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Hey all

I'm trying to get my head around an idea.

I have a skull helmet on a Terminator to paint.

Rather than go from a bone colour, i.e. GW Ushabti Bone, up to a white using normal highlighting methods, I am wondering if I can go from white down to a bone colour by thinning the bone colour to the point that it's more of a glaze, and would leave the white showing through on the highpoints, and then use a darker colour (GW Seraphim Sepia or Agrax Earthshade for example) selectively and precisely to fill in the recesses?

Anyone know if this would work? And what would I thin the paint with, Lahmian Medium?

Thanks in advance.

Sounds like normal wash/ink/contrast style painting. May require a final highlight to help clean the look up, but should more or less work. Honestly, best bet is water, or possibly airbrush thinner if you got really thin.

Sounds like you're trying to glaze, which should work. I saw a good video on this the other day

You can glaze down yes. It's not layering.. Layering down doesn't really work.

Tell that to all the glazers in the world "You are all doing it wrong!"

Incidentally what OP is describing is basically also how gw contrast paints work.

Thanks guys.

Luckily I have 5 of the same heads so I can have a play around with it.

I would buy Skeleton Horde Contrast and use it over white, but it's just too expensive just for one head...

I did come across a Warhammer Community page where someone was showing their recipe for doing Skeletons, and they used a white undercoat then went over it with undiluted Seraphim Sepia so I might try that also.

Just want a quick way of doing a skull helmet nicely with what I've already got in the way of paints.

snakebite leather is a great colour for this.

So, turns out that Seraphim Sepia over white (I used Skull White) works a treat! What I was intending to do, didn't work...