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8 Different Ways To Paint Yellow Miniatures: Painting Tutorial
Peachy is back with another awesome painting tutorial; this time, he’s showing eight different ways to paint yellow on miniatures.
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This week, he’s focusing on a color many people struggle with, but it should be easy with these steps (and multiple strategies)! Let’s see how to do it.
8 Different Ways To Paint Yellow Miniatures: Painting Tutorial
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He will be painting Puppetswar minis from their Patreon this time, so be sure to check them out, as they have some amazing minis and STL files!
Strategy 1:
This is the simplest one! He sprayed the whole model in Sunset Yellow, AK Pretorian Yellow, or Daemonic Yellow from the Army Painter. And that’s it! Just paint the rest of the details around it, and you have a half-decent yellow.
PAINTING YELLOW MINIATURES: GETTING STARTED
Starting at the beginning, I followed the assembling guide from the kit, and used plastic cement to glue pieces. I also filed away some mould lines and drilled the gun barrel. These are optional stages that give cosmetic benefits, but if you have an army to build will impact on your speediness. I affixed the model to a base, and then primed the model. To help ensure bold primary colors like yellow I suggest priming in gray or even better, white. If you prime with black you will find it will take more coats of yellow to ensure a smooth and opaque coverage. You can of course prime and basecoat your models with a brush, and if you do I would recommend one with a large belly and a good tip like the RGG brush size 2.
Undercoating 101
As mentioned previously, yellow can be a hard color to deal with. Hard to highlight, hard to shade. I decided to experiment with some underpainting here, to help add depth and modulation to the yellow armor. I sprayed some pink from below the model, hitting all the shadow areas. Red would also work, as would magenta. Once I applied the yellow basecoat for the armor, this would provide a nice gradient and more tonal variation. For it to work properly, it would be a good idea to use a vibrant pre-shade, and a translucent basecolor. If you have inks for instance, you could try a yellow ink for this. I could have gone for a stronger pre-shade, but for a first experiment I am satisfied it works!
WHAT DO I WANT TO ACHIEVE WITH THIS MINIATURE?
Why are we painting? The philosophy behind our paintjobs, and having an achievable endgoal are important. If you are looking for how to paint yellow armor, there is a strong chance you are army painting. Perhaps too you have been unsuccessful with yellow before. So our goal with this tutorial is to find effective and simple ways to paint yellow that can be replicated across many models. The simpler the process the better, as more steps & complex techniques add a greater risk of burnout.
The visual focus of an Imperial Fist space marine will undoubtedly be the yellow! That will draw the viewer’s eye, so it is important we focus on that and get it right. As with any color scheme were one (primary) color dominates, it is also good to have visual interest and contrast. We can break up all that yellow with key details. After some online research, I saw the 3rd Company uses red trims and aquilas. ‘The Sentinels of Terra’ then could offer a good scheme for me here.
