How to Paint a Muzzle Flash: Deadly Print Studio

By Travis Pasch | August 21st, 2023 | Categories: 40k News & Articles, Deadly Print Studio, painting miniatures, Tabletop Gaming News & Rumors, Videos

Learning how to paint a muzzle flash effect on Warhammer 40k, or any sci-fi miniatures is easy when Deadly Print Studio shows you how to do it!

Deadly Print Studio has some of the coolest FXs for all kinds of miniature out there, which you can grab here. Today we’ll be talking about how to actually paint up their awesome bolter muzzle flash that can be used for Warhammer 40k or any sci-fi miniatures!

Let’s jump into their latest tutorial!

How to Paint a Warhammer 40k Muzzle Flash Effect on Miniatures

First up, here are all the paints we’ll be using:

Step 1:

To start, he mixes the white with a 1:1 ratio and covers the entire FX. They also cover the bolter part that will also reflect the light from the flash.

Step 2:

Next, they are going to do a gradient and blend everything together. Starting from the inside and moving to the outside. Start with the fluorescent yellow, then fluorescent red. Because these are fluorescent, you will need a few layers as they don’t cover as well as traditional paints.

Step 3:

Now, you go all the way to pure red and cover about 50% of the orange. Again, moving from the inside out. You could leave it here, but they want to add some more contrast.

Step 4:

They go to the imperial blue and cover about 25% of the red parts with the blue to make even more contrast. Then they add dots to the smaller pointy edges of the bits.

Final Step:

They mix the lemon yellow and the white with a little water. This is used to brighten up the middle of the FX. Lastly, they just add a few scattered bits of white to the bolter.

Finished FX:

And there you have it! Some super cool effects that just look amazing. Don’t forget, if you want to grab any of these amazing miniatures effects 3d STL files, or bits, you can by clicking the link below.