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After watching no tutorials, and literally just deciding I was going to quickly try it, this is my first attempt at osl, would appreciate any thoughts on it! I have quite shaky hands, and cannot paint for my life, so don't expect anything too amazing

Anyway, without further adieu, my poor attempt at OSL!

EDIT: The photos are a bit brighter than in real life, so that blue is slightly more subtle than it shows.

It is difficult to see the OSL against the blue casing on the gun. If the casing isn't blue, then I would say your glow is too large.

Watch/read some tutorials perhaps? The mini looks fine for tabletop quality and playing with, but frankly the blue gun and lighting from it look like well... a blue gun and a blue stripe across his leg.

OSL technique really requires a deeply and subtly shaded model, with appropriate areas all across one side of the model picking up different levels of the light being cast from the source.

I will admit, it does look significantly different in real life, and those were the best of a score of photos, I will take some more tommorrow in daylight without the flash. Yeah, the coil is a much brighter blue but you can't really see it. Can't believe no-one has commented on the dog though.

It's really really bright!

I think the blue could be a little brighter (using a lighter blue with a final highlight of white for that hot plasma effect)

Also could do with a little more blending, the OSL on the leg just looks like blue armour plates at the moment.

The dog has very well done highlighting.

Ive been attempting OSL too

the trick ive been using with the most success is to REALLY water the blue down, then use many coats, starting far away and going towards the light, the paint will be semi transparent so eventually you layer up to the lighting effect

with how it is, you need to drybrush some white overtop, but it is still too bright.

The blue is very different from how it looks on the camera, it is much darker in camparison to the coil. This was quite a last minute thing, and kind of an experiment. I agree that I need to water it down more, what colour would you recomend?

UPDATE Black wash to darken it slightly, then I tried to work on the edges:

I think the wash helped but try going the other way with it.
Thin the blue out to where you're basically not putting any on at all, and have several stepped layers instead of just the one that the wash made.
Also, maybe very lightly drybrush some blue on the area around the leg? If the gun is putting out that kind of light with that kind of non scattering of the photons, it looks like he's in for some massive tumors.


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Light does bend, too, so maybe some around the backs of the leg?
Also, you should still be able to see some of the armor through the light. I like it, but it looks like you're trying to draw way too much attention to it. The rest of the model is very well painted, so try not to distract too much from that.
Viewers should say "Wow, nice model, i really like the light effect" instead of "Wow that light is very bright, but the model looks great".
Make the lighting an extra accent instead of the main dish is what I'm trying to get across

I did try to blend it as much as possible, but shaky hands don't help >.< The camera really makes it show up, well, I will make the wash again!

Make it thinner! it should take about 4 coats to look like the outside edges do now.

The blue glow on the lgs is just too stark a contrast. It's deep blue then just *BAM*...gray. It needs to fade more and it needs to cover a greater area. Try holding a soak light of some sort (meaning, not a directed light, but one that shines all directions) and hold it by your leg, like the model. Take stock of what parts of you are illuminated by the light and paint those on the model. You best source material is real life.



Ghidorah

I think it looks pretty bad, but then you admit you did it quickly without bothering to read any tutorials or do any other kind of prep work... I guess you get out what you put in.

Really to do it properly the plasma gun would act as an extra light source that spreads faint blue light through the entire scene, not just a blue blob on his leg. it should look more like this...



If you are really looking for a quick an easy way to do OSL without having to get all Golden Daemon, I would suggest you use a dry brushing technique. Get some blue paint on largish flat brush and then wipe round on some news paper until the blue paint has pretty much stopped coming off. Next pretend drawing rays of light with your brush, start at the plasma gun and move your brush across the model in long straight strokes away from the gun (always away from the gun). If lots of blue paint transfers during the first stoke then your brush probably isn't dry enough, you really want to build this effect up slowly. You should try and get every surface this way that could possibly be hit including the horns and shoulder pad... possibly even some surfaces that you don't think can be hit, if you do it right the brush will hit all the right spots for you, no thinking or steady hand required.

Afterwards you might also want to brush some lighter blue or white onto areas nearer the gun to make it look a bit more spectacular.