 Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video and today we're gonna talk about Citadel's new colors in the contrast range So let's get into it. The strict techno man sir that is Vinci V Let us get to the technique and learn it Vinci V style if you watched last week's video You know that we talked all about the new contrast shades This week we're gonna continue this exploration and we're going to talk about all about the new contrast colors Now this new range of colors is very much just an extension of the existing contrast paints So if you're familiar with them, well, then you pretty much know what you're in for as far as performance of these paints go Now recently GW brought me over and introduced all these new paints to myself as well as many other hobbyists and let us play around with them for a little while Basically, we got a full day to just put them through their paces and see what we can do. I Have to say I had a great amount of fun. So while I was there. I painted a couple miniatures So I painted this plate bearer. He was the first thing I experimented with I really wanted to try those new punchy greens Then we decided to go a little try hard with the new black and some of the other colors and paint up this legion of the Damned marine and finally at the end of the day. I made off with this This is Andy Wardle space marine that he painted. I've got him Andy He's mine now if you want him back, you can just send me any of your golden demons And I will happily put him in the mail back to you But honestly what I am excited for with these new paints is they're so much more saturated They're bright. They're intense seven of these paints are single pigment colors and boy you can feel it So let's get over to the desk. We're going to use these things on a miniature today See what we can do put them through that they're various paces and really explore how all the different ways We can put these contrast paints to her their best use. So let's do it All right So obviously all of the contrast paints used here are just the new colors So we're going to focus on what they can do. They'll scroll up at the top I thought a blight King would really be the perfect model to do this with because he has so many different textures and Reasons to use a ton of different colors. So let's just have a good time with our gross icky boy here And as usual this guy is zenithal and that's the first thing I want to say I continue to believe that the best way to use contrast paints is not over You know pure white or any of their straight rattle cans, but over a Zenithal prime ie you paint the whole thing black and then you paint it white from above This could be through airbrush. This could be through two rattle cans It could be you dry brush on the the white color. It doesn't really matter Just having some tonal variation already existing in the under shade effectively what would traditionally be called a grise We'll do a lot of work to really make these things more punchy and help them express the natural variation that they're already good at doing So to set down obviously we're just getting in some various base tones really exploring the new colors and seeing how they feel I have to say right off the rip I really really like the three tones that we've seen here thus far This brown is really nice, and I'm a fan generally of the browns Now some of these paints are single pigment. So for example this one this purple is And that means it is super intense one thing I think people aren't gonna be ready for are with things like the ball red and the purple and the orange and such Just how kick you in the teeth they are So here is my recommendation here You saw me thin this with obviously a little bit of water in the brush But also two drops of contrast medium to every one drop of paint and so between basically a brush full of water and Two drops of contrast medium. This is still one drop of this purple. Look how intense this still is right This stuff is super saturated. It is saturation in ten cities so My high recommendation to you is if you're going to use any of the single pigment colors Which is the magenta the crimson the red the orange the main yellow the purple You know D mix them with contrast medium now I thin it way way down So adding in three more brushfuls of water and you can see it's still working like an awesome glaze to add color in Here look at how that pigment is color is still collecting down in the recesses and Adding this wonderful filter to the gross skin adding more purple tones into the shadows to the wounds edging them stuff like that so even when you break these things way down once again here, this is the obviously the magenta and play here and Boy oh boy is it still again really intense. I suspect it's probably using PR 122 as its pigment I don't know that for sure because they don't release their recipes But that's what this feels like to me given its intensity and transparency and yet again. I can thin it way down. This is basically four drops of contrast medium and three brushfuls of water and I'm still getting you know this pink tone Like this on the on the thing to one drop of paint by the way And so just using it here we can splash it around and really get a lot of interesting different effects I think one of the myths that happens with these contrast paints is people think oh these are just for Simple beginner painters are there for noobs or something like that. You can't do nice work with them I think that's ridiculous. I mentioned that plague bearer at the beginning So I want to show you two different miniatures right now This plague bearer that's on the screen right now. He was done in four minutes Okay, so roughly I basically put a layer of paint on touch something else touch something else Applied the hairdryer about four minutes Now this plague bearer the one I showed you earlier. This one took about an hour and a half right? Same model wildly different effects There's absolutely no reason that you can't use these paints especially in conjunction with techniques like loaded brush To really achieve some amazing high-end effects so if these paints fit with your workflow your style then use them because Honestly, they can be a great part of so many different techniques One of the strengths of contrast paints is that once they set they set they don't reactivate and we're gonna put that to the Ultimate test now. So here we're gonna add some more depth. We're gonna get out Agrax Earthshade And we're just gonna more or less bathe the miniature Now this is the new Agrax using the contrast method. I've showed this in the last video Link up above but then I'm gonna take a bunch of contrast medium just raw contrast medium and Smooth it all over all the basically high parts of the miniature to remove all that Contrast shade I just put on from the high part and make it really only collect and flow down into the low parts When my brush goes off-camera, I'm just wiping it there So what I'm doing is I just sopped the whole thing in contrast medium and then I pull it off So that the top remains, you know colored and green and the original tone it should but it collects in all the lower parts I'm sure enough dried just fine. No issue at all Now five of the paints in the range and this is one of them. This is rattling grime Are really weak like that is to say they have much less effect And I do wish this is something they would call out a little more on the actual paints But I love these weaker contrasts They end up being quite useful when you're doing things like soft shadows and glazing So if you have troubles with those kinds of techniques things like rattling grime or whatever can be incredibly helpful Now I've seen other content creators and other people say oh, but if you make a mistake you can't back it out That's not true a little bit of bright ivory you can easily back out anything you do wrong You just touch over the area and in fact we're gonna go farther than that I'm gonna show you just how easy it is to create new highlights So here I'm gonna sketch out everything I want highlighted on that green everything I want to push up the contrast on Across his armor in just pure bright ivory from Proacryl Then using a thinned glaze of the original color. So this is just mixed two to one with contrast medium I'm just going to glaze away from the highlights, but still covering the whole surface So I still cover everything that What that I turned white, but I'm always pulling the paint away And I'm just gonna go over this entire thing with about two to three glazes Focusing especially on the edges and then I'll go back in with the full strength contrast paint on the very edge of the paint To really blend it back in and what you get is this nice beautiful soft highlight that really just pops up the miniature It's so easy Loaded brush blending. This is the longest section of the video I think a lot of people really have a challenge with this technique But it's such a powerful tool and I decided to go ahead and give him a whole new skin tone here Just to show you what this can do The trick with loaded brush is you need a relatively thick White paint on the tip of your brush or bright paint in this case again It's still bright ivory and you need an extremely high flow liquid paint down in the belly That just means the rest of the brush Guess what contrast paints are they're exactly that and so here you can just touch the tip of your brush You need a nice sharp tip into that contrast paint and as you touch the miniature That contrast paint being so high flow Floods up into that paint and slowly mixes creating this instantaneously smooth easy blend and you can see how I just repeatedly keep stretching there You know putting a new white line on and then as I go it Slowly fades into the other color and in fact every time so often you'll see me touch my thumb That's just to push a bunch of the contrast up to the top and let me smooth the edge out It makes it so easy to do these big complicated blends across something like skin tone in a lot of different ways now here I'm only going from bright to dark you can of course go the other direction as well You could have like a contrast paint and put a touch of Black paint in yours to create shadows or something like that and then smooth it into the mid-tone But the key is the contrast paint as the mid-tone ends up being perfect for this particular task and really makes your life So easy to achieve these ultra smooth blends across a whole miniature You can see this only took a few minutes and boy. Oh boy. Do we have a cool looking skin tone our blanking We can also choose to mix these directly in so here I'm just taking a standard acrylic paint again pro acrylic bright ivory and mixing it into the contrast paint now The best part is we inherit some of the transparency and flow of the contrast paint it just flows right off the brush but By adding in this brighter color we can of course create these nice nice smooth layers Very quickly and easily so you saw how I just every time I had one brush load of white And then just mixed in increasing amounts of that magenta and boom. There we go I get a nice smooth blend traveling through the layers because the contrast pulled together Lastly these new colors are really great for weathering. We finally have great weathering contrast paints So this intense brown is wonderful to turn something into a rusted mess So I really like that for getting those dark deep old rust browns on things And then this the new orange is absolutely wonderful for doing this rust sort of You know pitting and streaking and fresh rust The really nice part about it is because it shrinks into the holes on stuff like nergal. It just absolutely kicks So lots of options when it comes to weathering for these new paints My final thoughts on these are They're pretty great. They continue the line of Contrast paints. So if you liked contrast paints before and what they did you'll like them now It's not that much different. However, I do think what's notable here is these colors really are a lot more bright and intense And I think that's pretty great Oftentimes one of the challenges with previous versions of contrast and using it on miniatures Was that the miniatures ended up coming out sometimes a little dull Desaturated and just kind of boring Here with these I'm excited about not only using them as part of my workflow in painting miniatures But also really as you know through the airbrush or as glazes to restore saturation And increase the punch on the miniature and I think that's something that's pretty darn awesome In addition to all the normal ways you can use these paints to get things, you know, your army on the table fast So I hope this was helpful for you If it was give it a like subscribe for additional hobby cheating in the future Don't forget. We have new videos here every saturday if you've got any questions on the new range I didn't answer drop those down in the comments below. 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