Easy Build LAVA TILES Painted 2 Ways 

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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.

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!

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.

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

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!

I legit can't tell the difference between the two, but I love how glowy they look on camera.

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.

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!

Wow. I'm impressed you could make this wíthout screaming "You Shall Not Pass!" once. Great video anyway.

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!

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 :)

They both look amazing. I agree with you that the red base coat on the hand brushed one looks 'hotter'. Very cool!

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

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).

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!

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!

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!

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!

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

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.

Rockin, agree on the hand painted

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.

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!

"Outside painting season is over, like, today," he says as I watch the wind-swept snow fly across my windows. The struggle is real. :-)

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!

Another winner! Thank you for taking the time to create, on-camera, these lava tiles for us to see and become inspired by.

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.

You couldn't have posted this at a more convenient time I've been looking for this lmao. Thank you!

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.

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!

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.

Post-outdoor-painting-season solidarity 🤝 The rains came on the 1st of Fall and have not let up since.

I love them... they both look great! I’d go hand painted personally or make tiles to make you large table...

Excellent job on painting that mini - looks awesome! I agree, the red color is what makes the hand-brushed tiles more impactful.

I agree with you about the hand painted tile looking much better.

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.

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

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.

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

painted tiles, awesome stuff, and you painted the hell outta that mini! wowza outstanding

Thanks for the Tile Alignment Theory/Philosophy. I totally agree.

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.

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!!!)

Love your stuff and I am super excited to watch this lava board build you mentioned

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!

Definitely hand painted. Looks so much better!

The hand painted one looks way better even from a distance. Totally gonna try this out

Love the tiles and balor.

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.

Great looking effect.

Love both

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!

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!

These are awesome! I always get super inspired every time I watch your videos!

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

This is such a great video. I think the hand painted one is just sliiightly better.

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.

These look killer Jeremy! Awesome!

In my past campaignes this colud be amazing

Dude! These are killer!! I'm totally going to have to try this soon.

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.

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.

I prefer the tile on the left! These look so good!

I have done various versions of lava bases for my warhammer army including probably my favourite base which I have done for my Alarielle the everqueen model... You have definitely given me some point to make my lava bases even better and I really can't wait to get my art room finished so I can get Back into my painting.

That mini is sick!

Love this video man! Im in the middle of a lava board and its great to see how you've done yours, looks ace. 😀

Super awesome.

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.

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.

Awesome video man! I absolutely have to try this for some skirmish size games now!

Looks amazing and inspiring me to hit up some hot floor tiles. Great work.

Always an inspiration watching these videos. Bad part is my list of terrains to build is growing faster then I can create them!

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.

That was a great paint job on the mini. Thank you for this one. I need it for some polymer clay stuff I am doing, but my husband will build the terrain.

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.

I love it. Your making want to get back into crafting again. Your killing me Smalls!

Amazing video as always. Thanks for being great. I love both methods, but I personally like the hand painted one more. The difference isn't that big, but at the same time it is. Idk why. The reder red defiantly helps but the brush makes harsher transition between the colors, so it makes it pop more i guess. Keep on making amazing things.

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. 🌋👍😉

Those airbrushed tiles look amazing!

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

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.

Those tiles are rad, and that kickstarter for the Shattered Hell looks amazing as well! Great symbiosis here!

Been working on this as well. Thanks for inspiration as always!

I like the painted terrain

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!!

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.

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.

I liked the hand painted one the color and the tones were more random like nature. 👍🇺🇸👍

Thank you for sharing this, I wanted to go the same way for my army to build and needed a lava theme terrain. And voila this comes around. Also i'll be looking into the Champions of Darkness minis from that site. Very evil indeed. Thanks again, cheers.

Awesome! Both tiles look gorgeous, but the difference regarding the base coat really shows. I'd like to see how the airbrushed version would look like with a more red first layer.

Whooo! Thank you. I asked about doing this 3 months ago.

Both styles look great. I don’t know that I would pick one over the other because of how they look. I would pick the airbrushed one because of efficiency. Great video, as always!

Using caulking adhesive as an actual adhesive, who knew!? Love it!!!

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!

Great job, I think that both are amazing keep the amazing work!😃

Dude thanks! They look awesome. Subbed!

Both turned out great. I do agree that the more red base looks better. Better to build up from. I'd probably go the airbrush route though because I'm impatient :D

Been looking for a great-looking, yet practical way to do this effect on a diorama I'm building... And, like you, I've watched just about every video I could find on the subject... 🙁 By far, your technique looks to be the most promising. Thanks for making YOUR video! 🖒😎