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What's your best painting recipe for giving plasma guns a blinding blue glow?

I keep getting close but just can't quite nail it down. So, what do you do and how do you do it?

Don't have an airbrush....

Simplest way might be to buy an airbrush, theyre not as expensive as is made out tbh.

But if you can't airbrush I'd expect it to be done with dry brushing (really carefully!)

I paint mine white, give it a decently heavy blue wash, then highlight the ridges with white. Looks pretty good

i agree with the suggestion above. although i use blue drawing ink instead of gw washes.

I do mine with an airbrush

Simple drybrushing does the trick for me.

 sluggaslugga wrote:
Simple drybrushing does the trick for me.

Can't argue with those results, looks really nice mate. Lovely unit too by the way