Trumpeter E-50 Dunkelgelb painting tutorial

[Panzermeister36]

Alrightey guys This is going to be more of a "Dunkelgelb Painting Tutorial" than a "Build-Through" because I know that Dunkelgelb is a really hard colour to mix unless you're using dedicated paints so I thought I might help some people by showing how I mix it using Tamiya Acrylics

So first off, the vehicle to be Dunkied: Trumpeter's E-50

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Superb kit, though the tracks were simply unacceptable so I got some AM ones You can see the some of the paint I'll be using, as well as the colours I'd use for a camo scheme on the left

I also added a cast texture to the mantlet, gun shield, the cupola, the two armoured guards for the mufflers, and the laser-randefinder covers on the turret sides:

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And wiring for the IR gear and headlight from the inside of some broken earbuds:

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So to start the painting, I first wanted to add a heavy shadow/unpainted look to the lower hull, as seen of the boxart:

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So I painted it with JGSDF Brown:

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I did this on the inside of the fenders too

[Panzermeister36]

For dunkelgelb, I generally use these colours here, staring with about 60-50% XF-60 and lightning it with about 40-50% XF-57 (brownish tone) or 40-50% XF-55 (beigeish tone) or with 25% XF-55 and 25% XF-4 (yellowish tone).

However, for this pale late-war shade, I used about 70% XF-55 and 30% XF-60:

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And then I just ABed it on:

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In that photo it looks a ton more yellow than it actually is, this photo of the colour on the wheels is more true to life:

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This vid shows the colour as it really is at 0:30 and covers the stuff I was just saying:

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[Panzermeister36]

Next I applied a yellowed tint of the previous colour (10% more XF-60/XF-4 Mix) to the vehicle to make some tonal variances to the places that would be a bit more in shadow and to certain areas for not apparent reason other than to break it up:

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To make it actually visible, the areas horribly painted black in Paint are the areas that DID NOT get the slightly darker yellow tint:

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This photo shows the two colours much better; on the top-left, the original lighter base colour (forgot to darken the lower plate ), and on the bottom, and area that got the darker tint near the turret ring:

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[Rob]

Nice. I hope to do a Dunkelgelb scheme sometime soon so this will come in most handy, thanks

[gustavlekstal]

Thank you!

[Nige201980]

Looking forward to this mate it will help us non armour builders out so thanks for that.

[Prop72]

Man, I love these E-50s! Look super so far

[Panzermeister36]

Thanks guys That's about it for the painting, but I'll have some pics up for how I did the weathering