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Hi all

For an upcoming project I want to get hold of a green similar to the old Rackham "Luminescent Green" colour (or a pot of that if anyone knows where to get it/has an unopened one they would part with), can anyone recommend anything similar? I looked on a list of miniature paint equivalents but there was nothing listed for that colour. If nothing exists, then a very gaudy lime green would also work, the final effect I'm going for is similar to this old shirt design:

Vallejo do a flourescent green, that might be suitable.

White base with scorpion green, or Vallejo livery green would do it well. Fluoro paints tend to have rather bad coverage, so unless you definitely want the uv reaction, best to avoid.

Liquitex also make a fluorescent green, which could be mixed with other paints to adjust the green shade while keeping the luminessence.

The poor coverage is to be expected, They're transparent paints. To expect them to cover like opaque's would be foolish.

Thanks for the heads up. I did check Vallejo's page but completely missed it on their colours pdf.

I do agree that the effect might be a bit much but I wanted to give it a go. It's going to be one of the colours on my Dreadball human team so I wanted to pick something that would really stand out.

If it does prove to be too much, Warpstone Glow is a nice alternative

Something that might be relevant that I saw on massive voodoo, a great painting blog I follow:

http://forgedmonkey.com/

The dayglow paints on the first page

I did my nids in fluorescent green. Prime white, basecoated in this:
http://www.amazon.com/Badger-Air-Brush-Spectra-Tex-Airbrush-Fluorescent/dp/B00462QC8W/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1349133744&sr=8-3&keywords=fluorescent+green+airbrush+paint

Already thin (airbrush paint...) so it will take layers. But it's so GREEN. And lights up like a roman candle under a black light.