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So, I saw this image in that Harry the Hammer PDF thing on the GW website.
Does anyone know how to achieve the effect on the armor? I've tried doing a few things but they have never yielded any good results.

I haven't done it on a miniature before but I've done it loads before on Airfix models for liveries on planes. The way to do it is to get a soft brush (maybe a drybrush from GW) and then load up the paint lightly then apply it via a stabbing motion with the brush. Not to hard though but enough for it to adhere to the model. Hope this helps abit.

That's how you would stipple, but I don't think that that is stippling on the armour of the image shown.

The golden parts look to be NMM.

The black/read sections will probably be blended mauve/red/yellow/white on a black background.

The only time I've found stippling to be useful (as purist66 describes) is for camo patterns on 15mm FoW Paras, but I'm no expert painter so it could have plenty of applications?

That looks like free hand detailing rather than stippling.

I was just in another thread : http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/538053.page

Half way down page 1 he creates an almost similar effect with symbols on the armour, fading and such. Take a look.

What he says he does, is that he actually creates the colour gradient first; the reds -> bright reds and fading as such, then he paints the black on. So in effect working in negative. That could easily be applied to the model above.

Simply buy painting the bright red on and then fading that out with darker red perhaps some washes and then finishing up with the black outlines, you'd have an effect very similar.. Its a simpler technique than the reverse and is infact widely used in many other applications. But the obvious statement to make is simply: its patience vs feeling finished. The model your showing probably took a considerable amount of time; which there is often no way around

But i myself am gona try this negative method. Seems really interesting