Inspired by the Modifx lava battlemat, I wanted to have scenery to match its intensity, and not your regular building or forests! Only old stonework would survive in the oppressive heat of this realm, maybe the ruins of previous glorious city until the ground itself cracked open and scattered its inhabitants. Age of Sigmar stone met the brief, and an underlit lava glow to sell the effect was started.
Drybrushing
The technique worked amazing well, building up red, orange and some yellow in successive layers, even over a black undercoat. I used a bunch of Artis Opus drybrush products;
- AO Large Drybrush
- AO textured palette, to both mix colours along thr process and get just the right amount of paint on the brush.
- AO dampening pad, this really helps remove chalkiness in the drybrushed sections. I used this every couple of colour changes, adding a small amount of water to the brush and removed most of it before drybrushing it off, then into a new colour.
The red-yellow transition is a underlit effect, and I didn't go too heavy into yellow as the reflected glow would not be as intense as looking at the lava directly.
The top of ruins had a very light grey to white(ish) drybrush to create a zenithal effect of overhead sunlight.
A whole table of lava themed AoS terrain now graces our shelves, so come and use it free of charge, when you game in-store at TCC :)
Paint Recipe
