A while ago I picked up half a dozen contrast paints from Games Workshop. I have tried several times to incorporate them into my painting style. I have had some marginal success with Basilicanum Grey when painting blacks. However I have never really been happy with how it turned out.
So I figured that I would give them a proper try. I grabbed some of the various spiders from the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets game. I primed them and then used the airbrush to give them a solid coat of white. I tried two different coloured spiders, grey and brown.
I used Basilicanum Grey and Skeleton Horde. I don't know if it was just these two particular paints but the colour was very weak after a single coat. I ended up having to do three coats to get a rich colour. The brown was the weaker one even after multiple coats so I added a wash of Scale Colour Inktense wood to it.
I am happy with how the spiders turned out in the end for the amount of time I spent on them. It is always good to have a handful of spider models ready to go for various RPG games. However I am still not sold on contrast paints. I can definitely see their value, I just have not been able to incorporate them successfully into my style. I feel that I was probably just not using the correct contract paints to achieve the effect I was looking for.
Kevin
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