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This thing has been marketed as quick and dirty speed method for people who cannot find the motivation or time to paint I feel.

 

Still, the way I paint black, I get my definition purely from highlights. If I can get some definition on the blackt, to get some minor definitional shifts in the black before highlights it might be good, but if i can't highlight it as them as my previous ones, they'll clash too much for me to have any use for it.

 

It reminds me a bit of some fraters, who have done theirs by basecoating their templar dark grey, then using heavy amounts of black shade until its really dark. We'll see.

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Well the "Black Templar" contrast paint seems to work quite nicely.

Maybe I will start using that one for tubes, a light red for eyes and the green for screens as shown in that video.

Seems like there could be nice shortcuts for some effects here.

Leather too coming to think of it.

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I'm becoming more and more positively intrigued. However, I'm yet to see a proper Black Templar done with the eponymous paint. Black can be so hard to get right, and so can our other key colour: white.

However, this may be be way forward for things like pouches and different coloured weapons. I still think Leadbelcher and Nuln oil looks better for metal though.

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It reminds me a bit of some fraters, who have done theirs by basecoating their templar dark grey, then using heavy amounts of black shade until its really dark. We'll see.

That's how I did my Helbrecht, but from a corax white base and 10+ coats of nuln oil :

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You sir, are insane. (In a good way, BUT STILL).

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"Apothecary White is one of the most exciting Contrast paints for all painters! Shading white has long been an incredibly difficult prospect for painters – after all, there’s no such colour in nature as ‘dark white’! Apothecary White is designed to provide subtle, blue-tinted shading that’ll help bring out white models without overpowering them."

 

 

I actually think, that that looks rather promising. We will see one way or the other. I hope that this paint line might contain some nice shortcuts that set us up to shave some time off painting/enable us to reinvest said time in other aspects of the model.

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I've been using a grey base with Eshin Grey coated with 2-3 washes of Nuln Oil... Now that I need to paint my primaris units I'm excited to use the new paint- especially with the white base primer. One less thing to paint. The tutorial with zenithal priming for the blood angel has also given me lots of hope for the new line.

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Oh, man. I'm such a downer. These paints look like an amazing product which I won't/can't use since I've already painted a third of my Marines to a certain standard in an old-school aesthetic. That's why this makes me righteously mad since I've never strived for top quality painting, yet Contrast paints appear to enable people to get decent results in no time. Damn you GW for introducing innovation after I've committed to something else!! :P It's the Primaris all over again.

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Oh, man. I'm such a downer. These paints look like an amazing product which I won't/can't use since I've already painted a third of my Marines to a certain standard in an old-school aesthetic. That's why this makes me righteously mad since I've never strived for top quality painting, yet Contrast paints appear to enable people to get decent results in no time. Damn you GW for introducing innovation after I've committed to something else!! :tongue.: It's the Primaris all over again.

I'm in a similar bind. Having said that, I'm fully intent on testing them on one model to see if there's a lot of difference side by side. If there isn't, I might use it for some units.

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Thinking of trying these. Trouble is, I always prime black, so all my unpainted models are black. Do contrast paints only work on contrast undercoat?

 

Also not sure how apothecary white is going to look on Black Templars. Needs a warmer tone I think.

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So went to my local GW for the contrast demo day, I have to say I'm quite liking the result :

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This is :

- wraithbone base (visible on pauldrons)

- black templar on the armour

- blood angel red on the bolter and seals

- skeleton horde on the parchments

- basilicanum grey for the gunmetal

- (not-contrast) heavily diluted agrax on the chest eagle and outer edges of the pauldrons)

 

The wraithbone base covers really well if you spill over and all colours apply really easily.

 

Oh and... the model (except the base) took... 30 min max.

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I don't think the video is a particularly good example tbh. As the rest of the models is unpainted, it makes the black stand out differently from how it would normally.

Check my test model earlier in the thread, it's one coat and it doesn't look that grey to me (even when the photo is slightly overexposed).

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