Plasma Color.

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**CaragaraPDF**

I just want to know, What color do you put on your plasma guns coils?

I personally use eater Green or yellow.

**Asherian Command**

Red. With a gray high light. Makes them look used for me. But thats just me.

**Valkyrie**

I used green on a Plasma Blastgun, but only because blue would match the Warhound's hull, but I use blue for the LMA of all the other plasma weapons. Red would look good if you want to show one just about to overheat

**Klawz**

I use gray and light green overcoat.

**brandon noble**

Black base, silver, then a transparentish blue with white highlights between the coils.

**Haddi**

I reverse highlight from yellow to red. Yellow in the cracks underneath, orange on upper parts of the coils, and red as an extreme highlight.

**thegrav**

Two Shades of Purple.

**CaragaraPDF**

Haddi wrote:I reverse highlight from yellow to red. Yellow in the cracks underneath, orange on upper parts of the coils, and red as an extreme highlight.

that sounds nice.

**Vindicator#9**

Yeah i always thought of plasma being purple too.

**Haddi**

CaragaraPDF wrote:
Haddi wrote:I reverse highlight from yellow to red. Yellow in the cracks underneath, orange on upper parts of the coils, and red as an extreme highlight.

that sounds nice.

I'd do some object source lighting from it as well (Primarily at the bottom of it, as if the area where the coil is merging with the gun is the hottest, while the outer most aren't nearly as bad) but my painting is not NEARLY good enough to attempt such a thing.

**Ruckdog**

I stick with basic highlighted blue myself. I did see a guy with a SM army on Saturday that used pink. It actually looked pretty good, as he also did a nice directional lighting effect with it.

**Honersstodnt**

I paint it scorpion green, then a wash of undiluted green ink, then a very, very light drybrush of skull white.

**Jaon**

Has anyone said blue? because we all KNOW plasma is blue...

**CaragaraPDF**

Jaon wrote:Has anyone said blue? because we all KNOW plasma is blue...

Your plasma is blue because it was made in china. My plasma is Green because its made in the good Ol USA.

and my guys armor is blue.

**RaegMachine**

I use scorpion green for my plasma

**Brother SRM**

I used to use green, yellow, blue, red, and at one time pink, but I really like the look of blue on my Guard.

**SaintHazard**

Five parts Skull White, two parts Ultramarines Blue, one part Snot Green for the base. Highlighted with ten parts Skull White, two parts Ultramarines Blue, one part Snot Green.

**J'santai Khan**

That is one of the things I've always stuck with on my personal armies. Plasma is blue. That's just how it is. It doesn't turn purple until it is going bad, and reds and pinks mean that it is about to explode! That is why ALL of my plasma is blue......

**Slarg232**

Red Gore, with a Red Ink wash, highlighted with Blood Red. Just seemed more Chaosy

**Randomonioum**

I paint mine pinkish purple, for the hydrogen plasma guns the lexicanum tells me they use.

**thegrav**

Randomonioum wrote:I paint mine pinkish purple, for the hydrogen plasma guns the lexicanum tells me they use.

Same actually I use the darker purple as a base and the wych purple as the highlight.

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J'santai Khan wrote:That is one of the things I've always stuck with on my personal armies. Plasma is blue. That's just how it is. It doesn't turn purple until it is going bad, and reds and pinks mean that it is about to explode! That is why ALL of my plasma is blue......

Is this based on anything? Plasma color much like laser color is determined by: type, intensity, and chemical make-up, not the "Sell By" date.

**Captain Solon**

Haddi wrote:I reverse highlight from yellow to red. Yellow in the cracks underneath, orange on upper parts of the coils, and red as an extreme highlight.

actaully, thats called reverse lowlights. but whatever.

Turquiose green, then DB ultra blue, then Gloss wash thrakagreen.

**Melissia**

White with a crappy blue dry-brush.

**gazelle**

Mine were bare metal, because my guys always died before they got to fire a shot.

**Ribon Fox**

Hydrogen in its plasmatic state is red to a funny kind of purple, the myth that all plasma is blue was made by star trek as it looked cooler than red.

That being said...mine are painted utarmarine blue, a medium dry brushing of ice blue, a light dry brushing of titanium white, finished off with a deadly nightshade wash.

**JSK-Fox**

If red means it's gonna go boom...
I better repaint the 4 plasma vents on my SPAESS MARIENS!
Red looks really cool, I do the following:
Merchite Red
Red Gore
Blood red
Skull White
Blood Red
It looks pretty cool!

**SaintHazard**

Ribon Fox wrote:Hydrogen in its plasmatic state is red to a funny kind of purple, the myth that all plasma is blue was made by star trek as it looked cooler than red.

That being said...mine are painted utarmarine blue, a medium dry brushing of ice blue, a light dry brushing of titanium white, finished off with a deadly nightshade wash.

The few times it made an appearance in Star Trek, plasma was green. Plasma weapons and warp core plasma being vented both had a pale green color. I believe it only made appearances in TNG, and maybe once in DS9 (during one of the larger Dominion War fleet engagements, I think).

**Cadet_Commissar_Ludd**

RED RED RED!!!

**Melissia**

That's one plasma ball anyway.

But this is a plasma-based thruster, the Hall Effect Thruster:

**SaintHazard**

Melissia wrote:trimmed

That's one plasma ball anyway.

But this is a plasma-based thruster, the Hall Effect Thruster:

trimmed

In the top photo, please note that the plasma is only blue at its least dense points. At the center of the sphere and on its inside surfaces, where the plasma is densest, it is purple or red.

Plasma building up in the coils of a plasma rifle would be extremely dense.

Ergo, red plasma.

However, the bottom photo illustrates a counterpoint. It's actually green at its least dense points to aqua/blue at its most dense.

Therefore, we can conlude:

Different materials in plasmatic states are different colors.

So make your plasma any damn color you want. You're probably correct regardless.