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Hi there,

I am wanting to enter a painting competition, i am going to use an assault squad, but i want to have them flying dynamically, has anyone ever done this before? and how/would i create flames from the jet pack?

any pictures of guides would be awesome im kinda stuck on how im gonna do this.

cheers,
lewis.

I've seen people use steel wool, but it probably wouldn't look great for Space Marines, but for something like Orks it looks good, as it looks like black smoke.

GW in their articles used to use it a lot for explosions and things, I haven't seen it used so much recently though. You slop blue/red/orange/yellow paint onto the steel wool where you want the "fire" to be and then where the "smoke" is, you just leave it.

Would something like this fit the bill?

those cinematic effects are really cool!
i know a youtuber that makes really nice assaultmarines lifting off.

http://www.youtube.com/user/tomwilson88

idk if he has a tutorial about it but atleast it can give you some inspiration

cool replies thanks loads

lewis

Oh derp... forgot to post a link for those pics.

The link for those cinematic effects is http://armorcast.com/store/index.php?cPath=100&sort=5a&page=2&osCsid=9ef1e361fee3785977b4b4473d0349fd.
You need to scroll down to the bottom.

cheers man

I made this guy. I debated the pose for ages, you can do similar ones and especially if you make them fly past obstacles (lightpost, vertical steel girder, busted up wall, etc) you can have them attached to the base without having the smokecloud starting at the base.

Alternatively, if you're comfortable with steel wires, you could wire them and then use one of the "cinematic effect" exhausts.

Hope this helps.