[Mut]

Hey!

I'm new to these forums, and i thought it was a great place to ask this question, it may be a 'noob'(lol) question, but i'm asking it anyways.(please dont luagh).

So, i've been playing 40k since i was 9, and im now 13. I have quite a bit of different armies half built. I'm going to be doing my Space Marines right now. Most of the models i have painted are horribly done, and now i am aware of this. My problem is, When i dip my brush in paint, and just do a swift movement of my brush on the model the edges of where the brush went is covered in paint, but where the full brush actually went is still showing the color of the primer. I'm using Golden Yellow on a Chaos Black prime, if that helps.




please..HALP,

`Mut.

E-mail me at [email protected], or reply here.

C'mon, someone help?.. i know it sounds stupid, what do i do, add some water?

 

[The Son of Horus]

Your problem is that you're using yellow paint over a black primer. Yellow paint is very light pigmented and generally quite thin, and needs to be applied over white or grey. You'll want to paint the area that's going to be yellow either a light grey (which is what I prefer to do, as it helps guide with shading) or white-- and try to keep your paints thinned. Then you just start layering yellow on-- again, in thin layers. You'll probably need three thin layers of yellow to get a smooth, consistent color over white.

Alternatively, pick up a pot of Iyanden Darksun foundation paint. That'll go over black just fine. It's kind of a mid-tone between golden yellow and snakebite leather, I think, so you can highlight it with golden yellow and get a pretty good highlight without it being too garish.

 

[Mut]

Great, thanks for the help, I'll try some codex grey to start off and put my Golden Yellow Over that in thin layers till i get the desired color.

 

[Anphicar]

Just a heads up--ya gotta give people more than an hour to respond to your thread. :wink:

 

[Viscount Vash]

More than that at 3 in the morning GMT :lol:
Son of Horus has answered your question well, I also recommend the Foundation paints they save me loads of time.

 

[Bloodhound]

Or you could basecoat it in Bubonic brown (2-3 coats) and then start to highlight with golden yellow. Or even better, Spray it white and yellow ink it and then highlight with golden yellow. I did this for my Eldar.

 

[Mut]

Lol, im used to people replying within minutes of my posts, sorry. And also when i posted it, it was 1PM EST lol, sorry. Thanks again for all the help, got one squad done now in yellow ;P

 

[Anphicar]

Put up some pictures!

 

[cccp]

yeah thats pretty sound advice. would be cool to see some pics too!

this is a small forum, posting is slow sometimes.

 

[Mut]

I'll probably have pics up soon, Though today is sunday, i leave around 7 PM Alberta time(lol) back for ontario(home) and ill have a few models done by then that i can post some pics of.




PS. Ill also add in a pic of one of my nurgle, just for comparison. :lol:

 

[Red Orc]

Don't worry about the time - Heresy never sleeps.

But it does occasionaly have to run off to the toilet.


:cyclops:

 

[The Wraithlord]

Yellow and white are the hardest colours to paint, at least that is my experience. The new foundation paints do help in a big way though. Just starting to get into them myself but I have liked what I have seen so far.

 

[The Son of Horus]

I use the foundation paint extensively for painting white. Also, GW's white is garbage... I use Reaper or Vallejo whites instead. I do a basecoat of Adeptus Battlegrey, then Astronomician Grey as the first layer, a thin layer of white, and then blend white as a more solid highlight. Total of four layers of paint, too-- no more of this three layers of white over three layers of fortress grey nonsense.