http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/8.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net
I want to duplicate this glowing eye lense effect for my night lords CSMs:



the guy that painted this base coated the eye with dark angels green, then applied several thin glazes of snot green + scorpion green, then a few glazes of just scorpion green and finally a highlight of white in the center of the eye and along the edge under the eye lense.

I gave it a whirl earlier using a base coat of scab red. for the glazes, I started with blood red/water/glaze medium and did a few layers over the eye and the lower rim. then I added a couple drops of white to the mix and did a few more layers, then a few more drops of white and another few layers. the eye lense lightened up towards white ok, but the area around the eye went deep purple rather than lightening towards red. I ended up with a cross between a black eye and pink eye :p

any advice for how to make this work for red eyes on dark blue armor?
]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/506010/5260392.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/506010/5260392.page GMT ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/506010/5260563.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/506010/5260563.page GMT ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/506010/5261386.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/506010/5261386.page GMT
It may help to post an image irrespective of how bad the quality... ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/506010/5264311.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/506010/5264311.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/506010/5264728.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/506010/5264728.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/506010/5265304.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/506010/5265304.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/506010/5265335.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/506010/5265335.page GMT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9tAmSeb-Mk

skip to about 10 min, although its not a perfect glow around the eyes i think it could work if you do what Tarthenal seed "putting a base layer of white or maybe even a light blue over the dark blue area that you want the glow on and then start glazing", notice how well around the eye's the glowing green works on the white helmet picture you showed.

also check this out (http://www.coolminiornot.com/126956?browseid=4303453) in the link you see the armour is dark green but look closely under the eye and you can see a base white layer and a blue layer moving further out towards the green, in you'r case you could use a red layer slowly pushing out towards the dark blue armour then try the glaze over the top of that, but i think the key is having white just under the eye and red pushing out towards the armour.

hope some of this helps good luck.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/506010/5273448.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/506010/5273448.page GMT
Though as has been pointed out... red lights usually tend to have a hotter orange element which would be more reflective (as opposed to pink). You might want to think about that too.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/506010/5273559.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/506010/5273559.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/506010/5274524.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/506010/5274524.page GMT