Reply To: What Are You Painting Now?

[collins 16358xp 5]

Ive managed to get all my Skyrim stuff painted up.

Changing from my normal painting methods and with @warzan banging on about how amazing contrast paints are i decided to give them a go.

I bought a few inks from liquitex that @avernos suggested to use as part of the priming process (zenith). I discovered that contrast doesn’t work over a standard zenith, it needs to be a very white zenith, minimal black, for the contrast paint to work as designed. That led to some frustration with the skeletons but wasn’t hard to rectify, i just lost some detail as they’re now coated in 20 odd layers of primer paint, ink, contrast and varnish.

Overall I’m not blown away. Sure from gaming distance (aka photo distance) they look passable and when tied together with base ready mixes will work perfectly well as models but I know i can do better!

The problem here is me and my standards. The paint works (mostly) as described, although i have also noted differences in vibrancy and pigmentation etc between the colours. The browns are great, the other colours are iffy at best and need testing first. I have to admit however that by the end of this batch of minis i had managed to get to a point where models were being painted quicker than my normal speed which is a plus.

More thought is required on my part, more consideration and more playing around with the painting style but currently i dont think ill be replacing my normal methods with this one.