I gave myself 3 hours with the Phishermen to see how far I could get and whether or not I’d like the result. I’ve got to say… I’m really impressed! If I gave it another 2 hours to base coat the metalics, contrast over those, contrast the goggles and armbands, and do the bases and eyes they would be totally done!

That’s 5 hours for a full gang i’d be pleased with! Easily a third of the time it takes me to paint a gang, even if i’m saving some time with the air brush. I’m almost mad at how much I like these, and I’m glad I picked up enough to prep the rest of my gangs! The huge variety of texture on a Necromunda model looks great with contrast.

Some things I’ve learned:

-contrast is thin enough to put on a pallet with a disposable eyedropper, perfect for precision mixing

-you don’t need the new base coats. Any sufficiently pale base coat works perfectly as long as its pretty smooth

-base coat gradients get some added results

-if you have similar colors next to each other (dunes, yellow, snakebite) they can look a bit samey.

-you can fix that by latering one on-top of the other, or applying another coat of the middle. I got the results I wanted by doing snakebite on a belt, waiting for it to dry, then hitting it again. When I did a yellow tone shirt, i took that all the way through the belt, waited for it to dry, then hit the belt with snakebite and it looked fantastic.

-gulliman flesh and Darkoath look really similar in on models that don’t have a ton of skin. I got more diversity by doing differnet ratios of those and Wyldwood

-when it pools it can be a bit runny, but its not as hard to keep them seperate as you’d think. Using a smaller brush (xs layer) when getting smaller areas helps.

This won’t turn a noob into a pro, but these are worth their price, and there’s space for these on any painter’s shelf. Especially if you want to get good results on a bright color quickly or easily.

I’ll be back when they are totally done with how they go over non-pale base colors (silver, brown, grey)

Here was my color list, not including the non contrast colors that I was juuust starting to base with…