In fact these are the figures I used to experiment in Citadel Contrast White. Initially I started off using Grey Seer as an undercoat and then the Apothecary White Contrast paint on top - effectively following the basic instructions on the GW site for Contrast.
Unfortunately, Apothecary White is a misnomer and it's actually a medium to light grey. Disappointingly the 'one thick coat' method didn't result in the sparkly PVC white of the troopers of the movies but the more drudgery sort of grey seen in the skies at the height of a Scottish summer.
I rescued the two troopers I had experimented with by carefully giving them a coat of White Scar the purest white available from GW; the one that clumps to your brush and dries unevenly. Trying to keep a modicum of shading in the recesses proved laborious and I found a figure took more than an hour (especially after adding the black bits) which was more than I was expecting to invest. What I wanted was that instant awe inspiring "looks not bad from two feet in a dimly lit hall" masterpiece I was expecting could be achieved from twenty minutes of lackadaisical Contrast work (I had swallowed the hype).
I changed tack, still going with an undercoat of Grey Seer I then gave the figures to watered down coats of White Scar; not quite clump free but nearly, and followed that up with the liberal application of the Apothecary White. This worked well and the Contrast paint stuck to the recesses giving some definition but leaving most of the model with a defined white coat (if squinted at whilst on a table).
This method was then transferred to the Empire Army (the Oldhammer one not the Imperial Star Wars one - this could get confusing!)
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