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Hi Folks,

Since the new contrast paints are the hot topic around here, I'm curious what those who have had a chance to play with them have to say about painting Skitarii.

I have a pretty sizeable backlog of Skitarii Rangers/Vanguard that I want to get wrapped up in the next month or two. While I absolutely love these models, I'm finding they are taking me a looooong time to paint. I'm curious about the contrast paints, but my initial thought is that these little fellas aren't as conducive to the overall philosophy of the paints due to the amount of detail and large proportion of metallics involved.

Anyone else in the same boat? I'd love to hear your thoughts and/or recipes as to how I can knock some time off of these suckers.

Thanks in advance!

 gilrak wrote:
Hi Folks,

Since the new contrast paints are the hot topic around here, I'm curious what those who have had a chance to play with them have to say about painting Skitarii.

I have a pretty sizeable backlog of Skitarii Rangers/Vanguard that I want to get wrapped up in the next month or two. While I absolutely love these models, I'm finding they are taking me a looooong time to paint. I'm curious about the contrast paints, but my initial thought is that these little fellas aren't as conducive to the overall philosophy of the paints due to the amount of detail and large proportion of metallics involved.

Anyone else in the same boat? I'd love to hear your thoughts and/or recipes as to how I can knock some time off of these suckers.

Thanks in advance!

I am probably not going to be painting my Skitarii in contrast, mainly because:
1. already a bunch of them painted & I want to keep to the same colours
2. I have already undercoated the entirety of my army in a dark spray paint.

If not for these factors, you could do contrast on them.

1. undercoat in the new spray.
2. paint metallics in a light silver undercoat - e.g. the new Grey Knights Steel paint or stormhost silver paint.
3. paint contrast - it will tinge the metal e.g. paint flesh-tearers red makes a nice metallic red on the metal areas. do cloaks as normal with contrasts.
4. do details as usual e.g. eyes/lenses etc.

 The Forgemaster wrote:

 gilrak wrote:
Hi Folks,

Since the new contrast paints are the hot topic around here, I'm curious what those who have had a chance to play with them have to say about painting Skitarii.

I have a pretty sizeable backlog of Skitarii Rangers/Vanguard that I want to get wrapped up in the next month or two. While I absolutely love these models, I'm finding they are taking me a looooong time to paint. I'm curious about the contrast paints, but my initial thought is that these little fellas aren't as conducive to the overall philosophy of the paints due to the amount of detail and large proportion of metallics involved.

Anyone else in the same boat? I'd love to hear your thoughts and/or recipes as to how I can knock some time off of these suckers.

Thanks in advance!

I am probably not going to be painting my Skitarii in contrast, mainly because:
1. already a bunch of them painted & I want to keep to the same colours
2. I have already undercoated the entirety of my army in a dark spray paint.

If not for these factors, you could do contrast on them.

1. undercoat in the new spray.
2. paint metallics in a light silver undercoat - e.g. the new Grey Knights Steel paint or stormhost silver paint.
3. paint contrast - it will tinge the metal e.g. paint flesh-tearers red makes a nice metallic red on the metal areas. do cloaks as normal with contrasts.
4. do details as usual e.g. eyes/lenses etc.

Love this approach. Thanks for your advice! I hadn't thought of the flesh-tearer red on the metals. I'm definitely going to have to try that out though.

The red was just an example, most of the contrast paints seem to work well on a light silver colour - feel free to pick different colours and experiment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1zSQdAnqoM