Brother Christopher's Purple Marines Project

[Firedrake Cordova]

Just an FYI, the current line of Shade paints use Contrast Medium as their base (the older versions in the bigger 24ml pots used a different base). If you heavily thin a Contrast paint, it can make a good wash (Basilicanum Grey is a good candidate, thinned about ~7:1).

 

Also, some of the Contrast paints are rather flat, but heavily pigmented - Imperial Fist is a very flat yellow, that can be used to gain coverage, for example.

[space wolf]

1 hour ago, Brother Christopher said:

You have my complete trust when it comes to colours: I'll go ahead with painting gold with more confidence. 

 

Also, thanks for the recommendation about contrast paints: I'm slowly dabbing into using them but don't have too much confidence yet. I think I'll go with the 'traditional' approach, i.e. regular metallic paints + washes.

Well thank you! Purple and gold is always a great combination. I agree with your assessment of contrast. I myself, primarily use them for tinting. I will "underpaint" a model, then put a contrast over it (sometimes you have to thin it...water is usually fine) and it gets me to where i want to go. Example, when i paint my leather, i use a light, almost purpleish brown. Then i take an off white and put scratches all over it. The color contrast here is unnaturally stark. Then i take some snakebite leather contrast out of the pot, and slosh it all over. Instant dark, worn leather. The contrast paint, ties everything together. Ive found contrasts are really most useful AS specialty paints as opposed to painting everything with them. Its possible to do, but you have to underpaint well, in order to do it.

 

Paintinf camo is hard, ive discovered the reason, is you have to intentionally paint a pattern, but make it look random...thats hard as our brains like order and symmatry (sp?). Ice found if you layer things on top.of each other it works a bit better. So start out doing like a sharp angular geometic shape (like a pentegon where one corner has "caved inward") do that all over in one color. Then paint triangles in different places all over the model. Dont worry about what they cover, just space them out a bit. Then once dry, paint three dots (close together) that make a triangle shape and space them out like above. Instant urban camo. By just ignoring the precious layer youll create some natural overlap and chaos that will read correctly as camo. Hope that helps :)