1/2/2024 0 Comments Paint translucent miniatures![]() ![]() This takes practice, of course, and a bit of experimentation to know how to make the ‘right’ ratio of paint to artistic mediums. With a bright undercoat, a miniature painted in this fashion can be rapidly painted to a relatively high tabletop standard. Painted using a DIY mix of Golden Matte Medium (3 parts), Water (3 parts), Flow Improver (1 part) and colored pigment (1-2 parts) (all paints/inks with Scale 75 inks and paint) For example, in my personal painting projects, I have painted many miniatures quickly by using washes and glazes-and often I use washes and glazes in-combination. ![]() If you understand these two deconstructed aspects of the Citadel Contrast Paints, then you will quickly realize how useful this is. Citadel Contrast Paints act just like this on the raised surfaces of the model. In this manner, a glaze merely changes the color and tone of the surface upon which it is applied. A glaze is a medium and approach whereby paint applied to a surface doesn’t fully obscure colors and values below. Like a glaze: Because Citadel Contrast Paint is transparent for the most part, but has high density of pigments in it, the paint can work like a glaze.This behavior pulls out details, darkening appropriately, and keeping the raised surfaced brighter (since your bright, white undercoat will show through). Like a wash: When Citadel Contrast Paints are applied thickly, essentially soaking a brush, the viscosity and surface tension of the paint tends to allow most of the colored pigments to settle in deeper recesses-like a wash.They two key mechanisms for the Citadel Contrast Paints is straightforward and binary: If I was to simply describe the behavior of Citadel Contrast Paint, it would that it is a highly-pigmented paint suspended in a medium that helps it act as both a wash and glaze at the same time. They are designed to be applied over a bright undercoat (recommended as white colored). Apply “one thick coat” of Citadel Contrast Paint! What Exactly are Citadel Contrast Paints?Ĭontrast paints are a new formulation of paints made by Game Workshop. The selling point – skip the steps to a tabletop ready miniature. And, if Citadel Contrast Paints are anything, they are a cute bundle of your inherent talent, skill, and motivation effort in a single paint pot-just apply in “…one thick coat”. Well, the Citadel Contrast Paints should be one more tool in your toolbox to help you get work done faster. It takes hard work, dedication, and a few good tools (e.g., brushes, paints). Ultimately, painting talent-also known as that indescribable ‘magic’ that allows some people to paint amazingly without effort-is only one key to a miniature fully painted to a satisfying quality. MORE: HOW TO STAY MOTIVATED TO FINISH PAINTING YOUR MINIATURES And, playing or collecting miniatures with paint on them is way more fun. What is universal across all miniature painters (and hobby-gamers) is the desire to have fun. I’m guessing that most of us fall in between these two groups.Ĭitadel Contrast Paints are meant to level the playing field for miniature painters across a wide spectrum of skill and motivation. Although painting miniatures is an art, and ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ and all that-it is also true that there are people who fall into two extreme camps: the divine talented and the mere mortals, who wield a brush like a toddler holding a crayon. ![]() Whether we like it or not, we make value judgements. MORE: SPEED PAINTING TIPS AND TRICKS FROM A COMMISSIONED PAINTER Does Talent Matter Anymore? In this case, getting your models painted quickly to a tabletop standard is your goal so you can get right to what’s most fun to you-playing the dang game. You’re a gamer first, a hobbyist a far second. ![]() Or, maybe your aspirations aren’t that lofty. You want the best results for the public to see….Well, certainly for a lot of new painters, getting models painted is a main goal.īut, I’ll also venture to guess that many miniature painters want to also feel that sense of accomplishment of completing a miniature. Painting miniatures is an art, isn’t it? So, it should be methodical and carefully done. Would have been great if I had Citadel Contrast Paints when I began this project – a massive swarm of Skaven Pestilent models. Read on to learn more about Citadel Contrast Paints and a brief review of what we think. RELATED: CITADEL CONTRAST PAINTS FOR 3D PRINTS AND D&D MINIS You can see more of his work and instruction on his Facebook page here. Spotts for a while now and I have learned a lot following his work that he’s shared across social media. ![]()
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