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Evening Folks,

I recently decided to see if I could get my Battle for Skull Pass Night Goblins painted up. I've semi-decided on a scheme and, to my great pleasure, found speed paint 2.0. So I took myself off to my local hobby store (shoutout to Loaded Dice who were super helpful) and picked up a selection of colours. The scheme itself is supposed to be Bad Moonz but ... "moon-ier". Yellow cloaks instead of black. I, quite literally, dusted off some archers to try out my new acquisitions and well.... I made a mess in the right places?

The yellow is patchy and looks like a patchy layer/glaze/wash rather than a substantial coat of speedpaint. I didn't thin them down, I "slapchopped" with grey & white first (after remembering how black and yellow don't mix) and even basecoated one in Army Painter Ash Grey from the bottle.Needless to say, I am very underwhelmed with the way these test models look. But I know I'm missing a key trick here, which is where I turn to you fine folks. How does one make these paints earn their money? I specifically bought AP Speed Paints so that I could avoid airbrushing late in the evenings/nights and paint whilst I do other things.

So, Dakka Dakka, reveal your tricks to me! Please?

Sharing an image would be most helpful in understanding what went wrong.

I put yellow only over white. Then for speed I wash with either (Speedpaint - Sand Golem) or diluted (Hardened-Leather). Then use darker Speedpaint in key areas.
Was not going for bright yellow but here is the example, hope this helps.


These dwarfs also turned out pretty good, you can see the steps: White, then yellow, then washes over yellow, then metals and golds then Sand-Golem over gold.
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/804229.page#11561841