Liquid Hot Magma.... Lava Mat - Now with Magma flows!

Couldn't resist the blog title.  As any of my friends know, I was obsessed with the Austin Powers movies from the 90's.  Liquid Hot Magma... ok, I will stop, I promise.

So I took the pics from the earlier post a bit early.  Technically I was only half done with the mat when I posted those shots.  Sue me, I was excited to post about a new shiny thing.  I added a black wash to the mat, and it added that much needed flow to the mat.  putting in the curvy hill/obsidian hills puts some movement on the otherwise static color.  The best thing though is it really makes the yellows and oranges pop way out of the red.  I did a LOT of painting today, and while I had these hills reserved for an arctic set I am building, they looked WAY better cracked and black.  So I decided to flesh these out for the lava mat instead.  Gotta say, these look REALLY good.

Don't Burn Your Toes - Lava Mat

Figured since I was doing a Jungle mat... and had all the materials to do a 2nd one, might as well get it done in the same time frame right?

I had the idea to do a Lava mat for quite some time now, seeing a few other examples, they mostly looked really well done, but one really stuck out in particular.  Seeing a mat done up completely in the lava colors and then some flat slate grey elevated points, I wanted to duplicate that kind of look.  So I made a mat with the reds/oranges/yellows on the mats, and future plans will include some slate gray plains areas.  The idea of course is to have the lava only really show between the flat areas.  I did the mat up, and wanted to test it so here are some pics in progress.  I used the existing hills I have, but imagine less elevation and several, nearly interlocking pieces with a few bridges/connecting points to allow for safe movement between magma flows.