Well, I kept my word and here it is. My guide to painting yellow.

You'll need:

Detail and Fine Detail Brush

A Model! [Duh?]

Astronomican Grey

Iyanden Darksun

Golden yellow

Lemon Yellow/Bad Moon Yellow

So you have this:



Stage one: Apply Astronomican grey to the areas you wish to be yellow. Apply thinly.



Stage two: Apply Iyanden Darksun over the Astronomican grey. Apply thinly and use two coats.

Coat 1:



Coat 2:



Stage 3: Apply Golden Yellow thinly over your Iyanden. Notice that massive change in Hue?



Stage 4: Highlights. I used Vallejo Lemon Yellow. But Bad Moon Yellow will work fine here. Water the colour down and apply thinly using your fine detail brush.







Optional Stage 5: Add a small dot of white to the Lemon/Bad Moon Yellow and go over as a final hit with the highlight.

The Same technique was used above on my Vindicator, only a sepia wash was added after the Iyanden's second coat. Then over brushing the Golden Yellow and Highlights.

[One guess for what Chapter it is... Tael...SHHHHS!]





Simple, easy, effective.

Hope this helps you all. Comments welcome. Heck even add some pictures of your own work if this tutorial helped you!

~Ciph

Wow! A great guide and much thanks Cipher!

I will definitely be putting this guide to work imediately as I have been having much trouble using golden yellow as my sept marking colour.

Thanks again for this guide as its definitely much appreciated!

-Pinder

great guide, great yellow. I will be using this method

cheers

Totally the wrong place, but how did you do your brown? Straight from the undercoat or was there an astronomicon grey basecoat there too?

Thank you for posting this, it will be put to use. I don't happen to have Ilyanden Darksun, though... will multiple thin layers of Bleached Bone work as well?

Great Tutorial Cipher Yellow can be one of those annoying colours to paint and this is a great "how to into yellow".

Also Scythes of the Emperor or Fists of Dorn? As those are the only yellow and black Cannon colour schemes I cant think of.
(Unless they are the Warriors of Waspinator )

The Khaki was done with a Khemri Brown base, and 2-3 layers of Vallejo Game Colour Khaki. The Vallejo Khaki is 100x better than any GW equivalent.


This is possible. Though you may have to use 2 layers or more of Golden yellow to obtain your desired hue of colour.



50-50 Pick one

~Ciph

I will Say Scythes Of The Emperor Because I Have Mixed feelings for them a mix of Awesome and sadness, Sons of Dorn are cool too but just seem like Imperial fist with Black.

Your correct Whitefire.

YAY So I have Decided to Strip my Flesh Tearers Guns and Make use of the Yellow tutorial And Give their Scheme a bit more difference to my Farsight Enclave. I had a Mate when I first got introduced to the Hobby who had a Awesome SOTE army but this is about 10ish years ago (3rd) So I might just have Nostalgia goggles on...

You might want to remove some of those unnecessary upper case letters, please. ~ E.

Oh, I was going to guess that you were making Tiger Claws like me! (Modern FW Color Scheme).

Hey Ciph,

No this isn't the one that I've seen before, but I like the subtleness of how your yellow comes out. Your Scythes of the Emperor Vindicator looks very nice.

Tau'va

Holy thread necro Batman! I am liking what you dug up though. I never could get good yellow.
Just please keep post dates in mind before reviving an old thread.
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