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Hi guys, I have a very specific question,and I hope somebody would be able to help me.

I plan to paint an Imperial Knight using the Griffith house color Scheme. I would like to know if somebody can indicate me which color, from the Vallejo Air serie, would fit with the ``light`` cream white of the armor parts.

Thank you guys !

Is that this scheme?


If so you'd probably be looking at sand for the lightest colour, and light brown for the shading. BuyPainted usually uses some combination of Sand, Radome Tan and Light Brown when doing bone colours with his airbrush and it works really well, I could dig up a vid if you're interested. Here is the 3 I have with airbrushed colour over white primered bottle top if it helps see the colour. Bad lighting, I suck at photos.

If you wanted to be *really* light cream, you could probably base white and then do multiple thinned sand layers as you get closer to the shaded areas. Buypainted tends to airbrush sand and then airbrush shade with light brown iirc but that of course results in a darker overall effect as even "light brown" is dark for cream - but that's kind of the point with shading really.

Thanks a lot for your answer, it helps me a lot, as it is difficult to estimate Vallejo's colors with their ``strange`` color chart. I will use your advises, using sand for the base and light brown for shading.

thanks again !

My pleasure! For posterity here is Buypainted using medium camo brown and highlighted with Light Brown, Radome tan then finally with Sand. A different way here was done skipping one of the colours I think. I can't find one of the ones I'm thinking of where he skipped the initial medium camo brown shading.