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 Ghaz wrote:

 sockwithaticket wrote:
Thought word from the fest was that these paints won't be out 'til June.

Yes. Today we find out what goes on pre-order on May 25th for release on June 1st...

I'd forgotten how far into May we are already. Jeez, Time; take a breather will ya?

I was just about to start on 50 Plaguebearers. I'll definitely wait for these paints.

Yeah Im kind of in a similiar boat. I will keep painting the stuff I have primed but I'm hesitant to keep priming. Then again there will be a pot variant of the base you need for those I'm correct in thinking? I could overcoat the areas I want these to go on perhaps. Im pretty psyched for these tbf.

I will try this line just to reward GW for the Conan spoof video. Not sure how it beats basecoat and wash, but hey, I'll give it a shot.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I was just about to start on 50 Plaguebearers. I'll definitely wait for these paints.

Spray em and dip em. As fast if not faster. Super easy.

I’ve got a huge GSC Kill Team all built and ready to paint (annoyingly, I sprayed a couple black ready to try out schemes).
So I’ll get one of the new sprays, unless I can find my current bone colour if it’s light enough, and then a few pots of the main colours, would still do several areas with normal paints anyway I’d think, after getting the bulk done with these..

Unsure on what to do with my Primaris Kill Team..
Maybe on them too, but again, I’ve painted one up as a test, so not sure whether to continue on with that process..

Any word when this paint stuff is to be released yet?

 buddha wrote:
Any word when this paint stuff is to be released yet?

 Ghaz wrote:

 Bossk_Hogg wrote:
Did they say when these go on sale?

They look pretty good to me. While Army Shades can be decent, they never quite seemed the same as GW's original Devlan Mud era shades.

From Warhammer Community:

Contrast will be hitting shelves in June!

Note that based on passed events June probably means the 29th of June and not early June.

 Elbows wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I was just about to start on 50 Plaguebearers. I'll definitely wait for these paints.

Spray em and dip em. As fast if not faster. Super easy.

I may be a lazy painter but I'm not a monster.

Sotahullu wrote:
So anyway, any plans on finishing/starting army with these paints?

I actually though on starting a small Primaris army (max. 500-750 points) before but this gives me an excuse to toy around. Naturally I am going to base my force on Blood Angels althought I am not going to be that specific on that.

Rolling back to this, I'm actually quite interested in this for my ancient Tyranid swarm (read: from when the plastics first came out ) that I never got around to primering all that much of. Reading that it'd be really good for organics seems to make that a pretty decent fit. Just a question of if the color of paints will work.

I'm also pondering if it'd be good for quick terrain to do this and then pick out a few details. My reservation there is the comments that it doesn't respond to wear as well as more traditional paint. Still, under enough sealer it probably wouldn't be a huge deal if it can do the job. Might work really well for AT particularly.

Being thinner, I wonder if it can be sprayed from an airbrush.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Elbows wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I was just about to start on 50 Plaguebearers. I'll definitely wait for these paints.

Spray em and dip em. As fast if not faster. Super easy.

I may be a lazy painter but I'm not a monster.

I am...and I'm okay with this.



Just colour-primed...painting a handful of details, dipped (heavily) and left shiny so they look slick and disgusting. 20 guys painted in maybe 2 hours. Considering I didn't want to paint them, not too bad.

 kestral wrote:
Being thinner, I wonder if it can be sprayed from an airbrush.

Probably, but I'd expect that it would behave differently, just like regular washes through an airbrush.

Dipped in? If you did all that in 2 hours that is impressive.

Dipped in...dip? Army Painter Strong Tone dip. I didn't count the hour or so to build them. I didn't want to paint plaguebearers so I went with the easiest possible method.

I think you'll get very similar results though by hitting them with a similar colour primer (or white) and suitable contrast paints.

Dip is just wash+varnish (it's slightly modified wood varnish more or less) so it's all in the same vein of cheating.

 kestral wrote:
Being thinner, I wonder if it can be sprayed from an airbrush.

Going to guess not. It's not water based, or at least you can't thin it with water, iirc. It's also not targeted towards airbrush users. Did GW tell us what the solvent is?

ced1106 wrote:

 kestral wrote:
Being thinner, I wonder if it can be sprayed from an airbrush.

Going to guess not. It's not water based, or at least you can't thin it with water, iirc. It's also not targeted towards airbrush users. Did GW tell us what the solvent is?

From what I understand, it can be thinned with water but it can leave tide marks on the model if you do so.

Sotahullu wrote:
So anyway, any plans on finishing/starting army with these paints?

I actually though on starting a small Primaris army (max. 500-750 points) before but this gives me an excuse to toy around. Naturally I am going to base my force on Blood Angels althought I am not going to be that specific on that.

Going to use them to paint War of the Ring. Hit each army with the contrast paint of its colour then paint in a few details. Won’t look realistic but should work well functionally and far better than just spraying each army a different base colour.

Contrast: The Pro Perspective on Warhammer TV.

I'm just sitting here with all my Skitarii, waiting patiently for Contrast...

No no that wasn't about contrast paint - that was Contrast Paint - The Movie!


Though jokes aside a nice presentation and it was good to see a wide range of painters who are keen gamers, but who aren't all "within" GW itself talking well of the product in the open like that.

Yeah, that video did way more to sell me on this as opposed to people who work for GW. Some of those artists I follow and have a lot of respect for.

 Kanluwen wrote:
I'm just sitting here with all my Skitarii, waiting patiently for Contrast...

I'm thinking with this and the Battle Ready introduction yesterday we might see it announced for pre-order on the 8th (but as usual ).

If GW had released that video as their announcement video with names I know and respect a lot I would have been less skeptical on the range.

I think they're going to be good and I may break out my Tyranids again to batch paint some hordes.

I think the pros really were selling Contrast as a gateway to “proper” painting. Finish painting a good looking model and hunger for something, a bit better. I think it’ll be good for serial beginners like myself and board gamers who want painted rather than monochrome plastic minis.

 rayphoton wrote:
Yeah, that video did way more to sell me on this as opposed to people who work for GW. Some of those artists I follow and have a lot of respect for.

This kind of post shows that people didn't actually pay attention to what was happening at the Tokyo trade event same time as Warhammerfest was doing open demos for people at the event.

And then there's the new Citadel Colour website coming soon!

Well, that was long video of people telling how amazing these paints are, instead of properly showing what they do. Now, I am convinced that these will be a good, but I'd really like to see a step by step painting process with these on couple of different models by a competent painter. Duncan, get to it!

Poor Duncan - first they are releasing Knights with spikes on them and now now they are releasing contrast paints and destroying his glory of being "two thin coats" man!

They'll likely have to retire him or spend copious amounts of time retraining him to say "one thick coat"