Hey guys, I started painting the first batch of Dark Reapers. For the armour, I wanted to try something different. I could have gone for a plain black, I also thought about other colours like a dark purple as on my Dark Eldar, but in the end I settled for a very dark metallic colour. The recipe is Reaper Master Series Adamantium Black (can be replaced with a mix of black and your preferred dark silver paint), a drybrush of Army Painter Gun Metal (Leadbelcher), a wash of Army Painter Dark Tone Ink and a final highlight of Gun Metal.
Some areas like the launchers’ nozzles or the antennas will become a “real” black, so it will be interesting to see how these two shades of black will work together. What do you think?
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Gorgeous. Really inspiring stuff… would never have thought to use a metallic black. That'd look great on Necrons! Fantastic work as always thanks!
I like the gun and face detail highlighting/shading. For my base Reaper colour, I mixed Dryad Bark with the very dark shades of purple, blue and green (one colour for each Reaper) for an almost black with a hint of ….