Painting Smoke: Advice really needed.

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Phaedrus

New member
Hello everyone,

I'm new to painting minis (and new to this page). I have a lot of experience painting on canvas, but this is obviously different. I'm working on a Green Goblin from Knight Models. Obviously, it much larger than a normal mini, which I think helps me. A large part of the mini is the huge "plume" of blackish smoke coming from the glider. How do you paint that to look good? I've looked on youtube for smoke tutorials and I didn't see any in the sticky here (it's very possible I could have missed it). I think the rest of the mini looks good, but my work on the smoke plume looks... well... like my child did it in pre-school. And because the plume is such a large part of the sculpt, i really want to get it right.

Can anyone point me in a good direction to get guidance? Or perhaps someone here has had this experience?

THanks so mucH!

Phaedrus
 
Dragonsreach

Dragonsreach

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It took me a while to find the model you are working on and Yes the smoke is a very large part of the figure.
Looking at knight models own version there is a very small area of flame /dark red right at the junction between figure and smoke.
Personally I'd suggest de-emphasising the smoke, Ok paint the connection between the glider and smoke with a flame effect really muted down, then work the darkest grey you can find as as the primary colour for the smoke.
Highlights should be very lightly applied and even then I'd suggest only for a fraction of the whole plume.
To get the darkening effect away from the majority of the model I'd use water soluble oils paints Paynes Grey and Lamp Black as dilute darkening tones starting partway down the plume and increasing their intensity like a Pyramid base.
 
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