Army Painted Quick Shades - Chaos Marines - Thoughts and Preperations

Recently I have managed to get my hands on some Army Painter Products. I am very, very happy with their Tufts and Coloured Sprays. Especially the Coloured Sprays.
I have been doing a little research into their product lines and have taken an interest in the Quick Shades. They are designed to "dip" you Block painted minis into and when dry they autoshade the figures. I was very sceptical about this whole process. There are a lot of youtube tutorials out there for the product but frankly you can never be sure what type of editing or off screen alterations are going on. So I decided to grab the Strong Shade and Dark Shade and give it a shot.

For the initial tests I have nabbed three Chaos Space Marines out of my Brothers range.

I will be trialing three slightly different methods on the Chaos Marines. Hopefully this will let me pick one method that suits my tastes.

All of the Chaos Marines will be sprayed Dragon Red.
Chaos Marine 1
This figure will be block painted and Dipped. I can't bring myself to imerse a painted mini (even a block painted Chaos Marine) into paint. So I will be heavily coating it with a large craft Brush. This is another way that the guys at Army Painted suggest to use the product.

Chaos Marine 2
This Figure will be done with the same initial method as the first. But after the Shade has dried I will be doing a small amount of simple highlights. This is basically to see if I can paint over the Dip once it has dried.

Chaos Marine 3
I will be block painting this one as well but then I will also do some strong highlights on the figure before I dip it. I have to make sure that the colours are quite distinct when I do this as I need to make sure that they will show through the dip.

When they are Dry I will spray one with Army Painters Matt Varnish and another with Dullcote. Dullcote is my prefered Varnishing medium. I find the results form it to be absolutly brilliant! Though you can not argue with the cheaper price for volume of the Army Painter Spray.

Pictures and Comments and results to follow.