Global Scale Modeller

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

So to start the painting, I first wanted to add a heavy shadow/unpainted look to the lower hull, as seen of the boxart:
So I painted it with JGSDF Brown:
I did this on the inside of the fenders too

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

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

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

Thank you!

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

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

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