Paint death company from blood angels with airbrush - Which colors for lights?

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**il_masacratore**

Hi people!

Help me paint the death company with airbrush. To paint the assault marines I used four vallejo model air red, two for cover the entire miniature, then a shadow, and then two lighter colors from two different angles to give the lights.

I like to use the same technique for death company and I thought covering the whole model with black to give later some blue-black or dark gray lights. Has anyone used airbrush to paint the death company? I need some advice about the colour receipt...

Thanks in advance...

**soitra**

Only use black for your deepest shades nothing is ever true black. Then a slightly lighter shade for your mid tones and an even lighter but still dark for your highlights

**ScootyPuffJunior**

Here's a pretty good video:

**Ulterior**

I've had good results painting entirely black and then using an airbrush to zenithal highlight using VMA Dark Sea Grey and VMA Light Sea Grey.

**il_masacratore**

soitra wrote:Only use black for your deepest shades nothing is ever true black. Then a slightly lighter shade for your mid tones and an even lighter but still dark for your highlights

ScootyPuffJunior wrote:Here's a pretty good video:

Ulterior wrote:I've had good results painting entirely black and then using an airbrush to zenithal highlight using VMA Dark Sea Grey and VMA Light Sea Grey.

Thanks people, I will try a mix of you suggestions. Scooty thanks for the video!

**Requiem**

For my own airbrushed death company I used Black as a basecoat, then added several layers of zenithal highlighting to a nice grey, worked out quite nicely

**il_masacratore**

Requiem wrote:
For my own airbrushed death company I used Black as a basecoat, then added several layers of zenithal highlighting to a nice grey, worked out quite nicely

Thx for your reply, I'will try it something similar, black and different grays.