Painting Demonstration

Painting with Speedpaints and Contrast paints

I might be seen as being a little presumptuous in posting a video about painting with Speedpaints and Contrast paints. Especially given the the ADLG wargaming circle I mix with and some of the really excellent painters that they are. However, at a number of our events or games we had been discussing what a pain it is to paint mounted figures and especially their horses. In response I was saying how I found it easy and quick to paint horses with these modern paints. I have therefore bitten the bullet and put together two videos showing how I go about it. Okay they aren't brilliant and perhaps I would have been best advised to have a camerman. But I offer them to you as a guide, or at least a prompt for those who have not yet considered using them, on how these paints can simplify horse painting to get the figures on the table quicker.

In preparing this I realized that I needed to give some examples of how I choose colours for the horses and the other painting equipment and techniques I use, so that is first.

I then go on to use these to paint, in one go, a Khitan Liao Heavy cavalryman (I normally paint in batches) - I have cut out all the bloopers, such as when I painted the face of the figure in Chestnut rather than flesh!