| Fishbuckle | 07 Jun 2016 10:46 a.m. PST |
Bit of an odd question for you. Has anyone chosen a radically different way of painting for a project? In the same way that Schindler's List was filmed in black and white with the occasional red added, has anyone tried something similar for a wargames project? Would you consider such a thing? How would you go about it? The closest I've got is a 'woodcut' style ECW project using the card stand ups from Billy Bones. But I'm kind of intrigued by the idea of a 'greyscale' project with just flags or commanders in colour. Probably I'm just nuts. :) |
| Kropotkin303 | 07 Jun 2016 11:15 a.m. PST |
I once saw a grey-scale game where British commandos were infiltrating a German town-perhaps it was St Nazair or Dieppe. All the figures and terrain was grey-scale with yellow circles for street lights and searchlights. It looked very atmospheric and gave a good impression of a night attack.Will see if I can find pictures. |
Andy Skinner  | 07 Jun 2016 11:17 a.m. PST |
Not mine:
TMP link
TMP link I was trying to find a battle report (from WW1, I think) where the figures and terrain were painted in black and white, but I couldn't find it. andy |
dampfpanzerwagon  | 07 Jun 2016 11:47 a.m. PST |
I have tried painting some metal robots with just washes, rather than standard colour. Does that count. Tony |
| Vigilant | 07 Jun 2016 11:48 a.m. PST |
I painted a number of pulp Sci-Fi figures in grey scale to match the old Flash Gordon films. Started with a black base and gradually lightening through grey to white for final highlights. The plan was to use printed scenery also in grey scale, still working on that. |
| surdu2005 | 07 Jun 2016 12:20 p.m. PST |
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| leidang | 07 Jun 2016 2:00 p.m. PST |
I played in a fighting SeaBees game based on the John Wayne movie. Entire thing, terrain and figures were painted in greyscale. Even the dice were grey with black numbers. It was very cool. |
| leidang | 07 Jun 2016 2:05 p.m. PST |
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| Karnophage | 07 Jun 2016 3:17 p.m. PST |
I was thinking about doing this as a challenge to myself. Scale 75 actually has a Black & White paint set for this style of painting. |
| TamsinP | 08 Jun 2016 4:22 a.m. PST |
A fellow blogger has been doing a WWI in greyscale project for quite a while (and a few other bits). He does use touches of colour for effect. link |
| Fishbuckle | 11 Jun 2016 9:23 a.m. PST |
Some good ideas and links here. Thanks very much everyone! |
| custosarmorum | 11 Jun 2016 5:13 p.m. PST |
There was a very nice black and white WWI Chain of Command game at Huzzah in 2015. There are several photos on their Facebook page. Here is a link to one of them:
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| Karl von Hessen | 05 Jul 2016 4:56 p.m. PST |
Chris, I came upon this and thought it may give you some ideas.
figurementors.com/circus The writer refers to it as "monochrome" painting style. Good luck Karl (AKA Carl) |
| mikeygees | 05 Sep 2016 8:08 a.m. PST |
I really like the idea. I would even expand it beyond black and white.
I thought of doing this with Command and Color Ancients, using 1/72nd plastics. Priming them white and then washing them in their respective colors…. |
| ced1106 | 06 Sep 2016 2:55 a.m. PST |
I actually recommend greyscaling when painting single miniatures. Start with a zenithal priming of black then white. Slop and glop a black wash, like Secret Weapon Miniatures Soft Body Black. Paint the miniature in grey. Then finally apply the colors. This is called the Dutch Masters technique, because, when selling art, it was less expensive and time consuming to first paint something in grey or sepia tones. Only once a buyer was found, was the picture complete. The greyscaling helped the painter with shades and highlights. Some guy named Rembrandt used it: link |
