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I was trying to blend dark angels green and Scorpion green earlier, and it just want happening, I tries wet blending, layering and glazing in that order and I just couldn't get it smooth until the 7th attempt (and a very long time). I've blended lets of other colours fine before but this was just being difficult. So my question is are some colours harder to blend than others and is there a rule for which one are trickier?

That's quite a high contrast to attempt to blend directly in one stage. Probably the issue.

The tricks I use are either a stepped blend or back-blend depending on the situation. A wet palette REALLY helps.

Stepped blend - too much effort on small areas, but good on wide transitions.
On your wet palette put a good sized blob of the target colours a reasonable (couple of inches) distance apart. Put a 50-50 mix blob (colour, not paint proportion) in the middle.
Paint the target colours halfway along the gradient you're working. Over the border of these paint a band of a 50-50 mix (in terms of colour, not paint proportion!). This should cover about one-third of the gradient (assuming it's linear).
Now on your palette make 2 more intermediate mixes between the middle tone and the target tones either side. These go over the border of the targets and each should occupy about one fifth the gradient length. You should now have 5 stepped bands of colour on your gradient. From here you should be able to take a little of each mix and layer to make smooth transitions between the bands.

Back blend (good on small areas and for tighter edge highlight effects):
Basecoat with the dark shade. Apply a wide highlight of a mid tone and a finer (but still wide) highlight of the bright shade. Over this layer work back with a thinned mix of the base colour to blur the 'darkside' edge of each highlight. Hence 'back' blending - you work darker and broader and backward, rather than lighter and tighter and forward.

I've always found the greens really hard to work with olim, never really been too sure why.
I'd just go with the method of thinning down the highlight paint a lot and then building up - very, very slowly - lots of layers to the highlight. It'll take a while, but should work.

Yeah, way too stark a contrast you're going to need to use a tone in between them somewhere and build up towards the bright one.

Basically what everyone else has said, you could get a decent blend with just those two colours, but you are going to have to mix at least 1 if not 2 intermediate steps.

I literally use those exact colours (well the new versions, Caliban and Moot) for cloth, eyes, and company markings on my Angels of Absolution, but even then I don't think I've ever used straight Moot (Scorpion) Green for anything, I use a slightly blended down colour as my highest tone generally and mix up a middle tone between that and Caliban (Dark Angels) Green, so you will definitely need something in the middle to make a good blend between those two work.

edit: Not sure if it would help you, but I like to use a mix of Caliban Green and Nuln Oil to wash my robes etc. to get a nice dark look to them and help bring the tones together a bit.

Ok thanks for the comments, they've been very I formative. So I don't actually need for the colours to be exactly dark angels and scorpion free so I think instead ill just go from 4:1 Dark angels to scorpion, up to 1:4 of those. I'll then mix 2:3 and 3:2 and wet blend them in stages across the panel.