Best shade for this yellow helmet?

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**Thamor**

I'm not sure on what paint to use to shade this yellow any suggestions?

Cheers

**Kanluwen**

Sepia would give a nice warm shading to it but Earthshade would darken it up a bit.

What exactly are you wanting for shading it? Do you want to darken it up or make it still have that bright coloration?

**Thamor**

I was thinking Sepia as well but wanted some opinons before I went ahead and did it. I would like to keep the nice bright helmets so I'm probably going to shade it by applying a wash of whatever directly into the recesses.

**Hereticdave**

That's what I used to do on my imperial fists, followed by a drybrush of the base yellow again. Now I apply a wash of thinned burnt umber directly into the recesses, gives a much neater job than washing the whole thing!

**sing your life**

You're trying to do imperial Fists right?

The Fists use a muted yellow so, I'd recomend a sepia wash, i.e AP strong or soft tone.

Though if you want a brighter yellow I might Recomend a black or yellow wash.

**Kanluwen**

He's doing Blood Angels or a Blood Angels Successor, I think.

The chalice on the helmet is a Blood Angels piece and the Assault Marine below is painted a very nice red.

**Thamor**

Yes they are my Blood Amgel Assault marines

I went with a very light sepia wash into the recesses in the end I think once I've finished the detail on the helmet it will all tie in. Thanks for all the help

Here's another picture.

**Kanluwen**

It looks fantastic.

Are you going to pick the chalice out in another color though?

It blends in too much I think and could stand to be picked out in white or another color.

**Thamor**

Thanks

Yea I'm thinking of a bright gold or a purple which will contrast with the yellow quite nicely.

**sing your life**

Thamor wrote:
Yes they are my Blood Amgel Assault marines

I went with a very light sepia wash into the recesses in the end I think once I've finished the detail on the helmet it will all tie in. Thanks for all the help

Here's another picture.

Looks great, though I would probaly recomend reddish-purple eyes. Makes a better contrast.

**Kanluwen**

I would go for green eyes with a white chalice, personally.