Glazing black

[cleen X]

Exactly how is it done? If I got black armour with codex grey and fortress grey highlighting along the egdes??

 

[Arma]

JRN has a superb black tutorial on his site that goes into glazing black (and other ways to paint black):

Linky

 

[cleen X]

Thanks, nice link! But I\'m a supposed to only paint the glaze on the armour and not over the highlights?

 

[generulpoleaxe]

the glaze helps to smooth the highlights.
you then tweek the highlights with your last and brightest highlight to make it pop again.

 

[cleen X]

I see

And for black power armour GW black ink will do? Or should I water it out

 

[generulpoleaxe]

Originally posted by cleen X
I see

And for black power armour GW black ink will do? Or should I water it out

wether ink or paint, water it down until it has the consistancy of orange juice (i.e. realy thin)

 

[Arma]

Yeah.

I prefer paint or the new washes aren\'t bad for glazing.

 

[cleen X]

So, I\'ve painted my black templars black, highlighted the egdes with codex grey only, then I heavily watered down some chaos black. I don\'t know the paint to water ratio but something like 1:10. What happened is that the codex grey highlights became much more realistic, not so eye popping, but in some areas where I did highlight with very thin lines of paint the codex grey became very dark, almost not visible from some distance. Is this because I used to thin lines and should go heavy with the highlights? Or because I didn\'t paint fortress grey on there as well? My glaze was thin enough I know that much!