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Was just going to post this under another thread but was hoping for further advice.
I'm new to using contrast paints, and was wondering if people have advise on using them for animal fur. Pic of relevant model:


I'm debating between doing JUST wyldwood contrast or the bone contrast
OR
Wyldwood contrast with maybe XV88 > ushabti bone highlights
OR
straight traditional method, probably mournfang brown with skrag brown or XV88 drybrush (and maybe agrax here) then ushabti bone
OR
idk maybe solid ushabti then agrax then highlight white

I also have baneblade brown or zandri dust to throw in somewhere. Don't have proper grays to do a wolf pelt. Could do something weird like red or green.

I'm not really planning on buying additional paints, as this will literally be my only animal pelt. Looking for combination of what you think would pair well with an ork, what method looks the nicest, and what's not very hard. He'll have yellow and akhelion green contrast armor, maybe red jaw.

I judt did a fur cloak in contrast paint. And I am not happy with the result. I did gore gunta fur.

If I am to do it again I would perhaps thin it out and do several thin coats.

However, I know how to do good fur. I will just paint on topp of the contrast paint (that was my plan from the start.) I followed Duncans video and it was great. The key part is the last step of drybrushing OMHO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EIKHXgymJY

Edit: Of course, if you just 'want it painted' then just splash on some contrast colour and be good to go. Do not let anybody gatekeep your painting. Any painted model is better then an unpainted model. So do not let this be the barrier that keeps you from painting.

 Ghaz wrote:

I honestly expected the GW methods for painting pelts would have a lot more grays in them, didn't realize their recommended wolf pelts would be mostly brown. I might do that second method with slightly different colors.


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 Niiai wrote:
I judt did a fur cloak in contrast paint. And I am not happy with the result. I did gore gunta fur.

If I am to do it again I would perhaps thin it out and do several thin coats.

However, I know how to do good fur. I will just paint on topp of the contrast paint (that was my plan from the start.) I followed Duncans video and it was great. The key part is the last step of drybrushing OMHO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EIKHXgymJY

Edit: Of course, if you just 'want it painted' then just splash on some contrast colour and be good to go. Do not let anybody gatekeep your painting. Any painted model is better then an unpainted model. So do not let this be the barrier that keeps you from painting.

This one featured a lot more browns than I was expecting too, really like this method and might try it.

This first one is just pure contrast. Rough.

This second one was a mix. Servisable but I would not do it like that again.

This last one I really like. Despite the red.