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2021/10/05 18:46:41
Subject: 30k/40k Plasma weapon colors?
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Been Around the Block
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I can't figure out why some people paint there plasma weapon emission green and some paint them blue...green more in the 30k realm and blue in the 40k realm. anyone know?
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2021/10/05 18:48:57
Subject: 30k/40k Plasma weapon colors?
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Poisonous Kroot Headhunter
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Green works well with my paint scheme. I've seen purples a lot lately and the occasional red.
It's never been consistent enough in the army photos over the years for me to think there was an "official" colour for plasma, even though it kinda makes sense that there should be, or at least an explanation why there isn't.
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2021/10/05 19:27:10
Subject: 30k/40k Plasma weapon colors?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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A plasma's colour would be determined by the fuel being burned, no? Strictly speaking, something that lets you fire "a portion of the sun" into your enemies should be "white" for colour, but if we assume that it has some kind of colour for whatever allows the plasma to maintain heat in a "packet" of delivered destructive energy like that, then the fuel that is burned to create that packet, or the chemical that creates the containment of the packet, is what would create the colour.
It would stand to reason that the most commonly used chemicals/fuels change from time segment to time segment, chapter to chapter, world to world, or (REDACTED) if those gods should choose for them to be that colour.
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2021/10/05 19:27:54
Subject: 30k/40k Plasma weapon colors?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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What colour do you think they should be? Surely any colour…….
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2021/10/05 19:28:08
Subject: 30k/40k Plasma weapon colors?
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The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar
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Agree. It’s more artistic license, based more on the color wheel than physics.
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2021/10/05 19:50:05
Subject: Re:30k/40k Plasma weapon colors?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Plasma weapons are meant to be firing high temperature plasma.
Therefore any plasma would be radiating. The below shows the color vs temperature of black body radiation. Just as the human eye never sees green stars (due to the mix of colors of stellar spectra also having more blue at higher temperatures which leads to it being perceived as increasingly white or blue-white by the human eye), it would not see hot radiating plasma shots as any shade of green.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation#/media/File:Color_temperature_black_body_800-12200K.svg
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2021/10/05 20:22:04
Subject: Re:30k/40k Plasma weapon colors?
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Dakka Veteran
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Depends of the ions surely?
Perhaps they’re full of Ba2+
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2021/10/05 20:52:20
Subject: 30k/40k Plasma weapon colors?
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Preparing the Invasion of Terra
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The answer is yes. Plasma Guns are that colour you said.
Its pretty much down to you tbh, different designs might do different things to the colour.
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2021/10/06 13:33:50
Subject: 30k/40k Plasma weapon colors?
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Trazyn's Museum Curator
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ratlaw wrote:I can't figure out why some people paint there plasma weapon emission green and some paint them blue...green more in the 30k realm and blue in the 40k realm. anyone know?
Because they want to.
That's pretty much it, there's no hard rule that says plasma must be X.
It is true that plasma is usually depicted as blue, but that's not really a rule and more of a suggestion.
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Westwood lives in death!
Peace through power!
A longbeard when it comes to Necrons and WHFB. Grumble Grumble
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2021/10/06 15:25:25
Subject: 30k/40k Plasma weapon colors?
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Ridin' on a Snotling Pump Wagon
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Well, the glowy bits aren’t actually the powery bits. They’re the cooling bits intended to prevent it going all kaboom into your face.
So we can handwave it by “different materials being used”.
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2021/10/06 16:48:40
Subject: 30k/40k Plasma weapon colors?
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Ultramarine Librarian with Freaky Familiar
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For me, it entirely depends on the colour scheme of the army the plasma belongs to. In my Ultramarines, I wouldn't use blue plasma, so I use green. In my homebrew Chapter, I think blue looks better, so I use that. In my Deathwatch, I use red plasma.
As a made-up gun, you can use whatever made-up reason why it looks why it does!
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2021/10/06 17:08:41
Subject: 30k/40k Plasma weapon colors?
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Buttons Should Be Brass, Not Gold!
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Umm I never paint any halos on my plasma weapons. Are you saying I'm doing it wrong?
The way I see it, anything less than a LED inside the weapon bit would look off anyway. I dont think painted lighting effects look realistic IRL, even if they look aight in pics
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2021/10/06 17:49:11
Subject: 30k/40k Plasma weapon colors?
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Poisonous Kroot Headhunter
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tauist wrote:Umm I never paint any halos on my plasma weapons. Are you saying I'm doing it wrong?
The way I see it, anything less than a LED inside the weapon bit would look off anyway. I dont think painted lighting effects look realistic IRL, even if they look aight in pics
Totally agree, I've never thought the lighting effects ever looked good, even from the pros.
This is making me miss the Necrons green plastic rods, I always thought that was a really unique way to tackle this kind of thing.
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2021/10/06 18:46:54
Subject: 30k/40k Plasma weapon colors?
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Veteran Wolf Guard Squad Leader
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I find they are a fantastic way to add a nice spot colour to compliment the models paint scheme.
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2021/10/07 12:40:31
Subject: 30k/40k Plasma weapon colors?
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Contagious Dreadnought of Nurgle
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Space Wolves Plasma isn't blue and DG Plasma isn't green. You know why...
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