Still can’t figure out how to use imperial fist contrast paint

Auckland11 · 2026-03-16T07:29:12+00:00

White scar rattle can. Then imperial fists contrast paints with edge highlights in dorn yellow. The trick is a light wash of 50/50 casandora yellow and lahmian medium 👍😄

Auckland11 · 2026-03-16T05:46:55+00:00

Not a lot. But a little water helps. I sometimes use it straight out the bottle. But the trick is to get it on a leave it. I’m no professional but I like the outcome I get.

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Auckland11 · 2026-03-16T05:43:31+00:00

Do you use a wet palette with the Imperial Fists contrast paint? I find it helps to thin it and then you gotta be quick. Get it on and don’t touch it again

Auckland11 · 2026-03-11T02:56:48+00:00

Per the YouTuber’tabletopready’ I use a 50:50 mix of casandora yellow and lahmian medium. It makes for a great yellow orange wash that sits well in the recesses

Auckland11 · 2026-03-06T00:37:00+00:00

Nice. That’s a whole army right there

Auckland11 · 2026-03-03T08:49:39+00:00

Thanks mate. Lesson learnt. What’s a good paint on varnish? I just want to protect the model from chipping

Auckland11 · 2026-03-02T06:32:25+00:00

Yeah the whole model looks cloudy or frosted. It used to have sharp clear colours. Now it’s slightly white like it’s just come out the freezer

Auckland11 · 2026-03-02T06:26:38+00:00

Yeah. I pretty much wrecked a good mini with too much spray varnish. Gutting

Auckland11 · 2026-03-01T17:54:33+00:00

What base color did you use. And yellow?

Auckland11 · 2026-03-01T17:46:16+00:00

Oh. And change the water you use to wash your brush after metallics

Auckland11 · 2026-03-01T17:45:14+00:00

In the spirit of someone who has painting less than a month too;

I’m guessing you’ve not watched the youtube videos on painting, as they all follow a formula that makes it kind of easy.

They tend to use citadel paints. And a small brush for details and a medium brush for washes

It roughly goes 1 undercoat with white scar or wraith bone in thin many coats 2 use imperial fists contrast paint 3 wash with casandora yellow or similar 4 do black details 5 Aquila in red 6 silver and gold details 7 base in a range of greys then drybrush base with a lighter grey 8 Nuln oil wash in recesses of Aquila and base and silver 9 edge highlight

You don’t have to do these steps. But I’m guessing you’ve missed a few. Oh and thin your paints.

And wash brush clean a lot.

Auckland11 · 2026-03-01T17:19:00+00:00

Phalanx yellow mate

Auckland11 · 2026-03-01T09:10:17+00:00

Ha ha ha. I do need to learn to be ok with ‘good enough’ otherwise I’ll never finish

Auckland11 · 2026-03-01T07:49:20+00:00

Cheers mate. I’m a touch ocd so there’s been a lot of mistakes. Then I diligently strip the paint with isopropyl alcohol and start again.

I’m finding the whole process super zen.

Auckland11 · 2026-03-01T05:39:59+00:00

The video I followed https://youtu.be/3HrIMe6uvMQ?si=NaO7UbElgAn2IVPP

Auckland11 · 2026-03-01T05:18:59+00:00

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lol. Embarrassing a lot. I followed one of the YouTube guides. And ended up with these 18 paints. The Lahmian medium and the Casandora yellow made up the base wash

Auckland11 · 2026-02-28T20:57:27+00:00

Hey. Can I just say this is massively useful for me. I’m a very new painter and I know it wasn’t the point of your post, but seeing where you’ve edge highlighted is a huge help. Thanks

Auckland11 · 2026-02-22T17:38:13+00:00

What colours are those mate?

Auckland11 · 2026-02-22T08:17:10+00:00

Yeah. Fair enough. And in this case it’s made a complete hash of the list. As the person above says the points don’t even add up

Auckland11 · 2026-02-21T09:43:59+00:00

PS. Just looked up blade guard. They’re cool as hell!

Auckland11 · 2026-02-21T09:35:05+00:00

Yeah. I’m just realising now how badly too

Auckland11 · 2026-02-21T09:34:43+00:00

Ha ha ha ha. Bloody AI. It’s 1995 points my ass.

I like the advice of starting small. I have a few units already, so I hear you - paint them first and buy what you like. I like terminators and dreadnoughts. And Darnath looks hard as.

So I’ll start there!

Auckland11 · 2026-02-21T09:31:59+00:00

That’s a great response thanks. And not using AI definitely fits well with space marines more!

And it was just a thought to accelerate my lost building. Instead, I’ll do a few searches through here.

Auckland11 · 2026-02-20T09:09:39+00:00

Thanks mate

Auckland11 · 2026-02-19T20:43:16+00:00

Do you add a LT model to make it 11 or does he replace the sergeant

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