Learn how to paint lava bases with this great painting tutorial and tips from Hellfire Hobbies- check it out!
Lava bases look amazing on the tabletop, but sometimes they can be a little daunting, but Hellfire breaks it down into a few simple steps! To note, he uses cork and some resin (or even green stuff balls cut in two) to make the base, but you can also buy pre-made resin lava bases as well!
Let’s see how to do it.
How to Paint Lava Bases: Hellfire Hobbies Tutorial
He primes everything black and uses a paintbrush to touch up the cork. One other quick tip if you’re making the bases, you want to put the cork where your models will be standing; he’s using Abaddon, so he lines up the feet with the cork.
Step 1:
To start, he drybrushes the rocks with either Mechanicus Standard Grey or Wolf Grey from the Army Painter if you have a little more blue in your army. Next, he goes with a light drybrush on the rocks with Celestial Grey on the rocks. To start on the lava, he loads up some Mephiston Red and thinner into the airbrush and sprays all the non-rock parts of the base.
Step 2:
Next up, he added some yellow to his existing paint and painted most of the base, leaving just a little red near the edges. Then Max removes the orange completely from the pot and adds Flash Gitz Yellow to the airbrush.
He builds this very slowly from the sides; you want to leave a decent amount of the orange here.
Step 3:
Now, add some white to the pot to get a very bright final highlight color. He basically does just the bubbles here, be careful not to get too much overspray here. To finish it off, come back with the drybrush from before and cleans up the rocks. Finally, paint the rim of the base black.
Finished Base
There you have it, a super fast way to paint up great-looking bases!
That does it for this one! If you want to see more, check out Hellfire Hobbies’ other airbrush tutorials by clicking this link here.
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