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Hi All,

New painter/modeler here. I'm working on a Chaos Army, general theme is Crimson Slaughter. The basis for the army is the DV starter set.

I'm converting one of the chosen SM to a Dark Apostle by adding his sigil of corruption halo. See the photos below.

A few disclaimers:

1. I'm new to this!
2. Work in progress. Touch-up needed. Model head not yet painted. No washes or highlights applied.
3. I'm new to this!

My general color scheme can be seen from the photos. I'm priming black with Mephiso red for the base armor color, and a copper color for the armor highlights.

Bone is Ushabti, while the "chaos" eyes and tendrils are a dark blue with a light blue dry-brush for highlights.

Anyway, I like the idea of a black cape and overcoat over the armor, but I'm afraid it will look flat and uninteresting. How can I "highlight" a solid black object?

I am considering was compromising on a charcoal grey color that I can then wash using black to add some depth.

Your suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks,
Aeglos

The others will come and sort you out much better than I could. But what I do is take a light grey, like space wolves grey (though that probably doesn't still exist) and do a sharp edge highlight on the black with it. Darker blues work as well, it depends on taste.

The thing you said can also be neat. On another force, I took a medium grey (too dark and there won't be much depth to work with) and hit it with a thick (undiluted) black ink wash about 3 times. The recesses and flats get mostly black, but the raised parts show enough of the original medium grey to be noticed.

These won't win you any awards but I think they pop enough from the table top level that you know that it is a.) black, and b.) not JUST flat black.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm not too sure about the steadiness of my hand to do fine/straight highlighting, but it may be worth trying, since I can always "erase" pretty easily by going back to flat black!

I should point out that I'm going for tabletop quality here. I don't have any illusions about entering contests or awards.

-Aeglos

I should point out that I'm going for tabletop quality here. I don't have any illusions about entering contests or awards.

As it should be as far as I'm concerned

The successive washes til its black thing is easier for sure, just not as obvious later.

If you're " edge highlighting" try running the side of your brush (rather than the point) along the edge in question. You don't need to be as steady handed, just don't put too much paint on your brush or it'll look blobby


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He's certainly a lot better than the stuff I painted when I first got started.
Just practice and experiment and you'll soon pick it up.
Tutorial vids on YouTube can be helpful too