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what is the best GW colour for highlighting black? I currenty use eshin grey, and it works fine, but what if I wanted to tint it with different colours?

could I theoretically make the black a little blue-ish with a blue type edge highlight?

what would be the best method for highlighting in a green fashion and a blue-ish-grey colour?

thanks, and I will apologize in advance if the question makes no sense.

Give this article a read: http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.com/2014/05/tutorial-painting-colour-black.html

The GW "basic highlight" for black is dawnstone then administratum grey. But the answer is that it depends a lot on what you're trying to highlight.

For instance, these guys are highlighted with Dark Reaper first, then Fenrisian Grey. This gives it a hard, bluish highlight:



On the other hand, the back of this cloak is wet blended entirely with greys to give a soft, black cloth look:


Note that you can't really achieve a nice shaded black cloak with washes. It just doesn't work well. You could glaze it forever, but a wet blend is just much easier (and faster).

On this scout, I wanted to NOT introduce any blues, because that would diminish the "urban grey camo" scheme, so I highlighted with the standard dawnstone/administratum:

For edges you can do thinned down white, washed black, then rehighlight a sharper edge or spot pure thinned white.

On rounded surfaces you can crosshatch thinned white, washed black then again rehighlighted more selectively, perhaps having to zigzag instead of crosshatch.

Of course you can highlight/wash as many times as you want until you get the transition you desire.

Here is an example with a model I am working on at the moment. You can see the crosshatching on his leg and edge highlights on his gunshield.



The only thing I suggest is to be very sparing while highlighting black to avoid getting a grey appearance.

My last suggestion is something I've heard of but never tried myself; selectively applying gloss varnish to create a highlight effect on black.

interesting. I really like the death companies highlights talys