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I'm trying to paint my army's armor white, but have run into some difficulty. I want to make the white have some depth, but the end result tends to make it seem really light blue. I've tried finding a video online that can help, but no luck. The result tends to either look similar, or have no depth at all. Can someone please help?

The paints I'm using are:
Base- Celestra Grey
Layer- Ulthuan Grey
Layer- White Scar.

   
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Incorporating Wet-Blending





Wales: Where the Men are Men and the sheep are Scared.

Try using these

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00QK8aMb-Xk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00QK8aMb-Xk

The cool video looks a little to blue for my liking but maybe using less blue and more white in the mixes will solve that.



 
   
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Thanks for sharing!

Do you think these would be the correct colors to paint warm white with Citadel paints?

Base- Zandri Dust
Layer- Ungor Flesh
Layer- White Scar
   
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Warm whites are shaded with beige and brown, not blue or grey.
   
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Western Massachusetts

I think that your starting colors were fine. I love Celestra Grey as a replacement for white. But what you seem to be missing is shadow colors.

   
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 Dullspork wrote:
I think that your starting colors were fine. I love Celestra Grey as a replacement for white. But what you seem to be missing is shadow colors.


What would you recommend?
   
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Virtus wrote:
 Dullspork wrote:
I think that your starting colors were fine. I love Celestra Grey as a replacement for white. But what you seem to be missing is shadow colors.


What would you recommend?


If I were doing it I would probably just add a small touch of black and then airbrush in the shadows. I believe that's what I did here - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dullspork/11844764696/ - but I also added some weathering in the form of burnt umber I think so that's going to take away from the blue of the celestra grey.

   
 
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