What's the difference between Contrast Black Templar and Contrast Black Legion?

[JeffJedi]

Loyalties aside, has anyone used them both? How do they differ?

[crimsondave]

Black Legion is more just flat black.  It looks good.  It behaves less like a contrast paint and more like a well thinned black.  It covers really well.

 

Black Templar behaves more like a regular contrast paint with a blueish hint.  It works great too.

 

Two different paints for two different jobs.  I have both and use them both a lot.

[Grotsmasha]

Black Legion has basically replaced Abaddon Black for me.

I top up all new pots of Nuln Oil with Black Templar to get a Nuln Oil closer to the old formula.

[Evil Eye]

Black Templar is a "classic" contrast paint, in the sense that it's a strongly pigmented but still translucent paint and does the auto-shading thing, so the raised areas will be a subtle bluish-grey rather than pure black. Black Legion is basically a more durable black acrylic ink, and gives a solid opaque black in one coat.

[WBRBloom]

What everyone else said, Black Legion contrast is amazing to block out areas that should be black, such as neat up armour or painting black a weapon before applying metallics (at least I prefer that way than painting it straight on white/other colour).

 

Black Templar contrast has that blue-ish tint and will let white/grey undercoat show, allowing for quick 'highlighting', when painting, well, Black Templars. I painted one a few months ago, for a friend, to show him how to quickly paint his marines. It took me less than an hour, including drying and basing.

 

All the parts (apart from the metallics and white shoulder pads) are painted using contrast paints. Reds are with Blood Angel Red, leathers with Snakebite Leather, etc.

 

The freehand markings were done using Black Legion contrast (if you can tell the difference). If I used Black Templars, it would have shown with that blue-ish tint.

 

Keep in mind, to make the colour work as intended, the base should be something light. In my case it was a base with Mechanicum Standard Grey (Air), then drybrush with Praxeti White, and then application of the contrast.

 

 

 

Edited July 21 by WBRBloom
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