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Hi everyone!

Just curious how you would highlight grey? What Vallejo/GW color would you use? I know for black the common one is to use Grey but if your army is primarily colored grey...

Here is the pic of a few of my models.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-32263-16020_Ig%20Sale.html

It is a sort of medium color grey. Not too dark not too light. What color do you think would be best to use?

To a large degree, it depends if you're trying for a cool or warm grey. Bleached Bone can highlight greys with a noticeable red or yellow tint, whereas white with a hint of blue works with those with a blue tone. Without a semi-pro photographic suite, there's any number of factors that could mean the colour displayed on our monitors isn't the same colour seen on the models, so there's a fair degree of you needing to make the call.

Vallejo has a full line of gray shades, which should work. In the GW line, Fortress Grey is good for highlighting. If you're moving toward white, Vallejo's Ivory is excellent.

syypher wrote:Hi everyone!

Just curious how you would highlight grey? What Vallejo/GW color would you use? I know for black the common one is to use Grey but if your army is primarily colored grey...

Here is the pic of a few of my models.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-32263-16020_Ig%20Sale.html

It is a sort of medium color grey. Not too dark not too light. What color do you think would be best to use?

I'd recommend a wash as well to give things some depth.

But for highlighting grey, either buy progressively lighter shapes (both gw and vallejo make these), or just take your original grey and mix in progressively more white

targetawg wrote:

syypher wrote:Hi everyone!

Just curious how you would highlight grey? What Vallejo/GW color would you use? I know for black the common one is to use Grey but if your army is primarily colored grey...

Here is the pic of a few of my models.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-32263-16020_Ig%20Sale.html

It is a sort of medium color grey. Not too dark not too light. What color do you think would be best to use?

I'd recommend a wash as well to give things some depth.

But for highlighting grey, either buy progressively lighter shapes (both gw and vallejo make these), or just take your original grey and mix in progressively more white

I've never worked with grey before and it's a little weird for me...what color would you use to wash grey to give it depth?

syypher wrote:

targetawg wrote:

syypher wrote:Hi everyone!

Just curious how you would highlight grey? What Vallejo/GW color would you use? I know for black the common one is to use Grey but if your army is primarily colored grey...

Here is the pic of a few of my models.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-32263-16020_Ig%20Sale.html

It is a sort of medium color grey. Not too dark not too light. What color do you think would be best to use?

I'd recommend a wash as well to give things some depth.

But for highlighting grey, either buy progressively lighter shapes (both gw and vallejo make these), or just take your original grey and mix in progressively more white

I've never worked with grey before and it's a little weird for me...what color would you use to wash grey to give it depth?

Depends on what you're going for, but the standby would be something like badab black. Just a black shading to create a shadow on it. If I'm going to shade browns I'll usually use devlan mud.

Rules of thumbs though, you can definitiely try others colors for other effects. Best thing to do is just buy a couple pots and test it out on test models. You can remove the wash fairly easily with windex (I think?) or some other product. Heck if you don't like how it looks and think of it initially you can just use a wet brush to get it off.