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Conquor Painting Yellow With This Imperial Fists Tutorial

By Guest Author | February 28th, 2017 | Categories: How To Tutorial, Imperial Fists, Videos

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Welcome back Hobby Fans, we’ve got a killer tutorial for you today! OrcPainterNerd is sharing his secrets for Painting Imperial Fists!

OrcPainterNerd is here to share some secrets to painting yellow!  This killer Crusade Era Imperial Fists Dreadnought is the product of his tricks. Tag along with us to learn just how he pulled off this amazing model!

Finished Dread

To start with, OrcPainterNerd highly recommends the All-Clad laquer primer.  It goes on super thin, and does a great job of covering, its also very robust and resistant to chipping.

You can find this primer here on Amazon at 4oz for $8!  Quite the deal in the paint world!

Averland BaseNext up OrcPainterNerd likes to lay down a base yellow using GW’s Averland Sunset, this is a great yellow that has really awesome coverage and give you the nice crisp Imperial Fists yellow.

Sun Yellow HIghlight

After a few layers of highlights the yellow is really starting to pop!

Shading

Once those nice yellow highlights are close to done, it’s time to lay down some nice brown shades to add some depth and contrast to the yellow before moving on to the real meat of the video, OrcPainterNerd’s weathering process!

Weathering

As you can see, the weathering on this model is fantastic, you absolutely have to watch the video to see how OrcPainterNerd pulls this off.  It’s a great method for quickly weathering yellow!

See the whole thing here, details and all!

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