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Ok this is kinda a weird question, and i think its because i dont really have a place to use a dry brush, painting space marines.

But from what i can tell bry brushing is really good for cloth, flesh, basically anything that would be poseur right?

So for example, lets say im doing some deathwing knights, and im working on their green robes. Normally i do the following to paint them

Base Calabain green

Layer/highlight Warpstone green

Wash in bialtan green

Edge highlight in nurgal green

Where in this process would i do a dry brush, and it what color, and what effect would this give me?

Would i want to use my highest highlight? or should i dry brush in the layer colors?

Hmm ...honestly in my opinion - the opposite haha...

Space Armour has so many hard lines - perfect for dry brushing. Cloaks and robes on the other hand do not, and look best with a softer blended highlight (not drybrush).

Drybrushing can get great hard edge highlights if you do it right. I mostly drybrush things like chainmail (black coat then drybrush steel) or hair, fur, things like that. I never drybrush capes and such as I just highlight up the folds (there may be exceptions, some capes are fur...) Treads on tanks are a good example of a drybrush area. Some people drybrush bolters for SM if they are mega batch painting, as it can save time (again black then drybrush steel). Hope this helps. Not much but then again I'm not an uber good painter like others here.

I wouldn't drybrush power armour at all, personally. You don't have much control when drybrushing, so you generally get pretty scruffy results. That's not really what you want with power armour. I'm not sure how it would be good for flesh either. Cloth sometimes, if you're going for a weathered, tatty look. I have occasionally used it on leather, alternating between drybrushing and layers of wash.

What drybrushing is really great for is, as edwardmyst says, fur, chainmail, hair, tree bark, that sort of thing. Also, metallic areas can look good with a drybrush of a lighter metallic.

It's very much a personal preference thing though. Different people have different techniques.

I do most of my metals in black, and then drybrush silver.

For things like crux terminus honors, I’ll do base grey, drybrush silver, black wash.

Eagles and other winged decorations, I’ll base gold, wash brown, and then drybrush gold on top of that.

Just about the only thing I ever drybrush is my bases - I personally find that I don't have much use for drybrushing when painting marines. As others have pointed out, I think it's main use for SM's is mainly on metallic areas, such as the aforementioned treads of armoured vehicles. SM armour tends to lend itself more to edge highlights rather than drybrushing as the smoother panels of the armour end-up getting streaked when you drybrush.

Iv dry brushed VMA Aluminum on my alpha legion at the very end to highlight up the metallic color and to add various scratches and chipping. its a double win for them

using one of those blush brushes and going ham on them.

worked out pretty well.