"28mm Gladiators, and a change in painting method" Topic

I was in a bit of a rut as far as painting goes, so I decided to try a totally different painting method. I tried the triad method – a dark, medium, and light shade for each color, and no ink wash.

I like it. It takes only slightly longer than the basecoat / wash / highlight method, and there is no waiting for wash to dry. If you count dry times, then it is much faster. I like the brightness of the finished mini.

28mm Gladiators from Crusader Miniatures.

They look good to me!

Reaper sell their paints in colour triads if you want to do the full comversion to triad ism.

For the colourblind painter like me it is amazing! No more red green f ups as I keep all the triads together with rubber bands.

I think foundry have a paint system also with similar three couloir process.

They look great!

For Vallajo triads see here…..superb resource…

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Bc1745

bc174: that's the site I used.

First, I made a list of all the Vallejo paints I already had. Then I figured out what triads I could make, and made sure I had the basics covered (red, green, blue, yellow, brown, black, gray). Then I went to my local game store and bought the paints I needed to fill the gaps, and then I had to order the 3 or 4 I needed that my game store did not have in stock.

The prep was more work than the new method. :)