While in Malifaux
Painting the Flames
I thought I’d touch on how I painted the flames, as they’re pretty prominent on most of the figures.
I primed the miniatures in Wraithbone spray primer from Games Workshop.
I then prepared three Contrast paints, all from Games Workshop: Iyaden Yellow, Gryph-hound Orange and Blood Angels Red.
I applied the yellow all over the flames, but just tinting it, not letting it pool in the recesses as flames goes from light to dark, not dark to light as we usually paint things. With the yellow still wet I switched to the orange and painted higher points fully with the orange, again not letting it pool.
Again with the previous layer still wet I applied the red to even higher points.
I found the wet layers blended together pretty well and I was happy with the effect.
Fire Golem for flame resultsI went back in and drybrushed some black on the tips of the flames too, for a little smokey sooty effect.
I’m also considering going back in and using some white for the deepest recesses to simulate even warmer flames.
All the flames
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