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Currently trying to paint up a Hassassin for infinity and keep getting trouble getting it right.

I am trying paint up the visor with yellow but I keep getting it wrong




Any suggestion to get it right?

Are you using yellow as your base colour? When i painted my lasiq's visors i used a mix of scorched brown/ bestial brown as a base and worked up to the lighter colours with some final dots of something like bleached bone to finish.

 bantha_beast wrote:
Are you using yellow as your base colour? When i painted my lasiq's visors i used a mix of scorched brown/ bestial brown as a base and worked up to the lighter colours with some final dots of something like bleached bone to finish.

I am using a yellow base color. Specifically model air golden yellow.

From what I recall, Angel Giraldez uses Bestial Brown/Vomit Brown for the visors and then slowly builds it up to a white color.

He has an aversion to just painting metallic, but the effect is supposed to be a gold visor.

I like the idea of a brown base but what kind of yellow do I use?

I use mostly vallejo model colors so whatever colors that mentioned earlier I will have to find the model color equivalent.

Also I think Giraldez uses inks to make that yellow visor.

This is from the Muyibs on his gallery, but it should work for your Barid as well:


white parts
color base: cork brown
light: dark sand
light 2: white
shadow: flat earth

GREEN
color base: alem cam. luftaffe
light 1: golden olive
light 2: sunny skin tone
light 3. sunny skin tone + ivory
shadow: military green

trousers:
color base: basalt grey + a cam. beige wwII
light 1: deck tan
light 2: ivory
shadow: basalt grey ,chocolate brown

Those are all, of course, Vallejo colors.

 Kanluwen wrote:
This is from the Muyibs on his gallery, but it should work for your Barid as well:


white parts
color base: cork brown
light: dark sand
light 2: white
shadow: flat earth

GREEN
color base: alem cam. luftaffe
light 1: golden olive
light 2: sunny skin tone
light 3. sunny skin tone + ivory
shadow: military green

trousers:
color base: basalt grey + a cam. beige wwII
light 1: deck tan
light 2: ivory
shadow: basalt grey ,chocolate brown

Those are all, of course, Vallejo colors.

Thanks for the info, but I am just looking for some possible recipes for the visor.

I already redid the visor several times and its not working.

Here's an admittedly crappy photo of my Fiday:



It started with brown then I worked lighter and lighter to get the highlights. Then I used gryphonne sepia to tone it down, and added the extreme highlights which are Bleached Bone.

 heartserenade wrote:
Here's an admittedly crappy photo of my Fiday:



It started with brown then I worked lighter and lighter to get the highlights. Then I used gryphonne sepia to tone it down, and added the extreme highlights which are Bleached Bone.

Can you tell me the specific steps and paints?

I don't remember much of what I did because a) it was almost a year ago and b) I tend to mix different paints without thought or regard and without lisitng the steps since my Infinity figures tend to have different colors and there's no common army color. I'll try, but be warned that these are mostly guesswork, trying to reverse-engineer what I did.

Started with a VGC Beasty Brown Base as I tend to do with yellows. Then I started adding orange in the mix bit by bit (I didn't have any Orange paint back then so I tend to mix Citadel Blood Red and VGC Sun Yellow)then started adding more Sun Yellow than Blood Red in the mix. Then wased it with Gryphonne Sepia (might have mixed it with a bit of Baal Red as well, and sometimes I tend to add P3 Brown Ink. Test it out first!). The key here is control: you just want a tiny amount to shade the whole thing, then just a few smidges more at the bottom. I think I've used 1/16th of a drop for the whole visor. Then I drew the extreme highlights with... Citadel Rotting Flesh (yeah, I was shocked as well when I checked the mini. The slightly greenish hue doesn't show in the photo), but Bleached Bone or something Beige will work quite well, I'd imagine.

 MRPYM wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
This is from the Muyibs on his gallery, but it should work for your Barid as well:


white parts
color base: cork brown
light: dark sand
light 2: white
shadow: flat earth

GREEN
color base: alem cam. luftaffe
light 1: golden olive
light 2: sunny skin tone
light 3. sunny skin tone + ivory
shadow: military green

trousers:
color base: basalt grey + a cam. beige wwII
light 1: deck tan
light 2: ivory
shadow: basalt grey ,chocolate brown

Those are all, of course, Vallejo colors.

Thanks for the info, but I am just looking for some possible recipes for the visor.

I already redid the visor several times and its not working.

The "white parts" are what he used for the visor.

Why he says "white parts", I don't know.