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Hello. Working on my necrons and while I like the metallic blue I'm starting to think there's too much blue in there. Black, metal and gold aren't doing enough. Was thinking of putting some red to the lines in the armour. Some arrows in picture to show what I'm talking about. Red seems like nice contrast colour and fits my immortals who have red in the chest area.

Would this work or create more of mess? Seeing it's bit of pain to redo the metallic blue I would like some opinions before going for it.

(btw annoying model to assemble with all these subpaintings required)

With vehicles, it's a good idea to do some pre-shading to stop the surface becoming flat and dull. You can spray or paint black into the panel lines over a grey or white prime and when you put your basecoat and layers down you'll get a better look.

As you've already got a painted model, you can varnish the model and run some wash down the panel lines. Acrylic wash is fine for this but oil washes will have an easier time due to less surface tension. For what you have there, some nuln oil would work nicely.

You could also do some edge highlighting on your blues to improved the overall look.

EDIT: Here's what I mean by panel lining/washing on a Falcon I painted, the effect is subtle, but it helps a lot.

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
With vehicles, it's a good idea to do some pre-shading to stop the surface becoming flat and dull. You can spray or paint black into the panel lines over a grey or white prime and when you put your basecoat and layers down you'll get a better look.

Picture might not show it but it's not flat and dull in real life. Flash might be screwing it. How the blue is done is first start with gunmetal over black, then from upside pure silver so the undersides are darker metal. Then transparent blue. So things that didn't catch silver from the spray that came from above are darker and either way blue shade changes based on angle(the metallic sheen)

And I'm wondering of doing the lines in contrastic colour rather than shaded area. For shade I could sure run some nuln oil or drakenhoff night. I was thinking more like bright red(blood red, wash, evil sun scarlet along the centers) to make those patterns really stand out. Not quite opposite colour according to colour wheel(yellow/orange seems to be it) but not adjasent either.

Honestly for this type of model I would coat the model in gloss varnish. Then simply paint the lines, and clean up anywhere you get outside the lines. Just keep a wet q-tip handy, and clean off and mistakes.
OR if I was set on washing it I would wash it with a blue wash. Washes are good for adding shading effects...not so good at coloring in lines.

I'd definitely go for nuln oil or drakenhoff in those lines rather than red, but then I tend to be quite conservative with colour