Attempted lava base

[tanagra]

I need more practice....

Good thing i'm getting some new gants soon.

[swarm492]

not half bad, and not a bad start if more are on the way.

[Helonion]

You could try that terrain basing stuff from GW, that instant base you paint on. Its similar to the tiles for Planetary Empires. I've seen someone just do a layer or two of that then paint it and it looks fine. Or you can try ebay for lava bases.

[VoragoTitan]

not bad, but it kinda looks like the paints you used are a bit thick.

still good though, keep it up

[Reaper]

A little to much yellow in my opinion. I think the lava should be a lot cooler as it draws nearer to the rocks. For my lava bases, I start with blood red, and slowly layer inwards. Usually just the edges of the bases have some yellow in them.

Keep trying. It took me awhile before I finally got it to the point where i was happy.

[Hive Fleet Cthulhu]

So, I'm the guy who inspired this... right? With my Skulltaker?

[tanagra]

Jul 28, 2012 4:08:44 GMT Hive Fleet Cthulhu said:

So, I'm the guy who inspired this... right? With my Skulltaker?

That is correct, sir.

As for painting it, most of the tutorials I read told me to start with yellow and work my way darker... I've got some Yealers to paint/base... I'll try the opposite on them

[Hive Fleet Cthulhu]

Well, how I make mine is I paint it all blood red, then blazing orange, then flashgitz yellow... aaaand then to pull it all together a very small amount of skull white.

Jul 28, 2012 4:24:25 GMT tanagra said:

Jul 28, 2012 4:08:44 GMT Hive Fleet Cthulhu said:

So, I'm the guy who inspired this... right? With my Skulltaker?

That is correct, sir.

As for painting it, most of the tutorials I read told me to start with yellow and work my way darker... I've got some Yealers to paint/base... I'll try the opposite on them

[twin44]

I would definitely suggest toning it down on the yellow. On larger bases and rocks you may want to use a dark brown to represent the scorching from the heat as well (just a thought for the future of your project).
But the most success I've seen on flowing/liquid like lava is going from dark to light. The light to dark I've only seen when when painting over a basing material like the lava was staying in one place and cooling off.