Speed Painting Warlord Pike & Shotte

Here is my first test figure completed in less time than I could imagine. Everything had one coat of paint, with the exception of the metals and cuffs. Look at the work the Contrast Black Templar did on the hair and mustache. The skin looks great and it's perfectly shaded with Contrast Gulliman Flesh over the Wraithbone spray primer.

When you don't have to paint everything 2-3 times things move at a quick pace. There is some blotchiness on the color, but that is due to my learning how to use the paints properly. Like anything, there's always a trick or two to learn.

Little Gems

The figures look different than those painted with regular acrylics; they appear as if they were painted with watercolors. It's not good or bad, just different. As with watercolor painting, the blends are effortless: the paint does the work. Also, the figures are very bright compared to other's that I've completed. They look like little gems in my figure case.

The figure above is almost completed. There's a slightly different painting order when using Contrast paints. Normally you go from the inside to out, but with CPs sometimes it's easier to do the belting and straps first... then clean up errors and finally do the coats, etc. Interesting!

Later on I decided to quickly highlight the red coat. I'll put pictures up of that soon, along with the rest of the completed unit.