"15mm colour lightening" Topic
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Fried Flintstone | 08 Sep 2014 2:34 p.m. PST |
Do you adjust your colour scheme by one shade lighter when you are painting your 15mm troops – in order to compensate for their size? Do you think they look better on the tabletop? |
ColCampbell | 08 Sep 2014 2:57 p.m. PST |
That seems to be the general consensus that I have heard. Jim |
Extra Crispy | 08 Sep 2014 3:02 p.m. PST |
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Yesthatphil | 08 Sep 2014 3:20 p.m. PST |
For modern/WWII and Vallejo acrylic, yes and yes … For earlier periods I find it less relevant … Phil |
Privateer4hire | 08 Sep 2014 3:43 p.m. PST |
Never have and only just heard about it as a 'thing' recently. Does it help that much? |
Fried Flintstone | 08 Sep 2014 3:52 p.m. PST |
I've seen examples which look good. Come to the conclusion many of my figures seem a little dark when not under my painting light :-( |
Royston Papworth | 09 Sep 2014 3:43 a.m. PST |
I don't. I've noticed that a lot of figures end up looking washed out of colour rather than lighter. My opinion, but I prefer them to look darker with a good contrast between shade and highlight. Just my opinion though…. |
BTCTerrainman | 09 Sep 2014 6:31 a.m. PST |
I never change my shading or color choices based on figure scale (or for buildings/terrain etc). Since I like using washes, I do paint lighter shades at times to account for darkening by the washes. I have found that adding really good and "extra" lighting helps a wargame table. You can probably get a tan around my table when you game. |
DyeHard | 09 Sep 2014 8:28 a.m. PST |
I think some care with terms is required here. Shade, I suggest a lighter shape (i.e. more white in the paint) for smaller figures. It has been suggested that this is to achieve an effect like viewing a full sized human from a distance. contrast, I suggest greater contrast (the difference between highlight and shadow) for smaller figures. This is to prevent them for looking "washed out" or like little gray blobs. Tone or color intensity. I suggest greater tone for the same reason as greater contrast. This may sound like it is in contradiction the the first suggested for a lighter shade, but it need not be. The colors if viewed in Black & White (B&W) would all be grays, or very few whites. The trick is to find the color you want and consider it's B&W value, then find a shade of the same color with a little lighter shade in B&W. Ideally we would all work with pure colors and mix in the shade and amount of gray we want. But that is not really available. Adding too much of any gray would leave a washed out effect. The trick with scaling the color is to end up as if you added that same amount of gray but a lighter shade of it. I think looking at B&W photos of both real troops in action and of one's figures can be very informative. I find that most peoples' model figures tend to look very dark against most terrain when compared to historic photos. |
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