Painting Blackened armour?

[6mmfan]

Hi all

I'm starting on a Skaven fantasy project and I was looking for ideas on how to painted blackened armour. Has anyone got any good tutorials for this?

Cheers
Kieran

[janner]

I'd suggest a layer or two of black wash over a black/metal paint mix.

[zenbadger]

Black base, light drybrush with silver and a coat of GW Nuln Oil works for me

[Ahistorian]

When I did my Wars of the Roses troops in blackened armour I used GW Chainmail with a black wash, followed by the uniform brown dip applied to everyone to tie them together. It worked a treat.

[TheBlackCrane]

I generally paint black armour using a fairly deep brown first, then over with something like a Tamiya steel, and then a good wash or two of GW black ink. I've never managed really black armour properly though, tried things like metallic blacks and so forth but they never work, so just lots washes of black ink seems the best route to me.

[Svennn]

The Bugsda way - paint black then polish back to bare metal in the relevant highlight places

[Orctrader]

My version of NMM blackened armour on a 15mm knight.



CDA 516 Iron Grey - keep adding white for successive highlights.

[FramFramson]

The Bugsda way - paint black then polish back to bare metal in the relevant highlight places

This sounds suspiciously like figures primed black then handled excessively. 

[Fitz]

Matte black base coat, then fill in with a medium-soft graphite pencil. Polish by brushing with a dry, very soft brush, and then apply a coat of satin (or gloss, if you prefer) varnish to stabilize it.

This will give you a dark, metallic-looking finish with pure black in the creases where the pencil can't reach.

[Citizen Sade]

Anybody experimented with Tamiya smoke over either a white metal figure or a metal base coat?

[theoldschool]

Paynes Grey in a tube or P3 coal black. Continue to add  touches of bleached bone (or equivalent) to bring it up to the final edge highlght.

Both have a  blue tinge  which looks good for blackened armour.

[FramFramson]

Matte black base coat, then fill in with a medium-soft graphite pencil. Polish by brushing with a dry, very soft brush, and then apply a coat of satin (or gloss, if you prefer) varnish to stabilize it.

This will give you a dark, metallic-looking finish with pure black in the creases where the pencil can't reach.

Oh I LIKE this idea. I want to try this now.

[Mr. Peabody]

Love me the graphite sticks... Use'em for weathering 1/72 scale vehicles and such all the time.

Good call Fitz!