Stage 1

Primed:  skull white

 

Paint cooled lava Chaos Black.  It is important to take your time and be neat at this point but if you get black on the molten lava just touch it up with Skull White paint afterwards.   Notice how I leave white in the cracks of the rolling lava and how far I paint along the upper skin.  I then painted the rim of the base with Chaos Black.  This would give me an idea of the contrast of the base at an early stage.

IMPORTANT!  After I painted parts of the base black I cleaned my water cup.  You really don’t want dirty water for the following stages.

 

 

 

Stage 2

Bubbling, Molten lava & rolling lava:  I painted these white area’s with Sunburst Yellow

 

 

Stage 3

Next I painted most of the yellow area’s with Fiery Orange leaving the hottest area’s Sunburst Yellow

 

Stage 4

Next I painted the molten lava in Blood Red but this time leaving the Sunburst Yellow and some Fiery Orange. 

 

Stage 5

I then painted the cracks in the thick/thin crust with Blood Red.  This was done again with Red Gore leaving some Blood Red.  At this stage I  painted any low thin crust lava in red gore as these parts would be hotter than the thick crust.  I also paint around the sides of any crust lava that was touching the molten lava with Red Gore OSL (object source lighting).

 

You could leave it at this stage and it would be perfectly acceptable on any tabletop battle.   If you happy to leave it at this stage then go to stage 8.

 I’m going through more stages to get it looking hotter.  Give it a try!

 

Stage 6

Next I painted Golden Yellow over the Fiery Orange and Sunburst Yellow to help smooth out the transition.

 

Stage7

I then started to render the hotspots with Sunburst Yellow followed by Sunburst Yellow/Skull White adding a little extra white with each highlight. 

 

The upper crust was then drybrushed with Chaos Black/ Shadow Grey followed by glazing black ink onto the centre parts of the crust away from any light source.

 

Now I worked on the osl (object source lighting on the edges of the crust (you should already have the red gore showing on parts where the light of the molten lava hits the surface.)  This was highlighted further with blood red then orange.

 

 

Stage 8

The rim of the base was neatened up with Chaos Black.

 

Varnish:  purity seal.

Optional  paint gloss varnish onto the lava parts…I chose not to do this.

 

I hope this helps

Regards

Klaus