Would this recipe work for my orange and white space wolves?

[Rasclomalum]

The Orange: 

 

Primer: White spray (whatever the GW stuff is called).

 

Primer Shade: Nuln oil.

 

Base: Jokaero orange.

 

Base shade: Seraphim Sepia.

 

Layer: Troll Slayer Orange. 

 

Highlight: Fire Dragon Bright

 

 

The White

 

Primer: White primer

 

Primer shade: Nuln oil

 

Base: Ceramic White 

 

Layer: White Scar 

 

QUESTION: Any recommendations to make the white stand out better? 

 

 

The Metal 

 

Primer: White primer 

 

First base: Abaddon Black 

 

Second base: Leadbelcher 

 

Shade: Nuln oil

 

Layer: Ironbreaker

[Razblood]

Use Ulthuan or Celestra Grey as the base for the white, it'll give you a more natural gradient.

 

Also using Nuln Oil as a primer shade on the orange is a bit redundant as you'll be covering the whole area with Jokaero Orange anyway.

[appiah4]

It really doesn't seem very practical to nuln oil shade a white primer and then try to build a basecoat on it using foundation paints - they are completely opaque and will not benefit from the preshading at all. And if you try to use layer paints straight away, those will likely lead to poor coverage over white with transparent colors like white and orange and cause much frustration. I'd suggest just going for a darker shade of opaque basecoat for each, then shade that and layer with a midtone and then up to a highlight. It's a much more conventional way of painting, but there's a reason why conventions hold. I have a feeling orange or white over a nuln oiled white primer just won't look the way you think it will.

But if it works for you, do let me know as well

[Rasclomalum]

Thank you. I though the preshading would work well, but it seems I've been talked out of it. :-)

[K0rtmer]

Well, I don't mean to overcomplicate things, but decent pre-shading can make a difference – depending on how strong you're planning to build up your base coat. But I don't think Nuln Oil over a white primer will cut it. 

 

A better, also easier pre-shading technique is to prime everything black, and then use white primer from only the top (similar to as you'd do zenithal highlighting). Again, it's embarrassingly simple and will define different levels of color saturation for your base coat, provided you don't build it up too thick. But you don't want that anyway. 

 

I can't comment on the strategy you proposed above. I'd advise to use an old model and just give it a shot. Keep us posted.