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Well Gents,
I am looking to do some quick and dirty highlighting on some black armor marines. I was wondering if anyone has tried to find or use any washes to help. Worse case I will do some edging ,but I am hoping there might be a less tedious way to achieve a nice look. This army isn't high standard. Thanks in advance gents.

Though I've never used a white or grey wash before, I'd think it wouldn't end well. The washes settle in the crevasses of the model, exactly where you don't want highlights. I honestly think just some simple edging would put them far above the typical table-ready standard. To my knowledge, table-ready is really nothing more than the application of 3-4 colors (usually in a very rough manner). No highlights or black-washes present.

Just roughly drybrush on some middle grey, for a quick and dirty fix. find a darker grey that will show up but still look black. Washes work best in most cases when you want the wash to darken, as Hanith said, while drybrushing is probably the quickest way to build up a nice effect.

The other direction would to be paint them a middle grey, then wash with Nuln Oil or Black ink. this can work too, though the effects usually come out pretty dark.

Drybrushing or edge-highlighting would probably do the trick best.

If you've an airbrush, look up a tad of OSL, use color theory, and rock that crap.

Good luck

I second the others on this one. Washes are only able to achieve shading, never highlighting because of the way they flow into the lower parts of the model. To do what you want, you're going to want to use either a very light drybrush of grey followed by an even lighter drybrush of your highest highlight. Alternatively, you can just hard line paint your highest highlight onto the areas you want the highlight to be after the grey. There are a couple of videos I've done that shows both techniques if you're interested. Shoot me a PM if you the links.

A good technique I've seen is to paint the whole model with a super dark grey, drybrush with a mid grey and wash black again. It should take some of the chalky look off of the drybrush and make it a bit more subtle.