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Rating: 8.94 Votes: 18
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By: Menelker
Category: General Subcategory: MiscDate: 2009-06-12 12:25:19
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Step 9:

 

Now that all the caulking is try it is time to paint up the lava.

 

First you will start with yellow paint and a medium brush. Paint all the lava yellow. Once this is all done go ahead and heavily drybrush* the lava the red/orange color.

 

 

Once the orange is dry, mix some of the black paint with some orange paint and drybrush* it onto the tops of the lava. This will give you the look of lava that has cooled somewhat on top. If you want it to look even cooler you can use more black as an additional coat of paint.

 



 

Now that all the lava is painted you will want to recreate the glow that hot lava radiates onto the adjacent rock.

Take your medium paint brush and the orange/red paint and drybrush* it onto the walls adjacent to the lava. Also drybrush orange strips onto the bottom of the “bridges” for the lava that would be glowing up at them.

 



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Pablo Scenery
10 July 09
Rating: 8
Very good tutorial. A simple but very efective board, and very playable. Score: tutorial 10 + board 6

Menelker
10 July 09
I did make templates for some burnt out trees, I just have not gotten around to making them yet. Once I do I plan on adding them to the article.
kris6666
09 July 09
Rating: 10
Would looks very cool if it is fielded with well painted modells, like salamanders, khorne daemons, an so on...
It is a very nice article, have good feeling of the board but it is a littlebit emty, need some details, looks bit boaring without these.
I would take here some partitially burned branches to make some new surface, some altars from styrofoam with marks of the gods.
Thanks for sharing, sorry for me,too long comment.

Lemmingspawn
22 June 09
Rating: 8
Some nice techniques in there - and relatively quick. Could have done a couple more things to make the overall effect a bit more effective. Otherwise - this would be a nice board to play on.

majestic0110
18 June 09
Rating: 10
Great article and fantastic result !

AlexG
18 June 09
Rating: 10
That is an excellent article. I very much enjoyed reading it and seeing what materials you used. 10/10

Menelker
16 June 09
You are correct. I will add that into the text though. Thanks!
No Such Agency
15 June 09
Rating: 8
If one was extra clever, one would make the boards "line up" in multiple ways to further increase the number of configurations (8 layouts from 3 boards, I believe). It looks like you've done this but I'm not positive.

Menelker
14 June 09
Thanks for reminding me. I added the estimated prices in.
freakinacage
14 June 09
Rating: 10
looks good. love the osl, brings it to life

Dragonsreach
14 June 09
Rating: 5
One thing, for which you have not made any detail, is the cost of materials.

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