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So I've been trying for ages to paint black armour but it just never ends up looking good. I want to get that blue black look using the Citadel colour range and also using a brush (no airbrush yet). Any good tutorials for this?
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Spray black
Mix a grey and black, or get a very dark grey
Drybrush model or highlight
Black wash
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The trick with black armor is simply in highlighting. If you have good highlighting skills, doing nothing more than basecoat + highlight will make a black armored model look decent. Beyond that, it's looking for opportunities to create contrast; fortunately, with black, *everything* bright creates contrasts, so it's just a matter of using colors in those contrasting elements that look good.
