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It's a halved balck and green scheme and I've finished the green, I'm quite pleaased with it but I've gotten to the black and just highligted it with codex grey, pretty simple, and somethimes sloppy if I rushed it, so for the most recent chap I thought I should enquire on here as to the best way to paint black.

Pics:






This is where the sloppy highlighting really shows



and a little sloppy gold


And Finally the half done chap

Well there you have it, I spose whilst the pics are up, What do you think?

Cheers
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base black
dry brush codex grey everywhere
dry brush fortress grey all raised and light areas
dry brush white on the extreme edges and light areas
wash with badab black everywhere

- then with thinned down black paint, go over everything that isn't a highlight. Check out his work (Raven Wing)...
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Base coat with chaos black.

Paint the model with a 80/20 mix of codex grey and chaos black, leaving the 1st coat in the recesses.

Use another coat of 70/30 chaos black again, but this time use it to light up the lit areas on a model (using a light source will help loads)

Use fortress grey to highlight the model, once again paying attention to lighting again.
Make this highlighting thicker than usual.

Use codex grey to do a final highlight inside the fortress grey one, making it thinner so it stands out.


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Then do highlights in dark grey, and superhighlights in pale to medium grey (Fortress Grey).

Finally, I would do an ink wash in either dark green (Viridian) or dark blue (Utramarine.)

What happens is that the ink overlays and stains the paler greys, so you get coloured highlights.

This can give you an effect like the Judge Dredd cartoons, where his black uniform is higlighted dark blue.

It's stylised but it can look very striking.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/258492/1004880.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/258492/1004880.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/258492/1005068.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/258492/1005068.page GMT ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/258492/1005121.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/258492/1005121.page GMT
Yeah, I'd deffo go for dry-brushed Grey highlights of some sort(Codex?). Keep 'em subtle and correct any mistakes with Chaos Black/black wash.
It won't be Golden Demon standard, but you'll be able to knock 'em out fairly quick and they should look decent.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/258492/1005161.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/258492/1005161.page GMT ) then wipe it off on a paper towel till there is like barely ANYTHING.. then go over the black areas very lightly but constant. It should come out like the dragon just grey ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/258492/1005172.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/258492/1005172.page GMT .]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/258492/1005855.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/258492/1005855.page GMT Also remember it's a bit lighter that it will be to compensate for the wash.
When this is all dry I'm going to try the nice idea of washing it, I'm thinking blue as this will contrast well with the green but because it's very subtle it (hopefuly) won't clash
If anyone thinks a different colour would be good before I've done the blue one I can change it, if nobody object's I reckon I'll carry on with the blue, see you in about an hour
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And after taking this shot I went with some thinned down chaos black and did a little more on the legs. Blue wash next ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/258492/1007401.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/258492/1007401.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/258492/1008633.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/258492/1008633.page GMT