Hey, i'm pretty bad with the color white when painting. I tend to forget that Badab Balck is NOT a good ink to pair with white, but everytime I end up using it anyways and semi-screw my minis. My next minis are the Special Ops Grenadiers which I want to paint their vestments in white for the winter camo look.

I'm here to gather some techniques on how to shade with white. How you do it? Do you simply make your own ink with light grey and water? Or do you paint with a light grey and highlight/drybrush with white?

I'm looking for a quick and easy solution!

Thanks a million in advance!

Here are a couple of examples:

I wanted Markus to be really white, so I base-painted white, then washed with Ogryn Flesh which is fairly light, then drybrushed with white.

If you don't need it looking too white, you can wash with Devlan Mud, then highlight with white.

thanks Loophole. I like the look of the white on your Markus.

I don't have Ogryn Flesh but have Griphonne Sepia. I'll make some tests to see what it looks like.

I'd love that my Special Ops look like the ones on the box, the whites are really nice.

Thanks again!

I usually highlight from black>codex>fortress>white for grey tones. Bestial>bleached bone>white for boney whites. Vomit>iyanden>white for rotten bone. And for frosty I go Ice Blue>spacewolves>white.

Psykostevo said:

That's a lot to spend on paint;)

We're suppose to use paint on them...nuts, gotta go put the crayons away!!! ;-). You guys have some amazing skills---I hope I can come even a little close---loophole---wow! Excellent.

Lska said:

If I spend $500-600 on miniatures I'm not crying over $150 in painting supplies. At the competing level I paint at I earned almost $200 in Dust miniatures last weekend alone. It's worth it. Craft paints can be good if you know what your buying. I stick to trusted names because I am comfortable with them and I know what I am doing with them.

If you ate on a limited budget then just gradually add white to your paints until you get what you want.

The trick is not to use pure white, mix it with some brown- or fleshtones to get a realistic look. The skirt of my Chef is just one layer "dirty white" and then i apply a thinned quickshader.

I tend to use bleached bone instead of white a lot. It depends on the surface I am trying to do. Never used quick shader though.

For a quick table ready white figure I just use a lighter gray over the primer and then a white over that. Its just simple highlighting techniques and gets a good looking figure on the table quickly. It all depends how much time you have to build your army and the quality you wish to have. I tend to try to get a good amount of minis to table top standards them go back and spend more time on custom camo paint schemes, etc...Everything mentioned above works great as well. just go with what your comfortable with now until you build some experience and confidence in your techniques. Good Luck.