Painting black armour

[rbodleyscott]

Any tips on painting blackened armour (28mm cuirassiers) to make it look interesting and show up the separate plates/bands?

[ravenflight]

Any tips on painting blackened armour (28mm cuirassiers) to make it look interesting and show up the separate plates/bands?

Paint it black and highlight it dark grey
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Paint it black and highlight 'edge chips' in gunmetal.

[madaxeman]

Any tips on painting blackened armour (28mm cuirassiers) to make it look interesting and show up the separate plates/bands?

Paint it black and highlight it dark grey
-or-
Paint it black and highlight 'edge chips' in gunmetal.

paint black, drybrush gunmetal (as usual to do normal armour) then paint again in black artists ink.

[petedalby]

For my 15mm figures I undercoated black.

Dry brushed with gun metal.

Washed with black ink.

Dry brushed again with gun metal.

No reason it shouldn't work with 25mm.

[rbodleyscott]

Thanks guys.

So far I have Primed black, dry-brushed white and given a wash of black. It looks pretty satisfactory so far. I want them to look as black as possible while showing highlights (hence no gunmetal).

[SuleimanMagnifico]

So far I have Primed black, dry-brushed white and given a wash of black.

That's what I did with my Germans, it looks OK.

[titanu]

You can also add a touch of blue to the gun metal.