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New contrast paints from GW

The blue horror definitely is, but it's had a highlight applied as well.

Overall the paints are gonna be amazing for getting base coats down quickly - and the flesh one is gonna blow your mind.
 
If those paints really work as advertised (I still cannot fully believe it until I see it for myself) there are a few armies I might consider building that I previously decided against, just because of hordes to paint.
(Nurgle plague bearers for example, or Khorne Deamons)
 
I think they're going to work best on natural things, but you can paint pretty much anything with them. Definitely going to save a lot of peoples grey piles of shame. Even if you only use it to get things tabletop and then go back and add details later.
 
Certainly these paints would save the pain I had whenever I had done a flesh coat and a wash and then got another colour on the flesh by mistake, as I would have had to go back and reapply the flesh, then reapply the wash in several coats over that one spot to make sure the area didn't look patchy.
 
This is an overview i found, but might be hard to read:

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Gr, Imrahil
 
Aginor said:
Is there a full list of available colors already to look at?
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Well, I've managed to find this picture that has some of them:
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Looks like they're using a mixture of both the old names from the pre-2012 paint range (certainly Snakebite Leather and Ultramarines Blue are names I remember fondly from those good old days when things were simpler) and new names from the current paint range as well as a few that I haven't heard of before.
 
Plus the two primers give you slightly different variations of both... So you can double it if you are planning on using the official primer. Which I would because it's pretty nice.
 
Aginor said:
Depends on the price mainly.
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I mean its probably cheaper then buying a base, wash and something to drybrush highlights on you would need to get to this stage in a quick ready for battle style job . For a certain style of hobbyist who is really just interested in playing but doesn't want to have the grey plastic army this is probably a good investment. I have a good chunk of the citadel line and a few foundry paints I'm experimenting with at the moment and I could see myself buying a few of these for some projects.... but I have a paint problem as well as a model problem so.... xD

edit So a base layer and shade are 20$ CAD. There are a bunch of ways to save on that (primeing bases, mixing highlights, skipping steps etc.). I mean that doesn't even include how much your time is worth. So if this is the level of quality you want for a tone for your models you could spend a fair bit and honestly still maybe be out on top?
 
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NIGHTBRINGER said:
Rookies! ;)


I've come to appreciate the subtle and exquisite beauty of the grey. :D
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You could really bring out the grey with a mechanicus standard grey spray, then running 1:1 nuln oil and lhamia media into the deepest recesses followed by a drybrush of 1:1 standard grey and dawnstone.
 
Here is a face painted with Contrast paints (I pulled it from a reddit page)
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And here are some larger minis painted with the Contrast paints. Although it looks like they had some touch ups done after.
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You can also apply the Contrast paint over metallic paint, which could open up some other cool techniques.
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I'm a lazy painter, so this should be right up my alley. But, I feel I still want to prove myself with traditional paint and methods.
 
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Acrocanth said:
I mean its probably cheaper then buying a base, wash and something to drybrush highlights on you would need to get to this stage in a quick ready for battle style job . For a certain style of hobbyist who is really just interested in playing but doesn't want to have the grey plastic army this is probably a good investment. I have a good chunk of the citadel line and a few foundry paints I'm experimenting with at the moment and I could see myself buying a few of these for some projects.... but I have a paint problem as well as a model problem so.... xD

edit So a base layer and shade are 20$ CAD. There are a bunch of ways to save on that (primeing bases, mixing highlights, skipping steps etc.). I mean that doesn't even include how much your time is worth. So if this is the level of quality you want for a tone for your models you could spend a fair bit and honestly still maybe be out on top?
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Well, if you compare it to my horde technique now it might actually not be worth it if it is expensive.
Right now I do:
- prime with base color (Army Painter color primer)
- slap wash on it
- do a quick, lazy drybrush
- details

With the new color
- special primer (might be more expensive) or regular bright primer
- new contrast color (might be more expensive)
- probably still some drybrushing, depends on how the colors look
- details

...which is probably the same amount of work, roughly speaking. So for me it will really depend on the price and how well the "highlight" effect looks.
 
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