Stage 4 and a half

Okay, finally someone speaks. Necron wants to the the backpack and has a couple questions, well here we go:

It's pretty much the same as the rest, edges highlighted and all, you can also see the work I'm doing on the robe.. the paint on the sleeves is my small attempt at tweening, which I decided not do do with black since it's so tricky, but on to the questions...
I started with the armor first because it was the biggest thing. I also thought of painting the robes first, but that meant I'd have to do the beige and black at the same time and then I'd have to be careful when painting the armor.
I'm not sure what classifies armor as NMM black. Maybe if I did it darker with more stark highlights, but we're all agreed the black armor looks like black armor, right?
And I get my brushes from two sources:
Dixie
Art for those of us in the South.
andJerry's Artarama, when they have them on sale. I find I use bigger brushes since the tips are so thin, except when I know I need a 000, like on edges.