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Would like to paint my vac suit Stormtroopers cloth black but I don't think it will look nice if I did a coat of black paint. Should I paint it black with grey highlights or super dark grey with a coat or two of black wash.

I'm no pro, but I'll generally undercoat black. Then I'll go over the high areas with Mechanicus grey since it's pretty dark. Then I'll hit very high areas with Dawnstone, but only a spot here or there. In extreme cases I'll even go a shade lighter, but very sparingly.

This would be my recommendation, paint it black, then I typically ink it black to get in the small recess and make those very perdominate, then I would take grey mixed with a little black and go around the edges were you think light will catch, if you want it to look pro work, go a very dark grey and you and shade out, but if you just want solid looking table top models just edge, then go to a lighter grey, and then the most sharp edges grey white mix, where you think they have the most light exposure.

I undercoat white, then apply several heavy black washes:

Black doesn't have to be highlighted with grey - a thin edge of green, or red/blue/ purple or whatever gives it a whole different feel. I think I saw an article about it on that'coolminisornot' site...

I do black, highlight with grey, and then hit it with blue ink.

You guys put way more effort into it than you really need to. Vallejo makes two colors that work great, German Grey or Black Grey. Black Grey is ever so slightly darker, but they both work great. All you have to do is base coat in either color, then use a black wash. There isn't even any need to highlight. I don't have any really good examples of how it turns out, but you can see how it looks here.

the black parts of her uniform were done using the method I described. It doesn't show up too well in pics, but in person, you wind up with a very nice and subtle difference in shading between the raised bits and the recessed bits with the recessed parts appearing black and the raised bits appearing to be grey.