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torros 5 years, 5 months ago.
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There have been *loads* of reviews and videos about Contrast Paint and how it’s rubbish and not much more than a “thick ink” and how, if you paint it over regular black primer with a zenithal highlight, and apply it like a base coat paint, it looks like a watery-base coat. Many of these reviews seem to miss the whole point of Contrast – which is to whack it on like a total noob.
I like Contrast. It makes painting fun again.
And I think I’ve finally cracked how to use it *properly*. Undercoating/priming aside (seriously, GW brought out specialist primers to work with these paints for a reason, using your regular airbrush/zenith system or Halfords matt grey just isn’t going to work the same!) there’s also a technique to painting using Contrast Paints.
I got some amazing results this morning, and all in about an hour. Here’s how….
Step one – knock over your Contrast Paint
Get plenty of kitchen roll and mop it up. There’s too much paint here to do anything with. Finish with some acetone to get rid of any staining that might seep into the wood veneer finish on your table. There will now only be a small amount of paint left in the pot. This is good.
Step two – knock it over again
Just the right amount of paint should be dispensed onto your worktop.
Now, hurry and before it dries and starts going thick and gloopy, whack it onto as many miniatures, as quickly as you can. You need to be quick, but there’s still time for you to be careful around the edges or where any existing colour might already be painted onto the model. Clear up any remaining paint off the table.
Using this technique I managed to get about ten genestealers painted in less than an hour. This is far more than I would ever have tried at any one time, and I reckon that I can even afford to do a little blacklining around the claws, tidy up (paint fresh primer along the lengths of them) and bosh on some Skeleton Hoarde contrast to get all ten pretty close to tabletop ready in another hour or so.
The finish on the purple and blue paint is really nice – far better than when I was taking my time and applying Contrast carefully and judiciously, and being careful not to “waste” any paint.
Yes, at £4 a pot, Contrast paint isn’t cheap. But, then again, it’s only about the same price as a fancy coffee with syrup or something. And you get to appreciate the end result for much, much longer. So I’m throwing the stuff around. I’d happily pay more than £4 for a couple of hours “hobby-time” or at a games cafe, playing a board game for less time than it took me to paint these guys up.
After all, paint isn’t a collector’s item – it’s not made to sit on a shelf.
As far as I can see, the only “wasted” paint, is paint that’s left in the pot!
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