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I am looking to paint my space wolves, specifically my wolf guard a pink/white and black scheme and I am looking for help on the best method to do so! I was thinking to prime them white, apply the blackened area with chaos black, use badab black to give depth to some of the areas I am painting pink and put wash the black areas. Then paint the model pink highlighting later with white and then lighter pink around the edges of the shoulder pads... Please if you have a method let me know how you would do it!

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note: i am not an expert painter, but what I would do:

Prime a light grey, highlight the pink and white areas up to white, then use a transparent red or redish ink on the white areas for the pink

Black areas suck the detail out of a guy, I would use a dark grey as the base on black areas then chaos black very sparingly.OR base these areas in black and go over that "mostly" with the dark grey to give them depth.
chaos black is like 150% black you can't add wash to add depth to it.

You need to explain in a bit more detail exactly what you are trying to do but generally speaking, you are going to have a hard time layering pink over a black undercoat, unless you either use a foundation type paint (which cover black effectively) or you apply lots and lots of pink layers.

Personally, I would prime white, paint the pink and black bits that you want since it is easy to paint black over white than vice versa. I wouldn't wash with badab black over pink, it would come out too dark. I would use perhaps the red wash maybe? Something like that.

Well I have primed them white so far, I am thinking about airbrushing them 75-85% pink, painting them 5% black and the rest white besides weapons of course. Would the red wash bright out the pink more or should I just leave them pink without washing?

Why not go with the traditional shadow grey?

Because I want my army to be unique not like the other mono color schemed space wolves.