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I'm going to start an imperial fist 'deathwing' army soon, using the dark angels codex but painting Yellow to create an all termie elite strikeforce.

Has anyone got any tips on the correct colours to use/ tips for painting yellow?
At the moment I'd like to paint the chapter in a very bright, clean 90s style. It was in fact a huge double page spread of an Imperial Fists army in a 90s White Dwarf that I remember from my childhood that's made me want to collect them.

http://tyler.provick.ca/images/impfistbox.png
According to this picture their colour scheme is Yellow with red trim

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/File:ImperialFist.jpg
But this pictures suggests black is the colour of their trim.

I'm thinking that black will be a lot more striking on the battlefield, but red more classic looking. What do you think?


Painting plan wise, I want to knock up this army quickly, so I plan to undercoat in Sunburst Yellow using the Citadel spray gun or Army-Painter's Daemonic Yellow. Then do all the details, highlighting and trims before washing the whole thing in Gryphonne Sepia with a little bedab black on the metal. What do you think? Everyone says painting yellow is so hard, but I'd like this to be a very bright colour and not weathered or grubby at all.

Thoughts?

White undercoat, golden yellow through the spraygun, sepia wash, then zenital golden yellow, add a touch of white, zenital again. Nice clean, bright, yellow.

Then it's just the fun of being uber-neat with the details, although iyanden darksun mixed with a drop of bleached bone will help cleaning up any mistakes.

Sorry to sound stupid, but what is 'zenital'?

Thanks

After a google I found it is a highlighing method.

Hey a dakka link for it http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/291554.page

The most critical bit is getting a good, clean basecoat with a sprayer of some sort.

I used an airbrush with some Tamiya paint that I mixed to the exact color I needed. Once you have a good basecoat, it's actually pretty easy to do nice highlighting, since yellow is so translucent in the first place.

lunarman wrote:Sorry to sound stupid, but what is 'zenital'?

Thanks

No, that's not stupid. I've been airbrushing for 3 years, and, believe it or not, I heard about zenital lighting yesterday! did some research, and it turned out you basically spray a lighter colour than your basecoat onto areas your 'light source' would hit. most often you spray the colour onto the top of the model, to represent the light hitting the top half of the model. check out awesomepaintjob (if you already haven't lol) on YouTube. most of his airbrush tutorials use zenital lighting.

Imperial fists are one of, if not the hardest army to paint well in my opinion.

I cant see why your painting plan wouldnt work, its just getting that smooth yellow thats the hard bit.

Why dont you try painting up one marine first and see how you go? Good luck with it!

I use the army painter primer, but I would suggest doing a thin coat of white primer first, then the demonic yellow. MY recipe is;

White primer
Deamonic yellow
Vallejo GOlden Yellow
Windsor and Newton Cadmium Yellow
Devlan Mud for the Shadow
Vallejo Flat Yellow for the highlights



Ashton