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I've recently won a diorama of an alley in a giveaway, and I plan on putting a few homelles people in there to warm around a fire in a barrel, at night time. Unfortunatley I haven't been able to find any toutorials on painting models in such a way. Any tips from people who've done something like this?

Battlefront (Flames of War) has an article about it on their website. The primary focus is on OSL, but it also talks about how to adapt colors for nighttime about halfway down the page.

Victoria Lamb is great at that sort of lighting. She now runs Victoria Miniatures. Don't know if she's written any tutorials but must be worth a look on Google?

I painted this model as an experiment on how to paint a model at night. I used two light sources, one comming from behind the model, and a green glowing goo on the base. I have, unfortunately, completely failed, but I think I learned a few valuable lessons:
1. Start with a mix of your shadow colour and your base colour, rather than your base colour
2. Use your base colour as your "highlight"
3. A much larger portion of the model should be covered in shadow
4. Use a different shade of dark blue for the shadow (on the pallete the paint looked much more blue and much less purple than it does on the model)