Painting white alongside light purple

[Dosjetka]

Hi all,

 

As I may be painting white on my Space Marines, I would like to know which base coat I should put down to then be able to build up white over a black undercoat. Should I go with Astronomican Grey or Charadon Granite?

 

Here is the colour scheme I may be doing.

 

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/a/ae/Death_Eagles_early_90s.jpg

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/e/eb/Death_Eagles_Marines_3.jpg

 

Cheers,

 

Ludovic

[winterdyne]

I'd probably go over a light primer for those, it'll make the white a lot less painful as there's quite a bit of it. Block in the purple with a dark red (Scab red with a blue wash maybe) and the metallic and joins with black. You can then highlight up to white, shading down with thin fortress/codex grey mix. The purple, I'd highlight by adding a light blue to the dark red, maybe spacwolf grey - it's actually pretty pinkish/crimson in those pics.

 

If you're intent on e black undercoat, the only way to get a nice white is to build it up through greys - codex, and fortress.