Cheddarmongers

OK ...

* Primed white - because we'll be using light colours in the deepest parts of the model.
* Paint the whole model yellow (in this case, GW Sunburst Yellow) - left a little bit in the deepest recesses of the eyes and mouth white.
* Highlight with orange (in my case and 50:50 mix of GW Sunburst Yellow and GW Blood Red) - leave yellow showing in the deepest recesses
* Highlight with red (GW Blood Red)
* Highlight red/brown (a 2:1 mix of GW Scorched Brown and GW Blood Red)
* Highlight dark brown (a 2:1 mix of GW Scorched Brown and GW Chaos Black)
* Final highlight was just GW Chaos Black.

At each stage, leave a little bit of the previous colour showing - prehaps a bit more than you would do usually, as the light-source on this model is supposed to be internal, not external, so the normal shading/highlighting considerations can be ignored.

Also, as you get "higher and darker" remember to start leaving some extra cracks that don't have yellow at the bottom, but are orange or red or red/brown at the bottom - just because this is what lava looks like.

Final top tip is the use of a Satin finish varnish. This is what gives the slightly metallic sheen to the black/brown without needing to use metallic paint, as cooled lava doesn't (usually) have large enough pieces of cooled metal or quartz to see individually - its more the general reflection effect of the microscopic bits of metal and quartx embedded in the cooling rock that gives it is shine.

Burnt bits on the base are just black highlighted with an increasingly light black/white mix.

Hope that helps, Phil. Let us know how it goes with your Avatar of the Bloody Handed God

I get it- you sort of highlight in reverse!

This should be added to the tutorials section