I am painting this dude. Do you guys think giving him a gloss varnish then using a white ink so it flows into the recesses would work? The runes are the main part of the mini and I want to do something cool.

I was assembling the terminator librarian and I know people say the reason why builds are so weird nowadays is because GW optimizes sprue space but I have another theory, GW optimizes hobbyist suffering.