![]() That will do for now, partly because I have run out of dropper bottles!Īll in all I am happy with the results but even in the best cases I have only managed to match the colour and general shading effects of the contrast paints invariably my home-mixes feel far thinner, runnier and generally harder to use with precision than the contrasts. Just like the black above, I regret using the neat flow improver as it causes paint to behave very strangely. (Right to left - Gore grunta, neat chestnut ink, 50:50 ink:medium with a couple of drops of neat flow aid, lastly ink heavily diluted with medium and dilute flow aid) ![]() I therefore settled for something close to Creed Camo: In fact, I started off trying to emulate Militarum green (below) and added brown ink, sepia ink, GW Deathworld Forest, Vallejo Heavy Khaki and yellow ink (as well as medium) but the dark green ink proved to be so dominant that I simply couldn't achieve the yellow/brown tones of militarum within a single 12ml bottle. I decided to create a green contrast but in this case I was less bothered about achieving an exact colour match. My mix was made from old GW flesh ink (a very browny tone) with red ink, bugmans glow and emperors children to add the necessary pinky/reddy hues, together with a LOT of medium.Ĭlearly my mix is still a lot more opaque than the contrast colours, so I may need to thin it more, but for the time being I decided to leave it as it is as I could always thin it on the palette (and did I mention I'd already used a LOT of medium) The right hand fig is gulliman on top, and fyreslayer below. One of my favourite contrast colours high on my list of possible buys is the sepia Skeleton Horde, but I noticed how similar it was to vanilla sepia ink (vallejo): ![]() Time to see whether these products can be combined to make a working substitute for expensive GW contrast paints! Whilst I'm not averse to buying a few useful contrast colours, the price of a whole set is eye-watering and I can't help feeling guilty about all the nearly-full inks, acrylics and mediums I already have. Many youtubers recommend using artist inks for this because they give exact details of the colour pigments they contain - I can see this would be helpful. ![]() I also had a handful of empty 12ml dropper bottles. I also had all my ordinary acrylic paints. My tools were mostly inks (Vallejo Game Inks, Scale75 and a couple of old GW inks), medium (Vallejo matte, and Liquitex gloss), and flow improver (Galleria flow improver diluted according to the bottle instructions). Adventures in Contrast: Star Wars Legion - Phase 1.Following my fun with GW contrast paints in my last post, I wanted to take the opportunity to try making my own contrast substitutes whilst I had access to the borrowed set of official contrast paints to compare against.Adventures in Contrast: Star Wars Legion - B1 Batt.The B1 Battle Droids I am painting are based on the bone color scheme that is common in the Clone Wars tv series and the Phantom Menace and Revenge of the Sith films.įor this color scheme we are going to let the base color of Wraithbone and transparent nature of Contrast do most of the work for us! It's a very simple recipe, and gives excellent results too! In this article we will be looking at the B1 Battle Droid, the rank and file of the Separatists army. With that in mind, I'm using flexing Contrast paint to my advantage as much as possible. Especially since the droids and clones all are pretty simple paint schemes already. My main objective for this project is to paint the models to a table top standard, without worrying about spending a ton of time on the. The Clone Wars edition of Star Wars Legion arrived at my house thanks to my friend Dusty recently and I've been working my way through painting it all. Welcome back to Adventures in Contrast, where I show you all sorts of little tricks and techniques that you can do with Citadel Colour's Contrast paint system!
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