Lords of Hellas: Cerberus painting tutorial

As always we start by priming the model. In this case I used Color Primer Gun Metal, because it’s supposed to be a metallic beast. When spraying make sure you hit the model from different angles at about 20cm distance. The coverage is important because the primer serves as a surface the paint sticks to, without it there’s always a risk paint won’t stick to the model.

Once that was done I decided to start working on the fire between its chest and eyes. The reason I did this first is because the crack in the chest is tough to reach and I wanted to get this out of the way so I didn’t have to do much corrections later on when the model was in a further stage of being painted. To get a fire-like effect I combined 3 colors of orange and yellow starting with the darkest: Lava Orange. I covered all the cracks and the whole cilinders for the eyes. Now the idea of a fire effect is that it’s orange on the outside of the flames and light yellow or even white closest to the center where the fire is at its hottest. So when applying the next layer of orange: Fire Lizard, make sure you cover most of the area but leave the outer edges for the Lava Orange to come through. Lastly we carefully paint towards the center with Babe Blonde.

Then it was time to put a shade on the model. Since the model was still very shiny I wanted different levels of shade, in example I wanted the metal in the cracks to be very dark, almost oily. So I made sure to cover these with multiple layers of Dark Tone wash from The Army Painter. Watch out to not apply wash over the fire effects as it will dull the color.

 

After applying the shade I lost some brightness in places where I wanted it to be bright and shiny, for example the shoulder plating and head. I made sure to cover these with a layer of Gun Metal and later on highlight it with Shining Silver.