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what are peoples tips and tricks for successfully using Dark Angels Green Contrast?

For my test Hellblaster I applied a liberal coat over a Grey Seer base and for the most part it looked ok but on some of the flatter panels it looked patchy so I went for a 2nd coat.
Now it just looks like a flat base coat of Caliban Green with no highs or lows in the colour at all. It seems multiple coats dont suit this technique but how then do i get consistent colour where the colour should be consistent?

inb4 contrast sucks dont use contrast blah blah blah

I haven’t tried that color specifically, but I’ve found that slapping contrast on in a thick coat doesn’t work particularly well. There’s kind of a magic level of thickness you need to find, such that you still get the recess shading but it’s not thick enough to pool or streak. I still have some practicing to do, but so far my rule of thumb is that if your brushstrokes are leaving dark streaks along the edges of the stroke, your application is a little too thick.

Also, contrast paints are generally not suited to the large smooth surfaces you’ll find on power armor. I’ve had luck on smooth surfaces with applying contrast as a first step and then fixing the particularly blotchy areas with a similarly colored base paint.

May not work for DA Green or even most Contrast paints, but I've found for some of them, having dark grey in the recesses where washes would normally pool and then doing a thin layer of Contrast seems to have a good effect. Saved my dark grey primed Guard because of that.

gaza4 wrote:
what are peoples tips and tricks for successfully using Dark Angels Green Contrast?

For my test Hellblaster I applied a liberal coat over a Grey Seer base and for the most part it looked ok but on some of the flatter panels it looked patchy so I went for a 2nd coat.
Now it just looks like a flat base coat of Caliban Green with no highs or lows in the colour at all. It seems multiple coats dont suit this technique but how then do i get consistent colour where the colour should be consistent?

inb4 contrast sucks dont use contrast blah blah blah

You could try to manipulate areas where it pools while its wet using a damp clean brush.

gaza4 wrote:
inb4 contrast sucks dont use contrast blah blah blah

Nah, Contrast doesnt suck, its just not as simple to use, for a good effect, as GW initial espoused.

Blindly doing "just one thick coat" leaves it looking messy, it definitely requires working and almost certainly benefits models with with fewer flat surfaces, with vehicles being by far and away the least intended for it.