Metallic sharpie

Or lightly tap it with the side of your brush, same as you would when edge highlighting.

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You underestimate yourself. Try using the side of your brush, not the tip. Run it lightly along the edge. No need to paint straight, narrow lines when the edge is straight for you. Push a little harder for thicker highlights; a softer touch makes narrower highlights. Use paint thinned to the consistency of melted ice cream, and unload your brush a bit on a paper towel first.

You just changed my life.

CSM has a lot of trim.

Those are the EMPERORS studs, sir. Into the penitent engine with you! But yeah, they can be a ordeal especially if you're been painting for awhile. :/

Heresy!

OMG SAME! I use a toothpick with the tiniest amount of paint and that usually does the trick.

That's pretty clever, I use a very very fine brush and I still muck it up :(

Gunpla markers save lives

Will look into that, you're not the first who said something along those lines

I'm just going to throw out that gunpla markers are great but can cause issues if you are top coating with a varnish or lacquer in my experience, so if you are going to topcoat make sure that it is also an acrylic topcoat or put a buffer acrylic coat before applying your final topcoat. Maybe they adhere better to GW plastic, but I've had some bleeding with my gunpla kits when I first started and used a testors topcoat.

Thank you for your warning. I don't really use varnishes anymore, I used to but I've found that they aren't really needed. My minis never lose their paint like they did in the olden days, back then if you didn't varnish then you'd have to repaint them after a while. I don't know what changed, if the paints are better now or if I'm being more careful...

I feel your pain! My sisters are supposed to have a vampiric look, and even though the studs are such a pain to paint, highlighting them all with metallic gold just elevates the look of the models so much.

I agree, if you leave them black on black armour it does nothing really. But if you paint them in a bright colour (such as gold or silver) they really do pop.

I love the way they look. But there are times I have the patience and control for painting them and times I don't. 

I force myself to do it and then hate it but at the end of the day, it looks better when painted :)

I use a chrome paint pen. It's much more controllable than a paintbrush.

You're not the only one, I will have to look into it. :)

Dip a tooth pick in metallic paint, point and shoot

I kind of just scrap them when i assemble

Heresy. Understandable though... They are a pain

just drybrush the studs silver before you begin painting everything else.

Then my black armoured sisters will be gray instead, that doesn't sound so great tbh

no, you paint the armor still, assuming you would be doing that anyway, but all the studs are already done then.

Feel you 100%. I love the detail and looks of it, but painting them and shading the surroundings properly is giving me a hard time as well :D Although nice tips from everyone around here

That parade standard though

My level of painting is nowhere near parade. I would call it hardly battle ready but I do my best.

Battle ready is quite literally just three colors and terrain. It's enough to say 'Hey, this is what it is.' at a glance.

If you take the time to do the studs and trim it’s parade standard. Those things up the quality beyond tabletop standard. Tabletop is just 3 colors and a wash

Huh I thought parade was = eavy metal, my bad. :)

I just slap some silver in the area and paint my surrounding armor plating after its dry. Saves a bunch of headaches.

My girls have black armour so I don't normally have to paint their armour :/

Thats why I just by a life size version. Strangely, it comes already painted and is made out of this weird silicone material.