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Wife wants to collect the upcoming sisters of battle so I bought this one to set her paint scheme and because.. it's a great sculpt.

Painted mostly with washes, very thin paint, and contrast.

The base was a real triumph of contrast. Natural Stone is really hard to do as it is full of tone variation. But Contrast made it easy.. one coat and drybrush. The way the contrast paints mix with each other and blend is so powerful (esp when they are wet, ala wet blending).

If there was one downside to the model it is the shoulder pad detail. The Fleur de Lay is.. well not cast correctly nor very deep so it's a challenge to make it pop and look good. The same holds true for the Eagle but the eagle was more defined.

The Ivory Armor paint was straight forward.

Wraithbone, thinned Skeleton Horde, wraithbone+pallid witch flesh, pallid witch flesh+ white.

The gold is all VMC Alum + thinned Gore Grunta.

Black Templar is great too.
All the browns are tan + contrast + highlight. The reds are from Flesh Tearer. The skin is also done with contrast + highlighting.

The stone for the base was a wet-blend and pigment push (to change opacity) of 6 different contrast paints... including some green and blue (but very little). Roses are P3 Red Ink + white and a little bit of yellow. The red around the skull is pure P3 Red Ink, carefully laid on. Inks are NOT contrast paints. Different animals entirely to work with.






This was pretty fast to paint too, despite the detail with most of the time wasted on me sorting out how, what, and method as I was trying to move into some new areas and try out more of the contrasts.

Also, nothing like viewing one's own photos to notice errors and oopses.

Looks good. I like the color scheme.

I enjoy that scheme

Very nice, i had one those minis in my hands at Warhammer world but put it back. Thinking i need to grab it online now.

Makes a decent case for contrast paints this does.

Handmaiden wrote:
Makes a decent case for contrast paints this does.

I was hyper dubious about contrast paints starting out. So I bought a few and... yeah I could use them as a tool. But I expanded my range of contrast paints and started to work them into more normal paint methods and that's when it really took off. I almost always use them thinned.. sometimes with water, sometimes with contrast thinner. They change depending on what I use.

I don't think I've seen this noted anywhere yet so here is as good as anywhere.. but Black Templar is a "cool" black... so blue base. Which looks really cool as it gives you a bit of the blued steel look on metallics.

The blue cloth is PURE undiluted Gulliman Blue over Corax White (which is really gray). No highlights, nothing. Just slapped on... and it looks great.

As time goes on I find that I the Contrasts paints open doors to time savings and give me something I've never had before.. controllable washes.. high pigment, stain or not stain depending on how I alter them. But I can now integrate controlled washes, spot washes, and things that otherwise would tend to "run away" on me.

They are not the be all end all, but damn me if they are not a great tool in the tool box. One that I find myself going for again and again to quickly do things.