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1: can they be drybrushed or do they need to be airbrushed/(regular) brushed on?

2: I'm told that it's better to apply a base of a similar color before applying the colorshift paints rather than the white or black as recommended on their website. Is there a guide to what is best as a basecoat for what? Looking at their "Radium" specifically

1. They really need to be airbrushed for the best results. You *can* layer or drybrush them on, but you will have a different end result than if you airbrushed them (mainly the color-shift effect will be almost non existent or visually muted compared to what you would achieve with the same paints and miniatures using an airbrush). Keep in mind the paints are very thin out of the bottle as they are meant to be airbrushed, which makes their application via traditional layering a bit more challenging, and drybrushing a bit more wasteful.

2. Thats bad advice. If you want to get the effect advertised out of the bottle, use the basecoat recommendation that turbodork has provided to you. Using any other color can produce wildly different results. If you have a paint that is supposed to produce a blue to purple shift and is recommended to go over a black basecoat, you will not necessarily get better results putting it over a blue or purple basecoat - in fact you might find that putting that color shift paint over blue or purple results in the shift changing from blue to purple to green to pink - in that case, using that blue or purple basecoat didn't do you very much good, did it?