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Made in us
Fresh-Faced New User





I've only recently started to work on my 'nids (black skin, orange carapace, blue exposed parts) and foolishly started by applying troll slayer orange over black, which took several coats to mostly have it covered. Hoping to expedite the process I bought
  • Screaming Skull
  • Rakarth Flesh
  • Emperor's Children Pink
  • and Wraithbone
  • and applied two coats of each onto some gaunts before doing the same with both Troll Slayer Orange and Gryph-Hound Orange separately. Whilst I was okay with the Screaming Skull+Troll Slayer Orange/Gryph-Hound Orange(first layer), I was hoping to know what underlying layer I should use to help make the contrast paint appear more like said Troll Slayer Orange.
       
    Made in gb
    Regular Dakkanaut






    Use flesh tone as your base coat.

    This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2022/01/21 19:40:59


    Ashley
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    http://panther6actual.blogspot.co.uk/ 
       
    Made in us
    Grumpy Longbeard






    Use White.

    This has to do with the way light bounces. Thin layer of Screaming Skull over white with that white shining through will always always look brighter than an opaque layer of same Screaming Skull.
    Hope this helps.
    https://www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/how-to/art-theory/a-guide-to-transparent-and-opaque-paints/

    After dark base-coat if I need a colorful detail, I always re-base-coat it in white for the colored wash.



     
       
     
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