Molten Iron Phoenix

[Dais]

the weather was finally nice enough to seal a few models today so i have several new photos today.
this phoenix is much brighter than my gorgon some of you may have seen and may come off too orange for the effect i want but since it's a phoenix with it's fire theme i think it will be fine. im a little ashamed of myself for missing so many mold lines on this guy but i'll just blame it on the plastic learning curve. at least i got the obvious ones.

[TrintLord]

that is one nice Phoenix!

Is the main color black? or some dark grey?

I would love to see a whole army in that style, would look nice!

[megatron0]

Yeah i really like this!
great work on the glow

[PG_Askew37]

Amazing work! I hate anything Elves/Ret and I find myself wanting to field something looking that good!

[Wishing]

Glorious!

[PG_gdaybloke]

That's pretty darn awesome

[PG_snapshot_superhero]

Absolutely stunning model. Well done!

[Mod_Redphantasm]

Teh sex, for sure.

[Sharp]

Hot. :P

Really though, it looks great. Nice job. That is a really interesting look. If you've got anything else painted up, feel free to point to where it's posted. I'd love to see more of that.

[RobD]

its good but i almost think theres TO many glowey fire bits, so the impact is kinda lost.

i think reducing the areas which are firey would improve the impact of the model alot.

but very nicely done (nice NMM on the sword as well, good contrast)

[Mar]

Is your entire army gonna be themed like this? It's a badass color scheme.

[PG_Askew37]

Do you mind enlightening us on how you went about doing this effect? I've seen it done before but yours seems to pop in a way I haven't seen. I'm really thinking of doing this for my Pyre Troll.

[Defenstrator]

Very nice. A different look but it works. I like how you extended it down to the LOS lines on the base.

[Dais]

thank you all for your kind comments. to answer a few of you -yes, i intend to do all of my jacks and heavy armor like this, probably not quite as bright as this but like i said in the Op, bright and fiery works on a phoenix.
the dark color is black but its impossible to have a flat color not diffuse some light and iron just isnt glossy.
my test models are in this thread http://www.privateerpressforums.com/...ad.php?t=10156

I will try to describe my heat effect as well as i can and at least list the paints i used. I started with a black primed model and made a wash of p3 morrow white to wash all the areas that would be hot. I took normal painting constancy morrow white and got into the inner shoulders as much as humanly possible, a little black in a shadow can kill the effect. it looked very messy afterward.
Next i used a heavy glaze of reaper phoenix red, this is actually a reddish orange. i glazed twice so no white showed in the deepest parts.
At this point i took a mix of reaper clear red and some darker gw red, i think scab red. the original color was nearly neon so i got it down to a ruby red color, i will refer to this as 'red' from now on. i used a 2/1 mix of this and matte medium and thinned it to normal painting consistency and painted next to the orange try hard to get a good blend.
i blended some p3 sanguine base over the red in the same way and tried to blend into the black basecoat. next i took some pure black and a touch of some oop gw midnight blue to recover my black. i dont know what it is about midnight blue but it is not just blue+black like most dark blues, it has some high pigment concentration or dye added or something. The added blue helps contrast the black from the orange and that particular blue makes black look even darker. -I'm going to cry when i run out of that blue right before epic vyros is announced.- I took my black mix and just painted over the large open areas then after it all dried added matte medium to glaze over the edge of the dark red and help blend it.
The brightest oranges are based on reaper orange highlight and p3 menoth white highlight. I first just painted the pure orange on then made a wash of the two and went into the deepest cervices where i wanted it to pop or where it would be the hottest.
After that i just went back to tidy things up with glazes. I made it a point to never add yellow to keep the effect looking hot, but not on fire.

WHEW! that has to be my longest post on these forums yet.

[Polar_Bear]

Whoah!

That's AWESOME!

Edit to add: Reminds me a bit of TRON.

PB

[Thracy11]

Woah! That is SO cool.

My first reaction, to my partner sitting across the table, was "WOAH! That paintjob is INCREDIBLE!"

... true story.

[squidstudios]

This is super cool. And by cool I mean hot.

[tBanzai]

I was going to do this with the Thunderhead in electric blue once I have enough cash to afford it.

Looks awesome.

[paradox]

Very nice and very well done!
I also like to touch on the base for front/back arc.

[Skyydragonn]

Tron 3.0? >.>

that is probably one of the best schemes i've seen on a retribution jack yet. If I owned them i would definately copy this scheme for all of the jacks. looks awesome and its so simple

[Muzzlehatch]

Very nice I'm not a fan of the ceramic look on most retribution figs, so it's nice to see one thats the polar opposite. Awesome job.

[Spleen Hammer]

Consider this idea officially stolen.



Shall we contemplate how to incorporate this look on to the troops now?

[danis2005]

Wow, finaly a Retribution jack that doesent look too bland.Amazing work mate!

[Nyarlathotep333]

Wow, that's awesome! Great work!