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Let's all dial down the hysteria in here, folks. Disagreeing with the way someone counts the length of time something takes to do is a bit of a ridiculous thing to get this worked up over.

Take a breath, and look at the pretty colours.

Not sure if this has been posted yet, but Way of the Brush episode 252 has some contrast paint work in it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJz_GMgK3Hk

at 34:42 he tries contrast flesh tearers red over black primer (someone was curious, results do not look great)

at about 37:00 he does contrast flesh tearers red over a plain white prime (not one of the contrast basecoats)

41:25: 2 layers of contrast black templar over plain white primer

50:40: Contrast skeleton horde over white primer

56:13: Contrast Orkflesh over white primer

1:02:51: Contrast Iyanden Yellow over white primer

1:05:20: Contrast Talisar Blue over white primer

1:11:20 Contrast Black Templar over white primer

1:22:25: Contrast Blood Angels Red over zenithal primed base

1:27:18: Contrast Snakebite Leather over zenithal primed base

There might be some others I missed, but I found it interesting to see them being used in real-time, and how they interact on a normal white base rather than the super-special secret new primer formula. Far more informative than still shots of finished minis and marketing spiel, imo

Don’t know if this has been shared here yet, but Johan Egerkrans has shared his experience of Contrast paints on his blog.

http://convertorum.blogspot.com/2019/05/a-pillar-of-community.html

This bit was interesting;

“There's several different pigments in the paint that separate, so if you take Blood Angels Red, it turns darker with an almost blueish tint in the recesses, a vibrant deep red on most of the miniature and slightly yellowish near the edges”.

I could see this being decent. I'm actually painting my tomb kings in a similar way right now using the armypainter washes over a white primer as the base layer and then adding some highlights using the layer paints. I'll wait to see more videos before I buy any.

The Everchosen competition is being held to coincide with the painting craze...

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/05/26/everchosen-the-global-warhammer-painting-competition/

...I am so doing this!

I am equally surprised and disappointed to see that the paints are not available for another three weeks. I guess it means that I have to assemble even more models while waiting...

 Ghaz wrote:

OMG, It's spelled wrong everywhere I see it. Oh this funny!

If my pre-orders go right, I am getting my paints 14th of June by the look of things, if not earlier.

But this leaves something something between half-things and paints.

 Commodus Leitdorf wrote:


OMG, It's spelled wrong everywhere I see it. Oh this funny!

Nobody was willing to give GW a trademark for "contrast" so that's the new name.

 Commodus Leitdorf wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:

Spoiler:

OMG, It's spelled wrong everywhere I see it. Oh this funny!

A pirate would say it needs more 'aarr!'

Ignoring that, do we have any details of the actual release? Like are they going to offer a set (or three) with the new paints in like when they released the first foundation paints?

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Ignoring that, do we have any details of the actual release? Like are they going to offer a set (or three) with the new paints in like when they released the first foundation paints?

Nope. Just that they're announcing the preorder date two weeks out.

Not sure if these were brought up, but fairly decent overview with examples going over strengths and weaknesses.

I guess GW see Contrast as a big release that warrants an empty week to prepare customers wallets and there own stock, or alternatively the Sylvaneth delay left a hole in there schedule that couldn't be filled. Either way it looks like my itchy paintbrushes will have to make do with terrain and Custodes for a few more weeks

Looking at how often there seems to be stock shortages I suspect they just couldn't produce enough stuff to move anything into this release window

I love the look of that achilles ridgerunner. This also confirms that you CAN mix contrast with water, BUT it BEHAVES differently. It's not like it ruins the paint, it just doesn't work like 'Contrast' any more.

Those weathering effects are things that I'm used to seeing on historical miniatures using layers of different inks and chemicals. It's great to know that you can get a similar effect with these contrast paints without all of the research and effort.

 Dark Severance wrote:
Not sure if these were brought up, but fairly decent overview with examples going over strengths and weaknesses.

The BA in the 2nd vid is darn impressive for half an hours work. The trick is going to be how well the contrast colours match the regular paints. Both for fitting into an existing force and for stuff that contrast may not be suited to like large flat surfaces.

They must have called the graphics guy in early ..

Charax wrote:
Not sure if this has been posted yet, but Way of the Brush episode 252 has some contrast paint work in it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJz_GMgK3Hk

Spoiler:

at 34:42 he tries contrast flesh tearers red over black primer (someone was curious, results do not look great)

at about 37:00 he does contrast flesh tearers red over a plain white prime (not one of the contrast basecoats)

41:25: 2 layers of contrast black templar over plain white primer

50:40: Contrast skeleton horde over white primer

56:13: Contrast Orkflesh over white primer

1:02:51: Contrast Iyanden Yellow over white primer

1:05:20: Contrast Talisar Blue over white primer

1:11:20 Contrast Black Templar over white primer

1:22:25: Contrast Blood Angels Red over zenithal primed base

1:27:18: Contrast Snakebite Leather over zenithal primed base

There might be some others I missed, but I found it interesting to see them being used in real-time, and how they interact on a normal white base rather than the super-special secret new primer formula. Far more informative than still shots of finished minis and marketing spiel, imo

Thanks for posting the link to this - very much appreciated. I can't wait for these to be released. They won't replace or usurp regular painting for me, but as a new tool in the kit, I think they'll be really useful, so I'll be getting the whole lot.

So anything on if they will be available in a set or costs?

angel of death 007 wrote:
So anything on if they will be available in a set or costs?

No. We usually don't find out that kind of information until it goes up on pre-order, barring any friendly independent stockists sharing the info a few days early.

The only thing that could make these paints more perfect is if they also release updated Seraphon right after.

Well, the latest rumor engine does look dino-y

From Misgula's instagram:



That's one coat over white, 2 minutes of work(alas he does not list the drying time).

And this one is, apparently, two hours of just experimenting:







Edited by insaniak

I think I might go for a second coat on the Marine. I’d be willing to put 4 minutes into that paint job.

That marine Migsula did looks much better than the one in the GW video. Maybe it's just the blue?

A second coat would probably look better, but it's still not too shabby. Especially considering what GW showed off earlier in their tutorial.

 Sabotage! wrote:
That marine Migsula did looks much better than the one in the GW video. Maybe it's just the blue?

A second coat would probably look better, but it's still not too shabby. Especially considering what GW showed off earlier in their tutorial.

I'm guessing it looks like it needs a second coat because he used a white primer instead of the warmer wraithbone. That would probably make the red a bit richer.

Incidentally that Plaguecrawler looks just like I want my Desth Guard's white parts to look, so that is intriguing. Did he say what he did during the experimenting?

I liked the Blood Angel a lot more before varnishing, maybe a satin coat or even glossier for me. In the thumbnail you can see a lot of white microdots, if that's from the zenithal spray and not the varnish I'd like to see a model done with white basecoat and a darker spray from below instead. That is harder and gives not as good shadows, but you can get a good coat of white without the misty look. Mhm.


The unvarnished shade of the BA's red is really nice, though, not as orange as the current studio BAs. Reminds me of my Word Bearers done with Scorched Brown - Red Gore - Scab Red - Blood Red edge highlights - red ink, just faster. And I actually liked the gloss on them, contrasted nicely with both the matte lettering on the armour and the parchement.

And Contrast makes me ponder the silver Space Marines feom the studio painter that in WD a year or so ago. The armour was just metal basecoat and Nuln Oil+Nuln Oil wash with the focus parts like faces, lenses, fancy weapons painted to a high standard, making the overall model really attractive and sort of tricking the viewer to think that everything is super elaborate.

Is there a list of the colors?