Lava Rock monster

[Bungle]

Any tutorials on doing Balrogs/lava rock monsters out there?

[Custom_Hobby]

I have to search but I think there was a tutorial for painting the GW Balrog.

Or do you mean making one?

[Bungle]

Painting...... the new Heresy Colossus

[gi6ers]

Personally I would prime white, wash with yellow, then yellow/orange brybrush leaving your initial yellow in the very deepest recesses, then orange up to red.  Then heavy overbrush of black followed by highlight drybrush of very dark grey then a light drybrush of lighter grey. If you are feeling adventurous dry brush yellow up to orange out of the cracks to give a cool glowing/OSL effect.

Tamiya clear yellow as a very thin wash to tie the bright bits together works well too.

Otherwise base coat the recesses with a dark red and was in the lighter colours, so red then orange then a thin final wash of yellow then add your darker colours as above.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/507
http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/750/page/2

[Bungle]

Cheers.. thats sort of what I was thinking (Except multiple washes of colour)... but just wanted to see if there were any other super tricks people had used.

I forgot about the TCY and TCO that I have

[gi6ers]

Looking forward to seeing it done mate, it's a pretty simple technique that gives really great results!

[Keeper]

I saw some lava monsters recently on the LAF and saved for myself what they said they'd done:

It was time consuming, black undercoat, white along the lava areas, fluorescent orange base, same with golden yellow for highlights then add some white for final layer. Touch up the black then finish with a dark blue + dark grey dry brush over the black for shading

Errr ... a small bit of searching later ...
http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php?topic=7597.0

Can't wait to see what you come up with, Bungle!

[Bungle]

Cheers

[Caerban]

 :yeahthat: What they said only I try to squeeze a really dark brown (I use MP Umber) between my deepest red and the black.

[alrith72]

Painting...... the new Heresy Colossus

Just ordered one of these and going to try the Gi6ers method (just won't look as good or be done as quickly!)

[gi6ers]

Just ordered one of these and going to try the Gi6ers method (just won't look as good or be done as quickly!)

Yes it will and that's not a bad thing  :icon_wink:

[alrith72]

My attempt-hints and tips for improvement please (apart from photography  :icon_neutral:)

[Hawkins]

to much yellow and not enough white and orange in the crevaces, i also think  that you should add some dark grey to the black just a bit at the edges to help define the cooled parts. also i think the yellow is looking a bit chalky in the pic so you might want to try thinner layers of paint or a bit of gloss med .

[Custom_Hobby]

Deep reds on the cooler surfaces

[Keeper]

What Hawkins said  :yeahthat:

I also think that if you painted the dark bits dark down and them "highlighted" them with black, you'd get a good effect.  Well, that is what I'm going to do when I get to painting mine (eventually!)