So I've been asked to make a tutorial on how I paint the hot steel effect on weapon blades, this is by no means the best way or something cause I'm still trying to improve it too :)
Alright so here goes, things you'll need are
A wet palette, these or similar paints, a crappy brush and one with a nice tip, I would recommend using a wet-palette but it's not necessary, and something to paint ofcourse!
Slap some base coats on roughly where things are supposed to go, I used mephiston red and averland sunset. This part should scare you so you get motivated to fix it lol.
Brighten the yellow up with a stippeling motion using thinned flash gits yellow, leave a thin like of averland sunset showing on the edge.
Apply some thinned troll slayer orange in a stippeling motion over the transition from yellow to red, you might wanna use 2 or 3 layers cause it doesn't cover well.
Mix some white scar and flash gits yellow about 50/50 and brighten up the yellow even more. (I could've gone brighter here)
Thin some flash gits yellow down and apply it once more in a stippeling motion, just to bring that color back where it should be. From here we're gonna work outward.
Thinned down mephiston red applied over the troll slayer orange in a stippeling motion. Make sure the paint is really thinned down, mephiston red is really strong.
Now for some spots, those bits of metal flakes that fall of hot steel are what were trying to recreate. So with some Dryad bark we give it a few random spots, mostly on the red but sometimes on the orange.
Then again a few random spots with Abaddon black but now only on the red or edges.
That are the basics, I go back now and bring some more orange or white in there to create the illusion I'm after. I always use thinned paint that's slightly more opaque than a citadel shade paint. This is what I have now after messing with it for another 15 minutes
(note the axe on the left was my first attempt at this and I did it by mixing every color I used here, looks good but it took too damn long lol)
Also note that layers make the effect work!, so don't be afraid to go back on small mistakes, it will only add more detail honestly.
Paint bravely my friends!
(and tag me if you used this technique, I'm curious)
