Assaulting Imperial Assault
Episode 4 - Messing with Contrast Paints
With the release of GW Contrast Paints I was inspired to pick up the Imperial Assault project again. At the time they were getting mixed reviews with some people loving them and some people hating them. For me the Imperial Assault miniatures were the perfect opportunity to give them a try. They’re not the world’s greatest miniatures and really for the majority of them I just wanted a half decent result to liven up the games of Imperial Assault. I limited the use of Contrast Paints to rank and file troops. Characters, heroes and any big models I will paint the old fashioned way and use contrast to blast through the chaff so to speak.
Personally I am really pleased with the results. They’re not winning any competitions any time soon however the quality vs effort ratio is very favourable as I pretty much painted everything shown here in around about a day and a half, and that wasn’t solid effort either.
I also learned a really cool trick with black contrast paint. Most of the weapons are painted using Citadel Ironbreaker as the base colour and are then painted using Black Templar which results in an awesome gun metal effect
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