Power armor, specifically. I'm trying to think up a scheme for some sisters of battle. I like white, but it's the most frightening color for me to paint.
I'd like to preface this by saying that I'm not particularly skilled or ambitious. I feel the best solution to painting white would be to blend a mix of paints that's just a touch darker than white and use that as the base coat (so I can highlight up to white), but the idea of using a custom mixed color as my base coat is too off putting to me. I'm sure I'd never adequately reproduce it in a month when I sat down to paint my next squad, and I'd end up with a bunch of squads painted in slightly different whites. I aspire to, as much as humanly possible, avoid custom mixing and simply run with preexisting GW paints. That said.... Anyone have ideas for how to paint up good white armor? Ideally, it would be awesome if you had any sort of photo showing how your technique turned out, because I've seen so many different "whites".
Just off the top of my head I was thinking maybe.... prime black (does the primer color really matter?), base coat some sort of grey. Wash in badab black (or would i want a browner wash instead?), then go back over all the non-recessed areas in a much lighter shade of grey/beige, and then highlight around the very edges in a real white. Any idea if this would work at all, or would this create an armor too beige?
My biggest fears are having too much contrast between the wash and the eventual white, and having the white be too flat and unhighlighted.
I know some people work up from like, blues instead of gray/beige? I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that... but if you had a good example picture lying around of something done that way, I'd be interested.
Anyways, yeah. I'm also thinking of doing a dark red armor, or even the "typical" black SoB armor, just because those both seem much easier to paint up. But I'm interested in white if there's a good way for a pretty amateurish guy to do it that doesn't take a million steps or much mixing. Thanks for tips if you guys have any.