Hey guys, I'm Josh with VideoConvider Vicarats and today we're working on that lava elemental I said in the stone elemental video That was made previously so if you haven't seen that video I'd advise you go check that out because you can actually see the modeling process over there And yeah, let's let's get into it So I started this model off by having a matte black undercoat and for the first time I Wasn't gonna add anything on top of it besides the lava and some highlights Which is kind of different compared to all my other models because like you do the black and then you add All your other stuff on top of it and this is just like this is what it's gonna end up looking like more or less So one of the most important parts of this model was the base I really wanted to have a base that looked unique and I thought the lava monster It wouldn't make sense to be in like the grasslands of the stone elemental So I decided I wanted to have like a lava field and I was looking up how I could do this And then this is citadel paint from games workshop that actually cracks when you paint it This is pretty much the stuff that people use a lot of and the way people do it is they paint this on It would crack and then they go over the top and they dry brush black on top and I was thinking I that seemed like a little bit too much work for me So I went to games workshop and I I discovered they have a black version of this Which is really cool because all I have to do now is paint this and it'll crack by itself And I don't have to go in and do the dry brushing of black really awesome really awesome stuff So the idea is your paint your color that you want underneath the cracks and then you place the black on top of it But you have to allow time for the paint to dry otherwise when it cracks it'll just pull apart the paint and Later on in the model this was kind of an issue but for the base it worked out perfectly and I was really happy with it Results I pretty much went for like a hot orange and yellow mix and it really does not matter what kind of a Positioning you put the more random it is the better it'll end up looking when it cracks and as you can see It turned out pretty damn awesome now when it came time to paint the actual elemental I went with a white in all the cracks then you might be wondering why or white if it's gonna be like red But that's exactly the point the white is a highlight and it allows the paint to actually be brighter than it would be if it was painted directly on a black Which later on also became an issue because I ended up ignoring my own rules and And not painting with that white so I advise if you do want to make a really highlighted yellow or something Paint it white underneath first because it'll it'll actually bring it out a lot more than it would Painting it just on direct black or or a gray or anything like that gray might work But on a direct black it'll be a lot harder So after painting the entire model white which took a really Really long time because I was getting in all those little cracks I I kind of screwed up a little bit by I touched a spot and then I ended up touching another spot Which I fixed up later on so don't worry too much if you paint outside of the cracks with the white It's really not gonna. It's not gonna like destroy the model or anything like that But yeah try to keep it inside the cracks and yeah It's it's gonna be a time time consuming job, but it'll end up looking really good So yeah after after I painted those whites I I put in the red and that was my first color that I put in onto the model and It looks really weird when when I was doing it. I'm like this is this isn't what I want at all This is gonna look terrible But I get working and once I go out in all those all the same cracks I basically painting over the white directly Um, I painted all over those cracks and then I added a tiny bit more To look like a glow on the rocks or like the the rocks were still hot so that edge line Was fading out with a glow that uh if you were to heat up metal um from the tip It gets really white hot and then orange then red and it kind of fades from the red into either like a black or a gray or something like that or whatever Whatever the metal is so I wanted that kind of effect to make it look like it was getting hotter Uh to colder or colder being like still really hot, but colder So the red fade out was exactly that it could be considered a glow or like just the temperature Decreasing as the paint job goes on after the red Which took a really long time because it was the exact same job as the white uh I went with an orange And believe it or not it took a really long time But this paint job was this is the fine work You can't uh you can't screw this one up you can't paint on the black Uh because it's just gonna look Wrong it won't look right you and it'll be difficult to fix up as well And before you do this it's a good idea to go over any of the red bits that you're not happy with uh with a black or something and um Yeah The orange is your you're no you're not going back from this stage um I painted with my finest brush which happened to be the brush I was using the entire time and uh I this at this point this is where you realize it's actually looking really good It's actually coming out exactly how you want it to look And if you really wanted to you could leave it at this point But we're gonna go even further with the hotness levels like I said it goes from white hot to our yellow orange red And then like metal or like whatever it is. I'm picturing like a sword being heated up But we want it to go from that from that layer So you could end it at the orange if that's the hottest you wanted it to go But we're gonna push it to white So the next layer is a yellow now at this point I didn't want to have yellow in all the same spaces as the orange I wanted it to be the hottest points of the model So I didn't I didn't add it everywhere I added it in small little cracks and in areas that I I pictured would be the hottest points So when it came to like corners and and joints like that that's that's where I put the uh That's where I put the yellow And then later after that I added white and this you don't have to do but the white Is the most hottest point you can possibly Have on the entire model which I added into the eyes and in the super large like deep crevices I added that white as well Which really really it kind of comes down to your opinion But I think it turned out really awesome because it looks like the heat map of a like the predator or something So you got the heat the hotter it is it's it just looks really cool I'm really happy without turned out So if I could change one thing about this model that I did it would be the way I painted the arms I had this idea in my mind that I wanted it to be like cracked like the surface of the of the base that he was on And I went into it for starters. I didn't paint that undercoat white which was a bit silly I just went straight orange and I let that dry and then put another coat of orange let it dry And then put a yellow coat and I really did my best there and I didn't I didn't let it dry long enough That's that's one of my biggest problems with this entire model is I didn't let those arms dry long enough So I painted it the yellow and the orange and then I let it sit for a while And then I put that cracking that cracking paint on and I was extremely impatient And I decided to use the heat gun on it and it worked to a degree I think overall I'm really happy with the base I just added a little bit of the earth around the that homemade earth from the filler and the paint and the sand Which I made in previous video and it turned out really awesome I added some grass and some highlights and and I was done I just glued him on with the contact adhesive and that's that I'm really happy with how this turned out. I keep looking down at the model here it is Yeah, he turned out really cool He actually looks hot which is really really really cool I didn't think it would turn out this great But yeah, if you were to see that on the ground you might actually think it was a piece of smoldering stone Which is cool. It's exactly what I wanted now. There's a lot more I could have done with this like The base wise and I think I think the base is kind of letting it down just a tiny bit I thought those those Lava and the cracks would look a lot better than it does I think it might have been because I didn't add that white to really make that yellow stand out So if you were to do this I would suggest you paint that base white first Just to bring out that kind of that kind of highlight if you're intending to make any kind of bases with this crack And I can see this really looking awesome on on any kind of model this base Just just make sure you help make those highlights really really bright so it comes through Like yeah, the look awesome anyways. That's the model If you haven't seen this already over on Thingiverse head over there and download it and print one up for yourself I will be painting another version of these And if you haven't seen the other version that I've already made which is the earth elemental He's got a big tree sticking out of his head and his he's made a stone and he's really awesome So go check him out if you haven't already and Look forward to the next video of Whatever might be coming which is it's gonna be an ice it's gonna be an ice elemental. What's it's gonna be made of ice Anyway, thanks for watching if you did like it don't forget to comment and subscribe and let me know what you think of how it turned out And share it with some friends who might be interested and also if you want to support me a little bit further Don't forget to hit over to patreon and pledge a couple dollars per video You don't have to if you don't want to but it helps me out heaps with being able to afford supplies Thank you heaps to the patrons Who basically enabled me to be able to afford the paints that I needed to make this and thanks for watching I'll catch you guys around see you You