Rules for Painting
1. Clean water, and lots of it.
2, High quality brushes. This is a hobby, if you're not willing to go that extra few [insert currency here] to get a nice horsehair brush, then resign yourself to 'mucky' looking figures.
3. Patience.
4. Practice.
5. Practice.
Rules for painting yellow
1. <See, Rules for Painting>.
2. Not just 'yellow' paint. Yes, we are going to do
layers! And lots of them.
3. Even more patience than the normal Rules for Painting.
Now. I for one find a tutorial useless without an example. So in an effort to make mine useful... here, an example, be
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Here you can see the 4 'steps' needed for a proper coat of yellow. As you may have noticed I have not 'under-coated' the model in the standard way with a black or white spray. This I did for one reason. Sprays are not the friendliest when it comes to preserving detail. 8 years of spray paint under-coats and I still can't get it right all the time. This model was entered for a competition and so I wanted it perfect. If you don't want or need perfect then feel free to do whatever you feel comfortable with.
Step One: The Base Coat
As many of the more experienced among you have guessed, this is Snakebite Leather, and of course we all kno..
STOP!
Step away from the paint pot and put the brush down. Don't you dare think to just take paint straight from the pot and slap it on the figure. Rule 1. Clean water, and lots of it. Take your brush and get it wet. Not dripping, but just nicely wet. Now take that and put it on a mixing pallet (the back of a dinner plate works just as well) and mix the water
at least 50:50 with the paint. Good, you are ready to paint now.
When you put this on it's not going to give you great coverage. Don't turn round and say "WTF kind of crap tutorial is this... the paint isn't even on the figure properly" because I will beat you with a stick if you do. This is going to take time, wait for each coat to dry and then add another until the model, vehicle or 'bit' that you want to be yellow is completely brown.
Step Two: Lightening the Base Coat
Repeat Step One but replace Snakebite Leather with Bubonic Brown. you do not need to be
as thorough with this step as you were with Step One. (see example)
This Step is important. Do not move forward to Step Three until this is done. Trust me, you'll thank me later.
Step Three: Yellow!
This one you need to be a bit more careful with. Take you paint (switched to Golden Yellow) as before and still using a 50:50, or if you're really impatient 70:30 mix of paint and water and begin painting the raised sections. you do not want the paint to be in the recessed areas, such as where two pieces of armour come together, leave these painted Bubonic Brown. You should be noticing that the yellow is actually leaving the brush and
looking yellow. Still, you will need at least 2 if not 4 coats to get this bit right. (depending on how much you dilute the paint)
"But why not jst use the piant strait form teh pot... this is takeing F0r3vA|2!"
*Sigh*
Ok, look at you previous attempts to paint yellow... do they look... 'Lumpy' to you? I'm guessing yes. Know why? because you used paint straight from the bloody pot. Do you want quality or speed? You can't have both.
Step Four: The Final Coat
Sunburst Yellow. 50:50. No exceptions. Paint until bright yellow (only 1 or two coats if you're lucky) Highlight with 50:50 Sunburst Yellow and Skull White. Done. Expert looking yellow. (see example)
I hope this helps you all out a bit.
