Painting white

[CylonDorado]

I'm not much for painting but I was going to paint my army black with read splotches and green fingernails and claws and stuff. It looked pretty ok, so I primered a lot of my models black. But then I experimented some with a genestealer, and I found out I like it white better (with a ultamarines blue/boltgun metal carapase, and light blue claws). One Tou player at the gamestore said painting with white is hard, so I was just looking for some advice. Also would a differnt color primer be a good investment?

[CoBrA]

Painting white over a black undercoat can be a real pain in the ass. Try painting a bleached bone layer and then highlight it with different layers of skull white. Try not to use too much paint at once or it will become bubbly.

[J.Dogg]

or shadow grey, then cover with white.
REMEMBER: use clean water for both steps!!

[thatnidkid]

this is slightly of topic but how thin is the skull white primer GW uses? I know the old "white primer" which is the same thing was horrible

[alucardhellsing661]

or use foundation paints

[yoritomo]

Painting with white is not that bad. You just have to have a good paint and clean water/brush. Remember that any risidule color from wet paint, dirty water, or gunk on your brush can tint white paint. When you paint with white think clean!

On a side note, white is one of the best colors to paint over black. Ann Foster, the Reaper Miniture staff painter explained this to me once. If I recall correctly it has to do with the pigment grind of white paint. Since white has the largest pigment grind there is more of it to cover the black color of black paint.

If your white paint will not cover black well it is probably because your paint is too thin.

[krakenfiend]

"Yeah...I'm going to have ta sorta disagree with you there"....Here is the problem you run into with white....how do you get it to cover properly? Use thick coats...NO!!...Thin paint is a must for painting white...especially over black. The "best" way that I have found to do this is don't paint the white directly over the black....go through a gradient color. If you do a color gradient black to white or vice versa in photoshop you will see that it transitions through the grey range....Painting white over grey is much easier than painting white straight over black. While it is true that white has larger pigment...its a double edged sword...white tends to be the blotchiest color over black (yellow is not far behind) as well. The key is very thin coats...MULTIPLE thin coats as in 15-20 coats (USE FUTURE FLOOR FINISH)...gradually build up the colors and you will get ultra smooth white (I've discussed this with several golden demon winners and stolen their techniques)...more on this soon (Look for a return of the painting corner).

krakenfiend

[n00b1n8R]

15-20 coats

O___o

[Shas'o Tash'var Kais Pat]

Jeez. You have patience. All I do is a couple of intermediate grey coats...

[CylonDorado]

Ok, so it sounds like grey primer would be a good idea. I'll probably buy some after I get my freind a krootox for his birthday. I'm on a bit of a budget right now.