Today, my Soul Grinder is going to be in the centre of attention, or to be exact, its sword. People sometimes ask me how I did the fire effect and it's not that difficult at all.
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| A sword of fire will draw attention to your model. |
So, here is the step by step guide to painting a fiery daemon sword:
- Paint the burning part of the sword entirely white.
- Strongly drybrush this part of the sword with a yellow paint, leaving a few white spots visible.
- Drybrush this part of the sword with an orange paint.
- Lightly drybrush this part of the sword with a red paint (note: the more steps you take, i.e. the more you blend the colours while going from white to red, the finer the effect will look afterwards)
- Now drybrush this part of the sword really lightly with a black paint.
- Assuming you already painted the metal part of the sword: Strongly drybrush the area between the fire and the metal part of the sword to give it a charred look.
Have fun trying this on your own Soul Grinder or daemonic weapon! But you could just as easily use this method to paint any fire on any other model. Here are two pictures of the complete model which didn't quite fit into my improvised cardboard photo box:
Looks great. Do you have any step-by-step photos of the sword dry brushing?
ReplyDeleteThanks for your compliment and sorry for my late reply (been awfully busy in the last ... eh ... year ^^). I'm afraid, I haven't got a step-by-step photo tutorial of the drybrushing. If you're afraid to ruin a miniature by blindly trying my technique, why don't you just try it on an object with a similar surface structure instead? It is really just a succession of drybrushs, going from bright to dark colours nad from hard to light drybrushing. Give it a try and share the results :-)
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