Easy Red Using Citadel Contrast | Battletech Painting Sword of Light With Blood Angel Red

[@funghazi]

Wow, red that covers in one coat? Sounds like LosTech!

[@basecoat1966]

Thank you for the reminder/advice that you can go back later to a model when your painting skills have improved.

[@shaneflickinger]

Nice. I was actually going to hard pass on most of the contrast range until I saw your tutorials. I ended up picking up some of the colors to try this out. My first one turned out a little splotchy because I think I was trying to spread the paint too thin. Overall though was still pretty happy with the result and it was definitely pretty quick. Thanks a lot for the idea!

[@joefakename8446]

I've had pretty great success using this color for word of blake 52nd shadow division. The contrast paint works well to make a gradient effect as it transitions from black on the lower half of the Mech and red on the upper half. Painted a seraph and an archangel so far and I'm pretty happy with the result

[@CamoSpecsOnline]

That’s fantastic. Awesome to hear how well they work in different ways for people.

[@johnkelley9877]

Great looking model! Thanks for sharing this technique on the Contrast Paints.

[@HeadHunterSix]

Some advice to those who are using an alternative undercoat to Stonewall Grey: A _light_ grey primer might work, but Stynylrez grey primer will give you a _very_ dark red result (kind of like actual dried blood). Go with Stonewall, or alternately Grey Seer (which is a tiny bit lighter than Stonewall, and is designed to work well with Contrast colors).

[@CamoSpecsOnline]

Thanks for the solid tip on color selection 👌

[@wouterw.2945]

Looks great, with the use of only some very simple techniques. A really good tutorial.

[@lpseem3770]

Thanks. That is looking almost too awesome.

[@razzan532]

Any plans to upload more frequently? I love painting vids like this but Battletech-specific ones are difficult to find.

[@CamoSpecsOnline]

Yes, now that my video software issues are resolved you should hopefully see at least one new video per month.

[@stevenhernandeznon-profitf968]

Camo Specs Online so glad to hear that! Please keep them coming. I have recently been on a warship buying binge so I am looking forward to learning more techniques

[@DominiumabsolutumBlogspot]

Regarding the rust brown paint, you would give a Vallejo replacement?

[@CamoSpecsOnline]

Unfortunately there's not a very good color in the Vallejo line that is similar to that rust brown from army painter that I used. The good news is that you don't have to use an exact color like that. You can use a light brown flesh tone or other light brown colors as long as there's a red tone present. The other option would be to add some red or orange to a light brown and mix it to your liking.

[@stevenhernandeznon-profitf968]

Thank you for this! I am working on some fire mandrills and blood spirits and I have struggled with reds

[@darkstorminc]

Do you start them at the color you want or a shade darker?

[@stevenhernandeznon-profitf968]

Crash Overide usually darker to lighter. My longest standing project is the blood guard Keshik of the blood spirits. Primarily it is a stone grey and blood red scheme and I have just never been happy with how my grey comes out

[@darkstorminc]

You might want to try Army Painter Necromancer Cloak instead of pure black. I prefer it in most cases.

[@CamoSpecsOnline]

I typically use a charcoal as my base instead of black, but to emphasize the contrast aspect I went with black on this example.