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New contrast paints from GW

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Howdy,

A good friend is at warhammer fest and has gotten his hands on a brochure, the new Contrast range teased in recent community videos is a paint range, seemingly in the usual pots for brush paints, and they are in the base colour range. I'll try and get pictures if he agrees to my sharing them ;)
Here here, courtesy of The Ninja :
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In the meantime there are some pics over on 40k forums already:

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/355492-games-workshop-contrast-and-paint/page-9

There is a workshop going on there where you can try them and keep the mini afterwards.

Some more details here as well :
https://spruesandbrews.com/2019/05/11/citadel-colour-contrast/

I'm quite curious, as with our scaly seraphon we might make skinks and saurus way quicker if this works well, and we might save a few steps on the big guys too, focusing on more important detailing steps ;)

Edit: there's a video on their page as well, with a skink! :)
https://www.facebook.com/230219510706368/posts/816164562111857/
 
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This contrast paint has finally been revealed:
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Apparently it's essentially designed to speed up painting by combining the effects of a basecoat and a wash in one coat. Personally I'm happy with just doing it the manual way as I prefer not to go overboard with highlighting and all that nonsense (just a basecoat and a wash is fine by me as it takes ages to paint details anyway), but I can see its uses if you're trying to paint and wash massive units for horde armies.
 
Yeah I think it's great for a speedy start on a lot of the same, such as skinks, plaguebearers, imperial guards etc.
I quite like it as I have periods of time when I can't get much painting in my schedule, and I usually prefer to take my time on finishing touches, and big models.
It'll probably be very good for beginners too, to get ready quickly for the first battles ;)
 
Looks interesting for sure, could save a lot of time on basic infantry if they're majority one colour. How do you think it manages to combine all those different effects into one paint? And do you think the new Contrast Undercoat sprays will actually do anything different or is it just another GW money making scam?
 
My friend there tried them, he said it's quite easy to use but will take a few minis to get the full grip of it. Quite fast to apply but dries slowly, so care should be taken at borders between two colours. Hell ask tomorrow what the specialised primer brings to the mix.
The paints are runny, designed to be used undiluted, but can be diluted with a bespoke thinner.
He likened them to the citadel inks of old.

There was a carnosaur painted by the studio team using only these new paints, and a bunch of other minis, but kudos to the team for using a proper model :D
To be fair these are probably better suited to highly textured models such as ours as opposed to ultramarines or SCE.
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I will give them a try, i have some 5th edminis that could use a slap of paint. Tho I don't think this will really change my approach to painting most things.
 
The new primers they've made are super super super smooth, you won't even believe it. It feels like there's no paint on there at all, this helps the Contrast paint run smoothly. When the paint dries it pulls itself back together, this is how you get the free highlights and the shadows darker.
 
Ritual said:
I painted this in under 5 minutes using them.
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Has the model been dipped in quickshade as well, or have you applied another coat on top of the green?

Just curious, since you said that was five minutes, and someone else above said the paint dried very slow.
 
I just whacked it on while it was all wet and mixed it up.
 
It really looks intriguing!
I could have sworn some highlights were painted on there.
I kinda understand the base+shade thing, but I don't quite get how the "highlights" are achieved.
 
Paint will naturally dry quicker near edge, and as the paint dries it draws into the wetter parts due to some kind of mad science.
 
Definitely.

Over darker colours though you can get some nice effects, imagine a very highly pigmented wash. Makes for some cool applications of rust and dirt.
 
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