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So wanted to speed paint up a regiment of chaos warriors and wanted a dark colour on their cloak. Looking at the foundation paints chose chardon granite, one I hadn't used before. From the name sounded a nice dark grey. When applied it comes out as.... erm.. greyish, greenish, brownish???
Looked not too bad after a devlan miracle or black wash, but not sure where to head with the highlight layers for the colour, any suggestions?

Did you shake it up?

Charadon Granite is a good color, but it really needs to be shaken up.
Anyways, best highlight colors for CG are Codex Grey or if you want to go an opposite direction...Dheneb Stone/Kommando Khaki.

Thanks Kan, yep shook it up well, shall try both colours and see which looks best for what I want, pics by next week with a bit of luck.

I find Charadon Granite is more of a green myself.

Charadon Granite is one of my most favorite colors. I use it a LOT, and it has a mild green kind of shine/ color. That can be used to your advantage, I think. All foundations should be shaken before use

Remember that black paint is a mix of all colours so greys tend to come out 'warm' (eg Codex grey & Chardon Granite) or 'cold' (space wolves grey).
Aim to use warmer greys to highlight it & you won't go wrong.
Or just add white!
Also it's a great base for steel - just drybrush boltgun then mithril over it.

I might try it for the steel, was just using it for cloaks just now . I think adding white would be very harsh for highlighting though?

Charadon Granite is more of a dark brown (sort of a rubber tyre colour).

It's pretty good for painting the road wheels on tanks.

I also love Charadon Granite, because it's such a vague colour - grreny, browny, grey...err grey-y?

It's the predominant colour in my IG army and was used to basecoat my Valkyrie - i'll get some pics up later but i hightlighted it with graveyard earth and a very subtle highlight of bleached bone on top of that (pushing it toward the brown spectrum).