Ah, Finally Done. A Satisfying Project, I'll Definitely Be Doing More In The Future. Given The Watch

Ah, finally done. A satisfying project, I'll definitely be doing more in the future. Given the watch list I'm using, it's gonna be a while before I even watch Iron Blooded Orphans, I'm still on the One Year War side stories. Gundam Flauros or Ryusei-Go

Lautrec, one of the most trustworthy of individuals. Definitely let him out of prison and hang around your defenseless fire keeper. One of my favorite characters, sadly the model had several quality issues. I did what I could

An update to my gunpla post, Flauros is progressing nicely but hoo boy are some of these steps tedious. First was doing the final brush details, sealing it, then doing my decals. I have a big ol stack of Warhammer decals, most of these are space marine and imperial guard ones since I lost the real decal sheet

After that comes the chipping. Same thing I do for my battlemechs, just a bigger scale than I've done before

Finally the oil wash, the same mix I use for most things, 3 parts black, 2 parts brown, and 1 part red, thinned down and scrubbed off after with some spirits

My next post tomorrow should be the final assembled shots, just finished the last clear coat to seal everything together

My sisters pc for the family campaign, a half elf ranged rogue. We've gotten about halfway through the introductory module and it's only taken us about 4 months, we're way ahead of schedule. Anyways she's already managed to crit my partners Minotaur by accident trying to snipe, and seems determined to set off every trap the hard way, a necessary addition to any campaign

What was your process for the lava sword? Any suggestions for doing a similar thing scaled up?

Just a simple layering process really, no fancy techniques. I wish I'd taken step by step pictures but alas. I started with the white basecoat, then stippled on yellow, orange, and then red. I didn't use normal layering to avoid stripes, a natural look would have more variation and unevenly cooling areas. You want the inner parts to show the lighter colors, as the core is molten hot, with the darker cooling edge on the outside. Do one more layer of stippling with a deep grey on the edges and a sprinkling across the rest of the blade to represent cooling spots and that's perdy much it. If you're familiar with the coconut crab tyranid technique, it's kind of like a dirtier smaller scale version of that

Hope this helps! If I do it again I'll be sure to take step by step pictures. I've found other people using the same method and other colors as well, if you want a more magical look. Edit to answer the rest since I cannot read, I don't think it would suffer much from being scaled up, the only thing I would suggest is to add more layers of variation to the color gradiation if it's a big enough weapon. A giant axe being wielded by a Khorne Bloodthirster, for example, I might do 5 or 7 layers going from yellow to deep red instead of the simple 3 here. A life sized weapon... not sure the technique would hold up, but you'd definitely need a lot more layers

Some older minis of mine, from back when Warhammer Underworlds launched, the warband Garrek's Reavers. Pretty straightforward, and painted right after the game came out. I was using it as an exercise in painting skin, something I wasn't much familiar with at the time