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Shadespire journey continued (Spring Clean)
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About the Project
These are the voyages of the Shadespire spring clean challenge. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new paints. To seek out new small painting projects and new warbands. To boldly deviate from the box art, correcting paint jobs that once went wrong and hoping each time that his next two thin coats will carry the mini home. I started with The Chosen Axes dwarves warband and then the chaos warband from the starter box, Garrek's Reavers because I struggled with the Mournfang Brown primer spray I used. Now I am just adding to the collection with Ironskull's Boyz using some of the new Contrast Colours.
Related Game: Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire
Related Company: Games Workshop
Related Genre: Fantasy
Related Contest: Spring Clean Hobby Challenge (Old)
This Project is Completed
Ironskulz
I used the Orc skin and Dark Angels Contrast Colours for the skin.
I used Army Painter Skeleton Bone spray primer and used a heavy over brush of the official primers for the Contrast Colour Paints.
Thank you for the affordable OnTableTop online store for making this experiment possible.
Playing with new paints
I went for an accent colour on each model. Trollslayer Orange for this guy.
I am not sure the Contrast paints are the excellent tool that they were advertised as, but I definitely think they will make a great addition to my collection of washes and will occasionally save time as they promised.
My only major criticism would be at the suggestion that these paints save time for new painters. I would say that for a new starter the level of accuracy and brush control required to get a nice result far surpass anything I could have achieved when I started painting. Corrections, when you are doing a standard starter single coat of base colours, shade and dry brush / highlight style paint job, are far easier than with Contrast Colours. I have a nice collection of paints. So when I made mistakes I didn’t need to use the primer again, as prescribed, and go back over with the correct Contrast paints again. I just used a standard paint I was happy with and went over the mistake and considered it a highlight opportunity. ?
Rust galore
Typhus Corrosion tech paint was another great purchase.
The scheme I chose ended up meaning a lot of Leadbelcher and it became apparent that it would look way too shinny and lacking contrast. The dabs of orange toned down with Typhus Corrosion made me happy with the results.
Jaws
I chose red paint as the accent colour for this mini, but knew that neatly painted red iron Jaws would look out of place.
The final finish with chipping, rust and a touch of Blood for the Blood God paint looks good to me.
I chose to only use the blood spatter on one weapon of the two most of the orcs are wielding, partly because the Garrek’s Reavers are covered in blood and I just didn’t want to go nuts with the gore on this warband.
