Flames Of War The next thing to do was the flaming design. I decided to this  would go on his tunic and cloak. Rather than look at real  flames for the design I looked at painted flame designs to give  me inspiration. I tried to give the design that flickering flame  look you see on 70’s hotrods! Basically the flames start light at the bottom gradually getting  darker the further up towards the top of the flame you go. As  the tunic was going to be black I decided I could paint the  flames straight onto the undercoat, however the cloak was to  be red, so I needed to paint the shade layer for the cloak, and  then do the design on top of that, before completing the red.  The shade coat for the red of the cloak is AP-WP1124 - Oak  Brown mixed with AP-WP1105 - Dragon Red.  Flames I painted the whole design correcting the it as I went along in  AP-WP1102 - Matt White. Painting the design in white has a  major advantage in that it give you a nice bright primer for the  less opaque colours that the flame design needs.  Some of  these colours can be a bit of a trial to paint directly onto a  black undercoat and benefit greatly for the white underneath. I then painted over most of the white with AP-WP1107 -  Daemonic Yellow, leaving a little white showing at the base of  the flames.  The next layer is AP-WP1106 - Lava Orange, again leaving  some of the previous layers showing. In fact painting the  

The cloak was to be red, so I painted the shade layer for the cloak, and then the design on top of that.

The whole design is painted in AP- WP1102 - Matt White.

I then painted over most of the white with AP-WP1107 - Daemonic Yellow.