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I have been scouring the interweb for any pics of power fists painted like glowing power weapons with lightning and things, rather than just a large gauntlet. The only thing I found was some tutorial featuring a yellow fist with vaguely glowey blue fingers, which I thought looked rubbish.

I have recently started doing a lot of wet blending with lightning over the top for power swords and axes and thought I might try the same on a power-fist, but would love to see any pictures anyone has of something similar, so I can shamelessly copy it.

Hey,

I safely assume you're referring to this tutorial:
http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2011/01/painting-glowing-powerfist.html

Similar taste would be:
http://40khobbyblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/updated-glowing-power-fist.html
-not a tutorial, but good a good basis.

http://www.miniwargaming.com/content/paint-till-its-awsome
-again, no tutorial, but another wonderful example.

My only other suggestion, other than these examples would be either to:
A: Just paint it normal with no glow
or
B: Do something a tad more extreme with the glow:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Zenithal_Airbrushing,_OSL_and_Snow_and_Ice_Tutorial,_subject_-_Grey_Knight
You're paying most attention to Step 11 and above.

You can always make it like the lighting effect over the whole gauntlet. Look at the cover for the BL book Flight of the Eisenstein. Have a good example of what I think you are looking for.

 fenrir1997 wrote:
Hey,

I safely assume you're referring to this tutorial:
http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2011/01/painting-glowing-powerfist.html

Similar taste would be:
http://40khobbyblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/updated-glowing-power-fist.html
-not a tutorial, but good a good basis.

http://www.miniwargaming.com/content/paint-till-its-awsome
-again, no tutorial, but another wonderful example.

My only other suggestion, other than these examples would be either to:
A: Just paint it normal with no glow
or
B: Do something a tad more extreme with the glow:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Zenithal_Airbrushing,_OSL_and_Snow_and_Ice_Tutorial,_subject_-_Grey_Knight
You're paying most attention to Step 11 and above.

Those smurf termies look good, but mainly because the armour is blue to start of with. That last one is basically what I do with all my power weapons just with more lightning and far more ham fisted osl if I bother at all. I am struggeling to visualise how to do that on a fist with a pointing finger without making it look like a very angry version of ET with his glowing blue probe finger. I suppose it will have to be trial and error. Might give up on the glow and just do lightning like someone else suggested.

In your trial and error, modify the colors to match your own. Iron Fists could look really good with a super yellow into orange (or red even) OSL powerfist.

Ya know?

 fenrir1997 wrote:
In your trial and error, modify the colors to match your own. Iron Fists could look really good with a super yellow into orange (or red even) OSL powerfist.

Ya know?

Umm yeah.... The first bit made sense and then you lost me. Iron Fists? Anyway, i shall go for blue , but since the armour on my dudes is black I'll be blending up from black to regal blue all the way up to ice blue, avoiding white to leave that as a highlight for the lightning. I'll post some pics if it looks half decent.

Lol, was a reference lost. No big deal because you got the idea anyway.

Sounds like it'll work well, looking forward to the pictures

Hello,

Finally got around to painting that power fist. The main thing I learned was that wet blending on a powerfist is unnecessary. There are plenty of edges (from one phallanx to the next for example) that will make the transitions look decent enough by "hiding" it. This is not like a sword where wet blending becomes more important due to the lack of edges on the flat surface of the blade, so that transitions from one colour to the next become more obvious.

Wet blending on that gauntlet was also a real nightmare, at least with acryllics, because the fingers form little channels for the wet paint to run along and mess up transitions in other parts of the gauntlet that you just manages to get right. I might try again with oil paints at some point, but to be honest like I said the wet blend is probably more hassle than it's worth here, since I don't think it added much. It also really clogged some of the detail, which doesn't happen on a flat sword-blade.

Appologies for the photos, since this is the first time I have tried to do proper pics witha camera, as opposed to just texting some to my friends with my phone. The paintjob seems to look much worse on the pics than in real life, probably because it is more close up. I know, I know: Excuses, excuses.

Anyway, let me know what you think.

Also,

There no attempt at OSL, since the arms are magnetized, as evidenced by this pic.

I call it: Disco-Fist

Looks good, that's the way I would paint it. OSL would be hard to do for a magnetized arm that moves.

It does look good. Rockin'

 DarkKnights44 wrote:
Looks good, that's the way I would paint it. OSL would be hard to do for a magnetized arm that moves.

Indeed. This is particularly true since the whole point of magnetizing is having different weapon options. OSL for the fist would look really bad if you swapped the fist for a power- or even a chain-sword or had a plasma pistol on the other arm.

"Umm...Brother-Sergeant? Why does half of your face look a bit blue?"

"Shut up, brother! Continue the purge! Those mutant children won't cleanse themselves!"

Looks cool. I like it.

I think OSL is one of those things that's slightly over rated. It's hard to do and I respect that, but NMM and OSL are things I've never been a fan of for all but dioramas and occasionally display models. NMM because it only works when the model, light source and eyes are unmoving, so I only think it looks good in pictures but not in the flesh. And OSL because good looking OSL is very dependent on background colour and lighting, something that you can't really control except in a diorama. On the table top or in isolation with the wrong coloured background, OSL often just detracts more than it adds.