"My first attempt at flame effects on a power sword, pics" Topic

So this was very new painting territory for me. Flames and flame effects on miniatures have always intimidated the heck out of me. So finally I decided to trust in the GW palette they had established for their 40k Primaris characters.

This was a total of seven different paints and washes. It's the kind of effect that I realized you really need to do all the steps if you want the flames to look totally convincing. You could do a simple yellow or orange basecoat and one drybrush of brighter yellow or white and it would look good.

But I wanted to try it on a somewhat more professional level and just see what happened. This gave me a lot of confidence to do flame effects on upcoming mini. projects.

I think it came out pretty good. The hardest thing is to do is get a smooth transition of bright flame to darker red flame out on the tips of the flames where the flames would be cooling slightly as it spent itself.

Here's a pic. of the paints used:

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…and pics. of the flame effects:

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The front picture is poorly lit, so you can't see any color on the sword. You need to rotate the figure 90 degrees clockwise and reshoot.

A flaming Power sword. Here I was thinking a flying shark was ludicrous.

The final effects are very nice, indeed good work.

H Man, 'air sharks' are legendary in an old D&D game from the 70's we played in. Haha

Nicely done. Wasn't sure the red on the tips would work (don't recall seeing it on actual flames) but it came out quite nice.

And cats with tentacles.

I guess it must be a victims blood catching on fire, like when food sticks to an electric element. Or magic.

Worked out really well. Nice job.