I'm painting a load of Nighthaunt and I'm kind of really annoyed about the new Contrast paints. I want to dislike them but only because I cant afford to buy into them, they are actually very interesting and look like a lot of fun.
I have a ton of paints that I feel need using before I can invest in Contrast. What I have done is gone out and bought a pot of matt medium (£3 from hobby craft) so I can thin down my existing paints and kind of get the same result as the contract paints. It does work but really I'm finding it best to lay down some agrax earth shade or athonian camoshade first before putting on the thinned down normal paints. Its giving me a very nice shading effect as long as I'm using a brown or green variant of paint. Brown and green is pretty much what I need to use for some rag like Grimghasts. so all is good. The only trouble is is that my budget lahmian medium is taking forever to dry. I mixed up some matt medium with water and then some purple paint, its now 12 hours since I applied the paint and its still wet!
That gun above look awesome. Needs splatting with nula oil or agrax!
Here is the slow dryer. It'll get a dry brush of skull white on the purple which seems to give a great ghostly effect.
Some finished Dreadblades.
Some work in progress, very early stages. I want to differentiate between different classes, so they are not all nihilakh, gloom or hexwrath. I thought making it look like they are wearing various green and browns of tattered clothing might work.
I know there are mold like and gaps, but realistically you cant see all of them when at a normal distance, especially when they have their final coats on.
