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Wondering if anybody has tried a method like this before, or if they've seen tutorials along the lines of what I'm describing.

I'm working on a sons of horus paint scheme as seen below. The way I'm doing it is based on a tutorial I saw online. Essentially it's prime white > base coat light grey > wash with watered down green and black washes. I like the color I get out of that process, but It's causing me problems in terms of being able to highlight / shade it leaving me with a model that I feel looks unfinished. So I'm thinking maybe before doing the color washes, I could highlight and shade with different tones of grey. Any thoughts on this?

Maybe pre shading like you would with an airbrush would help?

Eldercaveman wrote:
Maybe pre shading like you would with an airbrush would help?

I think that's exactly what I was looking for. I just didn't know what to call it. For anybody else interested, I found this video: http://screamingheretic.com/2011/05/painting-101-pre-shading-your-models/. Should work out the same with the washes as it does for the airbrush, I'll be giving this a go. Thanks.

Another way to do this could be dusting.

You spray the model black then once it drys you spray it white from an angle. The idea is to get a gradient going where the parts of the model facing upwards are nice flat whites while the more verticals are more greyish and the down facing areas black. You then go in with washes and mediums, the idea is to make it blend and shade itself.

 jonolikespie wrote:
Another way to do this could be dusting.

You spray the model black then once it drys you spray it white from an angle. The idea is to get a gradient going where the parts of the model facing upwards are nice flat whites while the more verticals are more greyish and the down facing areas black. You then go in with washes and mediums, the idea is to make it blend and shade itself.

sounds like shaking of cans are involved.. just use an airbrush GG.