Chaos Dwarfs #13 Painting a fire elemental

Hello and welcome to another step by step painting miniatures post from me! Today we paint something different than the dwarfs I've been posting about lately. I got my hands on these spirit hosts last week and started converting them into flaming elementals. Today I'll walk you trough how I painted the first one which was quite experimental. 

Let's get to it!

These are all the paints I used for the fire, blended together with a glaze medium. 

First off I needed to build the base from clay and shape the tiles. Then I had to figure out how to make it more like an elemental rather than a spirit coming out of a dead body since the models themselves are pre-sculpted. I did all 9 of the minis, glued some rocks and sand on the base and got to spraying. Sprayed with black primer and then gave an overcoat with white. 

Next off I covered the whole model with glaze medium. I made a mistake not covering the whole model in white completely and it took me a lot longer to cover the black areas underneath with the yellow/orange colours but lesson is learned for the next 9 models I have to paint after. I did apply the lightest yellow first and started adding darker colours going towards the edges. Wanted the recesses to be the brightest in colour since this would be the hottest point of the flames.

In the same manner still with very wet colours mixed with the glaze medium I added more orange up to red at the very edges of the miniature and waited for it to dry. After the medium was completely dry I started applying some glazes to soften up some of the transitions. Also painted the base and added a few glazes of orange and yellow to create a glow from the flames.

Final step was to make the glow on the base a bit more visible, add pure white around some of the edges on the faces  and add synthetic grass and flowers on the base. 

Here are some pictures of the finished product.

  

 I hope you enjoyed the post! If you are interested in the techniques I use to paint my miniatures you can click on this link to a post explaining all the basics. You can check out my last Chaos Dwarf project post here! 

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