Command & Conquer

[Hammers]

Gosh that is very good. How did you make the smoke and explosion?

Aye. If you have time for a small How to.. on that it would be very useful.

[Dr. The Viking]

Aye. If you have time for a small How to.. on that it would be very useful.

Of course!

It's ridiculously easy in fact (or "exceedingly simply" as Dr. Finkelstein would have put it):

1) Buy stuff:

Buy some "clump foilage":
Buy some small balls/beads/paintballgun pellets.

2) Pin & Glue Stuff:

First I pin some wires into the place where I want the explosion in different directions. This will form sort of a skeleton for the explosion. I smear the wires with glue. Then I "spear" the clump foilage on the wire in the form I want the explosion to have.

At the "center" of the explosion I add some pellets/beads to form ongoing burning/expanding/whatever explosion. You could always skip this part if you want to make a smoke plume or just a less violent explosion.

3) Soaking and painting:

I then soak the entire explosion with black paint, that's a bit dilluted. I place the construction on a hot element afterwards to speed up the process.

When it's totally dry the foilage has become hard and will paint up easily. I just use white for the smoke and blend it a bit with the black.

Add some red/orange/yellow flares to the balls/beads/pellets and a bit to the smoke cloud where the actual burning is going on.

Done.

It may sound like work, but it really isn't. The hardest part - by far - is soaking the thing with the black undercoat. You could use spray, but I don't as I often apply it to models that are already painted.
Also if you use spray I don't think it will be as rockhard when it's done. And may even fall apart... so I use paint. Not spray.

[Dr. The Viking]

Oh and I'm currently in the inevitable "should I turn this thing into a project"-mod that I always find myself in whenever I've painted anything new.... doh!

[dijit]

Excellent Thorbjørn thanks for the tutorial!

[Centaur_Seducer]

I really like the visual effect!

[answer_is_42]

That is very cool.

For the Glory of Kane and the Brotherhood!
PEACE THROUGH POWER!

[Bako]

Ah, very nice. I love that game, though Tiberian Sun was always my favorite or the lot. The colour schemes should have been swapped though. GDI and their orcas and all.