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Hi there!

I am about to start a new army (or an old one,the first ever, Deamons 40k!!!!! ), and I am in planning phase about the paintjob.
Sometimes ago I saw a thing that shocked me and really impressed me, a Bloodthirster with a lava base with osl coming from the ground.
Obviously it was A golden daemon level and I am not nearly there BUT I belive I am in a good place right now and my dear Iwata HP-CS is on my side
I wonder if you guys have any tips or tutorial to direct me to, I promise i will update you with the results
The army is gonna be nurgle+Khorne, so the models I will paint for now are gonna be:
6 Bloodcrushers
15 Dogs
1 Skull Cannon.

Later on I will rob someone and buy the Greater Khorne-bustamove-skullcrasher-Hellraiser from FW.
Cheers!

Tutorials probably won't do too much good here, I think one of the best ways to learn how to do OSL stuff with an airbrush is to just practice. Get a bunch of practice models, either metal models you can strip and reuse easily or something like cheap plastic soldiers from a toy store.

Practice mixing and thinning colours to get the control and effect you want, and be careful not to overdo it. Find something of a sweet spot of paint consistency, air pressure etc. where you can get the control you need while not making the effect too strong.


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Of course, it won't hurt to see how others do it and get some inspiration from them, so seeing what you can find on youtube is probably a good idea to start you off in the right mindset.

I do not recommend the use of airbrush for OSL effects. In general to get it convincing you need much tighter control - it's the shadows that make the light look like light. Better off to hand-blend for the most part.

winterdyne wrote:
I do not recommend the use of airbrush for OSL effects. In general to get it convincing you need much tighter control - it's the shadows that make the light look like light. Better off to hand-blend for the most part.

True, although personally I prefer to use an airbrush for the OSL I do simply because it's easy and the primary goal for me when painting is for the models to look good on the tabletop as playing is more my thing than painting(and airbrushing is fun). Not a good way of doing things if paintjob quality is a high priority, I admit, but I don't really have the patience for that anyway.
Although in some cases, depending on model, you can angle the airbrush so that paint only hits the surfaces it needs to. If not, you can still do alright with an airbrush by simply going over the area and applying shadows where necessary.

Again, it all depends on what standard you want the minis painted to and how much effort you're willing to put in.

Using an airbrush for this isn't going to work, or at least - for it to be effective, you'll end up needing to spend as much time and care using an airbrush as you would using a real brush (and in the end you'll need to use a real brush to pick out the highest/brightest points of the source anyway). Though, one must wonder, if you're explicitly stating that you don't care that much about the painting quality, why bother with such an advanced technique at all?

I'm going to do this on the comp entry for this month. Light targetted dry brushing of orange that lines up with the lava on the base was my plan. It worked on the rocks so far.

I'm actually quite surprised that I've not used my airbrush much for the lava