How to Paint Fire and Flames

[he_plays_guitar]

Painting Fire and Flames

 

Hi everyone.  I have written a tutorial for my new blog, How to Paint Fire and Flames for my Legion of the Damned project.  It is a nice tutorial with lots of pictures, it won't let me copy and paste so I'm leaving a link. You can see the full tutorial and blog here:

 

 

*update*

 

Link was broken, old website is down. So here's a NEW link!  

 

http://www.painthammerstudios.blogspot.com/2014/08/how-to-paint-flames-and-fire.html

[S.k.i.t.t.l.e]

Nice tut!

[Disruptor_fe404]

Very handy!

 

I like it.

[DistroyA]

Nice tut. Exactly how I'd paint sculpted fire, much like how I paint flame imagery anyway.

 

I will say though that the way you've painted the flame design on the backpack contradicts your tutorial though. :P

[he_plays_guitar]

I know the sculpted flames contradict the realistic fire!  I found that the "fake" flames look better when painted that way on black armor, because the tips tend to get lost when you paint them dark red like you would with real fire.  I think that's the reason GW paints flames like that on their Legion of the Damned models, it looks better, even though it's not accurate.  But yes...sort of a contradiction ;-)

[Brother Talos]

awesome tutorial man!

[DistroyA]

Oddly enough, the red bits didn't get lost on my damned legionnaire. Then again, I only used 3 colours; mephiston red, blood angels red and sunburst yellow. The hall of honor post of the legion of the damned a particular user posted shows this too. Each to their own I guess. :)

[j-smuv]

This link appears to be dead. . .  Is there an alternate tutorial anyone can suggest on painting flames/fire?  This is the only one that comes up in the search.

[Squeaky]

Do you mean painting flames or painting fire on a figure? 

 

The best tutorial i found on painting Flames

 

http://hot-lead.org/advance/fire_prac.htm

 

The best for figures I could find :) 

 

http://gravengames.co.uk/flame-painting-tutorial/

 

hope this helps mate 

[j-smuv]

Sorry for the ambiguity.  I meant on figures. . .  but both are definitely useful. 

 

I'm finally ready to start my LotD, and I'm too cheap to buy the gw models.  So I need to be able to paint convincing flames on regular Space Marines without the benefit of them being sculpted on. 

 

Thank you very much for the links! 

[Squeaky]

No prob mate came in handy for me as well actually 

[he_plays_guitar]

Sorry about the dead link, my old website is no more.  But I started a new blog and put the tutorial up there, the link should work just fine now.