking the brush over the model in a downward direction to hit the highest points and leave the recesses darkened so the texture has more contrast. This was followed by giving the model a coat of Munitorium Varnish to smooth the texture of the model and give the Contrast paints a smooth surface to move over. This was followed by a layer of Ork Flesh, applied starting at the high points and working down to prevent it from pooling at the top of the model. You can see the recess shading is more pronounced, in part due to how the higher points are a much lighter color where the dry-brushing picked the texture out. A back shot to show how the color gradient from the successive layers of primer create a natural shading effect that simulates shadow being cast by the Ork's upper body onto his legs. Another low shot to show how the Ork flesh looks over the torso, and how the wash helped give the recesses some extra contrast for the darker flesh color. A Wurrgog Prophet model done at the same time in the same way. Due to how recessed his body is under his cloak his skin is darker than the Savage Warboss model, but this fits the natural shadow his body would have. Final example is a Wardokk. His more exposed skin shows off the way the highlights have helped create more texture for his skin by pushing the contrast over the other high points, allowing us to look like we spent more time layering green than we actual did. I hope this helps some people who are trying to get a little bit higher quality result out of their Contrast paints while keeping the whole project from becoming too much of a time sink.

My absolutely stunning metal Daemon Prince arrived today, and I've been looking at all kinds of painting techniques to apply to him. miniwargaming ember sword here, Prometian Painting infernal skin there, From the Warp stained barrel for the warp bolter... but I'm not sure what to do with the armor. I might just take the simple route and Contrast it, but I'm not sure how that would look with all that fancy stuff on the skin, sword, etc. Has anyone tried this? Edit: added links, in case anyone was interested. Also, obligatory "not affiliated, just really like the look of it".

I will freely admit to finding painting the armour of my SW dull, dull, dull. I know that when I have half an hour to spare to paint I look at the armour plates and think, I might just build another model instead. Then Contrast paints come along and I think maybe all the hundreds of models I built (instead of painting the armour on the model sat on my desk) could finally get worked on. Now from the word go GW will say SW will need this paint to achieve Space Wolves Grey (the Fang with some highlights), well I don't paint that way, the main armour plates for me are the light Baby Blue a few people hate, but I don't care I've been painting SW for 20+ years and I like the colour: So why this thread? I want to hear from anyone who might have had a chance to use the paints and might even share my love of the most Brutal Loyal Chapter being painted in the colours of the baby-grow you'd place on a new born boy. To you I say, how are you gonna do it????

I recently picked up some contrast primer (wraithbone) and paints to try on a squad. I had previously primed over half the squad with a conventional grey primer before it ran out. Would repriming the wraithbone over the existing grey primer obscure or otherwise mess up the wraithbone layer? Or is it ok to spray the contrast primer over the old primer?