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Has anyone tried using the "paint" from those neon highlighters as the main source of a glow effect?

Did it work? Is it a good idea? Bad? What problems are there with this technique?

It looks like red and orange would be trash but green and (especially) yellow seem promising.

They tend to be water based and don't work that well.

There are entire acrylic paint lines for miniatures in fluoro colours, though.

Vallejo does a line of them. So does Badger.

To get the full effect, you need to light them with a UV light source either way, though.

Hm...
Never tried it, might be a good test.

What I have tried is use Oil-Based markers for miniature work.
They do not dry as bright though.

Was curious enough to do a quick and dirty.

Initial idea to have white base.
You can see the higlighter bleed into the table, just doesn'y look bright.

Problem 1 - It does not dry well... on acrylic or plastic surface.
On paper it soaks into it and dries. On plastic it dries but then rubs off.

Just for comparison, LimeGreen vallejo.

Now I am more curious.
I will paint a reaper mini I have laying around with highlighter juice and mod-poge mix, but this time, prime it white proper.

In conclusion, if you want same "High Light" effect, the surface needs to be white, smooth, and preferably soak-able.
Run your own test, share results if you can

Culturehustle's glowiest glow pigment is what you want. It gets charged up by light.

In the dark after being in a lit room.



The same mini in a lightbox.



Immediately after coming out of said lightbox and in the light.

 Mothsniper wrote:
Problem 1 - It does not dry well... on acrylic or plastic surface.
On paper it soaks into it and dries. On plastic it dries but then rubs off.

Well, that's just disappointing. I guess I'm stuck with the old technique of Flash Gits over white with a darker yellow along the edges to help it look like an OSL glow.

Thanks for the help, everyone.

Yep.
Even with mod poge it rubs off.

And even if it didn't rub off... does it glow? yeah but it glows only as much as normal washing white base with yellow and shading it with green.
I tried to wash it, and lolz, the wash just covered any "glow" that it had and turned into normal paint.

Mind you, I washed it in GS FLUOR, I don't know, it just looks like normal light yellow glaze over white and a thin green wash.
I mean, you cant even see the neon higlighter anymore, next to GS fluor it just looks normal yellow.

EVEN IF! it looks super NEON in the picture, well that is because it is still wet... lolz when it dried this morning, It looked like normal think light cad-yellow

IN CONCLUSION!

Even if you would paint areas with that over white, and then varnish seal it so it does not rub off.
When it dries, it becomes normal yellow.
The neon-ness is gone, for some reason.

last night to this morning.

I too have used GSW set of fluor paints and found Them to be very good but I think bit thinner than Vallejo, really not much innit but GSW does a box set of them. They do glow under UV light which is cool but you can see through to the base if it’s not a solid layer so if you want neon effects under uv light then you need solid layers. If I remember when is fat I will send a picture. I didn’t use them cos I wanted the uv effect I just wanted bright colour for my noise marines