Lava Base Tutorial
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Thanks to tagsta for this.
This Tutorial is supposed to be a basic method to create a high number of good looking lava bases in a rather short time. If you follow these 6 Steps you can easily base your whole army in a lava theme. A higher standard for Showcase Minis is also possible. Just practise the Basic Tutorial a little bit and then try the same thing with a larger amount of colours. Enough talking, let's begin:
Painting the Rocks
- Black Undercoat
- Drybrush with Codex Grey
- Drybrush again with Fortress Grey
Achieving the 'Lava' Look
- The basic colour for the lava spots is Red Gore (Step 1)
- Paint the Red Gore undercoat with spots of Blood Red (but leave a rim red gore visible (Step 2)
- Continue the procedure with Blazing Orange... (Step 3)
- ... and then with Golden Yellow and Bad Moon Yellow (Step 4)
- Eventually add a tiny spot of white in the center of the lava (the hottest spot (Step 5))
Voila! The basic lava effect is complete. Quite easy, isn't it?
Advanced Lava (Source Lightning) (Step 6)
You can add a Source Lightning effect to the stones, if you want to:
- Imagine the tiny lava bubbles as the light source
- Drybrush a large circle of Red Gore on the rock
- Add a smaller circle of Blood Red
- Add another small circle of Blazing Orange
- Add an even smaller circle of Golden Yellow
That should be it! Enjoy.
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| Comment made by scar face on 11:23:29, 13 August 2008
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| Neat- gotta do that
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| Comment made by Chtzi dua ryu ruo on 00:47:01, 28 July 2008
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| baaases! baaases! ott baaases! CANT GET ENOUGH MODELS TO BASE!
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| Comment made by DanTay25 on 10:42:47, 20 March 2008
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| Wow- that'd look good with my Space Marines, being from a volcanic planet... I wanna try this!
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| Comment made by dooley on 03:36:19, 2 March 2008
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| sweet, how would u do it with like a swamp/marsh/river bed theme?
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| Comment made by insanetau on 12:48:14, 24 February 2008
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| sweet a deamon price could stand on one of those and he'd look really really awesome
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| Comment made by Lex on 18:10:54, 17 January 2008
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| Great article, works well.
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| Comment made by kennpj11 on 02:20:30, 2 November 2007
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| yeah i just treid it it work really well
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| Comment made by kyr gkikas on 05:47:03, 11 September 2007
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| excellent tutorial my friend.I ll certainly try it
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| Comment made by Trash-Candle on 01:46:12, 7 August 2007
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| Very Nice, i shall be using this for my Chaos!
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| Comment made by proxy_grotesque on 02:20:35, 19 July 2007
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| This is a simple and easy to understand tutorial, thankyou
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| Comment made by Tau_player on 15:00:49, 11 July 2007
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| the glow should be more noticable
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| Comment made by Shas'ui T'au Kais on 05:00:17, 28 June 2007
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| this would look good with a adapted tyranid for lava deathworlds
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| Comment made by munkey on 11:56:42, 27 April 2007
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| there is glow on the rocks, good tutorial.
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| Comment made by goth bass player on 03:14:15, 9 April 2007
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needs glow on the rocks
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| Comment made by †Master of Puppets† on 09:26:16, 9 March 2007
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| Very good; try a sand base with a thick rubber-band through it - it works very well.
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| Comment made by TGS the over-ambitious on 23:02:09, 15 November 2006
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| I'll do this when I get round to getting some Vespid, great guide.
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| Comment made by Shas'O Taij on 14:22:17, 27 October 2006
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| What do you mount on these bases, your whole army, or certain scenary? Great guide!
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| Comment made by Teh_Frm4terer on 01:57:03, 6 August 2006
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| nice... could work well with future models....
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| Comment made by AfterCresent on 12:14:55, 5 August 2006
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| Definatly a handy technique!
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| Comment made by Tom Norman on 03:43:56, 5 August 2006
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| Wow! You make it look so simple...I'm definately going to try this with one of my future characters.
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