bouke Posted August 10, 2019 Report Share Posted August 10, 2019 Decided to try and experiment with the contrast paints on models I will never use. Just getting back into this after about a decade. For the beginning experiments I did guardians in Iyanden colors. Then I bought a Tactical squad box. Doing one marine in a different chapter to test the colors. I really like this paint line a lot. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouke Posted August 10, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2019 Here are a few of th guardians. Not done yet of course. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouke Posted August 10, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2019 This was my first “experiment”. Paint the blue contrast over yellow intentionally to see what happens. The blue definitely doesn’t cover yellow and the helmet tuned almost black. Put one where I didn’t do this next to it so you can see 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouke Posted August 10, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2019 And this shows the difference between one coat of contrast and one with two. Blue helm is one coat. No color is two 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouke Posted August 10, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2019 More experiments. Tried basecoating with averland sunset and applying contrast yellow over the top. Did a small drybrush after to reapply. Don’t like the results but here it is. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weav Posted August 10, 2019 Report Share Posted August 10, 2019 Looking good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouke Posted August 12, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2019 Side note: Anyone got a good place to upload files to? I have pics but hit my max here, so looking for a photobucket type of service ( but not them, they've screwed me over in the past). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Glacius Posted August 12, 2019 Report Share Posted August 12, 2019 That is one of the upsides to having a blog. I am able to link my google photos there, and then can easily post them in the forums. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted August 12, 2019 Report Share Posted August 12, 2019 You can start a Blogger instance or a tumblr or something for free and just use it for image hosting. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy Posted August 12, 2019 Report Share Posted August 12, 2019 https://imgur.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouke Posted August 30, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2019 So I'm still experimenting with them. I did buy some Marines, painting one in each chapter colors that are different to see how the various colors work. This is my Black Templar I did (ignore my markings, I would normally use a transfer for it, but I was just rying to complete him to see how he'd look) 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouke Posted September 8, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2019 (edited) So saw this on a video, so I'm not taking credit for it. But I had saw that if you used basicilum grey over metal, it blacklines it. It does work. Here are my experiments with it using x101 from combat arena board game: Edited September 9, 2019 by bouke links didn't show 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romans832 Posted September 9, 2019 Report Share Posted September 9, 2019 10 hours ago, bouke said: So saw this on a video, so I'm not taking credit for it. But I had saw that if you used basicilum grey over metal, it blacklines it. It does work. Here are my experiments with it using x101 from combat arena board game: Tis blank with a dash 😞 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouke Posted September 9, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2019 Reposted using imgur. Google images is hit and miss on it working. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Glacius Posted September 9, 2019 Report Share Posted September 9, 2019 I'm about to do the very same thing with one my chaos marines. He's the tech guy and covered in cables...I'm just painting the cables various metallic colors, and then will use the grey over it for the highlight or a watered down black. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouke Posted September 9, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2019 it's works pretty awesome Brother Glacius. I was surprised at how well it actually worked. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouke Posted January 7, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2020 Been a while since I've updated. I've bought varied miniatures to experiment on (and hopefully play one day) so I can learn and do better for my bloodbowl teams. Here is a recent Rumbleslam Ogre: 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burk Posted January 7, 2020 Report Share Posted January 7, 2020 looks really good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ish Posted January 8, 2020 Report Share Posted January 8, 2020 7 hours ago, bouke said: Did you achieve that black with blue highlights look using Contrast Paint!? If so, please tell me the terrible secrets of your foul sorcery! I want to paint my Necromunda Palanite Enforcers in a style that resembles classic comic book look of Judge Dredd and if there’s a way to cheat and not do painstakingly tiny edge highlights that’d be swell. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouke Posted January 8, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2020 no I did contrast and then painted blue over the top of that. my experimentation is on my "other" minis. I think the combo works. I could never achieve this type of results with just black paint. While I didn't do any transition here, it still looks more like a highlight, whereas when I try this with just black, it looks like blue paint slabbed over black. I don't know how else to explain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burk Posted January 8, 2020 Report Share Posted January 8, 2020 one criticism.....do your bases....no one in their right mind likes clear bases 🙂 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouke Posted January 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2020 23 hours ago, Burk said: one criticism.....do your bases....no one in their right mind likes clear bases 🙂 neither do I, but these Rumbleslam miniatures come like that. as they are fantasy wrestlers (wwe), I'm not sure what an appropriate base would be. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ish Posted January 9, 2020 Report Share Posted January 9, 2020 I think clear bases look great. It’s only my poor painting skill and the cost per base that keeps me from using them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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