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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Hobby Services on 04 April 2016, 06:36:56 PM
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Latest project, some Reaper Bones fire elemental types:
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/uoQAAOSwZ8ZXAqJr/s-l1600.jpg)
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/V-oAAOSw9KpXAqJx/s-l1600.jpg)
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/i7AAAOSw6wRXAqKN/s-l1600.jpg)
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/17AAAOSwGYVXAqKB/s-l1600.jpg)
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/0d8AAOSwnTJXAqKR/s-l1600.jpg)
They come cast in translucent orange plastic, which is way more expensive than the plain white Bones material (albeit still cheaper than metal) and not at all convincing as a fire effect. The D&D prepaint lines had some success with using translucent plastic for that kind of effect, but Reaper's is pretty weak. Shame they don't cast them in opaque white, although the gal is also available in metal.
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Nice! Fire seems to be difficult for a lot of people (including myself) to pull off, but you did it very well on these figures!
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Great job on the fire effect! :)
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Very cool. Favourited for refference.
On that note, could you give us a bit of a walkthrough through the painting process?
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Very cool. Favourited for refference.
On that note, could you give us a bit of a walkthrough through the painting process?
Let's see. IIRC, the process was something along these lines (I'll use generic terms for the paint shade):
Apply basing material, in this case a medium ballast.
Prime everything (including the base) white, either via spray or brush. The Bones stuff will feel sticky if you spray, but it doesn't hurt the material and vanishes once you get a coat of paint on it.
Basecoat with your brightest yellow (or highlight heavily with it leaving some white showing through, if you're after hotter look).
Highlight with a darker yellow. Repeat with a light orange, than a darker orange. You can pretty much just apply these stages as simple drybrushes, going a little lighter each time. Remember that the darkest part of a flame is actually at the top/coolest area, so you're essentially reversing the more common highlighting technique of starting dark and going lighter with each successive layer.
Do a more controlled highlight with a bright red near the high points of the flame or wherever else you want to emphasize the shape of the model, maybe even add a darker red final highlight.
Carefully pick out the tips of the flames in a thinned dark gray, charcoal, or soft black color for that smoke effect. You can apply a heavier drybrush of same to the coal bed basing, maybe followed by a lighter brush of pure black.
You can vary the look a lot by adjusting how much of each color is left showing at the end. More white and yellow = hotter, more red and darker reds with more smoke highlight = cooler. You could (and I probably will, at some point) play around with non-traditional flame colors using similar techniques and a different pallet. Magical flames could be blue or green or whatever. Tzeentch fans could even do one in shades of pink, yeah?
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Your info on how to paint is very useful. I tried to paint an elemental once and it turned out rubbish. I'll use your guide and retry :-)
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Latest project, some Reaper Bones fire elemental types:
[They come cast in translucent orange plastic, which is way more expensive than the plain white Bones material (albeit still cheaper than metal) and not at all convincing as a fire effect. The D&D prepaint lines had some success with using translucent plastic for that kind of effect, but Reaper's is pretty weak. Shame they don't cast them in opaque white, although the gal is also available in metal.
The plastic works quite well if you're willing to work lights into it...tea lights and similar can be worked into some of the bases with a little work...
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Very nice.
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Awesome thanks.
I have a mini coming up from a kickstarter I'll be sure to try this on.
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Thanks all. Glad to help, assuming the painting guide is any assistance. Didn't even talk about using washes and wet blending to get a smoother transition effect between colors, but that's next stage up beyond table-ready work.
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They both look fabulous!
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They look fantastic! Some of the best fire I've seen.
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Very, very, very pretty indeed. I for one will definitely be using your tutorial in the future so thanks for sharing!
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Very, very nice. Thanks for the tutorial as well!
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Well, thanks, I was fairly happy with the way they came out.
Took another stab at the bigger model, this time with a "hotter" color scheme and a custom base for more of a diorama look.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/oIsAAOSwGYVXCq5L/s-l1600.jpg)
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/l60AAOSw-RRXCq5R/s-l1600.jpg)
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/FlIAAOSw8RJXCq5h/s-l1600.jpg)
A look down into the furnace and the coal bed this thing was summoned from:
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/h2QAAOSwz2lXCq50/s-l1600.jpg)
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Excellent work. I especially like the way in which you have painted the walls and grate of the base to give the impression of heat and reflection from the coals below.
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A bit more scifi-ish, but still on topic, I think. Fire elementals don't all live on other planes, right?
A couple of different takes on stars (or perhaps usable as a planar gate to Elemental Flame?):
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/F7kAAOSwu1VW8I5M/s-l1600.jpg)
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/gngAAOSwKfVXEqdO/s-l1600.jpg)
And a molten planet, with the continents just starting to congeal:
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/FREAAOSw14xXEqeO/s-l1600.jpg)
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/cpIAAOSw95lXEqeT/s-l1600.jpg)