Heat discoloration- Painting Flamers

[Deet]

I've yet to see a tutorial I really like on how to paint that discoloration that steel gets when it's repeatedly subjected to heat.

This is what I'm looking for:

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I had an idea and decided to give it a shot.  Prime black, paint GW copper, then a series of GW washes in yellow, red, purple, and blue.

Here's how it came out:

 

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As you can see, it's really the red that shows up.  Maybe it's just my lack of patience, but the blue and purple just didn't get there.  Maybe they don't have as much pigment as the red? It's a good start, but it's missing something.  I'm thinking a black wash or airbrush at the tip to soot it up will definitely help. Anyone else have a method they like?

[AnvilofFenris]

I tend to go a similar route to yourself. Working with a steel colour as a base, i wash sepia, blue, brown, then black with each coat covering less distance from the muzzle. after that, a quick drybush of a mix of scorched brown and abaddon black right on the end of the weapon for soot. Its quite quick if you're batch painting, and looks pretty good

[JGeils81]

can get get a shot of that method when you get a chance Anvil? Im interested as well.

 

Thanks!

[Garath]

  Not bad.  You can also try:

 

  Prime color light brown.  Then drybrush the following from one point to the other:

 

  Boltgun metal mixed with a dark blue color like...mordian blue

 

  Chainmail or Valejo model air chrome + blood red + fiery orange 

 

  Then shining gold

[Sanguine Eternal]

I got for a more red hot barrel on my meltas and flamers, but I still transition from a blue, discolored metal, and work it up to my reds.

For the metallic blue method, I found a really nice way to do it is start off with iron break, or any metallic for that matter.  Then give it a couple of washes with drakenhof night shade.  Keep doing it, and apply it fairly heavy, and keep spreading it around the area you want to look like that.  You can still see the metal underneath the transparent blue wash.

I've recently been painting some warriors of chaos in a winter theme, and base with iron breaker, wash with agrax earthshade, then I put a heavy layer of that blue glaze.  Guillmans Blue I think its called.  That is worth a shot too, I think it looks superb for the first step.

Another thing I try to do when I try to achieve what you want, is to try to wet blend each layer into the next so the transition is less harsh.  Takes practice.

[Sanguine Eternal]

I tend to go a similar route to yourself. Working with a steel colour as a base, i wash sepia, blue, brown, then black with each coat covering less distance from the muzzle. after that, a quick drybush of a mix of scorched brown and abaddon black right on the end of the weapon for soot. Its quite quick if you're batch painting, and looks pretty good

 

 

That's a similar method I use when doing my red hot barrels.  Start off with a metal, blue wash/ glaze on the pipes leading up to the muzzle, dark burgundy red, mephiston red, evil sunz scarlett, then 3 lighter oranges, and finally a yellow for the very tip of the barrel.

 

As you said, each layer should cover less distance from the muzzle.  My final step is not a drybrush, but a red glaze instead to bring all the colors together.