Three Simple Methods

Transcript*

Intro

I’m back. I’m back from my two week vacation. Got a haircut. Am I glowing? And that’s the topic for today’s video.

Lights. How to paint lights from your headlights of your car to emergency lights in a diorama, a rune, a glowing rune in a sword or whatever armor, right? Um maybe even glowing rocks. Who knows? I’m going to be teaching you how to paint these things today. It’s very simple, actually.

Technique 1 – Clean Paint on Plastic

My name is Paul from Loisirs vers le soleil. Today, we’re going to be starting you off with the magic of Tamiya acrylic clear paints. It is a prime paint to be used on unprimed plastic.

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Look at how vibrant this is. This is crazy. This is unprimed, by the way, and no top coat varnish or whatever. Look at that. And this is the other one I was painting. Look at that.

Now, I had a harder time painting this because it’s not on sprue. Um, I would recommend painting anything clear like this on a sprue or anything small and awkward like an oval on a sprue and then cut it off later. So, that’s one way to do it. Uh, and it’s the easiest way.

Literally just grab your clear part and just slap the paint on. And by paint, I mean any of Tamiya’s clears because they’re the best. And for this example, I used X27.

Technique 2 – Metallic Base

For the next tip, we’re going to be using silver. Any kind of silver, so long as it’s vibrant. You don’t have to thin the paints down. Just flip. We’re going to be painting the other side right here. the underside of it.

Going to be just putting a little bit on it, but covering the whole bottom surface. Just like that. Short, simple, to the point. And then once that’s done, flip it over on the side where you haven’t painted anything at all. You would apply your clear paint and thinly at that.

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I should not have removed this thing from this sprue. Now I’m having difficulty painting it. Come on, stay in one place, please. As you can see, there’s no valid way of doing this. Both are completely valid.

It just depends on what you’re looking for. Um, if you just want a deep, darker look, uh, then you don’t have to prime. You don’t have to do anything with the silver backing. Just go ahead and paint up the clear paint. That’s about it.

Same with this, right? Look at that. Very deep. But if you want a little bit more brightness, reflectiveness, contrast, I would put a silver, a really reflective silver. And I didn’t even do that here. And yet, look, it’s still shining very brightly because of it. It’s nice. Here’s a closer look/comparison with the light shining directly overhead.

Technique 3 – White Base

For this next and last demo, we’re going to be using the base of the Necron Void Dragon, a miniature full of these glowing runes, and we’re going to be taking advantage of that.

So, I’m going to be painting the base off camera, but I did prime him with Vallejo Black. All right, look at that. If you want a tutorial on how to do and paint something like this, uh especially if you’re a Necron player, let me know and I’ll do one for you.

Step one, grab the appropriate uh brush for this panel lining job, which will be for me anyway the P-54 triple0 fits just right.

And any over spill can be counted as a glow effect. Step two is to thin down white paint with glaze medium so it’s extra smooth. And then we will put that onto the trench or the panel line.

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For the final step, we’ll be using Tesseract Glow. And I’ll be adding just a drop of médium de glaçure. Here we go.

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That central trench there a central trench I can’t talk will be the quote unquote main power source of this rock so we can apply just Tesseract Glow on the smaller cracks um you know providing this illusion that it’s not as intense there but there’s Still some power.

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There we go. Just uh start cleaning up any sort of messes to make it more neat and maybe add a bit more layering of the glow. And we’re goober golden. Just bring back the original colors. This is Incubi Darkness by the way. Just keep layering the color on because you know obviously the white is very vibrant.

So initially it looked terrible but the moment you keep layering it and layering it and layering it on with thin coats, the more gradual the coating will look.

Overview

Was that my long- winded way of saying paint white and then the color you want but thinly? Yeah. Yeah, it is. So, to recap, we have just the color itself. Then we have the color but backed by something chrommy or silver, preferably something reflective, right?

A little bit more bright but not as deep. Then we have more of a glowy effect which is backed not by itself or by silver but by white. And if you keep layering on the effect while it dries, the better it will look. Perfect for more environmental effects and armor actually with like the lights like but surrounding the lights.

It’s perfect for that effect. Well, that’s it for me today. Thank you guys so much for watching this light/g glowy rune effect video. Um, hope you had a lot of fun and uh learned something with the three types of ways to do it. Yeah. Thank you guys so much for watching. Have a wonderful and blessed day and I’ll see you guys next time.

Bye-bye.

About the Author:

Paul Catindig As someone who’s been building model kits since he was 8 years old, Paul is very knowledgeable and adept at model kit building! When he’s not building or painting kits, he spends his free time cooking, playing video games with friends, or at a restaurant patio somewhere. Hopes to make his very own movie one day.

*Video by Paul Catindig
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