What an artist are you?! It looks so simple and it's well explained. Thanks a lot! But my first stand of 10 men wasn't a great success. But I have some 10K others to keep improving...
I love your paint job! Starting an ACW Army right now my question is: how to paint the grey coats? Would Gryph-Charger Grey be fine? For example if needed after other paint is spilled on it or so. I coated the Minis with Greyseer from Citadel. Keep up your great work!
Also wanted to mention, you got the look of the Confederates down perfectly! You have a really good ratio mix of confederate issue brown and gray trousers mixed with captured Union trousers. There was so much captured Union stuff in the Eastern theatre, particularly after Chancellorsville, that many of Lee's men were able to equip themselves with Union cartridge boxes, haversacks, canteens, blankets, trousers, shoes, etc. to the point where practically the only "confederate" thing left on them was their gray or brown jacket or coat. Great work!
Often, families etc would stand next to each other, so may well have had Confederate butternut uniforms from the same local manufacturer - typically one or two women making uniforms. Basically, one can explain most of our supposed mistakes away with fact, especially with Johnnies. Nice fettling job prior to painting. Still fettling mine.
Excellent video. Initially interested for doing the same models, now considering using this idea for 15mm WW2 soviet infantry too (using contrast for the cloth uniforms), but with a dark brown and off white instead of black and grey. Thanks!
Thank you. You can absolutely use this system in any scale miniature, I do it often on 28mm miniatures and then highlight afterwards (you wouldn’t know that Contrast was used at all).
It was a free music plug in included with Final Cut Pro which I use to edit, seemed a better fit than most things in there. I like it though, very relaxing (but maybe not when you’ve heard the same thing a 100 times while editing 😂).
Looks really good! I started my first sprues last night. Using the Citadel Contrasts on the confederates makes sense since they are primed in light gray, the Contrasts will show up over it. That speeds them up considerably. A lot of gamers don't realize that the Contrasts are strong enough that they will work over many shades of tan and gray, as well as a white primer. I opted to prime my Union guys in dark blue to get the coats and forage caps colored, but unfortunately I will have to resort to traditional acrylic paints since the Contrasts won't show up over dark blue. I'm wondering if it might be better to re-prime my Unions sprues in a lighter color like tan or gray so that I can use the Contrasts on them. That might actually be a bigger time saver than priming in dark blue.
I was really torn with how to do the Union guys, I was very close to doing similar to you, I felt I could prime and highlight the blue for the jackets and hats, then paint in the rest. Like you I knew that I couldn’t use contrast after, with the trousers I was fine with that, same with webbing and bed rolls, but the the thought of painting in all of the faces and hair (rather than Contrast) put me off, and I went the contrast method. Even though it means painting in the jackets and trying to be quite neat, I think it’s still going to work out quicker than the Confederates have (less swapping colours I guess).
@@MiniatureRealms Yeah, it's really kind of silly to not take advantage of the time savings that the Contrasts provide, particularly when you have to do hundreds and hundreds of repetitive soldiers for an historical army. They've become my primary painting method over the past year or so, with some dry brushes over the top of them they create results that I think look just as good as if you painted them the traditional way. I'm trying to figure out a way that I can possibly narrow my airbrush nozzle to the point where I could airbrush the Union trousers in light blue while leaving the rest of the model dark blue. If I could get TWO primary colors done on the Union models with nothing but an airbrush then it might be worthwhile to leave them primed in dark blue. But otherwise it seems that priming them in gray like you said is the way to go!
Really enjoying your channel and particularly like your "whole project"approach covering flags, basing, adding figures and sources (Peter Pig) and finally a focus on a specific battle. I've watched this video a couple of times and consequently experimented with some variations especially using Citadel Shades (as that is what I have) versus Contrasts resulting in a somewhat flat and monotonic appearance that I found less than stellar. Just ordered a set of Citadel Contrast paints! With so many channels and videos to follow, your's is refreshing and am looking forward to more videos.
Thank you for the really kind comments, I’m really enjoying doing videos for the channel, and it’s great to hear when people are enjoying it. I think you will notice a huge difference with Contrast paints over shades, much more vibrant.
Thank you. I’m no expert for sure, but definitely found examples of red sashes on Infantry officers, I agree that I’ve seen much more yellow though. Red definitely more associated with Artillery, but not always, a red or crimson sash definitely pictured in a few examples I’ve found. I’ve done plants of yellow as well, but like to have some variety, especially with the Rebels and their miss-match uniforms at times.
@@MiniatureRealms I'm no expert either and this just caught my eye. But keep on the good work. I ordered two sprues just to see if 15mm will be too small for my eyesight.
They would both work I think, I imagine you could use Griffon as a base and highlight with crystal. If I were to choose one I’d go for crystal blue, at this scale I think the it would help it stand out more.
Each to their own I guess, took me a while to understand how they can work for me and now I find them very useful, but totally understand they’re not for everyone.
Oh you didn’t offend at all, just answering the question/responding. I’m adding highlights to them so don’t find that an issue. The Vallejo versions that are coming out soon look very interesting, a good mix between the Contrast and Army Painter Speedpaint, and very Matte as well.
@@MiniatureRealms I will have to try the Vallejo versions I am just fed up with GW price hikes here in the states and after 35yrs or so of buying citadel or GW figs I stopped buying their products once and for all. So I guess I take it out on all their products...
