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I have a pot of GW gloden yellow and it goes on really bad, just seeing if this goes across the board or if its just me. And what Alts do people use?

We need a bit more information than that. Yellow, on average, is the harded colour to paint. I find it depends what base colour your using. Try this;

Paint a light brown (snakebite leather is what I'm thinking of) then layer your yellow on in thin layers.

Or, try basecoating the area you want yellow with the foundation paint yellow, then add you normal yellow to it.

Actually, Iyanden darksun is terrible for a basecoat. It gives the golden yellow a really crappy green hue.

I feel you bro. I've gotta paint some fire dragons with yellow heads for a friend. It's murder! I really can't suggest anything except thinned down coatrs.

is there no alt paint that i could use from a diffrent company? i have about 4 Rhinos to paint and i dont want them to look realy bad :(

I tryed thin layers of the yellow and it went into streaks!

Yellow, period, goes on like crap over black.

Wizard12 has the right idea, in that the Foundation color "Iyanden Darksun" is the best starter color. But, to avoid the "greenish tint" that Samus mentioned, you need to ensure that(like you should be doing with any/all paints before use really) you shake the paint pot/dropper/whatever method you store your paints in. Shake them very well, for maybe 10-20 seconds, at least. It agitates the pigments and gets things really moving.

Pft. You were actually considering painting a tank?

Yes. There are several. Tamiya has IMO the best yellow around. A lot of Imperial fists players use it. Look around.

not all of it yellow but 40% of it yeah, will look into the Tamiya paint, Thanks.

munkeey wrote:not all of it yellow but 40% of it yeah, will look into the Tamiya paint, Thanks.

Oh. Well tamiya is spray paint mostly....But they sell bottles too, so yeah.