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Hi - thinking of painting some SM's either Orange or Orange and Blue using the new contrast paints has anyone done this colour scheme to give me some ideas? TIA

Going for the ol' Irn Bru Marines?



That's not mine BTW, just found that on Google.

I have a partial match. Its not a marine, and not with contrast orange, but I have a couple of models with contrast blue against orange

 Beaker07 wrote:
Hi - thinking of painting some SM's either Orange or Orange and Blue using the new contrast paints has anyone done this colour scheme to give me some ideas? TIA

Orange and blue look fantastic together, but orange and teal is...*chef's kiss*

However, it's hard to make contrast look good over Space Marine power armour (especially as the darker blue contrast paints are very "splotchy" anyway) unless you are a very good painter.

Thanks to everyone above

It can work very good but its hard to pull off, the best way i have seen it done is the primary color is White/light gray, with Blue and orange accents.

Personally I dont like orange and blue models, as I think they look like Jaffa cake boxes. I prefer to put my complimentary colours in different ways, like in basing or in small amounts as spot colours.

I have done a bit of work on contrasts and have the grey seer spray for undercoat was hoping to paint the orange over it??

Oh man… the Breakfast of Champions chapter. Bru and Jaffa cake themed… rather than stormravens they fly into action riding giant jaffasaucers!

 Beaker07 wrote:
I have done a bit of work on contrasts and have the grey seer spray for undercoat was hoping to paint the orange over it??

I wouldn't recommend painting orange over grey, this goes double when using Contrast paints. If you are going the Contrast route you should undercoat with Wraithbone if possible, or white.

Orange contrast looks good over a warm, off-white basecoat like Wraithbone. It really won't look great over Grey Seer, they cold grey will show through the warm orange coat, they do not look good together.

Give it a test on an old model if you can.

TY for the tip re undercoat will do as you suggest