Painting Grey

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**DruidODurham**

Any other Space Wolves players or Relictors/Revilers/some Tau players ever feel kinda silly when you take grey plastic models, paint them black (or white), only to paint them grey again? Maybe we should just leave 'em grey.

**ZacktheChaosChild**

No, then the color just looks unreal, and not to mention half-assed. You should paint the models, because even if you paint them gray, they still have some parts that shouldn't be gray.

**Superscope**

ZacktheChaosChild wrote:No, then the color just looks unreal, and not to mention half-assed. You should paint the models, because even if you paint them gray, they still have some parts that shouldn't be gray.

Indeed.. i use only very small amounts of gray on my tau battlesuits, mainly because the majority of my paint sceme is RED

**Vindicator#9**

D'oh wrong forum belongs in Painting and Modeling.

**Candroth**

I'll do ya one better: I had grey primer, too.

**makr**

Yeah. When I was wondering what color to paint my Guardsmen, I was thinking of going with a light grey scheme. Then I noticed that after I basecoated them they looked unpainted so I was like "this is stupid" and went with snow camo instead.

**Fafnir**

Painted grey and plastic grey look completely different, and it shows.

**Henners91**

Though I go along with undercoating and basecoating, I can't help but feel it's all a GW conspiracy to make us buy more paints...

**JohnHwangDD**

Fafnir wrote:Painted grey and plastic grey look completely different, and it shows.

Correct!

We're not talking about a flat, uniform gray, so it's all good.

**Grimgob**

I don't know.. I based a Battlewaggon "Codex grey" once and I thought it should be called "Sprue Grey".

**deffskullz**

lol i like this thread i use grey primer too but its the exact same color as plastic models so i cant tell if i got all the parts :p