Spot Color Poll

[symphonicpoet]

Here we go. The poll should be active for one week!

 

[Citizen Sade]

It might be challenging but it's a happy colour.

 

[Geroak II]

So, looks like yellow it is then and folks can start working on their minis... I suppose?
Not the easiest colour to paint but should be fine with white or light grey undercoat.

 

[symphonicpoet]

^I paint my yellow on top of black! Yes, yellow is our favorite color. (Good thing I didn't say Black/Pink . . . wait . . . ) *augh* he shouts as he is catapulted from the bridge by mysterious and capricious magics.

 

[MichaelStockin]

My memory failed.
This is for the market day challenge thingy?

 

[Geroak II]

Yup, it is.

 

[MichaelStockin]

Ta!

 

[Padre]

Erm ... 'spot' colour? Like the colour I most easily spot? From a distance? Or the colour of spots? Or the colour I use when I'm a tricky spot? Or is it some painting technique I (like usual) am unaware of?

 

[Padre]

I'm a rebel and I'm gonna vote anyway, despite my ignorance regarding what I'm voting for

 

[Padre]

Oh, the poll is closed. Good job as I would have made it a statistical mockery.

 

[twisted moon]

it's the unifying colour that all contributions must have, but there is no suggestion it should be the predominant colour.

 

[symphonicpoet]

Erm ... 'spot' colour? Like the colour I most easily spot? From a distance? Or the colour of spots? Or the colour I use when I'm a tricky spot? Or is it some painting technique I (like usual) am unaware of?

It needn't be the most prominent, but it should be obvious enough as a theme to sort of tie things together. When this started the first entries were distinct warbands: a pirate gang, a chaos band; that sort of thing. We've gotten a bit more free-form with it in recent examples, but I do think it still helps.

 

[Slave to Darkness]

^I paint my yellow on top of black!

Same, I find it easier than painting over white for some reason.

 

[Brother Meredith]

You guys are masochists…

 

[Slave to Darkness]

You guys are masochists…

Not primed a mini white in nearly 15 years, even Skellybois get the black rattle can.

 

[Brother Meredith]

Surely you use a whiter tone before painting yellow directly onto the black primer?!?

 

[Slave to Darkness]

Nope.

 

[Brother Meredith]

Eek! How many coats does it take to get decent coverage??

 

[Slave to Darkness]

Depends on what I'm painting, power armour Ive not painted yellow in years (the year fallout New Vegas came out) but I remember it being a right nightmare, Bretonnian peasants get a quick Foundation paint, wash and highlight, knights get a bit more effort, usually a couple of layers of thinned foundation before the washes.
I'll pay more attention to what Im doing on the market day minis and make a note of it.

 

[symphonicpoet]

I personally layer up from black with a coat of a coat of a dark gold color, a heavy coat of a bright yellow, and a light highlight coat of the same bright yellow.



I then sometimes go back over the whole lot with a red or orange ink and then highlight again before the ink dries with yet another coat of bright yellow.



I find they both give a particularly nice, layered look. I'm more likely to use the former for hard surfaces that I want to appear as though they're a uniform color, (like armor) and the latter for deeper and more varied effect, as one might have with cloth. The ink works nicely since it dries more slowly and gives you a chance to wet blend more directly on the miniature.