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I've just started experimenting with contrast paints and am wondering if anybody knows of a systematic guide to the effects they produce when laid over different undercoats. I've seen that in the GW tutorials they undercoat with a range of different colours - grey seer, white, mechanicus standard grain, wraithbone etc. I was painting some ents with "skeleton horde" and noticed amazing differences depending on the undercoat. Over a light grey it came up a rich, brown colour like varnished wood, over mechanicus a dark greenish brown. Both excellent. But it'd be nice to have some control over what I'm doing and to know more about the possibilities of combining different contrasts with different undercoats. Any ideas?

I’ve see it won’t of demo’s of people using bright white, cream, bone and metallic but not enough with other colours, I don’t think many examples exist, perhaps people haven’t got very experimental yet. I’d like to see examples over light colours, I think the plague marine green colour would look good over a pale yellow.

With the sizes of the ranges it’s unlikely to get a comprehensive collection of combos. Contrast paints can be used like filters and tints over anything. I use guilman flesh over golds and zentali dust (or whatever they call the beige these days)

Some times you just need to mess around and try it out. I want to do that with the new blue contrasts over macragge blue for my ultras as a replacement for my trusty blue ink. But a little adverse of buying paints just to have them not work.

Yeah, given the wide variety of potential combinations I'd say you're probably not going to find ONE comprehensive guide covering them all. What you probably WILL find is dozens of various painting blogs and such where you'll find a couple here, a couple there.

If you're feeling ambitions, you could get a BUNCH of cheap minis and do all (or a bunch of) combinations yourself to see what happens. And if you're really ambitions - and benevolent - you could post pictures for the rest of us to see...

 Vulcan wrote:
If you're feeling ambitions, you could get a BUNCH of cheap minis and do all (or a bunch of) combinations yourself to see what happens. And if you're really ambitions - and benevolent - you could post pictures for the rest of us to see...

Or you can just open the Warhammer Chelmsford's Facebook page and see each of the Contrast paints over Grey Seer, Wraithbone, White Scar, Zandri Dust, Leadbelcher, Retributor Armour or Runelord Brass...

 Ghaz wrote:

 Vulcan wrote:
If you're feeling ambitions, you could get a BUNCH of cheap minis and do all (or a bunch of) combinations yourself to see what happens. And if you're really ambitions - and benevolent - you could post pictures for the rest of us to see...

Or you can just open the Warhammer Chelmsford's Facebook page and see each of the Contrast paints over Grey Seer, Wraithbone, White Scar, Zandri Dust, Leadbelcher, Retributor Armour or Runelord Brass...

Retributor armour yields some interesting results

mrFickle wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:

 Vulcan wrote:
If you're feeling ambitions, you could get a BUNCH of cheap minis and do all (or a bunch of) combinations yourself to see what happens. And if you're really ambitions - and benevolent - you could post pictures for the rest of us to see...

Or you can just open the Warhammer Chelmsford's Facebook page and see each of the Contrast paints over Grey Seer, Wraithbone, White Scar, Zandri Dust, Leadbelcher, Retributor Armour or Runelord Brass...

Retributor armour yields some interesting results

Yes, as a yellow it has a bit more variety in the results especially with the Contrast paints which have a better coverage but still let the undercoat show through. I plan on using Gryph-Hound Orange, Frostheart and Agarros Dunes on some 'Mech cockpits I'm painting and Striking Scorpion Green on some Necrons.

 Ghaz wrote:

 Vulcan wrote:
If you're feeling ambitions, you could get a BUNCH of cheap minis and do all (or a bunch of) combinations yourself to see what happens. And if you're really ambitions - and benevolent - you could post pictures for the rest of us to see...

Or you can just open the Warhammer Chelmsford's Facebook page and see each of the Contrast paints over Grey Seer, Wraithbone, White Scar, Zandri Dust, Leadbelcher, Retributor Armour or Runelord Brass...

Fair enough.

That is such a helpful resource!

Imperial Fist in those photos looks way more orangey than mine. My Imperial Fist is very yellow, doesn't read as orange at all over white scar.

But yeah, it can be surprising the hints of different colours that come out over different bases. Yellow over grey seer has a greenish tone that you don't get over the wraithbone or white scar.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
Imperial Fist in those photos looks way more orangey than mine. My Imperial Fist is very yellow, doesn't read as orange at all over white scar.

I believe what you're seeing is a bit of pooling of the paint, especially in the flat area near the lower peg hole. It shows up better if you open the pic in a new tab and view it at full (and larger than life) size.