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Recently I opted to paint a friends model for free to hopefully show all you here on dakka that I can paint to a decent standard.

Unfortunately I've hit a small snag. I've been any good at highlighting, but have recently tried with some success, but I'm not sure how I would go about highlighting black or Dark angels green. Normally I find finding a highlight colour easy as I can just pick a lighter hue of said colour...bit difficult with black and with dark angels green there aren't any directly lighter colours.

So if anyone could help me by letting me know the correct colours to highlight both the black and the dark angels green It would be greatly appreciated.

The black is on most of the armour and the green is only on the shoulder pads


Thanks in advance to any and all who help,

LazzurusMan]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/423696/3799785.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/423696/3799785.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/423696/3800546.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/423696/3800546.page GMT

With this I should have my friends model done for a week on fiday *spending a week away with no painting :/*]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/423696/3801057.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/423696/3801057.page GMT
Just be careful with black, its very easy to over do the highlights.

Generally just keep your paints thinish being careful to not put too much on the brush and use the side of the brush where possible to follow raised edges.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/423696/3801098.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/423696/3801098.page GMT
I will try the scorpion green, but how would I highlight the shoulder pads? I've Painted the rims gold and need to highlight the middle. If you need to know what model it is it's this one: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440271a&prodId=prod1050245

Thanks again guys
]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/423696/3801176.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/423696/3801176.page GMT ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/423696/3801522.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/423696/3801522.page GMT SM shoulder pads?

I'm not sure if a lighter green would work as a layer for dark angels :/]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/423696/3802849.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/423696/3802849.page GMT
What you could do is just run some black wash around where the shoulder pad meets the edge]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/423696/3802877.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/423696/3802877.page GMT
It's coming together pretty well now, once I've got my stuff ready for my week up north and my college interview I'll see if I can finish the grey highlights and the green and gold, then get a few pics up in the Showcase section

Thanks again to all of you, you've been a great help ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/423696/3802881.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/423696/3802881.page GMT
http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.php?automodule=downloads&req=download&code=confirm_download&id=520

I adapted it for my RG painting and I love the results.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/423696/3803019.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/423696/3803019.page GMT