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Hi Dakka,

i recently purchased the forgeworld Avatar of Khaine model for my eldar aarmy. I've always loved the Avatar and the forgeworld models really do this monster of war justice.

So i've dived head first into painting this and have hit a brick wall with how to progress it. I feel that the molten armour doesn't look quite right and even looks messy and sloppy in places.

I'm tempted to strip it and start over but thought i would post my progress on it to see if this paint job can be salvaged. Does anyone have any recommendations on how i can salvage this? I don't own an airbrush so please any tips have to be able to be applied with the old fashioned brush. Any advice would be appreciated

thanks in advance


my steps up to this point have been;

Undercoated white
Washed whole model with cassandora yellow
Painted the molten armour with Rhinox Hide.

pics are below

It looks off because you need the 'deepest' parts to be light, and what you've got is light outlines around where the yellow wash has settled. You're aiming for the opposite of what we normally want when shading.

Give it some off-white highlights in larger areas of exposed lava.

Then you went a bit too dark, too quick. Glazes red then some oranges over the rhinox hide a few times (avoid getting it in the cracks) to bring it a bit lighter near the edges, then darken in with Rhinox hide, then lighter with a grey (mix in some gunmetal if you like) toward the centres of the cool areas.

Then you can touch edges in areas near the very lighter parts of the 'lava' with some lighter edge highlights, ranging from orange to yellow but avoiding going too light. Subtlety works here.

Excuse the very old WIP (pay attention to the lava only) but you should have something like: