Hey guys... what did you think? Do you want us to cover other 'glowy/SFX weapons' - e.g. Ice Blades, or do you have other suggestions? Colours used available here:elementgames.co.uk/paints-hobby-and-scenery/element-essentials/egaps/paints-hobby-and-scenery/element-essentials/egaps/artis-opus-bundles/artis-opus-molten-lava-sword-bundle Paints used: Pro Acryl Bright Ivory Flash Gitz Yellow Pro Acryl Orange Pro Acryl Bold Pyrrole Red Burnt Red Abaddon Black

@liammonkman9982

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing, thanks for the great video, I'll need to try this on some Legion of the Damned

@EadeMatt

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely would love to see your Frost Blade after watching this! 🐺

@Dreamzkape

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome video, mate. It looked very cool when you'd finished. Definitely go for a frost blade, although what about other elements? I remember a video game I loved called "Drakan: The Ancients' Gates" where there were 4 Elemental Blades: earth, fire, ice, lightning. Collecting all four let you forge a powerful sword to bring down the big boss. Cannot remember what the EARTH Sword had regarding powers, but it was green in representation. You could try browns and reds... :/ Would be an interesting concept to try. Earth Blade, Earth Blade! (and a Frost Blade) :D

@knoepert666

3 жыл бұрын

I wish i could paint waiting for my brushes from #artisopus #badservice #badcompany

@benkraft8334

3 жыл бұрын

Hey great video man just tried it for the first time thanks to you and it looks amazing

Thank you! I used this for my salamander captain and its awesome!

well Found how the Captains power swords getting painted! Your tutorials are basically going to paint my whole army LOL. Thanks

@ArtisOpus

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure, my dude! Happy hobbying 🤘

Watching this go from layer to layer was beautiful

Uh oh... I submitted a mini for the next Mini Painter reacts video with a molten sword effect a few days ago. *nervous sweating*

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting! We'll have to see, sure it'll be good, dude :)

Great video!! Will definitely giving this a go on my salamander blade guard, also awesome shoutout for another great artist, keep being awesome.

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, dude! I feel pretty strongly about crediting sources of inspiration, be they big or small😊

I use the scale75fx Fluor yellow for the glazes and it makes it pop out even more.

Very impressive, I really like it. Keep these coming !!

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, will do!😊🔥

I think I want to try this with a different color palette

@misterraven5159

3 жыл бұрын

You thinking trying in say purple tones ? I am

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

It will absolutely work with different colours. So far the 'rule' seems to be that any deep saturated colour works best😊

This is the tutorial my demon king mini has been waiting for. My flat d&d campaign will thank you big time

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing to hear! 🤩🤩

Best looking sword iv seen and great tutorial. Subbed

@ArtisOpus

Жыл бұрын

Cheers, buddy!

I really enjoy your videos, you explain things very well. I would love to see you painting a frost blade.

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers dude! Great idea, we just need a Space Wolves release or something with a nice chunky one! :D

Woes I need to try this amazing painting another great tutorial thanks

@ArtisOpus

Жыл бұрын

Late reply! Thanks man, you're welcome :)

Wooooooow cant miss this One for sure

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Catch you soon, dude :)

This is pretty awesome. I’m going to try and apply this to my Fyreslayers runes cause I’ve been trying to find a way to make “lava glowing” runes so I really am excited to test this out

@ArtisOpus

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing, it's perfect for it, enjoy! :)

i love it... i tested it in my other model kit

Thats looking great, and the process seems to be easy. Thanks, cant wait to find a miniature, where I can tfy it!!

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing, it's pretty forgiving as long as you don't rush, I think!

lovely effect, gonna give it a try on one of the minis I have in the pipeline

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing, enjoy! 🔥

Frost blades please!! Loving the videos, AO fast becoming one of my fave channels!

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing to hear, thanks so much Dave!😊❤

HAIRCUT 👌🏻👌🏻 Great video as always!!

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Yay, thank you!😊🤩

That was freaking awesome.

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it🔥🔥

really impressed with the pigments on those Monument Hobbies paints. Need to get myself some of the Yellow to Red colours for my Fyreslayers project for their hair

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

They're absolute dynamite, a real pleasure to use. They're strong which takes a bit of getting used too but they're generally great and really fun to use😊

You're almost at 40k subs, just noticed. Congrats on growing so fast!

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

🎉We got there thanks to you guys❤

Looks really good mate!!

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers!🔥😊

Do I want to see you do a frost blade? Um, YEAH PLEASE!

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

I guess that's that then😉

That looks properly awesome, certainly never going to miss it on the table top anyway! Never tried pro acryl paint myself, I usually stick to Vallejo, lifecolor and ak or hataka, but I might just have to give them a go at some point

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, man! They're definitely worth checking out!👌🤩

This is very similar to how I do mine, inspired by Vince. I've tried loads of brands and even a couple acrylic inks, but ProAcryl Orange simply cannot be beat for this!

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing! I don't hear bad things about their paints so I will definitely pick it up🤩🔥

Gonna have to try thay

Nice do, brother! I received my artis opus brush cleaners today - really nice product!

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!😊

Great vídeo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

well done !

Awesome work sir.

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Many many thanks😊

Very cool!

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks🔥

This is really gonna help, I got the 10 pack of bloodletters the other day and they all have lava/fire swords

Looking great and tnx for the tutorial Byron, This fits perfectly to my paint schedule, since I'll start to paint 3 fireslayers tomorrow while I wait for my next Blood Bowl team to arrive. Guess what I'll try to learn on those fireslayer axes 😎

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

😉😁Perfect! I love it when a plan comes together. How did it go?

@egiljo72

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArtisOpus I tried, but it's wasn't any award winning result yet. The base paint was a very light yellow almost luminescent. Didn't give good coverage and I made to many inconsistent layers and ultimately making a total mess of it. Covered it up with a "silver" receipt and blood for the blood God and made kind of a miniature save in the end 😉 But I won't give up, and will try again, this time a icy blue lightning axe. Have this based, but got distracted by a new Blood Bowl team in the mail 😂

Frost blades would definitely be cool!

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Once I figure out how to do this it will definitely become a future video😊

Interesting stuff. Leaves plenty of room for colour changes to make things colder.

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, absolutely! Definitely some other stuff that's completely different that could be achieved with the same technique, or small alterations.

I love the look just don’t care for it on a powersword. This really makes me want to get an FW Avatar of Kane.

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Now that would be a perfect recipient🤩The method is universal so it should work wherever😊

The effect is super cool! But I liked it more before doing the lines in the middle. The black dots make it even more lava-like.

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

I can definitely see the argument for not doing it, it's why I mentioned it in the video, would love to see some people experimenting!

so cool

That's inspirational. I'm going to try that myself, except I only have Contrast Paints and Dry Paints. So it's an additional challenge.

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

That definitely does sound like a challenge. Let us know how it goes😊

I held my breath too!

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

😅😅

Axes get nowhere near enough love, and give you a much bigger surface to get nervous over! =D

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

😅😅I think they'd be considerably easier for this type of thing. There really isn't much space for tiny swords to squeeze a transition in.

@pawlshepherd

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArtisOpus there's also less space on swords to make mistakes, which can actually be forgiving for us shaky-handed folks! 😅 I'm also now wondering how well this would work on Necron blades, as I've yet to finalise the scheme for my Indomicrons...

Amazing work as always! Don't have any weapon were to try this out (nor probably the skill^^), but more knowledge is always great to have. And yes, more weapon effects are always great! Plague maybe? (Don't know why, but haven't gotten any notification for 2 out of the last 5-6 videos :'( ) Never done a yt video, but maybe 24h notice could be the standard? edit: Love your videos, but have you thought anything about putting it in print? Not everything ofc, but like the video above. Videos are great, but having a painting guide/book is imho even better. Also, it's much easier to have a book beside you, then a computer when painting. Especially when you can go back to the video and see it live, so to say^^

This looks like something I may be able to do! I'll give it a try next weekend. Any suggestions for doing one with a bright green fire type effect, also?

Funnily enough basically the exact same technique can be used to paint magic swords. Just don't add black dots to it and change the colors,I tried it with blue myself and it actually looks way better than the usual way of painting power swords for example.

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, fantastic! To be fair, a lot of nice painting is about quality/interesting transitions so that kinda makes sense😊

Would love to see a frost blade 👍👍👍 Thought the lava blade was so realistic ... did you burn your fingers 🤣🤣🤣

@S3b5Tube

3 жыл бұрын

and a lightning blade too!

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

😅😅not yet, maybe I will get a frost bite from the next one😉

My god I love the Bold Pyrrole Red

@ArtisOpus

5 ай бұрын

🥰🥰🥰

I'm probably going to try a green-turquoise-blue gradient (rather than yellow-orange-red for real lava) on my Necron characters. I can't really imagine it on the blades because of how they are separated into different plates, but I'll try on their shoulder plates/pauldrons to see how it works out!

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

You can make anything look cool if you put enough thought into it, experimenting is one of the most important parts of the hobby😊

Very cool indeed.

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!🤩🔥

I love to see you breaking out the Monument Pro Acryl paints.

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! I am very impressed by their overall quality and usability🤩

@timothythorne9182

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArtisOpus I've almost switched entirely to using their paints. I only use my other brands to match things I've already painted now

Excellent video as always Byron. Really interesting effect and technique. I am not sure when I would use it but it would be great to try. Thanks for your continued support to the community and your ever helpful tutorials, I really have learned a lot from your video. Keep up the great work (and great hair cut BTW) and I am looking forward to the next one already!

Great video as always, glowing weapons are always fun. Wasn't there talk of a heat bloom video at some point?

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, dude! It has been requested a few times recently. I used to have it specific sequence of colours that I went through with Scale 75 Inks, but I've completely forgotten it😅😅

I want to see this in a rune sword like the ones wielded by Prosecutors and Errant Questor

Great as always! How is the lockdown army coming along? We are aching for it!

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Keep your eyes peeled on Sunday😉

My Salamanders thank you for this and your guide on braziers! It's made a huge difference. Any chance of you doing a free hand flame motif tutorial please? I thinking for Pauldron's and the small chest shield on certain newer Space Marines.

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

You're so welcome, dude! Possibly, videos like that are a little bit niche though and we always try to produce stuff that's relevant to the most people possible😊

@spice6828

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArtisOpus yep, that makes sense, but if you don't ask you don't get!

That's a great looking lava sword. I can't help but wonder why you wouldn't want the brighter yellows on the outside. Surely you'd want the cutting edge to be the hottest part. But then again I suppose the hottest part should be the source of the heat. I'm not sure I've seen an "inverse" lava sword. Either way I wanna figure out which model is worthy of such a blade haha. I'd love to see a sword glow reminiscent of a paladin or something like that. Golden heavenly light or something like that

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Hey dude, good point! I guess Stormcast would actually look really cool with heavenly light coming from the sword😊

@bevanwilson8820

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArtisOpus I feel like this needs to happen... For science... Just to be sure

A brilliantly executed effect, but, I'd have made it hot at the edge and cool in the middle. The edge is the bit you hurt people with after all. 😆

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting point, do tag us if you test this out, it could look legit!

@grimmriffer

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArtisOpus ha, if *I* did it, it would look like something that *rhymes* with "legit". 😆

Guauuuu very gooodddd

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Thanksssss😊

Great job. Love the effect, I may try it but with blues. You think that would work?

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, dude! You'll need a deep blue in the recesses (so, edges). Do some googling of ice, you'll be surprised what colour it actually is.😊

Would look good on a salamander shoulder pad

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

It absolutely would! You could even put texture paint down beforehand if you wanted it to look like cracked lava👌🔥

Hey, I know this an old vid but an eldar witchfire blade would be awesome

Did you ever do an OSL drybrush video? I'd love to see you guys go at that

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

We definitely will. We do have quite a few videos that touch on it already, just not exclusively😊

AK Burnt Red = best color in the line

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more! Although I can't pick between that and Wine Red which is very similar😊🔥

I have a question, how would you paint a burning blade where the fire was white? I’m asking because different colored fire determines how hot it is and I’m sure that white fire is the hottest and I wanna use that for one of my character’s power swords, so what would you recommend?

Definitely a frost blade or maybe a lightning blade as well with dark blues and purples

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

It's classic colours that will definitely work! 🤩

Is it possible to see what it would take to translate this to the upcoming dragons for Stormcast Eternals dragons? I would like to be able to do them in the theme of Deathwing from World of Warcraft.

is this a kittle bit of wet blending with dry brushing? especially at the start. thank you

Hi. Could you do your take on a Necron blade? I struggle with the green blend seen on so many fantastic models...

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

More time on power weapons in general is definitely something we should be doing! When we do I will make sure greet gets a look in as early as possible👌😊

Amazing video, I'd like to echo the comments below and ask for this in green or purple please!

Could listen to/watch Byron paint all day. So relaxing. Would love to see some frost blades - I've got some Lich King inspired chaos models.

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, dude! We'll absolutely make this a thing. A bit more research is needed, there will be a way to make the technique simple and effective😊

Can you do one with tesseract glow power sword?

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

I'd just use the strategy we used on our glowy green necron blade, it turned out beautifully!

This might be a dumb question, but do you do the exact same thing on the other side of the blade, like you would a power sword?

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

yeah exactly dude! Although if it's facing down you could definitely get away with less stages/speeding up :)

How would you do this if the blade had actual flames sculpted on it? Like the Fatemaster's glaive or CoS Wizard's sword?

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Check out our How to Paint Flames tutorial. Given that they're both painted realistically it should be easy to combine the techniques for a great finish😊🔥

Frost blade!!!

Lava Blade or dope Drybrushed power swords?! Decisions Decisions ;)

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Go with your gut😊

Put in an order for your brushes. I expect my dry brushing skills to be on par with yours or I'm going to be an angry customer! I kid! Heh. Cannot wait to get them and try them out. Enjoy the videos a lot. Keep on rocking!

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Haha! Thanks a ton for the support, buddy, hope they serve you well❤

Don’t forget to like and comment to appease the almighty algorithm 😁👍🏼

I kinda wanna try this with bright green or amber colors.

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting, I'd probably go green-yellow myself, maybe with a deep purple base like Warpstone 😊

@vagrant2863

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArtisOpus A part of me wants to go a full amber (i.e translucent), but I have no idea how to do that lol.

I'm curious how long the difference between being 'allowed' to get a haircut... and 'getting' a haircut, was? [I wanted to link a video from the Mary Whitehouse experience but couldn't find it on KZread... and I suspect it would only show my advanced age.] I'm all for sword/weapon effects tutorials, the forthcoming Belakor model seems like it warrants something awesome doing to it.

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

I was initially a bit lukewarm on the Belakor model but I think that's largely due to the basically one-colour paint job. After more consideration, I think he'd look really cool with a bit more colour.. I waited 1 day to chop the mushroom off😅😅

@thealleycatuk

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArtisOpus I agree, I think you could airbrush, drybrush, blend up some really awesome colours while keeping the whole 'shadow demon' schtick. And that sword is just begging for something clever to be done in painting it. I think the model itself is excellent though, Darren Latham's last couple of sculpts have been ridiculously good.

Ok, so I still have huge problem with overbrushing. If I use only paint on pallete, it will come out chalky and all, like normal dry brushing. But If i use a pad, take some moisture away, take some paint, move it out on pallete... i have like no coverage and it is like it was too diluted and all... what am I doing wrong? :(((

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Hey dude, it sounds like you're at the extremes with bot htechniques, try taking something like a piece of terrain, using a larger brush (balance is easier to get with them) and just experiment (in small increments!) You could even just stick on the texture palette for a bit :)

Mate you done a video on salamanders?????

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! Check out our library😊

So how about Cold Flames, Ice Swords or *ahem* laser swords?

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

They're all on the list🤩

Ironic you put this on a Grey Knight when, if I had to bet on it, most people using this are painting Khorne Daemons.

@ArtisOpus

Жыл бұрын

:) whoever has the most helpful swords... 👀👀

@benrichardson5662

Жыл бұрын

@@ArtisOpus and the fact you have Grey Knights already doesn't hurt either. 😆 I could see this as being perfect for Salamanders.

I wish i could paint waiting for my brushes from #artisopus #badservice #badcompany

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

Hey dude, have you contacted support? What's the issue you're having? We've sent out quite a lot of emails recently suggesting upgrades to help us resolve any issues as fast as possible

That looks great but how the hell do you avoid getting paint on the rest of the model from your hands. These clumsy mits would have paint all over the place 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@ArtisOpus

3 жыл бұрын

It's not too hot in the UK so sweating the paint off doesn't happen very easily. I do sometimes go and wash my hands between stages if I am worried about it though😊

Byron, buy a jewllers magnification headset. I swear by mine. This the one I got: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01M2442NR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 you can buy cheaper or more expensive but this one is great and has eased my eye strain whilst making painting easier. I've even noticed a reduction in hand shake too, I assume because of the magnification making the mini look bigger so painting requires less concentration? Not sure how it works but it has.