Colours which ones do you prefer.

[tidoco2222]

I have been painting like many others now a long time, in my case the best part of 28 years. I started with military modelling (armour and soldiers) and then went on to fantasy after reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time when I was twelve (It was a birthday gift from my Grandmother) and finding out that people actually made fantasy figures.
Now forgive the long introduction there is a point, it is only realy since joining Cmon and taking photos of my minis that I have realised what a limited choice of colour pallette I actualy use.
I tend to use reds, greens, browns and tend to steer away from oranges, yellows and the like.
My question to you all is, are we all alike do we tend to dive for a colour that we are comfortable in handling rather than try to master one which we may not be quite so good with.
Yuo would think that after such a long time painting that all colours would be easy to use, I have found that this is not the case (for me anyway).
Your thoughts on the subject would be much appreciated.

 

[Margo]

Originally posted by tidoco2222
reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time when I was twelve (It was a birthday gift from my Grandmother)

wait a second ... are you my cousin? Although I\'ve read the book when I was 11, it was also a gifr from my Grandmother! lol

As for the colours, there is one particular paint which I like above all the others. That\'s shadow gray for some weird reason.

 

[U4-Welcome]

Blue, red, and black. I\'m learning to consider using my other colors, like green .

Edit : I agree with Margo, for some reason Shadow Grey rocks.

 

[KingM]

As for the colours, there is one particular paint which I like above all the others. That\'s shadow gray for some weird reason.

I\'m not a great fan of shadow grey, I play Thousand sons and it reminds me to much of teh Space Wolves (only the 40k fanboys are going to know what the hell I\'m on about)

I like blue myself, in a Lloyd Grossman \'Through the Keyhole\' style, lets take a look at the evidence:

*My first army was ultramarines
*My eldar are blue
*I have a blue and white Guard army
*I play thousand sons
*I paint railguns blue
*I often mix blue into my metals to give then a blue tint
*I have blue furniture
*Blue paint tastes nice

(Well, I\'m not sure about that last point, but it might be true)

 

[kittykat23uk]

I don\'t really mind, it depends on the minis I\'m painting. I tend to take a lot of inspitation from the natural world.

For my wolfen I tend to go for earth tones, greys, browns, buff, black and white. Accented with NMM gold/silver and blue/ turqoise.

Dragons are on a case by case basis.

Lizardmen patterns are taken from real lizards and amphibians. I quite often use purple mixed with other colours and I generally steer clear of pink (except for flesh tones and tongues/mouths.

 

[tidoco2222]

Originally posted by Margo

wait a second ... are you my cousin?

Now there is a thought,it would be nice to have a long lost cousin and maybe the chance to get a free hol abroad.

My biggest difficulty is human flesh tones I realy struggle with those. I don\'t know if it is because I just find humans less interesting to paint or if it is that I just like painting Demons and Orcs and the like more.
One thing I realy like doing is metallics (conventional that is). This is only because at the moment my experiments with NMM have not been too good.
But it is definately a technique I intend to get the hang of.
Another colour I struggle with is purple, I am trying to do a puple cape at the moment and am in two minds whether or not to abandon it and go back to a more familiar colour.

 

[finn17]

Hmmmm....

RED!

You know...the colour of Blood Angels

 

[Hoblit]

At the moment my favourite colours are Primer white, Plastic Grey and Lead.

My least favourite colours are anything that requires a paintbrush to put on.

I really have to start painting regularly again. Seriously though, I can\'t quite get the hang of the whole shading and highlighting thing so it doesn\'t matter what colour I paint in as they all look flat.

 

[finn17]

Hey! You are right...

Originally posted by Hoblit
At the moment my favourite colours are Primer white, Plastic Grey and Lead.

I\'d forgotten about those wonderful colours:flip:

 

[DanseMacabre]

I try to use colors i\'m able to highlight quite well: green, brown, red, blue mostly.
i try to don\'t use colors i know i have not mastered yet: black is still a nightmare for me
purple is a bad beast, you always tend to finish in pink or to do very dark highlights
i don\'t like the yellow too..a very difficult color to paint clean and neat.
I think my favourite is the red, very easy to highlight and always attention catching.

 

[Trevor]

Yeah, to an extent. I tend to use a lot of red, blue and purple, but I do like doing green although its generally for ork skin.

I don\'t tend to use yellow, or light/yellow browns.

 

[DragonPaint]

I agree, not all the colors are easy to use but I try to play with all of them depending on how I \"feel\" the miniature.
In my last miniature I have used mostly earth colors and a bit of red and blue because it seems an historical model and actually I\'m painting Yovanka from Dark Age with completely different colors (lime green, bright red, blue/grey nmm)

The only color I need to manage better is yellow but I have to paint a Tzeench entry for the next Italian Golden Demon so I have to learn some trick soon

Paolo

 

[AlexDaKid]

SCORCHED BROWN!!!!

This colour is more useful than jesus holding a swiss army knife!

 

[tidoco2222]

Originally posted by AlexDaKid

This colour is more useful than jesus holding a swiss army knife!

Lol I agree with you there the old Scorched Brown forms a lot of my decisions for colour schemes and it is so easy to highlight up from or shade down with.

 

[Ritual]

I\'m fond of earth tones like browns, greys and some greens. I also use some blues and reds alot, and sometimes black or white. I rarely use yellow (except for nmm gold) or pink. Yellow is very hard to do well, but also I don\'t like yellow that much. (at least that\'s a convenient statement to make )

@AlexDaKid
I totally agree! I have a similar colour from the Vallejo Model Colour range and that is probably my most frequently used colour. I use it for shading greens, reds, browns, various flesh tones and most nmm types (corroded steel, copper, gold).

 

[Errex]

Well, this year I moved from red/blue combos to olive/grey ones. Look forward to have my \"Firey Phase\"

 

[EricJ]

Well working on my witchhunters, it seems like all I use is red, black, white, and nmm gold/steal, then I look back at my last 2 armys...same colors. Perhaps I am stuck in a patern...

That\'s it, my next army is blue, green & nmm bronze!

oh yeah, and primer white is what most of my models get painted, and remain painted...

 

[Mosch]

All the models I have painted in the last year had some kind of brown or a blue as a dominant colour or, indeed, any colour (except metal). The only exception is the Formor Fiend who has green skin.

 

[Jas]

Prefered Colour Pallete...

I tend to favour rich colours over paler tones. I love to use red as its a nice colour to work with over my prefered black primer. I find darker skin tones quite hard to paint but love doing skin nonetheless. Only colour that I don\'t like painting, but do nevertheless, is white (from either brown, grey or shadow grey).

 

[Albert Moreto Font]

there is not a favourite colour for me... i have colourschemes on all its points. For example blue-purple-turquoise-green. Now im painting a nurgle troll on purples-greys-pinks.... you\'ll see it in 3 weeks, its for the Spanish GD! wish me luck!