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Hi there,

Was looking at some OSL ideas for the jump pack of a SM Chaplain. Lots of the tutorials out there seem to favour using blues, and I understand the point of that for sure, but alas I don't have blues to put to use and I've kinda exceeded my GW budget for the month on paints, a pack of Space Wolves and this SM chaplain for my DA army. I was kinda looking at my palette and I've got quite a few red and yellow tones:

Mechrite Red
Red Gore
Blood Red
Iyanden Darksun
Sunburst Yellow
Blazing Orange.

Basically I was wondering how I would go about replacing the below mentioned colours with these:

Necron Abyss
Magical Blue (VGC)
Space Wolves Grey

Help is muchly appreciated.

I used a red-based palette for my Stalkers:



Go find pictures of metal glowing red hot and follow that. It will be quite bright, so more orange than red, but the edges could be done in a nice deep red.

That's nice Flinty. Like the cast-off glow. Very well executed.

Cheers dude, that looks very good. Will chase it up.

Shenloanne: At the risk of not really helping and maybe even confusing you, I am going to give you a couple links.
The short answer is that it doesn't matter what colors you use when you do OSL (red, blue, yellow, etc.) What matters most is understanding the concept and how the radiant light is applied on the surrounding surfaces. While lots of folks may use blues, it might actually be easier to use what we think are the harder colors like reds and yellows due to their natural transparency properties.

I have a three part series on OSL and "how" to go about doing it. The actual hues (colors) you use don't really matter in the end. It becomes a matter of getting the right value (lightness or darkness of the hue (color) you want more than anything else.
The link jumps to 5 posts that cover a number of aspects of OSL and some of the common pitfalls when attempting it.
I hope this helps get you started. Once you understand the concept, the colors you use become irrelevant.

http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/search/label/OSL