lapis marlin
I'm working on a somewhat large display piece, and instead of doing the more common blueish barrel burn of a cooled barrel, I wanted to do it as if it was either mid-fire or just finished and still red hot
This is for a 40k knight scale laz cannon.
I am having issues finding good guides or tips on how to do this though.
Has anyone done it or seen good tutorials on this style?
It feels like it would be different from just a fire sword type look
snow sparrow
I'm working on a somewhat large display piece, and instead of doing the more com...
I have had this saved for a while and unfortunately don't know the source.
Starting from white is important. Can't get this effect otherwise.
You may want to add more white along the way.
The brightest yellow needs to be higher value than you think. Almost white.
Fluo orange can help but don't expect magic.
Don't expect it to look like it's glowing. It will look like it's painted orange in real life.
On photos with black background the effect sells. In hand it doesn't as much.
These photos use a trick where the background slowly starts to glow as well. Don't expect your painted gun to actually emit light.
There's a lof of trickery involved when you see photos of this stuff so I can't stress enough that you need to manage your exepectations.
lapis marlin
Thanks! My concern is scaling that up. The barrel I'm working on is almost 4" long
snow sparrow
Thanks! My concern is scaling that up. The barrel I'm working on is almost 4" ...
Yeah, do this over too large an area and it'll just read as orange. Just the tip.
lapis marlin
Piece for reference
lapis marlin
Trying on a test scrap... Does any of this at all even remotely read as hot metal and not just orange.
snow sparrow
Trying on a test scrap... Does any of this at all even remotely read as hot meta...
Not really. But you don’t have any black. You need black or very dark grey to create a big value contrast.
I think you’re also leaning too yellow.
Look at the reference above how much the final pass of black adds to the effect.
Finally, context matters. Nothing about your scrap of paper tells me it should be emitting light of any kind.
lapis marlin
Does this read better? I know without actual texture placing the dark is hard.
More parts than not will probably be the darker color but that's the hardest to place without texture to work off
snow sparrow
Does this read better? I know without actual texture placing the dark is hard.
I’m not really sure what I’m looking at here. 🙂
Why are you not painting a gun?
