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Hey there everybody. I was going to start painting up a couple of CSM with plasma gun/pistol's, and was looking for tips for painting the "core" of the weapon (idk what its called specifically). Here's a Link to a picture in the dakka gallery which shows kinda what I'm after, if you will note the blue area on top of the gun. Could anyone give me any tips on getting some nice effects on that area? i was thinking of doing it a bright red. Any suggestions?

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Undercoat it white, give it a couple of layers of saphire blue and then a very light drybrush of yellowish off-white paint. White hot baby!

White undercoat, watered-down blood red, drybrush white, Baal Red wash?

For mine, which is a bit similiar to Gordo's (incidently I do word bearers as well), is done with iceblue. I then give it a Badab Black wash and highlight again on the now lifted ice blue with more, to make it look less dark.

Depends what color you want. If you want a blue coil, I'd recommend painting it Ultramarines blue, ice blue over that, then white and a blue wash. For red, I would probably do a red gore, then blood red, then blazing orange.

I prefer my plasma guns to be bright green, not sure what the GW colour is, but I use a lime green, a dark green wash and a slight drybrush of white.

To be honest I think the replies you've got so far are just overcomplicating things, I painted mine ultramarines blue and then dry brushed the "ribs" skull white... it looks fine...

Metallic.
It's meant to be the magnetic induction coils.
If they're glowing, too much power is going through them.

chromedog wrote:Metallic.
It's meant to be the magnetic induction coils.
If they're glowing, too much power is going through them.

Point taken, 'Eavy Metal don't even show them glowing at all.

chromedog wrote:Metallic.
It's meant to be the magnetic induction coils.
If they're glowing, too much power is going through them.

No wonder I usually see them painted metallic, I always wondered why and now that I know it makes sense. The metallic color does look good, so I would paint it that.

Yeah I'm going to go with red still. These are CSM Plasmaguns after all

Thanks for the many suggestions, they've given me some good idea's I might post an update when i get to painting tonight

Go with ORANGE!!!

Macharius Solar Orange>>Blazing Orange>Fiery Orange>>Skull White.

Looks the mutts.

If you want to go the metallic route, you could base the coils in Tin Bitz and drybush/highlight with Dwarf (Dwarven?) Bronze. Did it to my IG Sentinel plasma cannons and it doesn't look too bad.

chromedog wrote:Metallic.
It's meant to be the magnetic induction coils.
If they're glowing, too much power is going through them.

That's TOTALLY the point!

<----Recently lost not one, but TWO Plauge Marines to Gets Hot! in one round of rapid fire shooting.

I vote for colorful glow! Make em stand out!