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Welcome back to the Studio Workshop!

This week we're teaching how to achieve a simple OSL effect on your miniatures without using an airbrush. OSL stands for Object Source Lighting and refers to painting the effect of light being cast off of a light source and reflecting off of the surfaces around it. This can be used to create the impression of glowing plasma, torches, lanterns, lasers, magical runes, etc. In this videos we paint the gem in the center of this chaos chosen's chest to look like it's glowing with an angry red light.

Keep an eye out for next week's video on painting simple OSL lighting effects.

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Until next time, get your Game Face on!

Thanks for the tutorial! I've used a similar technique but find some colors show some serious contrast despite being only slightly brighter/darker, would you recommend a wet blend to smooth it out or would a wash better?

The thing to remember is that less is always better. If you're not sure how the paint is going to show up on the miniature thin it down a lot and glaze it on slowly until you've got the kind of coverage you're looking for.

Once you've got a better grip on what the paint you're using is going to be like, then feel free to wetblend the different shades together to your heart's content.

Thanks for watching! If you have any tutorial requests feel free to post them here or PM me.

Awesome, thanks a bunch. Saved for future reference

2 questions.

How did you mount the model on the cork?

I want a glowing effect for the armor as a whole, like a glowing aura around my psykers to kinda highlight their mystic power type deal, the light source would be the model itself as its body is glowing, how would you recommend painting that effect?

Zodiark wrote:
2 questions.

How did you mount the model on the cork?

I want a glowing effect for the armor as a whole, like a glowing aura around my psykers to kinda highlight their mystic power type deal, the light source would be the model itself as its body is glowing, how would you recommend painting that effect?

You either need items around the model to glow or specific spots of the armor to glow to give the impression it's generating from the entire model. This specific idea requires a lot of thought and planning to get the results your looking for. This type of idea usually fits best on a diorama. Think of the model as the wick of a candel and the area around it like object by the candel.

Doing an entire model and making it believeable is a challenge.

Zodiark wrote:
2 questions.

How did you mount the model on the cork?

I want a glowing effect for the armor as a whole, like a glowing aura around my psykers to kinda highlight their mystic power type deal, the light source would be the model itself as its body is glowing, how would you recommend painting that effect?

I drilled two small holes in the base of each foot. I then superglued a short length of paperclip into each hole and inserted the other end of the paperclip pieces into the cork.

To get that effect, you're going to need a fairly large or detailed base. It would be best if the base had a tall piece of terrain or ruined building behind the miniature. This is because you need a lot of surface area to paint the glow from the light on. OSL depends totally and completely on creating the illusion of light being reflected off of objects around the light source. Then you're going to have to do some planning on where the light would normally fall on the base and where shadows would be cast both on the base and the miniature itself. You can easily paint on a source of light with some nice bright paint, but it won't have the halo effect you're looking for. The only way you're going to get a halo effect would be to have the light reflecting off objects around and under the miniature.