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The ULTIMATE Guide to Painting Yellow
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Jan 25, 2023
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thanks to public War for sponsoring this
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video now over the years I've heard that
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yellow is one of the worst or hardest
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colors to paint yielding different and
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varied results whether that be too beige
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too dull too green or even even two
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yellow so myself and Pat have been
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trawling across the internet to find a
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variety of different ways of painting
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yellow and we've yielded some
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interesting results you may at the end
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of this video have a new Femme favorite
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I certainly do now the model we're going
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to be using this video are going to be
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the bushy frying Gunners that are from
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puppets Wars if you want to check them
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out and see how to get all them there's
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a link in the description that will take
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you straight there as well so our first
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way of painting yellow is probably going
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to be the most simplest and
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straightforward way of painting yeah I
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wish is to get a rattle can and spray
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the model yalex simple if the majority
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of your model is going to be yellow
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honestly I think it's the best time
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point it's super quick most of the time
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there is a relevant bass clip to coming
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in the primer but do be mindful when
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spraying I'd recommending a couple of
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short burst coats instead of trying to
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do a full coat in one spray and it will
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just clog up the detail so there we are
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that was super quick and easy very
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straightforward now there are other
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yellow sprays out there available AK
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have some as well as Army painter as
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well we just chose this one because it
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matches perfectly to Avalon Sunset now
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we have decided across this video to put
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a ranking system for all the yellows
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honestly it varies on the model you're
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painting the tone of color you want and
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the details that they have on it but
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we're doing a ranking system anyway and
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it's called the yellow omitter and this
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particular method we're ranking 4.8
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bananas out of five on the Elementor now
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if you don't have an undercoat spray and
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you only have like black at home there
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is another way of doing this and this is
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by hand now we've probably all done this
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at some point in our life I used to do
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it a lot as a young lad I used to think
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the brightest yellow possible over black
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would look great it didn't it looked
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green and well learned from my mistakes
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so what I'd say here is find a decent
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base coat such as Amazon set a couple of
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thin coats so in this instant I'll
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recommend a few thin coats of Avalon
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Sunset honestly I'm so used to using
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this paint I have zero fears on base
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coating over black or dark tones it's
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it's easy and cost effective but very
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time consuming and opens to a lot of
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areas such as thick coverage so do take
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your time
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but it's great if you have no primers or
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airbrushes
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[Music]
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as you can see it looks okay it did take
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a lot longer than spraying it just
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yellow but the results are fine again
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just be mindful how many coats you do
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and as you can see side by side the
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results look very similar just doing it
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by hand it takes a lot longer
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um and obviously you just be mindful of
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those thin coats now bearing all that in
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mind on the award system for the
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Elementor I'm going to award this seven
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and for 12 lemons if you're looking for
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a more Grim dark approach and this one
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we're going to show you has almost like
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built-in shading as well and this is dry
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brush in avaland Sunset over a black
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undercoat now it's ideally suited for
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things like smaller sections and heavy
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texture stuff such as gun casing helmets
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maybe like I don't know fur and stuff
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but the models we're using this video
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have a lot of texture so I think it'll
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work quite well with those as well so
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what we're going to do here is just
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heavily dry brush over that texture I'm
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not removing as much as I normally would
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when I'm dry brushing as you can see
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these models lend themselves to this
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method really well whereas maybe a
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primaris marine because it's got more
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smooth rounded armor it probably won't
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be as effective like I said it's very
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rudimentary but very quick and has
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built-in shading as you can see here
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that's the completed version so it's got
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some nice shade in there and a decent
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coverage of Base coats as well I'd
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probably say this is more suited to
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structures like buildings as well as
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vehicles but depends what you're trying
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to achieve really that being said I'm
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going to award this 10 egg yolks out of
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contrast paint now another option if the
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majority color of your model is going to
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be yellow is to use a contrast paint now
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this is ideally suited over a white
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undercoat so if you don't have a yellow
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spray get some white and then apply this
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contrast now this contrast is one of the
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newer ones which is Imperial Fest and I
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would State this is the best contrast
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yellow out there
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it's true it's amazing the great thing
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here is if you start bright you only
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need to use shade and contrast to add
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depth and maybe a little highlight here
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and there at the end personally I prefer
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this method as it's quick and looks
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amazing with very little effort and
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that's before any Shades or highlights
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are applied
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now this method was really quick and as
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you can see next to like the other land
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Sun sort of that's a sprayer over black
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it makes it look ocher almost brown it's
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so bright it's so vibrant so if you want
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a real nice punch to Yellow this is
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definitely the route to go for again
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when you're applying contrast be mindful
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because it can pull into the recesses
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are just soak that up and I think on The
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Eliminator we still award this five
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out of six corn on the cobs so this next
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example is using an airbrush we're using
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the exact same colors so white undercoat
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with a nice bit of Imperial fist being
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blasted through the airbrush and you
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don't need to thin that down it just
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goes straight to the airbrush as is now
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the downside to this is you will lose
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the contrast effect when blasting it
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through an airbrush so you won't get all
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that extra depth in the recesses but
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depending on how you want to approach
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this that could potentially be a bonus
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as well so this really just depends on
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how you want your yellow to look so you
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can see a side by side we have both the
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one done by hand and the one done by the
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airbrush now you do loosen that
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definition like I said in the recesses
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but this is just really nice and a
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really good way of getting a bright
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yellow that you can then add your own
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Shades later on and we should award this
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89 lemons out of a tree
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so this next method I got from Brent
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from Google Town hobbies and Casey from
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eBay miniature rescue now they use
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things like inks and airbrushes so we're
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going to go for a very rudimentary
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approach which is using rattle cans or
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primers some dry brushing and in one
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instance we use two primers a bit of
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pink and a bit of white so a lot easier
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a lot more accessible but it should
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yield very similar results
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we're going to show two versions from a
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pink undercoat here we're using Army
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painter pixie pink now for this example
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we shall dust over with White Scar so
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you want to do this a little bit from
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the top so you still get some that pink
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in the recesses at this point I know it
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looks weird however what we're now going
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to do is get some Imperial Fist and thin
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that down 50 50 with water or contrast
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medium whichever you have and what
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that's going to do is turn those pinks
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into a rich orange and those whites will
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just be a nice clean crisp yellow
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foreign
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[Music]
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white Over the Top If you don't have
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access to an airbrush or spray paint it
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will leave a rougher texture but a fill
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up in smooth coats you shouldn't yield
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similar results now Brent used yellow
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ink from day and rally in this vid but
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again I'm going to be using some
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contrast which is Imperial Fist and on
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this one I'm going to use it straight
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for the pot
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[Music]
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so all in all that was pretty quick and
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pretty effective and we were so
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impressed by this method that we
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actually didn't rate it and really it's
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a stupid rating system that makes no
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sense anyway so I don't care
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I will eat another sweet
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stress him out again I can't open it I
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can't open why is the wrapper different
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what's going on now our next method is
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using the yellow layer paint over a
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black undercoat now in my many years of
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service in the studio I heard this is
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the best way to paint yellows on models
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and that is with an airbrush
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over black undercoat I raised eyebrows
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many times when I heard this and truly
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didn't believe it but today we're going
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to give it a
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actually I'm lying I'm not going to give
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it a go because I don't want to and
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Pat's going to do it instead with an
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airbrush
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if that didn't want to do it because
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it's stupid
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[Laughter]
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it's over a black undercoat good luck
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Pat it's gonna take your hour
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and it's so lime green on the first coat
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and it's still a bit green on the second
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foreign
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and seven coats later we kind of got a
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yellow although it still looks a tad
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green now honestly looking at it it's
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not awful I mean because of the amount
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of layers that Pat's put on there and
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this could be down too is an ability to
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use an airbrush because he's new orange
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because the type of yellow it is I don't
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know but it has obscure of some of the
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detail of that allowed we're gonna give
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it five limes in the bin
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for our next example we were inspired by
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Richard Gray stippling method now a
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quick disclaimer you may not notice but
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I am not Richard Gray and for a better
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example of this method go check his
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video out firstly we're stepping on thin
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down Moon Fang Brown three parts water
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to one part paint
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now you want to do a couple of cubes of
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this so probably three coats will be
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enough
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then using the same mix ratio we should
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do a similar effect with zamasi desert
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again build up that texture and tone and
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again you probably want to do this again
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another two or three times
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[Music]
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now we're going to use aerial yellow
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again I'm using the same mix here but
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reflection I should have thinned this
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down more but I've made my choice and
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now we'll sliver it and what I mean by
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that is the way Richard did it it was a
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little bit less bright and very yellowy
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at the moment there was a bit more
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transition a little bit more Brown in
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there so I've pretty much removed a lot
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of that brown
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now like with Richard's video here I'm
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going to drench in the dark tone
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contrast and for this we're going to be
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using Darko flesh
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and whilst it's wet and working very
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quickly we're applying contrast medium
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here this will assist in removing some
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of that dark tone and basically then in
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the overall effect I wasn't sure why
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this was done on the model as I'd
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personally thin it down before applying
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it but on reflection I do like the
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effect and I imagine Richard is
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mimicking an oil application effect here
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lastly I'm glazing some aerial yellow on
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the raised parts for some more
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definition
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[Music]
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so I actually quite like the effect of
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this now from my experience a lot of
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those initial steps felt like they were
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lost a bit and they didn't really have
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an end effect but I trust Richard Gray's
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process because he knows what he's doing
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and although it was quite long-winded I
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still really like the end effect so that
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being said I'm going to award this seven
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Richards out of 10 Grays so as you can
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see we've got a whole arrange of
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different ways of painting yellow
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silverlays have already kind of been
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highlighted or shaded but what we're
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going to do now is for some of us we're
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going to show a different way of
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applying some Shader that's recessed
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Shades all over Shades and some
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different ways of highlighting with
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different tones so first up we're going
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to concentrate on some shading now
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there's two real decent methods of
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shading there's all over and recess
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shading they both have their pluses and
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minuses so we're going to start first of
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all with an all over shade from years of
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painting it's become quiet apparent that
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though an all-over shade feels quicker
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at the start there is much more work in
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getting that brightness and punch back
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because you have to do a lot of layering
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up now I'm going to be applying this all
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over our Neverland Sunset base coated
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miniature it's quite messy but it is
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very quick and what I'm gonna have to do
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is once that's dried is actually go back
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get Avalon Sunset and tidy back those
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raised areas and that will take ages now
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another thing though is with the new
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formulated Citadel Shades they're not as
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bad and even better if you thin them
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down so actually you could save yourself
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a lot tidying up by using the new shades
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so depending on which kind of shade you
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have whether it's an old Citadel shade
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or different companies worth of Shades
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or the new formulated Citadel ones you
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will yield different results like I said
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for my experience it takes a little bit
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longer doing the tied up stage at the
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end and for that I'm going to award this
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three tangerines uh one orange next up
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is to do some recessed shading this will
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seem like it takes longer at the start
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but I think because it knee turns only a
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little bit of tidying up it's actually
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probably quicker than the first version
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melee or even roughly recess shade and
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may seem longer to begin with it's
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actually the most efficient and quickest
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method to get in depth in those recesses
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I'm applying this over the airbrushed
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Imperial fist Mini
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and as you can see there's much less
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time up to do
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what I'm doing here though is that
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they're tying up I do need to do I'm
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just going to use aerial yellow as it's
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a nice perfect match and I would say
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that was a little bit quicker than
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actually doing it the other way which is
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the all-over shade and for that reason I
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am going to award this one Yellow
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Submarine out of Thunderbird 2. now that
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we're focused on shading recess shading
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all over regardless we're now going to
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concentrate on highlighting now when it
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comes to yellows there's a couple of
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options to pick from do you pick a cream
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or bone highlight do you go for a yellow
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highlight or do you dry brush it or do
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your Edge highlight it so we're going to
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go through all those examples and I
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guess you can decide which one works for
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you now our first method of highlighting
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is using yellow highlights so here we're
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using Dawn yellow and first of all I'm
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going to dry brush this on the back of
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the model so you can see the effect of
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dry brushing over those Rich yellows
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we've got and Doria is quite a nice
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yellow so it adds a bit of Pop to those
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edges
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now the other option if you don't want a
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dry brush and you want to Edge highlight
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is just get your brush to a nice point
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and just run across those edges use the
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edgy brush if you can some of those
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edges but you will need to use a point
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from time to time and again thin it down
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a little bit as well
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and here you can see both the effects of
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edge highlighting versus dry brushing
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and really pick whichever one suits you
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so another reason for using bone as
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opposed to Yellow is it gives it more of
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a natural result as opposed to quite a
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stark bright result so sometimes
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depending on the tone of your yellow you
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use will require maybe a yellow
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highlight or a berry highlight again
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that does reflect on the base color and
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the shade as well so Imperial fists work
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better I find with bone highlights
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whereas maybe like bad moons probably
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work better of a yellow highlight now
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another thing we need to do now is show
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you what it looks like if you use a
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weird yellow highlight on something
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that's a bit more dirty so what we're
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going to do is get an Avalon Sunset base
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coat of miniature the one that we dry
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brushed over black and we're going to
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use a really bright vibrant yellow as a
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highlight and show the effect of that
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now first up we're going to dry brush
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this I'm going to do this on the back
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like we did with the previous ones and
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all in all it doesn't look that bad so
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I'm actually quite pleased the end
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result and this will work quite well
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again for like structures or vehicles
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and stuff however doing an edge
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highlight as you can see here isn't as
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good it looks a bit weird a little bit
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jarring and I would probably describe
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this as a pile of sick there we are we
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have a whole load of different ways to
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paint yellow
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I have my new favorite which is using a
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pink undercoat with white over the top I
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was very dubious when I saw Brent and
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Kate to do this but I trusted the system
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trusted their ability and it's paid off
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and I really like it I'll probably still
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use other yellows from clanstone but hey
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thank you for watching thank you to our
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patrons thank you to puppet War again I
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hope you've learned something from this
15:56
video check out the links in the
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description we'll see you around bye
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using the following screen is applying
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this over a black undercoat good luck
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Pat are you saying falling screen on
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purpose Phalanx no no green you're
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singing
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Yellow idiot
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wow
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in my head
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