Easy Build LAVA TILES Painted 2 Ways
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Inspired by an amazing demon model from Crippled God Foundry I set out to explore methods for creating lava tiles. I compare the results of using both cheap craft paints by hand and model paints with an airbrush. The results really surprised me and may surprise you as well.
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I think you should base the caulk red before gluing the cork down, then airbrush the same red on the edges, then follow up with a handpainted yellow for the greater variety in texture and paint coverage...
@ you understand the cork is placed into the caulking while it’s wet and that it’s used as an adhesive for the cork?
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial yeah i do get it, but also the caulk can be tinted with very saturated colors.
@ tinted, yes. I thought you meant paint it when you said base in red. Thing is you could add red and you’d just get light pink in the end mixing into that much white. White would have been fine to start with, it’s the black mod podge that made it hard....which ended up on it just cause I didn’t want to be careful keeping it off those areas 🤷🏻♂️
Jeremy, loving these "couple of ways you can do it, depending on the tools you have"type videos - some creators have defaulted to 'and I just whipped out this complex shape on my proxxon' forgetting that not everyone has (or wants) one. You, Eric's Hobby Workshop and Bard's Craft (how can you not like a slightly mad Finn whose primary crafting tool is a giant kitchen knife) are probably doing the best at balancing the 'hey new person, welcome to the hobby, here's how to get started' and 'so, let's see if this cool, potentially very complicated idea works' for more experienced hobbyists.
When my husband saw me watching your hand painted piece, he said "Fucking cool lava...thing.What is that? It's glowing, isn't it". Told him what it was. He said "Is that the guy from Winnipeg?". Yes, yes it is.
This is exactly what I did to make lava tiles, except I used drywall joint compound instead of caulking. My biggest tip: Mix up Mod Podge and >white paint< instead of black, and you'll have to use far fewer coats and your lava will be super vibrant!
Another protip: use neon paints for your lava. Specifically orange, and red if you can find it. Mix some orange with pink if you can't find red, and put a little orange in your yellow too because otherwise it's actually green. Bonus points if you set up a blacklight over your table to make it glow.
@@CubicApocalypse128 my Michael's is out of neon paints ... out of all their paints actually, little signs posted in their paints aisles saying they're out because the demand has skyrocketed recently XD
@@ChayComas check Joanns and Hobby Lobby, if you have any nearby. Better prices and better deals, like coupons galore.
The hand-painted side honestly has a nicer red-orange “crust” where the cooling lava meets the rocks, really adds contrast to the white-hot glow effect, which helps it pop a lot
Yeah, it seems the brush was able to crawl up the sides better than the airbrush which would get obscured by the outcroppings. To me this sells the under-glow better. But man, imagine hand-painting a whole tables-worth of these...
I legit can't tell the difference between the two, but I love how glowy they look on camera.
Agree completley agree.
ROFL I love the last piece where you show one where you tried lighting the tiles and just threw them away. I would love to see a blooper reel on your procedure for doing those and what made them not worth it. :) Excellent job as always!
That was super funny
Rockin, agree on the hand painted
Wow. I'm impressed you could make this wíthout screaming "You Shall Not Pass!" once. Great video anyway.
Me, planning an encounter for my group: "oh, an icy cave would be really cool. Frozen stalagmites/tites, random icy patches of difficult terrain, that would be perfect and i could make some really cool tiles for it!"
Jeremy: *posts this video*
Me: "You right, volcano would be so much cooler. Good lookin out, fam"
Thanks again for inspiring me even when I didn't know I was looking for inspiration lol
Post-outdoor-painting-season solidarity 🤝 The rains came on the 1st of Fall and have not let up since.
I like the way the hand-painted came out better. I'm thinking I could use the cork technique and give it a cold blue/white paint job for winter/ice tiles; Frostgrave & Icewind Dale.
@Billy Mark I was thinking using clear apoxy (maybe add a drop or 2 of blue ink) in the cracks to simulate ice.
Great video! The handpainted did come out better, and I think the biggest reason is the color, like you said. The haindpainted reads more like lava because of the gradient from red to yellow. The airbrushed one looks like molten Velveeta cheese because it is just too yellow. Also, the craft paint had a more matte finish, while I noticed you had some glossiness on the airbrushed pieces, which didn't look right. It only added to the cheese factor, making it look like it had an oily sheen. They both still look great, but I think the handpainted is the winner here. That said, I'm sure that when you do a larger board with the airbrush, you'll learn from this attempt and it will come out looking amazing. Thanks for sharing. I love these types of smaller, shorter builds where you are able to show that with even the cheapest materials you can create something amazing. Thanks for sharing!
They both look amazing. I agree with you that the red base coat on the hand brushed one looks 'hotter'. Very cool!
The red definitely makes a difference. I also think the coverage issue might help it blend better with the brush, the dark from the base comes through at the edges, I think it makes it look more like it's cooling as it reaches the edge. Looking forward to seeing the big version :)
These turned out great, and would be perfect for the Crifoth / Dark Sun ish game I will be running. I think I agree, the hand painted have a bit brighter effect that I really like but the difference doesn't appear to be too big. Thanks for doing these!
I love all your videos, but this is my favorite in a long time! Has the feel of an older video, but with all the awesome tech of the new videos (also, the paint job on the mini looks sick. You've gotten so good).
Acrylic caulking as a terrain making supply is such a great idea.
Also i bet you could combine the speed of airbrushing and the better look of the hand painted tiles for a best of both worlds result.
Longer to do than pure airbrush work but still faster than fully hand painted.
Love your vids, can't wait for next week!
Tip for lava, and fire effects.
Reverse the order of color application.
Start with the lighter colors (yellow) and dry brush progressively towards the darker colors (red)
Going from dark to light is a common habit to show the subject reflecting light, but in the case of lave/fire, the subject is the source of the light, not the target of it.
Thanks for the Tile Alignment Theory/Philosophy. I totally agree.
I think the hand painted one is the best. Lava was my very first terrain project, I didn't do it that great but I learned from it and did an awesome one later on
"Outside painting season is over, like, today," he says as I watch the wind-swept snow fly across my windows. The struggle is real. :-)
Well you managed to trick me, I was convinced that you used a combination of a soldering iron and exacto to carve the crevices in the foam but using the cork is brilliant...bravo!
I think the hand painted one is the best, the better look is a trade off for the extra time
I usually finish by going over the lava with neon and then colored glow-in-the-dark paint. That way I can get a really cool effect by shining a blacklight on it.
The hand painted one looks way better even from a distance. Totally gonna try this out
I love them... they both look great!
I’d go hand painted personally or make tiles to make you large table...
I know this is old, but I honestly couldn’t tell a difference. They both look amazing. Also the big demon guys paint job is sweet!
I AGREE with you totally , the red just added something more that the airbrushed one was lacking. Hopefully when you do the whole set with a purer red in your airbrush it will give you the effect the hand painted one did! The cork looks great! My first set of tiles was made with cork and we never used them :( so now I now something I can do with all that cork!
Awesome paint job on that miniature!
I prefer the hand painted one but only slightly. The red shows through more and just look more like lava. Might want to do another tile via air-brush with a redder red as it did look very orange when you first applied it. Might get a better idea of which method is better that way.
looking at them side by side. the right, my right. looks like its glowing more then the left side. Left side is crisp and I love it. but if I'm wanting GLOW. hand painted is what I'll go with. Gonna test this soon! Working on a new table and I'm excited! This is the best channel to learn from.
Cool craft once again! (Excuse my french, English is not my mother tongue). I like to watch your videos for your aproach; always trying and/or testing and explaining us the process so we can adapt it with our style, level of crafting or materials at disposal. You really are one of my principal inspiration source since I started crafting terrains 2 years ago. Because of you, I have a shelf almost full of buildings, terrains and miniatures! (And my D&D players loves it!)
I'm so glad you take the time to make quality contents EVERY weeks! You just make every imaginary worlds better!
Love from Geneva, Switzerland.
I love the compare and contrast angle you took in this video, showing the results of the cheap and accessible method as well as the expensive one. What a great video!
Oh, wow. I agree, the hand painted one does look hotter! The wash layer on the also looks a lot dirtier for some reason, which adds a lot of appeal. Also love the paint job on the demon, that subtle lighting on the rocks is a nice touch.
One thing that surprised me was how different the pieces look in the spray booth shot, the look way lighter - I'm assuming this is a trick of the light, but if so maybe some advice on lighting the pieces in play would be very interesting.
When airbrushing terrain, I mix a "magic wash" with the craft paints. Works well for being indoors as long as you have a drop cloth or something to catch over-spray.
Ok...this one inspired me. I make resin cubes and support this channel to learn diorama terrain techniques. I've never done a lava scene cube... I think I'm going to need to give it a try.
God I love those wide shots of your terrain shelves so full of stuff it makes me envious of how dope your combat maps must look
OK this has inspired me to make a Warcry lava pair of tiles for a board! I may use some hink wood like mdf or chipboard instead of foam though
So I am building these tiles and have learned some things the hard way. I have purchased the same size pink foam and didn't realize that the thickness can vary so much. So the interfaces end up being at different heights. Matched them up before hand, but once I started doing different match ups the height differential showed up. Also by not having so many matching volcanic rock zones at the ends allows for more placing of tiles that look better together. Lava flow with different flow hides mismatches. Put your larger volcanic rock in the middle of the tile. This is better for in game play and looks better. Also I know you only have two tiles, but for game play having areas that have different sizes of lava flow, has your players make decisions regarding paths to the villain or battle zones. Experimented and hand painted are just better for me because of blending of colors.
You couldn't have posted this at a more convenient time I've been looking for this lmao. Thank you!
I agree with you about the hand painted tile looking much better.
Jeromy, I agree with you that the hand painted ones look better, but only because the red. If you had a similar color for the airbrush, it would have been the same, and frankly, anything that saves time and is easier, is better. Having the paint dry quickly is a definite plus. I like your work anyway.
Another winner! Thank you for taking the time to create, on-camera, these lava tiles for us to see and become inspired by.
Thanks for including the the brush method too! I think I will have to mimic this, just with a toxic green slime instead of lava. thanks for the video!
I like it! I made lava with an idea I picked up from another one of your videos. The one where you melted a bit of the foam for a water pool. Worked super cool as pits of lava!
These look great! I would maybe add a darker red to the mix and make the finish of the rock darker and focus the brightest colors more towards the middle of the flows. The added contrast will make the glowing appearance more intense
Excellent job on painting that mini - looks awesome! I agree, the red color is what makes the hand-brushed tiles more impactful.
My party is in the process of sieging a hell fortress. I've been messing with lava textures so this was perfect! Keep up the awesome work man.
The difference is subtle, but I agree with you that the hand painted tile looks better. I'd definitely try a truer, richer red if you continue with the airbrush.
I really like the hand painted one personally. Excellent job overall! Can't wait to give this a try (if only I had more room to store this stuff!!!)
Agree with the red enhancing the feel of heat. Kind of increases the depth of color.
Also the hand painted may have the advantage of being edge highlighted in that variety of colors. Could be it gives a sharper feel to the edge.
Like the ideas you're bringing up with uses for the caulking. Haven't had much exposure to some of the building materials like this elsewhere.
Those airbrushed tiles look amazing!
Of course, so do the handpainted. I'm just considering getting a new airbrush so I'm focused on that.
I prefer the tile on the left! These look so good!
This is such a great video. I think the hand painted one is just sliiightly better.
The hand-painted came off looking better. Some of that is definitely your initial color choices. Consider using a blue-tinted wash instead of brown. Fresh lava has a bluish metallic or crystalline sheen to it (I'll come back to this later). To make your life easier, once the black paint is laid down, reprime just the lava area with white. Then lay down a yellow or yellow-orange as your first color. Then build your oranges and reds on top of that. Craft paints in the yellow, orange, and red ranges tend towards the transparent, which is one of the reasons so many coats were required to get your effects. Use a smaller brush as needed to get into tight areas. Finally, coming back to the hardened lava... mix a little blue and silver or steel-colored metallic paint into some black paint. Then lightly dry brush this on the floes of hardened lava. Emphasis on very dry brush and light touch. The contrast of the blue-ish tint in the black against the oranges of the flowing lava and the hint of metallic sheen should make those tiles pop.
Look great, hand brushed looks nicer imo. I paint a fair bit of lava and have two other tips you could try if you're interested, 1) apply gloss varnish on the lava when finished. 2) start from a white base > yellow > orange > red > brown / black for cool spots.
Always an inspiration watching these videos. Bad part is my list of terrains to build is growing faster then I can create them!
I think I like the hand painted better. The airbrushed one looks glossier (can't tell if that's a camera angle/lighting effect or not) and I like the more matte look better. Also, totally agree about the base red, it makes a big difference.
Love these! I liked the hand painted one better but I do think it is because of the first deeper red colour. Just wanted to say I just finished my set of dungeon stackers and they look awesome! You are the reason I started crafting terrain! Thank you for your great videos.
Love the tiles and balor.
They both look great, to be honest. It might be fun to create a couple of 'hazard' tiles: perhaps one where a section of ground is tipped up slightly, with a larger gap between it and the next, meaning the players have to leap across; another, where the magma is 'livelier', let us say, and splatters molten globs on the ground; better still, a magma geyser, that needs careful navigation to bypass. I watched 'Star Wars: Episode III, The Revenge Of The Sith', and the final duel on Mustafar, which is basically a totally molten young planet, looks incredible.
Epic terrain build! Thanks for all your help... you have inspired me and i will be implementing your methods for a large lava board for my PC's descent into avernus campaign!
I’m working on a modular lava board currently. Haven’t used the cork board before, but that looks so good and natural that I think I have to check it out. I was definitely going to go with the airbrushing option, I’ll learn from yours and start with a darker red. A fine highlight over the lava with a lemon yellow may have made the airbrush version feel hotter, but the colours look amazing.
Definitely hand painted. Looks so much better!
I really like the look of the hand painted one. I agree that the deeper red definitely makes a difference but what really catches my eyes are the dark spots on the 'walls' of the cork bits. They give more dimension to the piece as opposed to the airbrushed ones that a re more saturated with orange.
I picked up _Reign in Hell_ a couple of months ago, and I've been trying to figure out how to build a basic hellscape board. This is it. Looking forward to building my board with these techniques.
Put the craft paint through the airbrush.
It sounds silly, but it works fine in my experience. I did it for inking in white letters on black acrylic tiles that still had a masking layer on them and it went through the brush fine once thinned. I started by adding about 20% by volume of water to the craft paint. Then about 15% flow improver and 10% airbrush thinner and mixed it well. I used an old GW paint pot, one of the larger ones.
Something else you can try... add some deep purple shades and even some cool blue/grey shading around. It really makes the yellow pop a TON.
If you look at lava flow images, you will be surprised how much blue and purple there is!
Don't get me wrong, yours look AWESOME. But I bet you a dollar that if you did a dry brush of purple/blue/grey (some combo of those) it will blow your mind!!
Good video. Great idea to use the texture of a cork sheet to simulate cold lava. I like the final effect with the colors you have used. 🌋👍😉
i liked the hand painted one because it had a much nicer feel to it do to the color of red you used but the air brush one was just as nice just a little more vibrant in brightness i think they both would look good on a lava terrain board
Love this video man! Im in the middle of a lava board and its great to see how you've done yours, looks ace. 😀
The hand painted Is next level it looked like it was glowing like real lava
These are so cool. You should some with vents of steam or fire lava ,or a huge volcano.
I'm sure that you can use the airbrush but learning from what did and did not work on the hand painted one.
I recommend that you just make tiles so they will fit in your spray booth and will be more modular for later use. You can make a mix of 12 inch and 6 inch squares. Some can have hills or slots/spots for scatter terrain or different details like piles of skulls or something. You could even make one big 18 inch tile with a centerpiece like a throne, gate, portal, fortification, or lava "waterfall" something like that.
painted tiles, awesome stuff, and you painted the hell outta that mini! wowza outstanding
I did a huge lava piece back over the summer and yours looks really cool! I also sprinkled a few little bits of sand and gravel into the lava to have smaller rock chunks floating around, and have them a light dry brush with black to bring them out a little
Yup red seemed to help with contrast/highlighting
this is super cool, I actually decided to try out making your underdark cave scatter terrain from your last video and it turned out awesome!
That mini is sick!
Nice job! My only critique would be, for me, they don't glow enough. I would recommend using caulk that can mix with paint before you lay it down. I would also recommend that paint be a titanium white for extra punch later on. After that I would lay down some contrast paints in the crevices, in particular Iyanden Yellow for the bright center, Gryph-Hound Orange for near the edges and then a final edge highlight of Blood Angels Red for the highpoints. I know the pint of this was also to show it could be done cheaply, and with a trip to Hobby Lobby or Michales one can purchase matte or even gloss medium (the gloss would probably work better here) and some flow improver or airbrush cleaner and make a ton of your own contrast paint for much cheaper than the Citadel versions. Maybe then go a little further and add an OSL-ish effect by glazing colors back from the edge (again, this can be done cheaply with simple acrylic paints thinned down with tap water). I know this is a little excessive for table top tiles, and is not really effective for tiles larger than, say, 6x6. But the effect can be staggering after some practice. Cheer mate, keep them coming!
I would suggest trying a hybrid method, maybe lay down the red by hand, airbrush, then do in for final detailing? Underlighted miniatures would look great on these
I love it. Your making want to get back into crafting again. Your killing me Smalls!
As a makeup airbrusher for this technique I would mix the two. Do the base and maybe the second layer with the air brush, especially over spray to add to realism. For the rest I would hand paint.
Really like the effect, I prefer the craft paint variant, perhaps for larger tiles have large open pools of lava perhaps on a 12 by 12
I hope you do get time to revisit this one with a big battle board. A tip to speeding up the drying time on any paints is to hit it with a hairdryer.
Lol, as if I don’t know that. I was using a heat gun between coats....still slow and annoying
I liked the hand painted one the color and the tones were more random like nature. 👍🇺🇸👍
thanks so much for this! I am looking to make a blitz bowl arena that is a normal grassy football field breaking apart by lava underneath! For sure will be using this method!
Both look amazing!
Your basic craft paint job was inspiring.
Based on how fast cheap acrylic paint dries, you may not have to wait for drying between coats on a huge piece.
In my past campaignes this colud be amazing
Love your stuff and I am super excited to watch this lava board build you mentioned
"The floor is lava"
"You all need nat' 20s to survive."
Levitation spell-- unless you're playing 40K. Then you're screwed... lol!
Yes! YES! *aggressive standing ovation*
You just defined my childhood. I can still hear "you'd better not be jumping on the furniture again!"
That’s so great! I’m doing a lava inclusive build this week and used a combo of airbrush and standard brush. Wish you had released this a week earlier! Great video, man! Keep it up.
They both look pretty good, I would go with the air spray one only because its faster though.
I think the hand painted one looks better most likely because as you mentioned, your lava started with a real red rather than orange. I also think that with a brush you're able to pay more attention to finer details. However, if I had an airbrush and wanted to do a lot of these, I'd set up something in the garage or shed. The difference is so minimal that it doesn't matter
They both look amazing, but I prefer the airbrushed one since it lets the texture of the caulk show through better.
Dude! These are killer!! I'm totally going to have to try this soon.
Big time saver next time may be running white into the cracks first. Even if it's not fully opaque, lightening up where the lava flow will be will help every layer above it, so two coats of white will save you a coat of the three or four colours above.
This video makes me so happy. I'm currently working on a lava board for my version of DungeonCraft's Ultimate Dungeon Terrain. I started painting mine, but it was such a hassle so it's kinda in my "in progress" side pile. For the raised sections, instead of cork I just used peeled dollar store foamcore cut up into pieces. Thank you for this motivation to get it finished!
Another thing you might try is acryllic inks rather than paints with the airbrush. I've tended to like them more for heat effects and fire, and they're far cheaper than the hobby paints while they tend to, pretty much, start out airbrush ready without as much need for thinning.
Another thing that I've seen which tends to work great for lava is to add a highlight of a more neon yellow to the hottest points.
Yea, I airbrush inks often and find it very effective. It would have worked well here. It just seemed like a better comparison to do paints for both for some reason.
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial Might also help with the lava to start with a white for the lava itself, it's the entire reverse highlighting thing like with fire.
These are great! The hand painted ones are my favorite but that could be because I dont have an airbrush. LOL I am going to grab some cork and give these a try. Thanks for the video.