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I'm painting up some tiles from Hexton Hills, think along the lines of Mighty Empires and such. My main theme will be a green, temperate climate, like hills in Ireland or Scotland.

Here's there map generator: https://map.gravenguild.com/

I'm adhering to their color scheme in the map generator, so your basic hills and plains looks like this:


But I'm nervous to get started. I'm painting them so that the edges of each tile will blend together seamlessly, so when I pick my base green, I've got to stick with it. It's going to be on nearly every tile, to help blend the landscape together.

Because I've got... Too many tiles... I'm going to use GW Contrast Paint over white primer (Army Painter Matt White) for most of the painting.

I've got all (most?) of GW's Contrast line in green. My question to y'all is: what color Contrast Green would you use to color-match those tiles?

You can see examples of all the Contrast paints over various primer colors on the Warhammer Chelmsford Facebook page.

 Ghaz wrote:
You can see examples of all the Contrast paints over various primer colors on the Warhammer Chelmsford Facebook page.

Thanks, that's helpful! I'm less familiar with GW sprays... Is "white scar" their white-white primer?

Mantis Warriors green might be good. Or Warp Lightening. Hard to tell, as those two colors are not shown next to each other...

I don't have more than one or two Contrast greens so can't help with the color selection, but I have a thought you may want to give some consideration before you paint. Now this may only be my taste, but I don't care for how the less tinted parts of Contrast green look over a white or off-white base. I had much more success using light beige and ocher to get highlights that blend better with the darker areas. I found white as a base too stark.

Contrast paint is a tint and only as consistent as you can make it. It works well with pre-shading, so there is something to be said for thinking about your base colors just as much as the Contrast paint you plan to use.

Warp lightning is designed to look glowy, so might not be the best if you are trying to get a grass look.

 Ghaz wrote:
You can see examples of all the Contrast paints over various primer colors on the Warhammer Chelmsford Facebook page.

Why HQ hasn't taken that idea and put in on the website proper I'll never understand. It's such a fantastic resource to refer to.

Having used all the Contrast paints I would say that Gutrippa flesh is closest to your example picture, with Militarum green or Creed camo (or both) for forests. Maybe even Plaguebearer flesh for individual trees.

I would also get a light green or two for drybrushing because you can't always control the colour of raised areas as well as you would like. I am holding Krieg Khaki and Nurgling green next to the example picture and I am seeing shades of both in it. I recommend drybrushing the whole tile before picking the forests and other details.

I've painted up a couple FDM-printed Hexton Hills tiles, and I found Contrast paints pool a little too much to my liking in the layer lines, which gives a very striated appearance (kinda cool in an abstract way, but not very natural in appearance). If you're using SLA the texture is probably better, but if you happen to be using FDM like me, I found better results with using a light green spray primer (just cheap stuff from the hardware store) and adding depth with a selective washing/drybrushing. Much cheaper too!