Flame test. Is this passable?

[Gunbird]

Fire and smoke on a 1/300 model. This look ok?

[Sangennaru]

At first i thought it was a thread where you insult people to see if they will start a fight with you.



anyway, my only concern is about the difference of "presence" of the fire near to the tank. A little wash on the tank could make it quite more "deep", and one hand more of black drybrush on the flame could let it be less... hot.
Looks like there are 2000-3000 °C inside the tank, with that almost white spectrum.

[Gunbird]

At first i thought it was a thread where you insult people to see if they will start a fight with you.

Lol! 

anyway, my only concern is about the difference of "presence" of the fire near to the tank. A little wash on the tank could make it quite more "deep", and one hand more of black drybrush on the flame could let it be less... hot.
Looks like there are 2000-3000 °C inside the tank, with that almost white spectrum.

I'm sure the colour might look a bit hotter when the tank is painted, but as this is a test I'll see that when the rest of the wrecked Shermans are ready to be painted. I've been looking at burning tank footage (Red-We have a weird hobby sometimes) and the really hot parts are when the ammo ignites. Maybe this one just got hit, who knows? Since I can use them as kill markers, scenery or objectives, any type of fire goes, I reckon. But thx for your feedback, made me think about it being too hot while I was fearing it would look too cold. 

[Verderer]

Looks great! Can you share you made this, please?

[Gunbird]

A how-to you mean? For the paintjob or the model?

[Verderer]

Yes, the smoke plume, Wayswatcher. I am thinking clump foliage glued on a piece of wire?

[Gunbird]

100% correct sir.

[sundayhero]

The effect is pretty good. I'm thinking about borrowing it for my battletech setup. Maybe using cheap sponge to make the plume ? Even if I have some foliage to test, I'm definitly cheap 

[Gunbird]

Clump foliage works 100 times better as it really soaks up the paint and looks cloudy. I'm looking at a tree in front of me made frm cheap foam many a year agao and the thought in my mind is "what was I thinking   "

Ok, a bag (or in my case a shaker bottle) of clump foliage will set you back 10-20 euros? Call it an investment, the proper one will last you years with all the smoke markers, flame markers, explosion markers and of course trees and bushes that you want.

[sundayhero]

  I've got foliage too, but I'm always searching for cheap alternatives. Anyway, thanks for sharing your work, it's inspiring 

[Verderer]

Yer, thanks WW. I like how it's very three dimensional, and not just a shapeless blob. Did you spray paint it?

[dijit]

I think the biggest problem is the change in angle, first 45° as it comes out of the tank, then near vertical. I think it'd look better either the other way around or at just a single angle. Smoke often goes straight up where it gets carried by the heat and is sheltered from the wind and then gets angled by the breeze/wind when it's not sheltered.

Otherwise really good job! I'm going to have to give this a shot myself.

[6milPhil]

That's excellent, really good effect. Don't listen to anyone who says otherwise...