The joys of yellow paint

hmm....yellow is one of those colors that requires 1+ infinity coats of paint.

 What i do is prime white on the model. Then paint yellow over it in the same manner, light and many coats. 

With brush painting.....it's gonna take awhile with thinned paint, but, you will love the results and they will love you back!

 Good luck!

-Brian

I may be pulling at straws here, as I've never tried it, but how about a rattle can under coat of basic yellow. After letting that cure for 2 days then using your brush coat on top of that.  This will give your brush coat something to hold it.

I know you mentioned that you don't have any where to spray, but I'm sure you could come up with some place to spray a quick base coat.  Unless of course you live in a biosphere?

Silver as a base coat for yellow is a good idea. I recommend Tamiya's AS-12 Aircraft silver rattle can. You may decide it works "good enough" as a bare metal paint job. If not, it makes a terrific primer for the yellow.

Unless you're really stuck without ANY place to spray. You could try painting their X-11 Chrome Silver. I've never tried brush painting a large area with it. I suggest re-mixing it on a regular basis as the metallic particles settle quickly. 

sizzlak wrote:

I like to use a white primer, flat yellow, then gloss yellow. If you don't have flat yellow add a flat base to your gloss, or mix the gloss with some flat white. You can also try flat yellow then clear gloss coats. Just some suggestions.

I think the instructions call for flat yellow.  I don't know if that makes sense, I've never seen a matte yellow Texan.

Dan Sumner wrote:

sizzlak wrote: I like to use a white primer, flat yellow, then gloss yellow. If you don't have flat yellow add a flat base to your gloss, or mix the gloss with some flat white. You can also try flat yellow then clear gloss coats. Just some suggestions. I think the instructions call for flat yellow.  I don't know if that makes sense, I've never seen a matte yellow Texan.

Me neither, but I've only seen ones today that people purchased surplus or some other way. All the privately owned ones I have seen are gloss trainer yellow.