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Hi Luther,
your squad looks awesome as usual! Could you please tell me, how you paint your yellow helmets. They look a little bit different to the yellow helmets you showed before. Am I right?
LG
Chill
Thanks man! You have a keen eye, I changed them a bit cos I wasn’t totally happy with the previous ones. The process is similar but slightly different:
1. Prime Vallejo Grey
2. Spray white from above
3. Model VMA* Golden Yellow all over
4. Gloss coat
5. Two to three coats of Reikland Fleshshade
6. Airbrush highlight 50/50 VMA Golden Yellow & White
7. Edge highlight VMC* Light Yellow
8. Edge highlight as above plus adding VMC Offwhite
*
VMA = Vallejo Model Air
VMC = Vallejo Model Color
Ha, I knew it! 🙂 And thanks for your quick answer.
It’s definitely a big improvement. Now they look really great. I love them!
LG
Chill
New to airbrushing and was gonna do raptors but decided to go blood angels. I have golden yellow model color, can I thin that and use in place of model air? How is the airbrush highlight different than the edge highlights? Finally does white and golden yellow mix to get close to light yellow?
Hi Dustin,
The Air version (71.002) has actually been renamed since this post (maybe because of this confusion) and is now called ‘Medium Yellow’. It is quite different to Model Color Golden Yellow (70.948):
The Air version is quite bright and semi-transparent, whereas the Model Color is quite pale and opaque. Model Color Flat Yellow (70.953) is a better match for the Air colour.
You can mix white into any of these colours to make them paler / lighter and more opaque.
Edge highlighting is not done by airbrush but with traditional paint brush, and is where you use the tip or side of the brush to make a well-defined line on an edge. It’s for this purpose I use the Model Color Golden Yellow (70.948).
This probably all sounds quite confusing but I hope it helps somewhat – let me know if you have any other questions!