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hey y'all i'm having trouble painting black clothes, they just dont look right to me, they are too smooth and flat black any tips are appreciated. thanks.

Maybe use a charcoal color or something dark, but not black. That will help you make the recesses in clothe black with shade, and almost create a highlight towards the higher surfaces. Once you get that accomplished you can take a dark grey and do highlights at the edge of the cloth. I'm not sure how this will look or end result, but its probably the route I would take.

I used vallejo heavy charcoal for my chaplain's armour, once it's washed and given another highlight it looks decent as black armour. I imagine it would work well for cloth too.

Im not the greatest painter in the world, but I just tried something out recently on my Neophytes. Theyve been black armor black clothes for a while, but I just painted up their legs and sleeves in dark gray and washed em down with Nuln Oil. It gave a really nice effect to offset the uniform outfit from the armor, letting the gray highlights stand out while the black wash settles into the recesses.

I use black, with a small amount of blue in it for base coat,

then slowly add more white/blue to highlight,

thenk nuln oild to fill the crevases

thanks i'll try that, also does anyone know how they get that sheen effect, like the one on the FW brass scorpion, it looks really cool, is it just like a high-gloss clear coat?
thanks

Differentiating between black cloth and metal is an exercise in 'TEMPERATURE CONTRAST'. Caps to indicate it's a long, long subject to discuss.

This boils down to (at simplest) using cool or neutral (bluish / grey) highlighting on metals, plastic, ceramics and warm (yellow / red / tan) on cloth. Try mixing your highlights with a flesh tone to get a warmer grey.

This should help.

Just replace the paints in the video with the ones you have.

very helpful. thank you.

No probs, Youtube has a lot of painters on it and they have a lot of tips.