What's on my painting table - Kharadron Overlords Gunhauler

I’ve taken a break from painting up my Death Guard to focus on some of my Kharadron Overlord miniatures.  This is my first Sigma army and at this stage it is still a very small force, but an upcoming Age of Sigma tournament has speared me on to try and complete it so it is approximately 2,000 points in size (and thus allowing me to enter the tournament).  It also gives me the opportunity to start to paint up some of what I’ve already got.  

I thought I’d start with my Gunhauler (as I had already painted its base).  I’ve gone for the Barak-Thryng Skyport as my armys theme as I really like their paint scheme.  Here are the end results.  

Next to finish painting are my Grundstock Thunderers and Aether-Khemist, however I’ve just bought a unit of Deathshroud Terminators, so I may be swayed to go back to painting some more of my Death Guard :P

Lava bases - a step-by-step guide.

As requested here’s my step-by-step guide to creating a lava base for yoour minatures.   

First add some rock texture to your base.  I made mine using cork, which once dried I coated with sand.  Make sure you add a layer of watered downed PVA wood glue to the sand once it has dried to help secure it to the cork.  I then painted the rocks using a basecoat of Abaddon Black and two dry brushed layers of Mechanicus Standard Grey and Dawnstone.

Next paint the base Khorne Red

 

Whilst the Khorne Red is still wet apply a coat of Evil Sunz Scarlet to the base.  Making sure that you leave some Khorne Red showing next to the rocks. 

Next add a layer of Troll Slayer Orange and once dried a layer of Yriel Yellow.  With each layer you want to be building up the brightness of the colours.  This represents the lava being cooler near the rocks and hotter towards the centre. 

To add a nice hot glow to my Lava I then applied some Dorn Yellow to help highlight the hot areas.  This is a Citadel edge paint so you’ll ned to order it direct from GW (As they don’t stock it as part of their regular paint range). 

Finally apply some White Scar to add some final highlighting to the hot areas.  Once dry you’ll have your lava base.  You could add a layer of ‘Ardcoat to give it a more glossy appearance ot you can leave it as is.