GW Contrast Paints and Base Coats Examples

[noyjatat 16155xp 13]

These came through to me on a Facebook page and I thought they might be a useful visual reference for people interested in the new products.

Please don’t flame this too much was just posting this here to try and help people out if they are going to try them.

 

 

[brucelea 7906xp 1]

Cheers Gaz, that’s a really useful reference.??

[warzan 31141xp 1]

Excellent resource 🙂

Well done to whoever’s created that!

[Anonymous]

Very useful indeed, thanks for sharing.

[lawnor 25981xp 1]

Saved for reference later.  Cheers.

[milmaa 8364xp 1]

very useful 🙂

Cant wait to get my hands on some of these to try them out!

[limburger 22346xp 2]

@noyjatat this ain’t no facebook … so no flaming here, just compliments 🙂
It is a very neat reference. I’d say GW definitely have created something useful here.

[jemmy 2428xp 1]

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I´ve a small orc detachment to paint and warp lightning or/and orc flesh will do the job. For the skin,I mean.

[torros 23839xp 4]

Found this photo . Somebody using contrast paints on 6mm marines

 

[soldado 5903xp 1]

Yeah these photos were a real help in deciding which ones to pre order, so thanks to whom ever posted them and to @noyjatat for posting them.

[noyjatat 16155xp 0]

@torros very cool buddy, thanks for adding.

[limburger 22346xp 1]

@torros looks like the smaller scales is where these paints have even more use.
I wonder which colours would be useful for WW 2. The creed camo looks like it might work for US or Soviet forces.
And I’m sure one of the grey tones would be close enough for German vehicles.

[torros 23839xp 1]

This video although in German gives a good job of using alternative paints from Vallejo that match the GW primers

 

[limburger 22346xp 0]

That was to be expected, wasn’t it ?
GW’s advantage with this is marketing/visibility and convenience (more colours and they’re matched to their existing paint) …

It does kind of suck that they had to use their own branded name for this paint type, but it makes sense from a marketing/business perspective as it makes it harder for the average consumer to find alternative products.

[blaeyn 2675xp 0]

Yes, thanks for adding this; it was something I needed to see, using the same figure, varying only the base coat. One question: were those base paints used as a primer or sprayed over a primer? With the evening’s experimentation with the few that I bought yesterday, I find that they seem to work best with figures with distinct recesses , less so with subtle “terrain”. Now I have to experiment with using the grey seer and wraithbone through my airbrush.

P.S. The Black Templar used over a primed black figure gives the richest black I’ve ever seen. Now I just have to figure a way to maintain the highlights prior to that. Maybe lighter highlights?

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