Fairbanks Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 On 3/5/2020 at 3:43 AM, Kugane said: As long as you dont use bright colours, orange, yellow, etc, most reds and browns go really well on a grey > white highlighted undercoat. Disagree. Oranges and Yellows are literal fire. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuneBrush Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 On 3/7/2020 at 8:29 AM, zilberfrid said: Yeah, labeling Gray seer as compatible with Contrast simply is untrue. Grey seer has it's place, but the nod towards blue tones means it'll suck out some of the vibrancy of your end result - that might not be what you're after, but equally could be what you want! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zilberfrid Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 (edited) 21 minutes ago, RuneBrush said: Grey seer has it's place, but the nod towards blue tones means it'll suck out some of the vibrancy of your end result - that might not be what you're after, but equally could be what you want! Oh, I like gray seer when I work with regular paints, and when I used contrast blue, black and somewhat with volupous pink, but it is entirely worthless under flesh, red, yellow or light brown tones and not ideal on heavy brown tones or greens. My main problems with contrasts are seethrough layers (revealing primer) and thick layers looking gel like. The first could be fixed with thicker layers, the second not at all. I still use it for bases and rubber, and sometimes if I don't have a properly coloured wash. I have also noticed I am moving towards using primary colours more and mixing everything myself, maybe it's just me not liking having to give up control with this paint. Edited March 10, 2020 by zilberfrid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightbox Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 I don't paint as much as I'd like to but I absolutely love using my contrast paints. They make it more enjoyable for me and I love the bright popping colours you get with wraithbone. Though I have found grey seer is great for models I want to be darker in tone. It has its own strengths and drawbacks like any technique but I am happy to say it works super well for me being non time consuming, enjoyably vibrant and fun for me to paint with. It's definitely an each to their own sort of thing (like any painting technique) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banshee1978 Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 I have to agree. I have now painted 1500 pts of ogors/sylvaneth/fyreslayers/kharadron/daughters/ossiarch nearly exclusively with contrast except for metallics and i love it. i always had a hard time highlighting thin lines as my hands are not<calm>enough and if i tried often it ruined stuff. Therefore before contrast i painted a couple of armies with a similar technique using lahmian medium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banshee1978 Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 Here are some examples. Definetely nothing to win a painting contest with but i think and most people agree makes the game 10 times more immersiv as playing with grey plastic or even with just base coloring them with normal colors. Even if you look closer (above from the battlefield player perpective) I am still proud and dont think i need to hide my guys or feel ashamed. And btw:it still takes many hours to complete them even with contrast 3 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairbanks Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 4 hours ago, Banshee1978 said: Here are some examples. Definetely nothing to win a painting contest with but i think and most people agree makes the game 10 times more immersiv as playing with grey plastic or even with just base coloring them with normal colors. Even if you look closer (above from the battlefield player perpective) I am still proud and dont think i need to hide my guys or feel ashamed. And btw:it still takes many hours to complete them even with contrast I disagree. Any of those would win the Contrast-Only category at a GW store contest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyriakin Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 16 hours ago, Fairbanks said: I disagree. Any of those would win the Contrast-Only category at a GW store contest. Yea, I think they're all pretty well done - especially the trolls and stonehorn. My only issue is the basing on the Sylvaneth, but maybe the bases are still WIP to eventually look like the Stonehorn's base. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banshee1978 Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 Yea the base is a wait in progress until I get new basing stuff;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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