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Searching for various ways to paint blood angels I came into this one that uses airbrush that uses steps I would never have dreamed up with. Could somebody explain what's going in?

http://www.themightybrush.com/how-to-paint-blood-angels-part-i/

Okay so first base coated with darkish red brown. So far so good.

Then looks like it's airbrushed with dark blue with only some recesses left as brown? Oookay?

Then white to where I suppose lightest parts are supposed to be?

Then optional steps where blue and white are strenghtened.

Then came step that blew me out. Yellow? Woot? Why yellow? I presume that above steps are what do shading/highlighting so idea is to keep the yellow coat light(least it becomes flat yellow).

Only after this comes the actual red.

So basically is the blue/white at first doing the shading so that as long as you don't paint yellow&red too strongly that provides shading? And why yellow before red?

Thanks for the explanations! Maybe I try this with my HH blood angels. Problem being figuring out colours that would be more or less appropriate. I can't seem to find easy place to order vallejo model air without ordering 40£+ at once and don't currently really need anything else and the ~5 bottles don't(luckily) cost quite that much

Interesting technique.

Well the article got me curious enough that I'll be giving it a shot especially as I found shop that sells vallejo model air(needed several of those colours or equilavents so might just as well get exact shade anyway. At least then if it's voefully different it's 100% because of my skill level and not at all because used shade is different! Easier to figure out how badly I'm doing it )

First attempt or two is obviously going to be slower because it's first and because first I obviously won't be doing several at once and airbrushing I think is slower if doing just 1 model(cleaning up takes more time relatively than if you can paint many with same "cleaning" so to speak)

Thanks for the tip! That wasn't mentioned in the article so good you mentioned before I tried it and wondered where the hell this airbrush rookie went wrong AGAIN

First one hasn't been issue so far. Second one I'm constantly struggling with. Maybe my thinning ratio is too bad. Third one not straight up but similar issue when I stop by simply releasing airflow before stopping paintflow which results in splatter next time I press trigger down. That I solved basically by aiming elsewhere when I press trigger next time!

While I'm at it could you tell what is causing this particular issue that often plagues me. Basically paint stops coming out UNLESS I do pumping effect with the trigger while pressing it down at which point there comes small amount and then stops.

Biggest worry is always I have done permanent damage but good thing is after clean up it usually works. Seems to happen with GW paints more than vallejo so I PRESUME it's simply too little thinned paint? Especially since after removing paint and doing it again usually solves(though simply adding more thinner doesn't seem to solve it which I presume is because too thick paint is too much lodged in so I need to wash all out before trying again)