Need help on painting white

[Stokkis]

Hi

I am at the moment sitting in cold norway and painting a black templar captain. I've used the body of GW's Space Marine Master of the Fleet model. I swaped the head with a black templar crusader helmet, and filed away the wing on his shoulder pad. Will post the mini here as soon as I finish it.

There's only one thing, I can't seem to get a nice white colour for the shoilder pads. And was wondering if anyone in here have any good advice on how to paint white?

 

[Rugne]

This isn't what you want to hear, either take the shoulder pads off or mask them, and spray them white, then work from there.

Alternatively, try using a beige-khaki paint as a midstep to a white/cream

Marc

 

[Avelorn]

Do you want them white-white or more of an off white? Dheneb stone is a good base colour as it covers well.

For a more complicated approach to an off white on a black primer: On my manus sanguis for example I used a bas of khemri brown, shaded with charadon granite. Then I added dheneb stone to the khemri brown for highlights until I had pure dheneb stone, then I added Vallejo Model colour ivory and finally I used pure vallejo ivory as a final highlight. Kommando khaki, codex grey and graveyeard earth was used as glazes to smooth out the transitions between colours.

Otherwise it is as usually important to dilute your paint and build up to a solid colour gradually, also use little paint on the brush.

 

[Necroghast]

If you're just going for tabletop quality, basecoat dheneb stone, wash with ogryn flesh, layer on some more dheneb stone and highlight with skull white. Worked for me yesterday and it looked pretty good...

 

[Stokkis]

Thanks for good advice, will test your methods tomorrow.

 

[cassar]

i heard a legend once of a man who painted his pads bright yellow first then used skull white on top for a really brilliant shining white.

 

[Donga]

I've actually found that painting white it is often better to start painting the highlight as the base. Paint whatever it is white, then just paint in the shadows with very dilute paint (SW Grey, Deneb stone, what ever..). You then end up with a cleaner white and it's much easier. You just need to start with a good base-coat, 2-3 dilute coats should give you a really bright base (more coats/dilute is better).

That's just my experience.

 

[Wicksy]

I've mucked around with painting white starting with a light grey base coat then working the highlights up to skull white. Priming white tends to look like it has just been primed white....it looks flat and bland - like someone has not bothered painting part of the model.