Painting Judge Fire

[fergal]

I'm not really sure where this goes, but Judge Dredd related stuff goes here.  The Dark Judges are a bit of a grey area, I thought about the Superhero board, but here we are.

I've been painting the Dark Judges for a few days and I'll be adding them to my blog in a bit, but I wanted to show off Judge Fire as I'm really happy with the way he's turning out and I wanted to ask a question.

Usually I finish my models with a light wash to show off the details (too light for many, but there you go) as I really like the effect.  I'm curios about adding a wash to flames?  Seems like there wouldn't be shadows on flame, so I'm thinking no wash?  I've dry brushed and "damp" brushed the hell out of this figure and I'm hoping it doesn't need a wash, but I'd be interested in your opinion.

Have a look at the last picture, To wash or not?

Here is the progression of him so far.  I still have to add some highlights to the burnt and crispy bits.

Painted white with the red base done.



Orange dry-brushed over the read and the black bits done so I don't have to get every crevice on the clean-up



Yellow accents finished



Clean-up from dry brushing

[cheetor]

He looks great

A slightly larger photo wouldnt hurt, but it looks like you nailed what he looks like as far as I am concerned.  Nice work

Whose next?

[fergal]

Thanks, I optomised these a bit much it looks like, but they are crappy iPad photos, so the larger versions are grainy and low quality.

Morris and Death are waiting for basing and final dul-cote.  One more night of work and Fire is done.  That leaves Fear next in the queue.

[YPU]

Generally I find the best effect is to paint fire in a sort of reverse, with the brightest colour in the recesses and the darkest at the tops. I have had some decent results with mixing up very bright white/yellow wash for it.

[fergal]

Here's that bigger pic