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Well, right now I am trying to add a glow effect to my thunder hammers in the assault terminator squad for my BT. So far I think I have the shading down pretty well, and this is my first time doing it on a hammer so I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out. My only problem is I am using a black base for the hammer head, and it sort of gets lost in the model because, the terminator is black as well. Anyways take a look at him and I would like some tips on to really make his weapon 'pop'. I was thinking of making the effect on all the corners of the weapon, not just every other one like I have now.
Looks good. I think you would be better off leaving the blue bits as they are. If you color every corner it would look a bit to uniform. Instead put a thin and dark glow effect along the edges of the hammer and have these new highlights taper off as they approach the non-blue corners. I think this would give the appearance of a "power field" around the hammer with a couple parts of it flaring up. Picture this on the "blue parts" of the hammer.
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