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Yellow contrast paints over metallic undercoat?


Kaldoth

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Hey all! So, I've got a buttload of Necrons I need to paint and for the more rank and file troops I figured batch painting would be the best route to go. I've got a little experience with the contrast range, but I'm curious as to how they apply over a metallic basecoat. Specificallly, yellow contrast paint over silver.

 

I've watched a few videos on applying contrast over silver base coats and I do like the look of the end result. However, my Necrons are going to be gold. I can't seem to find any videos of painters trying yellow over a silver basecoat, so I was wondering if anyone has tried this and had it result in a decent gold effect?

 

Any insight would be appreciated!

 

Cheers,

 

-Kal

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Check out this one by Pete the Wargamer, he puts a few different contrast colours over leadbelcher, making things like gold, tin, copper, etc. He also has another more involved one for doing NMM gold with contrast paints that comes out pretty good if you want to put some extra time and effort into centrepiece models.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1zSQdAnqoM

 

I have done it myself on some test models (no photos unfortunately as they have since been stripped) and it looks pretty good.

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On a laptop now.

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That's the yellow over aluminum primer (basically Runefang Steel) to give you an idea how yellow it is.

 

This is their gold spray, it doesn't say primer on it but it passes the fingernail test and I plan to use it on a whole Custodes army.

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You can actually thin some yellow contrast with medium and make more yellowy if you'd like.  Their gold paint+primer is waaaaay too shiny and I can't get shades or contrast paints to stick on it, the surface is too hydrophobic.

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