Roguescape

Now the fun begins. We have added the shading to the base color, which is all painted over the top of a good, solid undercoat. So now we can add what is called the highlights. A highlight is basically the opposite of a shade. We now want to be able to enhance the look of depth to the model we are painting.

A highlight is a similar process to that of Drybrushing, but you are actually painting the brighter tones onto the figure, rather than dragging a brush across the surface. So continuing with our Space Marine, we now need to highlight up. The first color I would use is the original base color, Ultramarines Blue. The reason is because the Blue Wash that we added previously, darkened our original color, so below you can see where I have put the Ultramarines Blue paint on the helmet.

So you can see the differences between the three stages. When I applied the first highlight, it is similar in painting the base color, but what you aim to do is leave the wash in the cracks, and highlight up from it. The next two images show a second highlight.

The second highlight was a mix of Ultramarines Blue and Skull white with a drop of water to keep the paint as smooth as possible. The area that I needed to put the highlight were the front half of the face mask, the rim above the eye, the front half of the rib on top of the helm, around the edges of the ear piece and the ridge of the neck guard. But in comparison to the first highlight, the second was done on smaller areas, to give the impression of depth.

I would probably apply one last highlight, right on the edges of the helmet areas that I have been painting already. The trick with the last highlight is to put the paint on the brush, wipe off the excess, and use the side of the bristles to drag along the edge of the plates. That way you are putting on a fine line of paint. The mix I used for the last highlight was Ultramarines Blue and more Skull White than the highlight before.

So as you can see, just buy adding Skull White to you base color, and painting less of the same areas each time, you get a real look of depth on your miniature.Here they are from beginning to end.