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I'm looking for some help to make a piece of metal look like it's been exposed to flames, cooled down, and then exposed again. Like a caked-on, burnt or scorched effect. I'm not looking so much for, say, the heated iron effect on Gatling gun barrels and the like, more like if you took a flamethrower to a trash can repeatedly.

I tried with just a bunch of black lines from the center of the flame source, but it's not coming out like I'd like. Any tips?

Most weather powder lines have a Black soot option.

Try MiG.

Just a simple honest dry brush of black will work,

for more depth try mixing black with a little bit of dark brown

 LancsHotpot wrote:
Just a simple honest dry brush of black will work,

for more depth try mixing black with a little bit of dark brown

I tried a black drybrush, maybe I put it on too much. I'll try some brown too.

Drybrush gold or bronze over most of the barrel/then drybrush black over the tip of the barrel/then wash with agrax earthshade.

I personally drybrush with Rhinox Hide followed by black.

I have done this on all my flamers:
Black
drybrush on your boltgun silver
dry brush some brown on the tip cover
dry brush some black on the tippy tip

I have done this on all my assault cannons:
Black
drybrush on your boltgun silver
dry brush some dark purple
dry brush some black on the tippy tip

This is the effect I try to achieve on my flamer nozzles on my Blood Angels.



I use Hashnut Copper as the base 'unburned' metal color.

The heating/scorching effect I have is achieved by drybrushing the old Tinbitz color lightly toward the middlle point of the nozzle and getting heavier with the drybrushing toward the muzzle. I then used thinned (50% water, 50% ink) black ink around the muzzle and edges closest to the muzzle where the tinbitz color is heaviest/most prominent. After that, I use some nuln oil wash over the charring/burned area to tie it all together and give it a matte finish. The results can be seen above.

I will mention Tinbitz is discontinued, but you can find similar shades in non-GW paint lines.

I hope this helps, and if you have any questions feel free to send me a PM and I'll do my best to answer them.

Take it easy.

-Red__Thirst-

In regards to Tinbitz I've found for me personally, Warplock Bronze fits the bill very nicely. (If you want to stick with GW/Citadel colors)

http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-to-paint-heat-stained-gun-barrels.html

Get a matt medium for your black too