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  1. #501
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    So this whale is back on the bench

    Now it's down to the details; pick one, knock it out and move on to the next one. Pretty soon I should be done.

    The metallics took for ever and it's not a dramatic change from back when I put it on hold again. I'll be finishing off the wing details first, then on to the deff arsenal - which I'm is going to suck since I made it so danged detailed. Anyway, here's some pics of progress.







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    Tutorial Inbound!

    Yellow – the bane of nearly every mini painters existence. I wanted a few panels in yellow as it a great accent color for all the reds and whites across this model. So I started where I always start – the Internet!

    After an hour or so of research I had a plan. It seems the only really good way is to layer from dark to light, something I’m not afraid of doing. I dug through my collection of aging paints and pulled out this selection to get me there.



    I’m not a big fan of the Bad Moons shade of yellow – to light and bright for me, I prefer a Golden Yellow, something a bit warmer to go with the reds, less contrast. Aaaand, of course, since I haven’t actively painted in some time, my Golden Yellow has dried up hard as a rock So, with what I have on hand that’s salvageable, I try to mix up my own version to limited success.

    Here are the steps I used to create my yellow panels. All paints were thinned, even the base paints.

    Starting with a black primer, I blanketed the panels with Scorched Brown, then stepped up to Calthan Brown, finishing up my brown base layers with Snakebite Leather.

    The first real yellow color was the Iyanden Darksun base paint. This went on extremely well and I was really happy at where it was at this point. I figured it would be an easy layering of the other yellows to what I wanted but things didn’t work out that way.

    I tried to approximate the Golden Yellow color by mixing Sunburst Yellow and Blazing Orange but this only created a weird orangy/yellow mix that frankly didn’t look good, so I tried simply working up to the Sunburst Yellow, hoping to add the warm tone through inks/washes.

    It took about 4 layers total of Sunburst Yellow to get a somewhat smooth, even coating. I didn’t have the new Casandra Yellow wash so I did what I always do, improvise. I mixed Yellow Ink with Flesh Wash, thinned it down and washed the panels with it. While it does add depth, it really didn’t tint like I thought it would – leaving the panels looking “washed” and not Golden Yellow. Oh well.

    I have since picked up the new replacement for Golden Yellow, Yriel Yellow, and the Cassandra Yellow wash and will be trying them out on a couple other smaller panels soon. Hopefully I can crack the yellow code and make it work.

    Here’s the pics of progression – enjoy!



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    Yellows - Round Two!

    I’m not ready to give up yet on yellows - grrrr. After picking up a couple of new paints I tried out another idea that many use. Going from Iyanden Darksun base to layering the new Yriel Yellow and washing with the new Cassandra Yellow wash. In the end, I’m still not sold.


    Below is the progression: I base-coated two payers of thinned Iyanden Yellow over black primer. This covered quite well and I was pretty happy with it - smooth and not think, no excessive pooling around the detail areas. The Yriel Yellow however, still sucked. Or, at least I sucked with it.


    MY experience with yellows is the paints (Citadel) always behave oddly compared to ALL other colors. Even thinned down it has a tendency to not lay evenly flat, there was always some sort of brush marks or troughs that appeared. This time I tried thinning it down further than I normally would most paints - even whites, and the first coat when on somewhat smoother than normal. In the pics you can see it sort of “tinting” the base color (a bit on the mustard yellow side).


    By the second coat, things started to fall apart. Paint/pigment welled up in odd areas and pooling around the detail like the bolts on this panel. The brush marks only seemed to get worse. By the third coat, it was a real mess - and still not really close to the final color of the paint Yreil Yellow. I did finally end up washing with a thinned down Cassandra after reading that it has a habit of turning things orange when used straight form the put. To be honest, I needed up with something that looked pretty much like the last attempt. Muddy, dirty, washed out and not a clean golden yellow at all.


    I have one more part on the bomma that needs yellow (the large lightning bolt on the rear hatch) and there’s one more technique I want to experiment with - basing white and gazing, though with what I’ve seen online, it still leaves a lot to be desired (problems like the depths being too orange, etc.).


    Of course, I’ll document and post here to let you see what happens. Yellow is one of those colors that most painters have problems with and I’m hoping I can crack this code for one of the hardest paints to master. Heck, I just want to use it without it looking dirty and greased up.





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