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I thought I saw a tutorial on this somewhere?

Quick fix seems to me would be to paint the plasma area of if the weapon blue, then a light drybrush of purple of about 75% of the blue surface followed by a light drybrush of red of about 50% of the blue/purple surface.

Personally I like going the red\orange look. Really get in there and make things HOT!! But thats me.

Sometimes I think people can find an answer far quicker then ask on the forums. Go to http://www.coolminiornot.com first.

Steam from the cells?

What's that HF guy even shooting at?

Tek wrote:What's that HF guy even shooting at?

Those evil invisible wall-daemons don't stand a chance.

I was going to do scorpion green and white for the plasma coils I just wanted it to look like it was casting that color on to my marine also here's a start of what I want to accomplish the red area's i have circled are where the green light will be over spilling so to say and the blue and white I inserted into the maw of the plasma gun I figured would have been painted already but alas their not so im going to paint that area myself

Cant that Sm termie just have used a torch?

Tek wrote:What's that HF guy even shooting at?

A Tau stealth suit.

Let's get some physics here so we know what it would look like.

*Warning Science Content* Light is radiation. The color of that radiation is determined by the amount of energy in it. Higher energies will be blue, violet, and ultra (beyond) violet. Now plasma is a state of matter which occurs when matter is given massive amounts of energy. At that level the amount of heat it puts out will obliterate anything it touches. Now as we know the more energy it has the more the color moves towards blue and violet. We assume that this thing is pumping out radiation in a wide high energy spectrum, but its still high energy so we will see only the blues and the violets. So painting the gun and the surrounding areas in blue violet colors would be most realistic.

Wow I really need to get a girlfriend.

Paint one color, then drybrush a lighter version of the color. add glowing effects as able.

I suppose my real question is, why do you want to model your dudes with overheating plasma guns? That's just tempting the dice gods.

Don't the guns vent when they overheat? And apparently it hits the model using it so it must vent backwards into his face. I would use the front vents and make it look like steam was blowing back.

Actually on the PC it looks like the weapon would vent by opening the forward-facing valve on the back end of the weapon and forcing it up to allow the steam or what-have-you to escape.


At least that's how I would do it.

Tek wrote:What's that HF guy even shooting at?

If I had a flame thrower, I would fire it just to see the radiance too. . .

Tek wrote:What's that HF guy even shooting at?

There was a squat there, back in the day...

P4NC4K3 wrote:

Tek wrote:What's that HF guy even shooting at?

There was a squat there, back in the day...

Couldn't have been he is firing far too high for that. Think he is shooting the darkness AKA 8-bit D&D.

Make it look like it is venting a lot of steam, and make it look like the model is hurriedly trying to get rid of it.

Tek wrote:What's that HF guy even shooting at?

He's spy checking. Thought it was obvious ?

skbak, do you mean the lower plasma canister or the valve right on the guys forearm?

In the fluff I think for a plasma gun it gets 10 shots before the canister has to re refilled. I imagine a cannon has to be refilled each shot.

Well I didnt really mean overheating I just wanted to know how to make the glow get cast onto the marines armor to show its been fired kinda rapidly and its starting to heat up and cast the light onto him indicating this

Heres another question....why do so many modelers opt for the helmet-less termie or marine to shoot the flame weapons haha, my guess is his skin should be crispy after using promethium that close to exposed skin!

Wolf wrote:

Tek wrote:What's that HF guy even shooting at?

He's spy checking. Thought it was obvious ?

He is playing TF2....

I think this is what it would look like if a plasma gun overheated.

Why would you want to model a plasma gun overheating? It would be like modelling your tanks in the middle of a "weapon destroyed" result.

Man, that HF is freaking great!

Just to make it seem a little more... real Idk I'm just trying to get better at painting and things of that sort.

Ailaros wrote:Why would you want to model a plasma gun overheating? It would be like modelling your tanks in the middle of a "weapon destroyed" result.

That would be AWESOME.