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I am beginning to paint my Night Lords. The primary colours being used are Black, White and Red with Blue highlights. On black panels I want to create lightning motifs, I do I accomplish this on large surfaces and smaller surfaces?

what I did was to paint jags of white in whatever lightning pattern you want, then line one side of the jags with 1-2 light shades of gray getting darker away from white. I liked the results and it was easy. I found it on the internet somewhere but I don't remember where now

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What you might want to do is first, paint your lightning strike patterin in Midnight blue and then put the white/grey on top of that with a little blue showing at the edges.

I was also going to suggest doing the lines in blue first and then white. I've also seen purple used as a base under the white for a more mystical/magic look.

Also, check out The Weather Channels website (I think they have a photo section) and other pictures of lightning. It helps to have a pic close by when painting to get realistic looking forks and arcs.