Citadel Contrast Paints

[Jeremy]

I remain unconvinced as to their relative miracle value. I’d have a green and a brown arriving soon and will give them a go

[FreddBloggs]

The black seems to work well, always a hard colour to highlight etc.

[Purple]

Obviously I have difficulties with colour but alot of the examples I’ve seen rocking up on twitter just look like a base coat and a thick Vallejo wash to me lol

[Norman D. Landings]

Okay, verdict:

Caveat - let it dry before you evaluate. You don’t see the effect at all when it’s still wet.

As a ‘paint’: Only so-so. Provides a weak base colour over the raised areas.

As a ‘wash’: very, very good. Strong, non-patchy uniform tone and really gets into the recesses well.

I’ll be looking at spray primers to find a pale version of the colour I’m aiming for, then using the Contrast as a shading wash.
I don't think the Contrast on its own, on top of citadel’s off-white primers, gives a strong enough tone.

My tuppence-worth there.

[Zenbadger]

They seem to work better over Halfords white primer than they do over GWs own sprays.

[FreddBloggs]

They work over the brush on cream primer pretty well, and over ordinary acrylics as well.

[HMS Priapus]

These are from a FB Naps group -- Author of the post said these took him about 30 min per figure -- 20mm Newline. I think they're nicely done given the medium, but I'm yet to be convinced that the coverage of the contrast paints achieves the kind of finish I prefer for my own work. Still figuring out how to apply the stuff myself, so test painting will continue.

[Paul]

I hate painting white and have a project where i'll need to paint a lot of it, so i'm hoping that contrast will help me with that!

[Essex Boy]

Thanks HMSP. That's helpful.

[levied troop]

Interestingly, Plaguebearer Flesh is a pallid green over white undercoat but turns brown over a pale flesh undercoat. I was hoping to use pale base coats for the contrast but it looks like this might need a caution, the Blood Angel Red didn’t do so well over Orange either.