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So I painted this dude today, and I like the color scheme. I started with Retributor Armor and put P3 Red Ink in the recessed detail. Looking at it, I love the look.

I had long been thinking about redoing my Thousand Sons army, and want to maybe do the same Metallic and ink to get better detail with less effort (even if it takes longer per model). However, the vast majority of my army are Mk III and Mk IV Marines, with lots of flat areas. Is this going to make inking hard? What would you suggest? (I can always do Vallejo Air brushed on as well if using an ink won't work out).

It's a Berzeentcher!

Cool paint bro. That actually looks really sick.

Just to clarify, did you apply the ink strictly on edges and recesses as opposed to entire armor sections? If so, you should be able to do the same thing and pretty much ignore the large flat areas.

If you applied it to whole sections and let it pool in the recesses, you should be able to do that as well. Inks will tint the underlying paint but as long as your coats are thin enough it shouldn't be too drastic.

Honestly, the other types of marines will probably be easier because they don't have as much detail or as many breaks between different sections.

 Luciferian wrote:
Just to clarify, did you apply the ink strictly on edges and recesses as opposed to entire armor sections? If so, you should be able to do the same thing and pretty much ignore the large flat areas.

If you applied it to whole sections and let it pool in the recesses, you should be able to do that as well. Inks will tint the underlying paint but as long as your coats are thin enough it shouldn't be too drastic.

Honestly, the other types of marines will probably be easier because they don't have as much detail or as many breaks between different sections.

Edges and recesses. I was more wondering how/if I could ink the flat areas to get that same red color, or if it would pool too much in one spot. Just trying to decide between ink and brushed on Vallejo Air to get the red I want on the flat sections.

You can use very thin coats of ink to tint pretty much any surface. If you want to avoid pooling just make sure to watch how much you have in your brush.