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With the washes, foundations, etc out now, there's gotta be a quick and easy way to do yellow now. I'm doing the heads on my Blood Angel assault marines. They are primed white right now. Whats the best way to get a good looking bright yellow finish with some depth? I've always sorta struggled with yellow so any help would be appreciated.

Example of what I'm trying to achieve:

For paints, try the Yellow Triad from Reaper Master series.

For washes, try yellow ink over white primer with a wash of Ogryn Flesh. This creates a bright, cartoonish yellow.

Groz,

Thanks for the reply. I've had some real problems when washing yellow. I'm guessing I can't just slap the wash on, that I'll have to actually "paint" it into the recesses?

The GW washes?

I find that generally you can just slop it over the part of the model you're washing and watch the excess drip off.

The way I did it pre-foundation is as follows.
Prime Black
Paint everything bestial brown or snakebite leather (doesn't really mater)
a few coats of golden yellow
chestnut ink
a few more coats of golden yellow
highlight with sunburst yellow
highlight with bleached bone sunburst mix
an extremely light drybrush of bleached bone

Example

now I would use the foundation yellow instead of the multiple coats of golden yellow and the brown basecoat.

tausept ochre
devlan mud
sunburst yellow
gryphonne sepia

that combo gives you a good dirty well used yellow and could be expanded upon to give more depth, etc.

I got my yellow by just using several layers of sunburst yellow. For my heads I did a layer or two of yellow followed by an inking of chestnut or black ink. I then went and added another layer of yellow, but I put it on a bit thick. I was really pleased with the results.

the way i got yellow for my tyranids (pre washes) was using the brown foundation, followed by painting really thin layers of vomit brown, golden yellow, sunburst yellow, and finally bad moon yellow (extreme highlights) to build up. Used flesh wash for the dark bits. It makes this really deep autumn-y and dirty yellow. It's just a lot of painting for a horde army.

if primed black:
mask the area to be yellow with "elf flesh" (seriously)
golden yellow
sunburst yellow

gryphone sepia wash

Suggestions/steps with no pics are a step short of useless, people. Telling somebody your steps and then saying, "This creates a very blahblahblah finish yellow" with no pics for reference doesn't really help. What looks one way to you most often looks completely different to the next person.

This is why there are so many "Master Painters" on ebay. They all think they look "masterful," but we really know the deal...

Dantheangry's and lifeafter's yellows are STRIKINGLY different from one another. Were I the OP, I would see that Dantheangry's yellow suits my aesthetic tastes more and would be the yellow of the two that I would shoot for, using his suggested method. Would the two of them have not posted pics, I would have had no idea what look their methods would produce despite any claims they would make.


Morale: Suggestions WITH pics, people...


Ghidorah

i use bleached bone as a base for my yellow, as it covers over black very well. then a wash / stain of yellow ink followed by chestnut ink to shade. you can finish with a high-light of bone.

My sig picture shows one of my marines. If you like that look, i will put together some quick in-progress shots.

Basically:

prime white
light wash of golden yellow
4-1 water-fleash wash +surfactant
highlight with golden yellow
highlight with 50/50 white/golden
highlight with 75/25 white/golden
lastly, hit some of the deeper spots with straight flesh wash

Here are the basic looks:

1. Iyanden Darksun Foundation base (needs to be a smooth base)
2. Either griffin sepia wash or ogryn flesh wash (eiter will work your preference)
3. Iyanden Darksun Foundation (leaving the wash in the recess)
4. Iyanden Darksun Foundation/Badmoons yellow 50/50 (again leaving the recess and a bit of the base colour)
5. iyanden Darksun Foundation/ badmoons yellow 25/75 Highlight

There you go yellow marines in 5 steps

i'll post pictures later

I'm no amazing painter, and I never do too many steps, but the vehicles and suits in my Tau army are INCREDIBLY bright yellow.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Ian%27s%20Tau%20Army

I used BURNTLACK graphic spray - Lemon Yellow over a Skull White primer. This gives a very pale, lemony yellow, but then a quick wash of Yellow Ink darkened it suitably. I know the Inks have been discontinued but the Yellow Wash should have the same effect...

usually when I work on yellows I base the desired part with warm brown, then gradually highlight by adding deep yellow such as golden yellow and finally with some bright one.

i found that painting eldar link on the GW website quite effective, and i got just the shade i wanted for my iyanden host. good luck.

http://uk.games-workshop.com/eldar/getting-started/4/

i've just started using deneb stone as a base coat and it works great. better than the bleach bone method i used before (see above). once blocked in just paint with sunburst yellow & shade with gryphon sepia

For Bright colors I have tried to just paint in a lot of thin layers, that way you keep the detail but still get a bright outcome-seems to work well.