K47 Grenadier Sections with lightning effect
Quick object source lighting
A few years ago when I was first looking into painting object source lighting on to my minis I read an interesting article. It basically said that if doing OSL on a light coloured mini you can get away with using glazes over the painted model to produce the OSL effect, but if the model is painted darkly you need to mix the light colour in with the base colour and layer on the OSL effect. The latter method sounds too difficult and time consuming for my tastes, but I had the idea by getting the best of both worlds by drybrushing white over darker miniatures first, then using a glaze as if the mini had a light colour scheme.
This is how I do my OSL:
- Paint the mini as normal, including weathering and decals if they are being used.
- Use a small drybrush to drybrush Praxeti White on to the miniature. Start with the brush close to the light source and move away in the path the light would follow. This ensures you highlights catch the same places that the light should catch.
- Apply a glaze or two of your chosen light source colour. In this case I used Lamenters Yellow for the flames OSL and Asurmen Blue for the blue lightning OSL. I should have used Guilliman Blue but picked up the wrong pot so my blue is a bit dark, but that makes the effect easier to see in the pictures.
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