Any other colourblind miniature painters on Dakka?

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**Tek**

Whats the deal with being green/red colourblind?

I seriously now know six people who are red/green.
Are there any other types?
Orange/blue, Purple/yellow?

**nintendoeats**

Sgt Deadmeat wrote:
Dronze wrote:I'm red/green colorblind, and find I have a slew of trouble differentiating similar saturations of red and green, as well as that ever-obnoxious issue of green and yellow, and occasionally orange and pink (in pale/pastel circumstances). My trick when painting is to avoid colors I can't tell apart on the same model, and to never have more than one color on my palate at a time, unless it's obvious, like steel and gold, red and blue, and other such combinations.

I'm in the same boat as you. Do you find it harder to distinguish colours in artificial light too? I find it can really screw me up. My mum still ribs me about the time she asked me to buy my step-dad a pair of black trousers as I was going shopping. I dropped off the shopping bag on my way home, only to get a phonecall later asking why I had bought him dark green

My seven year old daughter is constantly correcting me on colours too

So is the real moral of this thread that being colourblind makes your relatives total gakfrakking arseheads?

**Kilkrazy**

There's a good article on Wikipedia, probably rewritten from a medical textbook.

Red-Green is the most common but there are several others including very rare B&W vision.

**two_heads_talking**

One of my GW managers was completely color blind. He would paint using the three step method (based on Citadel paints of course)..

so, just to mess with him, we'd changed the reds and greens and blues all up..

We had to write down every color we used when doing painted armies so that when (not very often mind you) he did paint, he wouldn't screw it up..

Tek wrote:Whats the deal with being green/red colourblind?

I seriously now know six people who are red/green.
Are there any other types?
Orange/blue, Purple/yellow?

these types.. 2 major types with 2 minor types under partial color blindness.

Total color blindness
Partial color blindness
Red-green
Dichromacy (protanopia and deuteranopia)
Anomalous trichromacy (protanomaly and deuteranomaly)
Blue-yellow
Dichromacy (tritanopia)
Anomalous trichromacy (tritanomaly)

**Sgt Deadmeat**

nintendoeats wrote:So is the real moral of this thread that being colourblind makes your relatives total gakfrakking arseheads?

Actually I have a very close and supportive family who can't resist winding each other up

@Tek - There used to be a very informative page on the King's College London website that explained all the types of colour blindness and had various tests you could try but unfortunately it doesn't appear to be around now.

This one isn't as in depth but covers most aspects http://www.colormatters.com/v_colorblind.html

**KingCracker**

I used to play in a group that had a color blind player. He saw pretty much everything in blues and purple, but oddly enough he was the best painter there.

**nintendoeats**

KingCracker wrote:I used to play in a group that had a color blind player. He saw pretty much everything in blues and purple, but oddly enough he was the best painter there.

He probably payed more attention to texture, which is arguably more important than colour selection.

**artyboy**

You can take this test to see if you're color blind or not. You might be and not even know it.

**robertsjf**

To help combat my colorblindness, I initially had my Mom. When she kicked me out of the house, I got married. I have no idea who's going to help me once my wife kicks me out, though....

**jamessearle0**

artyboy you are a total arse hole

**nintendoeats**

I got to one for which I could see NO number, or even any pattern. Whats wrong with me?

James...did you just find out that you are colourblind?

**greenskin lynn**

the one with no number gives you a screaming face if you submit no number

**chromedog**

Mate of mine is colourblind - completely. It's all shades of grey to him - but this is more the result of a skull trauma in his early teens (also when he got the plate).

Doesn't stop him animating or gaming or working in the visual field (he's a journo and editor/animator). He is the guy who edited the Watchmen trailers (commercial teaser and cinema). His immediate boss is a drinking buddy of Zack Snyder.

**nintendoeats**

greenskin lynn wrote:the one with no number gives you a screaming face if you submit no number

apparently not if your colourblind...

**greenskin lynn**

so its a test designed to start those with normal vision...very sneaky

**Noisy_Marine**

The owner of my LGS is completely colorblind. This doesn't stop him from painting well.

**nintendoeats**

greenskin lynn wrote:so its a test designed to start those with normal vision...very sneaky

It would be cool (and evil) if it could also convince colourblind people that they have normal vision.