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Slaves to Darkness: Quick & Easy With Contrast Paints

So if you’re here just for recipes feel free to skip on ahead, I just wanted to do a quick intro about why & how this all came about in case anyone’s interested in the process of coming up with the color scheme. My parameters for this were that it needed to be fairly simple…

Quick and Easy Rocky Basing

This is just a quick how-to on the bases I’m making for my Sisters of Battle. They’re pretty simple, as I wanted a minimalist color scheme that wouldn’t pull attention away from the models, but I did want something that would elevate them off the bases since their capes come down pretty far. As you…

Marvel Crisis Protocol – Quick Tabletop Paint With Contrast Paints

Just to clarify: I used other paints in addition to contrast paints. In the context of coming up with this paint scheme I wanted to use contrast paints as a starting point, then work on refining them as efficiently as possible using coordinating regular paints. This is meant to be more of a guide/color recipes…

Adrax Agatone

So I picked this guy up because I wanted to practice painting some marines. Dunno how other marine HQ sculpts measure up but this one was genuinely enjoyable to paint, was able to do sub assemblies with minimal issues and all the details are nice and crisp. I wanted to stick pretty close to the…

Warcry – The Unmade

This is going to be more of a quick run through of how I came up with the color scheme and implemented it than a detailed step by step how to. This is in part because I chose to do NMM, more for the sake of practice than it being integral to the look, and…

Malifaux – Herald of Obliteration/Tara Core Box

So this ended up being an unintentional use of mostly contrast paints. I actually started doing the Watcher from Kingdom Death in this color scheme (still haven’t finished yet because of all those dang lanterns) and really liked the look for this team so I knew the main color recipe going in, which was based…

Thundrik’s Profiteers

Kharadron dwarves are always a challenge for me as there’s a lot of details on them which on its own is a huge time suck but they can also be tricky to paint well for the table. Detailed models look great up close but if you’re playing with them those details can get a bit…

Blood Bowl & Contrast Paints

Because swatching is for the weak I decided to just go ahead and paint up a Bloodbowl team to test out the contrast paints. My current thoughts on contrast paints: One of the biggest advantages of the paints to me is being able to use them right out of the pot. It’s a small thing…

Spindle Drones | Blackstone Fortress

So I wanted to keep the color scheme somewhat close to what the box art looks like, this is just a very slight twist. The main ‘trick’ to this particular paint scheme was to do a wash of Carroburg Crimson over Eshin Grey then do edge highlights and weathering in Daemonette Hide. For people that…

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