ACRYLIC FILTER Yellow

Acrylic Filter Yellow - a yellow acrylic filter

In modeling practice a yellow filter is used differently from the dark shades. It is not meant to dirty anything but to shift a whole surface toward a warmer tone, so that the model looks as if a stronger sun were shining on it and the colors gain a depth that a uniform coat from an airbrush does not have. The range is acrylic, that is thinnable with water.

Brightening instead of dirt

A yellow filter comes into its own best on upper surfaces, that is on the tops of turrets, on roofs, engine decks and the upper sides of wings, exactly where real paint would fade and warm up under the light. On green and olive camouflage it shifts the tone toward a grass green, on desert shades it brings out the sand, and on gray surfaces it takes the cool cast away. A transition across a surface also gives an interesting effect: the upper parts brightened with yellow, the lower ones left in the original shade.

How to bring it into the sequence

• Lay it on after the base color and before the wash: the filter pulls things together, and the wash then brings out the detail.
• Shake the bottle well and take only a small amount onto a flat brush.
• Draw the brush along the longer axis of the surface, not in circles, which gives less noticeable transitions.
• If you want a difference between the upper and lower part, lay the filter on only from above and blend the transition with a damp brush.
• Let it dry and then decide whether to add a second coat.

Who it is for

For modelers who already have the basic spraying in hand and want to move on to color modulation. For the weathering of desert and southern European vehicles it is among the most used shades of all.

This is not an opaque paint. Keep out of the reach of children and work in a ventilated room.