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How would you guys go about painting scratches on black armour?

In my case, I start with near black (I'm using intermediate blue Vallejo model colour air for it) as a base colour for whole model, then after all is done I'm painting scratches with pure black. To give depth of scratch I'm painting brighter line just under the black line. If the scratch is bigger you can add silver (or rusty colour, or anything else) just inside of black line (you can leave a little more of black on upper edge)

What I do is take your black upto its highlights, then use a fine brush to make small texture marks with very light grey, literally almost white. The marks need to be very fine. You can sort of see on ghazzy here.


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You can also see it on the tiles under yarrick

As queen_annes_revenge says, small very fine lines on prominent areas which would receive wear are a very good way of simulating damage.

If it's on a corner, I tend to do a bit of a splodge of the highlight colour (in this case it would be Bering Blue or Artic Blue if I was painting black armour, depending on the depth of the scratch) and then draw it out across the surface. I then use the base colour (black or Abyssal Blue) to 'fill in' the centre of the scratch, giving the illusion of chipped paint.

This guide by Giovanni Di Lena is what I follow and probably illustrates it better than I can:

http://figurementors.com/painting-black-power-armour-by-giovanni-di-lena