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Hello,

I recently found a way of doing power weapon effects through wet blending and lightning patterns that really works for me.
After doing these effects on power-fists, thunder-hammers, power swords and axes, I am now planning to have a blue glowing crozius on a chaplain with lightning all over it, something which people don't seem to normally do. This got me thinking:

Storm Shields. They have some sort of force field, don't they? Should they be glowing blue with lightning on them? Where would the brightest (lightest blue) part be? In the middle? The edge? At the top? In random parts in a sort of crazy nmm style grid pattern? (Don't know if that last one makes sense to people. It does to me.) Does anyone have any thoughts or pics of something similar?

Nob choppas. I have some aobr nobs to paint. They have choppas. Some of them have electric looking boxes attached to the blades. Even though they don't count as power weapons should the electronics attached to them not mean they should be glowing blue and crackling with energy? Maybe not. I don't know, I just like painting glowing things at the moment.

_Lightbringer_ wrote:

Nob choppas. I have some aobr nobs to paint. They have choppas. Some of them have electric looking boxes attached to the blades. Even though they don't count as power weapons should the electronics attached to them not mean they should be glowing blue and crackling with energy?

Welcome to GW sculpting...random crap put on stuff for no practical reason. I have a Necromunda Delaque ganger who is armed with a lasgun...and has a full strap of bullets wrapped around him. He clearly has no use for the bullets, but hes got them. Why did GW sculpt the mini like that? Who the hell knows.

It's what makes the blade go round and round probably.

 baseballclu wrote:
It's what makes the blade go round and round probably.

Lol. I never thought of that. So the axe blade spins round and round on the shaft like a sort of choppy windmill? Awesome.

Now that does look cool.


Care to elaborate on how you get the effect please?

 Mad4Minis wrote:

_Lightbringer_ wrote:

Nob choppas. I have some aobr nobs to paint. They have choppas. Some of them have electric looking boxes attached to the blades. Even though they don't count as power weapons should the electronics attached to them not mean they should be glowing blue and crackling with energy?

Welcome to GW sculpting...random crap put on stuff for no practical reason. I have a Necromunda Delaque ganger who is armed with a lasgun...and has a full strap of bullets wrapped around him. He clearly has no use for the bullets, but hes got them. Why did GW sculpt the mini like that? Who the hell knows.

But maybe he tends to hang about with the heavy stubber dude

Thurlac wrote:
Now that does look cool.


Care to elaborate on how you get the effect please?

I take it you are referring to Brother-Sergeant Rüdiger and his disco fist of fureh, since those are the only pics in my gallery.

Black primer, strip of regal blue, strip of enchanted blue, strip of ice blue moving from just behind the knuckles to the tips of the fingers. Then mix 50/50 mixtures of each pair of adjacent colours and paint a strip of colour on the join between the two base colours. Now wet blend the three colours at the transitions (essentially mixing the still wet paint from each colour together on the actual model. Plenty of youtube tutorials on how to do this) once dry paint a faint lightning pattern in very dilute mixture of regal blue and space wolves grey. Now mix some skull white in so you end up with a slightly bluer shade of original space wolves grey and paint a very thin line inside the previously done pattern. Keep the amount of forks to a minimum. Now do tiny lines flicking off from the lightning like sparks. Finally highlight key areas such as where the lightning forks or changes direction with pure skull white. Once dry apply very thin blue glaze.

Hope that makes sense. Stole it from a ytoutube tutorial. Will post the link once I find it again.


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http://youtu.be/jHXKY69tM8I

Ta.

On my list of things to do is work more with glazes.....

Can we see this effect paint style?

 Mad4Minis wrote:

_Lightbringer_ wrote:

Nob choppas. I have some aobr nobs to paint. They have choppas. Some of them have electric looking boxes attached to the blades. Even though they don't count as power weapons should the electronics attached to them not mean they should be glowing blue and crackling with energy?

Welcome to GW sculpting...random crap put on stuff for no practical reason. I have a Necromunda Delaque ganger who is armed with a lasgun...and has a full strap of bullets wrapped around him. He clearly has no use for the bullets, but hes got them. Why did GW sculpt the mini like that? Who the hell knows.

I'm going to go with "he uses them like cartoon characters use watermelon seeds"

 SoloFalcon1138 wrote:
Can we see this effect paint style?

A power-fist done like that is here:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-56964-29296_Power%20Fists%20That%20Look%20Like%20Power%20Weapons.html

Attached is another image with the same effect on a powersword (soz about the poor iPhone pic)

So, should I have a similar thing on a storm shield? What do you guys think?

Heck, yes!
Unfortunately, I'm away on work this week or I would be testing this technique A LOT

Nobs Choppas power supply could do absolutely anything or nothing, its quite possible that Orks have observed power sword in the imperium being "more choppy" and fitted similar power supplies to their weapons without any real function. Either that or they make a great "whoosh" sound when swung, administer a mild electric shock to a target, swing "arder" etc... pretty much anything without an effect in game.

Storm shield you can try to highlight a force field effect by simulating "ripples" out from blast hitting the shield as it dissipates the force of the shot.

 Melcavuk wrote:

Storm shield you can try to highlight a force field effect by simulating "ripples" out from blast hitting the shield as it dissipates the force of the shot.

Thats a really Awesome idea IMO.

That is a great idea. Been thinking about how to do this. Concentric circles with the metal of the shield showing between the circles. Two brush blending out from each circle. Circle in the middle ice blue, then mix enchanted and ice, then enchanted, then enchanted regal mix. The ice blue impact point slightly off centre.

Finally lightning over the top, but not sure if lightning should just be random or originating from the impact point.

Does anyone have any suggestions regarding this plan or see any flaws other than that it relies on me painting neat circles.

Has anyone got any pictures of any artwork, not necessarily minis that show something similar?

I'd look at ripples in still water to see how they interact after an impact on the surface, especially if you are going to have multiple shield ripples on at once (the interaction and combination of multiple ripples colliding). As for the artistic side of it sadly my painting skills don't stretch to being helpful here.

 Melcavuk wrote:
I'd look at ripples in still water to see how they interact after an impact on the surface, especially if you are going to have multiple shield ripples on at once (the interaction and combination of multiple ripples colliding). As for the artistic side of it sadly my painting skills don't stretch to being helpful here.

I was just going to do a single impact, but doing two or three will probably make it clearer what the ripples of light are supposed to represent. This is getting more and more complicated by the minute. I bet it'll just look like a big blue target once I'm finished.


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Also,

My wife will now be convinced that I have finally gone completely pants-on-head bats**t crazy because I shall be dropping little pebbles into a bowl of water and watching the ripples.

I'm not sure how well this would turn out but you could try coating the shield in Guilliman Blue glaze and doing some very thin lightning bolts across the surface. I've seen this work on swords but I'm not sure about shields.

 Mad4Minis wrote:

_Lightbringer_ wrote:

Nob choppas. I have some aobr nobs to paint. They have choppas. Some of them have electric looking boxes attached to the blades. Even though they don't count as power weapons should the electronics attached to them not mean they should be glowing blue and crackling with energy?

Welcome to GW sculpting...random crap put on stuff for no practical reason. I have a Necromunda Delaque ganger who is armed with a lasgun...and has a full strap of bullets wrapped around him. He clearly has no use for the bullets, but hes got them. Why did GW sculpt the mini like that? Who the hell knows.

Dont forget, your not always carrying extra ammo for your own gun....alot of times your humping that extra M240 belt (grumble grumble grumble)

 Willnaut wrote:
I'm not sure how well this would turn out but you could try coating the shield in Guilliman Blue glaze and doing some very thin lightning bolts across the surface. I've seen this work on swords but I'm not sure about shields.

I'm not sure that will be sufficiently "glowy" for me.

I tried to do the bullet impact ripple effect suggested above and failed. Hard. I will not be posting pics. It looks like a blue bullseye. Tried testing on different surfaces, tried crazy stuff with wet blending and two brush feathering or whatever you want to call it and it all looked terrible. Since I have comprehensively proven that I lack the skill the execution of this awesome idea requires I am going back to my original plan of just making it glow like a power weapon by wet blending and then painting lightning on. This brings me to my original quandry: should the edges of the shield or the centre be the brightest part?

I think the edges would probably be the brightest part because that's where you would see most of the energy field that surrounds it. That's how I would do it anyway.

I think I'm gonna have to give this a try.