Truoble with glazing black

[cleen X]

When I glaze my models with badak black, after they have been highlighted with codex grey and then forttress grey, the highlights darkens a little to much for my likings. Should I water the badak black down or use a lighter highlight?

cleen X

 

[matty1001]

Aye water it down more. Or just don\'t glaze the highlights.

Peace and love...

 

[tidoco2222]

You can thin the Bedab Black wash down but the downside of this (I have found) is that it tends to make it shiny, alternatively use a tiny amount of Chaos Black mixed with three to four drops of clean water, (I use an eye dropper for this). Funnily enough I have been doing a cloak thisafternoon and have just used this method.

 

[cleen X]

So I thinned the badak black down to at least 50:50 badack black to water. It finally did what I wanted! Maybe the highlights tie together with the black and didn\'t make the highlights to dark. Thanks for all the tips guys!

 

[Einion]

Originally posted by cleen X
When I glaze my models with badak black, after they have been highlighted with codex grey and then forttress grey, the highlights darkens a little to much for my likings. Should I water the badak black down or use a lighter highlight?

Try both, see which gives the better result in your opinion.

Einion

 

[matty1001]

It\'s always better to use multiple thin coats until the desired effect is reached than one thick coat which could ruin the work you have already done.

Peace and love...

 

[cleen X]

I did try both and watering down the badak black made all the difference in the world

 

[airhead]

just a bit of vocabulary:

Glazing: applying a very thin watered down layer - generally in specific areas. In this hobby, glazes are generally used to build highlights. You don\'t load the brush, but apply lighter and lighter glazes to smaller and smaller areas to build up the highlight.

Washes: applying a very thin watered down layer - generally with a wetter brush to cause paint to sink into recesses. Usually used to darken shadow areas.

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Black glazes are very rare in my mind, but I think you are talking about doing a wash to mute the transitions?

 

[cleen X]

That would be it

Got the two mixed up, though glazes were used to mute the transition between highlight and basecoat, read it somewhere around this forum. The goal of my two thinned layers of badak black anyways was to mute the transition between basecoat and highlight.

It worked out nicely btw