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Mantic were really kind and sent us a preview of their new Elohi from the Basilean range for their Kings of War game. I had a go at painting one and took some pictures of the process so I compiled this quick video. It's only really to gaming standard although I did spend a bit more time on the face. Took about 2 hours to finish.

I really like the format of the video where you comment and show stills of each step. Great job.

Fire is actually best highlighted in reverse. Start with a white or yellowish white and highlight up with darker colours, ending in orange, red or even a red-brown if the fire is very smokey.

 frozenwastes wrote:
I really like the format of the video where you comment and show stills of each step. Great job.

Fire is actually best highlighted in reverse. Start with a white or yellowish white and highlight up with darker colours, ending in orange, red or even a red-brown if the fire is very smokey.

The fire thing is very interesting, from what I've seen it seems pretty much everyone paints it the way you suggest and I have often thought about doing it this way. Whenever I have painted flames in the past on banners and things like that I have always started from a red base and highlighted up such as can be seen in the picture below. Obviously this is a pictorial representation of fire and for a more a realistic look you would do it the way you suggest. However I always lean toward painting miniatures as caricatures rather than trying to make them as realistic as possible this is probably why I've swayed toward painting flames in this way but I will definitely try the reverse way in the future.