Death Company Chaplain Progress - Update 4 - Highlighting

This was how I left my chaplain at the end of the last post (Here).
 At this point I had completed all of the base colours and washes and highlighted the wings of the jump pack.

I was now at the part of the process I had been dreading - the highlights!!!


Stage 6
The main highlights on this model were the red and black. I used a fine brush and just about had a steady enough hand!!
For the red I used mephiston red and mixed it with a little white to lighten it and give it a slight pink look. I have found that this always works well with the darkened red caused by the wash. I highlighted all of the red on the model - the muscle fibres & gun casing. I have to say I was really pleased with how the muscle fibres turned out.
For the black I simply used Dawnstone. Now I have never highlighted black before so I was a little nervous about this....Anyway I got to work and blimey there was a lot of detail on this guy!!! Took ages but I focused on each section of the model, finished it, had a break then moved onto the next section. Eventually I completed it and the result is below:

I am really pleased with how the highlights came out as it took a lot of effort and time. What do you think? Let me know in the comments section below.

James



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