Not Quite Ready to Give Up on Yellow – Yet
Yellows – Round Two!
I’m not ready to give up yet on yellows – grrrr. After picking up a couple of new paints I tried out another idea that many use. Going from Iyanden Darksun base to layering the new Yriel Yellow and washing with the new Cassandra Yellow wash. In the end, I’m still not sold.
Below is the progression: I base-coated two payers of thinned Iyanden Yellow over black primer. This covered quite well and I was pretty happy with it – smooth and not think, no excessive pooling around the detail areas. The Yriel Yellow however, still sucked. Or, at least I sucked with it.
MY experience with yellows is the paints (Citadel) always behave oddly compared to ALL other colors. Even thinned down it has a tendency to not lay evenly flat, there was always some sort of brush marks or troughs that appeared. This time I tried thinning it down further than I normally would most paints – even whites, and the first coat when on somewhat smoother than normal. In the pics you can see it sort of “tinting” the base color (a bit on the mustard yellow side).
By the second coat, things started to fall apart. Paint/pigment welled up in odd areas and pooling around the detail like the bolts on this panel. The brush marks only seemed to get worse. By the third coat, it was a real mess – and still not really close to the final color of the paint Yreil Yellow. I did finally end up washing with a thinned down Cassandra after reading that it has a habit of turning things orange when used straight form the put. To be honest, I needed up with something that looked pretty much like the last attempt. Muddy, dirty, washed out and not a clean golden yellow at all.
I have one more part on the bomma that needs yellow (the large lightning bolt on the rear hatch) and there’s one more technique I want to experiment with – basing white and gazing, though with what I’ve seen online, it still leaves a lot to be desired (problems like the depths being too orange, etc.).
Of course, I’ll document and post here to let you see what happens. Yellow is one of those colors that most painters have problems with and I’m hoping I can crack this code for one of the hardest paints to master. Heck, I just want to use it without it looking dirty and greased up.
Later!
