Ran across interesting optical illusion when painting my modern british and russians in 6mm scale. Would anybody happen to know officially WHAT causes this?
Colour schemes I chose for both revolve around catachan green(GW paints all of them). British gets black stribes while russians get irreqular bleached bone shapes around them with some black shapes added to mix.
So far so good. Thing is: When I put them next to each other there's noticable difference in how the GREEN parts of the models show. With british models it's clearly dark green and no problemo. With Russians it looks more of a brownish unless looked upon closeby :?
Rather interesting optical illusion that happily solved one of my worry between these 2 armies(feared same base colour would make them too similar looking and that the bleached bone and different camoflage pattern wouldn't separate them) so I'm not complaining. Happy accident(though one I can repeat) which suits me just fine!
Did get curious on what is causing this and what's more are there other colour combinations that would cause similar effects? This trick was so handy I want to know wether there's more ways I could employ this :lol:
This thing turned out to be blessing. These colour schemes are fast to paint on 6mm models and look good
Oh and just for clarification: ONLY difference(apart from camoflage pattern) is the lack of bleached bone on british. Same undercoat colour, same colours elsewhere. And this repeated on more than one painting batch for both armies so clearly repeatable trick.
Colour schemes I chose for both revolve around catachan green(GW paints all of them). British gets black stribes while russians get irreqular bleached bone shapes around them with some black shapes added to mix.
So far so good. Thing is: When I put them next to each other there's noticable difference in how the GREEN parts of the models show. With british models it's clearly dark green and no problemo. With Russians it looks more of a brownish unless looked upon closeby :?
Rather interesting optical illusion that happily solved one of my worry between these 2 armies(feared same base colour would make them too similar looking and that the bleached bone and different camoflage pattern wouldn't separate them) so I'm not complaining. Happy accident(though one I can repeat) which suits me just fine!
Did get curious on what is causing this and what's more are there other colour combinations that would cause similar effects? This trick was so handy I want to know wether there's more ways I could employ this :lol:
This thing turned out to be blessing. These colour schemes are fast to paint on 6mm models and look good
Oh and just for clarification: ONLY difference(apart from camoflage pattern) is the lack of bleached bone on british. Same undercoat colour, same colours elsewhere. And this repeated on more than one painting batch for both armies so clearly repeatable trick.
