This is one of the most popular posts on this blog. You need to forget that with contrast paints, apply them carefully, and go from light to dark to maximise the effectiveness. Using a spray can or airbrush with a bright color, usually white, you spray directly downward onto a dark-colored model. On the flip side, the edges aren’t as effectively highlighted, because the darker grey isn’t as high a contrast in tone with the recesses. In that post, I described how I managed to paint the minis in the game Mystheato a satisfactory level. Finally, a friend of mine made a recommendation that I give contrast paints a try. Do one arm and check it over before moving onto the next, for example, rather than trying to cover both arms and legs in the same colour before checking it. That’s very different to the grim dark tones that have been mostly popular over the last year. If you don’t know about zenithal priming, I won’t go into it here, but look it up – its a fantastic technique. If you are just using contrast paints, remember you won’t be filling that gap with a later wash! When you are playing a board game, chances are you are sitting at a table. It’s a simple method: zenithal prime a mini, apply a wash for contrast, and you’re done. I do this step mostly completly wet in wet, that means i … This technique is nonetheless a great tool for quicker tabletop painting. An initial wash of nuln oil can add extra depth while keeping that cooler, tone and the crisp highlights. Add a few details in over the top of bigger contrast areas, like buckles or buttons with normal paints. This post continues a saga I began in an earlier post on the hobby of painting miniature figures. 'Free Your Models - Contrast' paint range -- In stores June 15th, color charts and video pg. Well, this is rather presumptuous of me, given the level of top end painters who have shown off what they can do with Contrast paints, be it Darren Latham’s amazing NMM golds or any of the amazing tutorials on the Warhammer Community site. Again, careful planning reduces the clean up. Once dried, a lighter color like gray or white is added from the top, or zenith. An initial nuln gloss wash or shining silver drybrush (or both!) Brilliant! I succumbed to peer pressure and tried a few to see how well they worked. After that, he settles for using contrast paints to Sundrop the minis, with some minor highlights on the larger ones (the mini on the left in the preview); that’s pretty much what I plan to do. If you don’t paint minis, the quick summary is that, for newcomers to the hobby, they can accomplish a single coat what would otherwise involve a basecoat+wash+drybrush. The basic method starts with priming the model black. Contrast is designed to work over a light undercoat. I find a size 2 brush with a decent point is working brilliantly for me generally, but I will happy use a smaller brush for smaller areas. Paints being applied over primer all react a bit different. This means that for the majority of the game, you are looking at the miniatures from above. Well, I are one. Can you use a combination of contrast paints and regular acrylics on … I wanted to combine Contrast with my normal painting workflow and see how the new paints could be used to improve it. All of the following examples are contrast paints over tan zenithal. What do you think of the New Contrast Paints so Far?To Help Support Jay, Che: 17. zenithal Priming is priming your model with 3 colors instead of just 1. Apr 23, 2020 - “Here’s the tutorial for dark skin using Contrast! Always try the colour out before using it in anger or you can be very disappointed. I’ll go over my efforts to paint Volfyirion in another mini-painting post. If you’d like to get an idea right now, check out this page. I find breaking the application down to smaller sections helps me get better coverage and deal with any issues before moving on to the next. Thinner contrast flesh tones can look a little washed out over the sharp white. Contrast paints as recommended by GW go straight over their wraithbone primer for a slightly warm vibrant shade. I have a gaming store opening up near me that's going to run a Konflikt '47 escalation league geared towards helping beginners learn the game and they are running a deal on the starter sets and plastic kits. I primed the model with some Mechanicus Standard Grey before spraying Grey Seer from above to create some subtle zenithal highlights. Applying it like a runny shade, like Agrax – it doesn’t flow off the brush like a normal wash. If done properly, the zenithal highlighting technique produces a high-contrast miniature with almost no work. I rather like that. The colour in the pot is way off! 5000 Fir Farillecassion Eldar W/L/D 4th Ed Codex - 14/7/1 6th Ed Codex - 9/1/0 7th Ed Codex - 4/1/1 8th Ed Codex - 20/6/2 9th Ed - 2/1/0 I knew I could Sundrop minis fairly quickly, not get bogged down in details, and get the gray off the table. It worked quite nicely over the black and grey, but didn’t give enough contrast over the white; hence the need to dry brush and add a little wash. Retributor Armour – More coloured metals! Let’s get the condescending part out of the way. Painting 201: Zenithal Priming or how to shade & highlight like a boss by Powerfisted.com. They’re supposed to be easy to use: just slop the paint over white primer and you’re done. The tests I did with the red glaze were in anticipation of techniques I’d use to paint Volfyirion (in a later post I describe why I dropped this approach). Using Zenithal Highlighting with Contrast paints to speed/batch paint Japanese WWII soldiers? Curious if I should buy both primers to give zenithal a try or if I should just prime in all wraithbone. While more nuanced,  it’s roughly the equivalent of using a bright white primer, using vibrant layer paints, then putting a light coat of a sepia wash like Agrax Earthshade on it. Again, treat contrast a bit like a normal paint. The last three paints listed above certainly satisfy that need. Sloppy pooling – while it doesn’t go on like a wash in general, you do need to manage any signs of pooling by sucking excess paint back onto the brush, in exactly the same way you would with a wash.  And it dries faster than a wash, so you need to manage pooling faster. Zenithal Priming – I love zenithal priming, and it’s more effective with Contrast than any other paint type! Cracking! Enjoy. I took a class with him at Gen Con. I love painting with contrast paints. Brilliant! But although wash-over-glaze is a perfectly valid technique, I wanted to see what I could do with just the Sundrop approach: wash-over-zenithal. You can thin with contrast medium. That doesn’t come to us naturally. #ParentPlayers – Resources for UK Wargamers with Primary School Kids at Home! Understand your paints before you apply them. Posted by 7 hours ago. If you get a grainy undercoat, the contrast paint will lock between the grains and you won’t get any sort of decent shade at all, regardless of the colour. If you apply thin layers over the primer layer the paint that you put over the black primer will appear darker than the paint that you put over the white primer. Contrast paints are a pain to clean up on your model, so you need pretty tidy brush work to get the most out of them. The second main area is your initial assembly. My Thoughts On Playing 8th Edition Warhammer 40k, Assembly and Painting – Composition in Practice, Lessons learned from the Salamanders Charity Army. One thick coat means that. Now, I started painting in the 80s when white primers and vibrant colours and pageantry was the order of the day! There’ll be a follow-up post with more contrast paint examples. My accuracy stays far higher than doing base coats normally, as I get bored and slop it on when I don’t get that instant result. First, contrast is a translucent paint that is designed to recede from edges and heavily pigment recesses. You may want to view the old site’s post instead. Miniatures painted with glazes over zenithal priming have good contrast within each area, but can lack contrast between each of the areas. -Then spray a thin coat of Gloss varnish, this step is optional but the Contrast paint flows a lot better with it, staining a lot less flat surface. Some paints give a much more washed out effect than others. 5 minutes before applying the paints can save you hours of touching up later. Hair was diluted Gryph Charger gray (this has a green/blue tint but made it stand out a little from the skin). Running just slightly over gives you some lovely recess shading with minimal work, but just requires a light touch. It’s really what its designed to do on the models, so its no surprise. With the contrast paints, even the newest painter should be able to get a nicely painted group of minis on the table without that mountain of stress. So I've been playing about with the new Contrast Paints from Games Workshop and I wanted to see if I could get something done for gaming really quickly. This post continues a saga I began in an earlier post on the hobby of painting miniature figures. He had used spray primer to zenithal prime the figures. They are a really good consistency straight out of the pot, and apply like a paint, rather than running everywhere like a wash or shade. Zenithal, meaning “located at or near the zenith”, is all about painting from above. really takes this up a note to make it really pop. Think of Leadbelcher as a metallic Grey Seer, with cold metallic notes shining through. In my prior miniature-painting post, I said that my collection of contrast paints lacked lighter blues and purples. Close. In addition, you need to pick the right contrast paints. Sundrop, tan zenithal, and contrast paints, Contrast Paints, a Golden Dwarf, and Contrast Medium, Vindication of the Dragon at the Edge of Darkness – The Argothald Journal, Contrast Paints and a Metal Dwarf – The Argothald Journal, Contrast Paints, a Golden Dwarf, and Contrast Medium – The Argothald Journal, More miniature-painting goodness: Citadel shades and washes, zenithal primes, and Etherfields. You can use it as a heavy wash over another colour with the translucent nature – but you apply it like a normal paint. Well, for the contrast paints to flow properly, the primer has to be smooth. Grey Seer – lovely vibrant colours again, but the cooler tone can leave flesh tones seeming a little more cadaverous, which is perfect for things like admech. ... Cover the parts of the model that will end up white in Apothecary White Contrast paint. At the end of that post, I looked forward to painting the dragon Volfyirion and the miniatures in Icaion, both from Tabula Games. If you slap dark contrast colours everywhere, you’ll need to repaint any overlaps with paint matching your undercoat, and that’s very time consuming, especially if you’ve gone an extra notch on your model by drybrushing or washing your undercoat first. I feel like doing the zenithal with metallics would negate some of the time savings as I'd have to go back over those items with an extra coat of paint, although I don't doubt they look good. 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