World in Flames

The latest basing tutorial is up on the Patreon Page now, and it shows yet another use for the Liquitex heavy Gloss Gel.  I have used it for water, icicles, and yes, even fire!  In this video, I also showed how I used the Green Stuff World Lion theme texture roller using sheets of baked Sculpey clay.

The flaming skulls, also from Green Stuff World, were really fun, and just the right touch!

With the Sculpey and Skulls in place, it was time to add some extra flames to the rest of the bases and the movement tray.

This does dry clear, and it can even be tinted.  While I will be painting these in a classic Object Source Lighting with fluorescent paints, you could even mix that fluorescent green with the gel and make your flames that way if you were looking for a quick down and dirty method.

Here's a peek at the tray will all the effects added!  As I mentioned before, it will dry clear, so I wanted to get a few pictures while it was still easy to see.

I did my usual Badger Airbrush Stynlrez primer technique on the figures and tray, so that I could establish some quick shading.

You can sign up for the Basing Techniques pledge level on the Patreon Page at $10 per month.  This will get you access to the regular basing videos, but also the episodes that focus on basing from other series, such as the Army Painting and Dark Sword levels.

Of course, signing up for the Army Painter pledge level will provide access to all the videos done over the month for only $15.  When you sign up, all of the previous content is also sent to you, since I try to build each series and technique on previous videos!!  This means hundreds of hours of tutorials at you fingertips, covering just about anything you can imagine.

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A Primer for Every Purpose

Here's a little glimpse at the process of "primer painting", using the Badger Airbrush Stynlrez primers.  There are a dozen different colors, so it provides an excellent opportunity to shade and tint figures as you go through the usual process of priming.

I usually have dozens and dozens of figures to prime all at once, of all types and sizes.  While there were a few other items that I was priming, I think this set of figures gives you an idea.

The slate blue primer is a neat color, which has been great for terrain and some sci-fi figures, like this Weapon platform skimmer from Warlord Games Gates of Antares.

Since I already had that color in the airbrush, I made it my first layer for the two units of Dark Elf figures which is part of the unit painting videos I am creating for the Patreon subscribers.

There are also a number of blog posts that show in more detail how I approach this kind of Primer Painting...

The pink primer is a color that I have not gotten to use very much, except for some of the Black Heart Models busts.  Using the blue as a base and allowing as bit of the pink to mix in with it meant that I could gradually shift the overall color.

Gradually introducing more and more of the pink will create lighter tones, setting up the next layer.

I didn't want to get too involved with the primer colors here, since these units will be painted with oils.  Those are far less influenced by the underlying primer colors than the acrylic glazes that I normally use.

On to my Bolt Action winter Soviets!  I have a few articles on this kind of urban warfare basing, like this one:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2017/02/urban-warfare.html

The Ebony color is a favorite, and I use it on just about everything at a certain point!

Using a light tan, I was able to create a Russian tan blend right out of the gate, using nothing more than 2 primer colors!

I added one more layer of white to get the lightest shading.  This batch of figures will be part of a new edited YouTube series on unit painting with oil paints.  I will go through the process of painting the unit, as well as the snow effects that finish off the basing.

As always, any contributions to the Patreon Page allow me to do even more of these instructional videos.  Also, the new pledge levels will introduce "hard copy" versions of the videos, so you can view them whenever or wherever you want, at a higher resolution than the typical YouTube video.

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www.patreon.com/JamesWappel