Have a damp brush available to soak up any excess paint that pools in areas you dont want it. I do think the Citadel base paints across the board are really good. Enter your email to get the very latest - news, promotions, hobby tips and more from Games Workshop. You do have to be careful to go directly into the recesses though, otherwise it goes really dark and needs another coat of Retributor after the wash. In this weeks article, were looking at the Emperors Brotherhood of Demigods, the Adeptus Custodes. Water down some Stormhost Silver (about 1:2) and use this to sparingly to highlight some of the raised sections. Mengel Miniatures: CLASSIC TUTORIAL: Contrast Eternals! Painting the Traitor Legions with Contrast - Warhammer Community Airbrush Vallejo Model Air Insignia White over the entire thing. To give an Alpha Legion Chaos Space Marines a vibrant metallic blue-green colour, basecoat the whole model with Boltgun Metal spray, drybrush the upper surfaces of the model with a bright silver like Stormhost Silver. Updated contrast paint undercoat colours : r/Warhammer - Reddit In this article, I review my favorite gold metallic paint: Retributor Armour Gold metallic base paint. Follow on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. But yeah best is subjective. Another bright blue shade with a hint of green. I highly recommend Retributor Armour as the gold metallic paint that can handle almost all your gold painting needs (unless youre looking for a less-warm toned metallic). Yellow Orange Azo over the bone color. Yes, you can make your own version of Contrast Paints. Note the lack of warmth to the gold metallic when it is from the spray can. Im always looking for better ways to get the miniature painting job done! 40k saw the release of Kill Team: Rogue Trader, which included an extremely good boy, while Age of Sigmar has embraced Khornedogs, Gryph-Hounds, and Aetherwings for the Bloodbound and Stormcast factions. Caracalla has more accents than most custodes, but Ill go through an abbreviated method for all of them: White Cords: VGC Wolf Grey highlighted with Ulthuan Grey, Green Laurels: VGA Goblin Green mixed with black, then highlighted with pure goblin green. The brush-on paint allows you to do touch ups, or you can just brush on the primer. https://discord.gg/j3TV5zHFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/hellstormwargaming/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Hellstormwargaming/Twitch every week: https://www.twitch.tv/HellstormWargaming/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Hellstorm_MikeyDans Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Hellstorm_dan/ I tend to go back to older posts all the time to update them (if needed). Dark deep green. Instead, I went for a striking red-dominated scheme, with darker bronze metallics. It doesnt take much to thin the Retributor Armour paint. Softly highlight the middle of the blade in a band across it. It will impact the final results. If the blade is really long you might want to do one wide band like this and then one thinner one either side. Breaking the paint up into tiny particles destroys most of the contrast pooling properties, so it behaves more like a normal translucent paint. You can paint them over any color, but I would suggest starting with white / off white. As much as I love a really nice rich gold colour, I find it pretty overwhelming on the Custodes models. As always, if you have any questions or feedback, drop us a note in the comments below or shoot us an email at contact@goonhammer.com.