Highlighting black with enamels

[braxat2000]

Hi,
I would be very grateful for some advice regarding highlighting black color.

To be more specific, I'm planning to paint black panzer uniforms in 1:35, and am using Humbrol paints.

I did paint some panzer uniforms in the past, but it was when I just started painting, and the result was not good. I tried to highlight using Humbrol 67 which is tank gray color, and the entire effort was not very appealing.

Thanks in advance for any help,
Eyal.

 

[frank h]

Hi
Black is not the easiest colour to get convincingly

Mike Blank is one of those that does it well
in his book Black and white
he works from a grey base colour made up of black plus some flesh colour
then working towards the the darkest shadows for which he uses pure black

I have tried this and the results are pleasing

Hope this helps

Frank

 

[Uruk-Hai]

True.

However for the highlights just add more flesh to the basecolur.

Cheers

 

[Arminous]

Hi all!


I wouldn't say it's that simple!Black and White are the two most difficult colors to be shaded/hghlighted!

Highlights for Black:Use Flesh and/or White and/or Yellow and/or Blue(very usual!) and/or Green and or Red and/or dark Brown(very usual,especially if the figure is supposed to be under intensive sunlight!).


For shadows use Black only!






Cheerz!
-Kostas.

 

[braxat2000]

Thanks you very much guys!

I'll take your advice and try it on these two figure.. I'll post pictures when they are completed.

 

[braxat2000]

Hi,
Thanks again for your wondeful advice. I tried it with two figure in 1:35, and am very happy with the results.

I hope to get more practice in the current project.

Here arethe figures: (They look better in reality)

And with the vehicle: