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Hey guys and gals. My wife and I are painting my Eldar Army. I think she does an amazing job, but compared to many of the "expert" painters, we are really lacking. My main question is:

How do you get the Fire Prims Cannon to look so damn cool?

We cant figure out how to do it and have been looking for some help. I figured I would post here because I am sure someone here knows how. If someone could jut simply give me a link to a site that shows me how in detail that would be prefect. I will post some pics of our (mostly her) paint jobs. She paints all the Tanks and high detail guys she has the patience for it).


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Ok, I will post some pics once I figure out how lol.

I've has a quick search and found a few bits:

One tutorial says:
On a dark background, paint a line of hawk turquoise where the lightning stroke will be. Then highlight with progressively thinner strokes using: lightning blue, ice blue, and skull white.

Here's a pretty good quick tutorial on how to paint lightning in Gimp. Not model painting I know but still related:
http://kalaalog.com/2008/11/30/painting-glowing-objects-lightning/

Plenty of source material on Google Images.

Hope this helps....

Awesome, thank you much. I will let my wife see this and see if we can duplicate it.