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Hello all!
Just wondering how you make a good fire effect, I love how GW paint there's. Any tips would be useful

thanks all.

I've done this before on a Soul-Trap.

1. Paint the whole fire in dark red
2. Paint everything but the very, very bottom in a yellow
3. Paint the top half in a mild orange
4. Drybrush the whole thing in white
5. Wash with Baal Red

Do you have pictures of either what you said(in steps) or what the OP asked for?
Its hard to tell the effect from words :(

These guys' flames where painted first Mechrite red, then layered downwards with blood red, continue as such with fiery/blazing orange, golden yellow, sunburst yellow, then sunburst + white if you wish (I didn't though):

That blending looks nice!

If you want to paint actual fire, then do what has been suggested, but the other way round, so the source of the fire is yellow, and the tips are red. This way it looks like it is glowing, otherwise it looks wrong.

If you're just doing a firey pattern on armour, like on the Leigon of the Damned, then it doesn't matter.

start with a coat of white and highlight from red to yellow

Easiest way: Paint yellow, wash red.

I think this is a good question. I was also wondering how you create that glowing effect from fire that bounces off the rest of the model.

tona7 wrote:I think this is a good question. I was also wondering how you create that glowing effect from fire that bounces off the rest of the model.

You mean the lighting effect?

Look at a real fire, photographs, etc.

the core of the fire its yellow, tapers to orange, and then to red.

I am under the impression that objects close to the light would be red, and objects farther away would be colored brown. It's been a while since I had an opportunity to observe fire first hand.

do not, under any circumstance paint a fire red, working out to yellow flame tips. It looks awful. If you don't believe me, just grab a piece of paper, and paint fire on, starting with a yellow source, going to red, and another one starting from a red source going to yellow.

lastly,, the real trick is your fire shouldnt be too bright, those are inefficient things. and your paint should rely mostly on orange-red

EDIT

your basecoat will also decide what color you will be starting with. What did you basecoat?

sluggaslugga wrote:

tona7 wrote:I think this is a good question. I was also wondering how you create that glowing effect from fire that bounces off the rest of the model.

You mean the lighting effect?

Yeah! I've seen some really good images of models that show off a decent lighting effect from fire and from other different energy types. Now that I ask I can't find an example, but it looks pretty sweet. It kind of baffles me to see a yellowish orange lighting effect against blue armor.

It's pretty simple.

There are 2 ways I know.

1. Reflect a light at the model from the direction you want, and try to copy the light

2. (this one actually makes sense). Start with a dark colour from the edges of the effect, then water the same dark colour and line the edges. Then start blending in lighter colours until you reach the desired colour. Make the effect always a bit darker than the actual light, and remember not to paint spots which the light cannot go to (shadow).

http://www.youtube.com/user/bluetablepainting#p/search/6/DwYYFKVLa_Q

skip to 4:30. He gives a helpful description of how to do it.

kept editing this to get the link to work one way or another.

Ok, that makes sense. Painting the OSL a little bit darker then the actual light made it really clear when I was thinking back to some of the models I've seen.
Also, that titan was badass! sweet example.