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Hi all. Does anyone have any advice on painting a glowing hot ember effect? Wondering about something like a red base coat, brighter orange in the deepest recesses, then a light grey drybrush on top...

Looking at painting up a charred corpse of something like a guardsman for decorating the base of my heldrake...

Start with a white undercoat/primer, and a bright yellow basecoat. Then drybrush on successively lighter coats of darker yellows, oranges, and reds, with a final drybrush of black for the 'cool' charred surface.

It takes a bit of practice, but the end results can be quite nice.

Yeah that sounds good. Just need to cobble together a suitably ruined Guardsman. Think I've got some old zombies somewhere...

You can get mordant earth crackle paint from gw too that is quite good for lava type burnt stuff

WarhammerTV have a tutorial for a hot skull effect that might be helpful https://youtu.be/EnS1CmgB7ko

Thanks guys. Good shout on the mordant earth, that would be great for a scorched area of ground. I might try to do a colour transition underneath too, from white / yellow in the centre of the scorched area passing through orange to red to brown / black going outwards...

Lots of ideas! Just need the hobby time to make them happen now...

Less is more.

What you want is small, point OSL effects, over a mostly dark / scorched object. I think I managed to pull it off pretty well here:



But yeah, blend through a dark red-brown to orange-yellow to white. Don't go too yellow (ochre), it doesn't look right.

Yeah you've got that down very nicely. Looks authentic.

I was looking at going a bit more intense than that though. If only because, well, it's the evil breath of a huge dragon-daemon, not a bloke with a lighter and can of hairspray...

Will post results once I actually get round to doing it...