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2020/09/09 20:59:34
Subject: What other companies make contrast paints and do you use them
Until GW releases contrast paints I’d never heard of them and they confused me. I tried DA green and as I have said before didn’t like it. I bought GSWs intensity inks, which I think are contrast paints and I love them. I’m finding ways to create colours schemes that allow
Me to quickly paint up units which is a mega bonus. I also like they way GSW have just produced a set of colours and left you to be creative, GW seem to be a bit more prescriptive or thematic with how they market theirs although I have seen people work out side the box with them. Bit of course they are quite expensive.
I have tried to google it but can’t see where other companies are making contrast paints, I’d have thought Vallejo would be in the game. They probably call them something else if they do.
Here’s an example of where I have done quite a lot of a model in a couple of bourse by mostly layering 2 intensity inks, in the last pick I have added some simple highlights. This was supposed to be a bit of a tester but I’m quite happy with the result so will probably keep it.
2020/09/09 21:17:37
Subject: Re:What other companies make contrast paints and do you use them
Plenty of companies have inks, but nobody (as far as I'm aware) has anything exactly like Contrast. It's still fairly new, though, so I wouldn't be surprised if others are developing their own versions.
Painting with inks is not new, though. You can get similar effects to Contrast, it just takes a little more work. This guy was painted with Army Painter Quickshade inks over a white base.
Great video thanks for sharing, I actually have all the ingredients to try this at home and I am 100% going to try it with gold, however as neither this guy, GW or GSW have done that I suspect it won’t work!
One thing that I have only seen in one contrast paint video, which I’m suprised wasn’t in the goober town video, is using very light coloured bases, so a very light green blue or yellow
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insaniak wrote: Plenty of companies have inks, but nobody (as far as I'm aware) has anything exactly like Contrast. It's still fairly new, though, so I wouldn't be surprised if others are developing their own versions.
Painting with inks is not new, though. You can get similar effects to Contrast, it just takes a little more work. This guy was painted with Army Painter Quickshade inks over a white base.
Yeah sure I’m aware of inks but wasn’t sure if some inks, like GSW are the same as contrast paints, or if contrast paints are the same as inks and just the victim of GW branding. Love the blue and purple on this mini
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2020/09/09 22:46:33
Subject: What other companies make contrast paints and do you use them
Painting with Inks and otherwise thin paint isn’t a new thing. I’ve been doing a “wet over white” style for a long time. Basically, start from white primer. Apply a thin, medium brightness colour. The white primer shows through a bit on the raised areas. Follow up with a darker, overall wash.
It is similar to the contrast result. It takes more time, is generally a smoother finish, and it looks better in my opinion... but it takes longer so I’m into contrast these days.
But the premise is the same. Thin-ish paint over a white primer, followed by a darkening agent to increase the, well, contrast on the model.
2020/09/09 23:22:02
Subject: What other companies make contrast paints and do you use them
They are making some big promises about how quick and easy these paints are to use. Bit like GW did with contrast. But I am interested in this, there’s a lot of colours
2020/09/10 00:08:25
Subject: What other companies make contrast paints and do you use them
Wow... I had completely forgotten about that Kickstarter already. Apparently, when it turned out that they didn't have a starter box with a useful mix of colours, my brain just deleted it from storage...
So, yes, these look promising, when they make it to market in single bottles.
2020/09/10 06:59:24
Subject: What other companies make contrast paints and do you use them
insaniak wrote: Wow... I had completely forgotten about that Kickstarter already. Apparently, when it turned out that they didn't have a starter box with a useful mix of colours, my brain just deleted it from storage...
So, yes, these look promising, when they make it to market in single bottles.
That was the same reason I didn't jump in on that KS. Guess I'll be waiting for them to be released as singles too!
Inks aren't contrast paint. They act in a similar way but they aren't the same. Contrast are gw specific and other companies don't seem to have been too fussed about developing their own. They are heavily pigmented, more translucent and more fluid than normal paints. They can be used to add intensity to regular paints, or put over paint to provide heavy tints.
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2020/09/10 12:58:31
Subject: What other companies make contrast paints and do you use them
So what are contrast paints then? Looking at the way they behave and knowing there is something called contrast medium my gut says there are 2 paints in there one darker than the other, the dark one therefore moves around the details and recesses and the lighter paint sits on top of everything. Just a guess though
2020/09/10 13:11:05
Subject: What other companies make contrast paints and do you use them
They're not a single thing. "Contrast" is just the GW marketing classification of the paint line so as to differentiate them from their Base, Shade, Layer, Technical and Texture paints.
In practice, there are two(ish) types of Contrast paints. One is closer to an ink in that they're a single predominant color (and the "ish" here is that there's several slight variances of how the line does this within the Contrast category). The other is a hybrid that suspends a particular pigment inside another thinner pigment allowing for differing effects depending on how the paint settles on the model.
As stated however, nobody else currently makes anything quite like them.
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