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Hi guys,

trying to follow this tutorial, however I think the guy has miss labelled the colours.

He starts by saying he base coats in "Rhinox Brown" then highlights using "Scorched Brown"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-biX5vyhLYc

If anyone can shed some light on this I'd be really appreciated.

He also claims to use "mixing medium" I'm assuming from watching that it's just normal medium (i.e. not a retardent) as it's cloudy and he isn't talking about wet blending. Just thinning and layering.

Thank you!

Rhinox Brown doesn't exist. Rhinox Hide is an equivalent of Scorched Brown iirc.

Yes that's true, Scorched Brown is the old colour and Rhinox Hide is the new colour.

I am assuming though, that he has mixed up the base colour as I can't see how he is base coating and then highlighting using the same colour...

Okay, just watched the video.
Looks like the Rhinox Hide coat is quite thin, as in maybe just one application of it. There's alot of black showing through so the highlight could have been done once again in Rhinox Hide.
For some reason he uses Scorched brown for the highlight, the colour conversion was never perfect so perhaps SB is a little lighter than RH but I wouldn't know without finding a RH.
There are also inconsistencies with the 4 pots of SB that I just found in my collection so perhaps it's that or a personal choice that has been made by the painter regarding coverage, pigmentation, availability or something else?

 Alex Kolodotschko wrote:
Okay, just watched the video.
Looks like the Rhinox Hide coat is quite thin, as in maybe just one application of it. There's alot of black showing through so the highlight could have been done once again in Rhinox Hide.
For some reason he uses Scorched brown for the highlight, the colour conversion was never perfect so perhaps SB is a little lighter than RH but I wouldn't know without finding a RH.
There are also inconsistencies with the 4 pots of SB that I just found in my collection so perhaps it's that or a personal choice that has been made by the painter regarding coverage, pigmentation, availability or something else?

For someone doing a painting tutorial, that would be pretty hard to replicate.

Do you think he has just undercoated in black, then is highlighting up to Scorched Brown/Rhinox Hide?

HungGarRebel wrote:
For someone doing a painting tutorial, that would be pretty hard to replicate.

Sure, but I'm not sure that's a consideration if he's using OOP paints.
The video makes his scorched brown look very light compared to mine.
It's also a fairly technical tutorial so some understanding of opacity is to be understood.

HungGarRebel wrote:
Do you think he has just undercoated in black, then is highlighting up to Scorched Brown/Rhinox Hide?

Essentially yes. The first coat will never provide the best coverage and the second will essentially act as a highlight as more of the black is obliterated.
Imo I think that you would get a similar effect using either RH or SB for both the basecoat and 1st highlight if your layers are thin as he recommends.