http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/8.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net CSM highlights and shading, and would like some suggestions please. I'd like to make a nice, clean looking power armor effect, but I'm having trouble understanding where to paint the highlights and shadows...do the light areas on a shoulder pad show up at the edges? In the middle? Is there a dark border on all the edges?

Here's what I can do:
1. Good at color schemes, so I've got a few that will work.
2. Good at painting skin and cloth. (blending for highlights and washes for shading)
3. Good at weathering.

Here's what I can't do:
1. Power armor.

Maybe I'm exaggerating, but I have tried 10 different schemes on these guys and just don't like them. My latest triumph which seemed great on Sunday now seems like garbage.

Any help is appreciated.
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What that means is if everything is done the same, and your highlights aren't razor thin, but at least consistent, it won't look bad.

Might not win golden daemons, but it will make for a very striking army.

However if you are really looking for the clean crisp highlights, consider thinning your paints, investing in good brushes (GW ones are pretty good actually) and spending some time practicing.

Draw some lines on paper, make them as small as possible, try to get consistency, essentially train your hand and eyes to do what they have to.

And as others have said, paint with a nearby light source to see where you should be highlighting, you can save a lot of work by only highlighting the areas where light would actually catch. No sense highlighting every angle, marines may be superhuman but rarely fight inside a Star ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/217769/374217.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/217769/374217.page GMT CSM, I'll try out a couple of these techniques and post the results.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/217769/374633.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/217769/374633.page GMT