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Woot, Army by Ragnar.

I'm thinking you could just continue the green you've worked into the plasma weapons for your power weapons.

As for technique to paint them, I really don't know. I know I'm partial to my new found way of painting them like I did with my Veteran marine.

What do you like? Lines? Lightning? Waves? Solid Color? It's really a personal preference thing. You pick it, and I can help you find a quick and easy tutorial for it ^_-. (I probably have it bookmarked x.x)

Hrm. I really thought I had a lot of that stuff still bookmarked. Apparently I don't x.x. Here is one that sort of helped me start to move away from the every day power sword you see around all the time. It started making me think of alternative ways to get a nice powerful effect on a rather dull part of the models.

Here is the pic that inspired me to paint my power weapons the way I do now. And here is a photo of my veteran in case you might have not seen it for a bit ^_-.

Lightning, if you use it sparingly, really doesn't look bad. It's when people use it too much and it takes over the model as well as distract you from the detail that it starts to look garish and tacky. For a lightning tutorial I redirect you to B&C.

Btw, sorry I hadn't gotten back to you earlier with some of this stuff. I was working all day yesterday ^_-, lives to save and such, you know the deal!

Some additional thoughts

I think the next closest would be successive highlighting. Base color then mix base color with highlight color 70/30, then 50/50, then 30/70, then just highlight color. This wouldn't give you a super smooth finish, but would mimic the effect. Remember to leave more and more of the color under showing as you highlight. The final highlight should be limited to the top edge, point and 'power' lines.

An even easier way would be to paint a solid dark color, highlight 50/50 somewhat thicker on the top edge, tip and lines. Then final highlight thin on the top edge, tip and lines. This will save some time as you won't have to deal with any blending/mixing of paint.

Note: I haven't tried either of these methods. So it might not work as well as I think. Though this does give me an idea for a future tutorial ^_-.