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Working on my bad moonz orks. So far the yellow has actually been fine. Since so far its all just been boyz and nobs. I cant tell the yellow is a bit on the streaky side but since its such small areas and once I get done with my wash high light and battle damage you cant tell at all and the yellow looks great.

However I am at a point to start painting a few tanks as well as my warboss that I am using ghazzy as a base for and I need to improve my yellow so I am looking for some tips. So far my yellow is as follows.

Base coat black *the whole model is base coated black*
Iyanden Darksun
Golden Yellow
Gryphonne Sepia
Then general highlights and battle damage.

So how do I improve on this to make it look good over a large area. Would going with a base coat of white then a watered down coat or 2 of Iyanden Darksun followed by a few watered down coats of Golden Yellow be the thing to do? I am somewhat at a lose.

JoeyHeadwounds wrote:You can use brown as a foundation for your yellows. It makes it to where the yellow takes less coats to get the color you want. Just make sure to use lighter shades of brown. I like GWs Bubonic Brown for this.

I actually went and looked at paints today and looked at the browns cause I had actually read that and it seemed to me that the 2 browns closest to yellow. The one you said as well as vomit brown seemed so close to iyanden darksun it didnt seem worth the extra steps. But I could see a brown a little darker then my foundation yellow helping.


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One thing I think I also need to know as what counts as a thined down coat of paint.

What sort of ratio of paint to water am I shooting for? Or consistency?

One drop or water per drop of paint or is that to much?