Citadel Contrast Paints

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Ultramarine blue over a pale blue works well.

Treat them as watercolours, not inks or acrylics.
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FreddBloggs wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2019 10:21 am

Treat them as watercolours,
Ok so why would anybody want to turn water into a different colour, particularly when they should be trying to paint a figure a different colour :moredrink:

Now on one hand I can see that trying to turn white snow yellow can be fun, but water is water right :shock:
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I hereby turn all your wine into water for that. Click!
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That is the lowest blow.
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grizzlymc wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2019 11:58 am That is the lowest blow.
I thought that was a bj from a midget? Sorry, Dwarf, I mean little person. Vertically challenged?
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A person who identifies in the lower part of the height bell curve.
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I might try a black or dark purple for my medieval arabs. I've already undercoated them in a light brown wash, it might even work just using my regular black wash thinking about it?
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valleyboy wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2019 10:37 am .....but water is water right?
Yep, that's watertight.
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Tim, if you’re painting black washed figures with a dark CP, I’d give them a dry brushing with white/off white (edited to add: BEFORE applying the CP, that is) so that they’ve got some highlighting that’ll ‘show’ through the paint.
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I saw some great Brunswickers once that had been highlighted with dark grey
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