Avatar III - Ready for the Tournament

Here's an update on the Avatar for Hoot. I turned it over to him so he could work on the details on the armor. I'm fairly pleased with the results, though given more time I'd like to add a bit more to the lava and effects. I think that's a good thing though since I could feel myself wanting to paint something else lol.

One thing I'll try next time is starting with a white primer and work my way to black. That would help in creating the really "hot" lava effect.

The sword was a new test for me. I started with a little boltgun over the symbols followed by a fade in of fire around the blade edge. From there I went over it again with Dwarf Bronze to give it a type of golden fire look. The pic doesn't do it justice, though, it came out pretty cool.

The Helmet side armor was faded from TinBitz to Boltgun Metal and highights with Mithril Silver.

Next project: I'm going to take a break from painting and focus on terrain again. Right now I'm sketching out a few ideas and plan to have the inital ideas up soon. Aside from that I have a few green stuff models to finish too lol.