The best way to paint black?

**Niva** · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:00 pm Post subject: The best way to paint black?

Ok guys and gals I have alot of black to paint soon and dont want to spend half a year on it so what would you say was the best way to paint black incorporating a highlight as i guess you cant really shade black Very Happy

or can you Confused

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**PrawnPower** · Moderator Joined: 31 Mar 2007 Posts: 212 Location: Norwich

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Samajy_Studios · Champion Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 363 Location: Norwich

well for my black i often do subtle grey tones (keeping it watery) then do small extreme highlights

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Steve · Squire Joined: 31 Mar 2007 Posts: 40 Location: Norwich

Gloss varnish and natural light mate no worries!

Nah Im with Sam on this one subtle Gry/ blue highlights. If it goes too grey a watered down black glazes sorts it out nicely!

**Niva** · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:54 pm Post subject:

I like the idea of highlighting black with a faint blue, that might just work for what I have my idea based around.

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Sword · Slave Joined: 01 May 2007 Posts: 6 Location: Norwich

I did some ravenwing land speeders highlighted with Regal blue then super highlighted with regal mixed with Ultramarines.

That turned out very nicely, and was quick too.

**Niva** · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:09 pm Post subject:

Hi Sword, got any pictures of them?

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Samajy_Studios · Champion Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 363 Location: Norwich

Sword wrote:

I did some ravenwing land speeders highlighted with Regal blue then super highlighted with regal mixed with Ultramarines.

im not too sure about this. i wont look like black. it will just give the impression of dark blue. i would be interested in seeing some pics though. im gues u wont to know how to do good black for uthwe. well i woud go with adding shadow grey or fenris grey to black. watering it down, doing about 3 blended very graudual layers and then highlighting the edges of the cloak with 2parts shadow 1 part fortress and 2parts water. that should sort u out nice and propper plus it will contrast well with the bleached bone and the red. this is all do to with colour theory, possibly stick a bit of an orange wash over the bleached bone(very subtle though) and this will make the black stand out even more. good luck matey Very Happy

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