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I'm having some difficultly deciding how to paint my sergeant's powerfist. I don't like when the fingers of the powerfist are just the same red as the rest of the armour. Do any of you know some good colours to use on the powerfists to make them seem like there "glowing". I know this is refered to as Object sourced lighting (OBL).... but I am having trouble with it. Does anyone have any pictures or suggestions on how to paint the powerfists to get this effect?
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I'm having some difficultly deciding how to paint my sergeant's powerfist. I don't like when the fingers of the powerfist are just the same red as the rest of the armour. Do any of you know some good colours to use on the powerfists to make them seem like there "glowing". I know this is refered to as Object sourced lighting (OBL).... but I am having trouble with it. Does anyone have any pictures or suggestions on how to paint the powerfists to get this effect?

 

 

Use either shadow grey or ice blue depending on how bright you want it to be. Alternatively, you could paint energy crackles along the whole gauntlet. There's probably some tutorials somewhere relating to both.

Hmmm, I've been thinking of doing my powerfists based black and then highlighted with either a progressive blue - white or progressive orange - yellow - white. I like the idea of OsL so it'll be highlighted as if there is a ball of light at the fingertips ie heavy highlights at the fingers.

 

I must admit though, I haven't yet tried this method. So hopefully it works.

 

Yours in Honour and Faith,

Chaplain Hiltraud

For some reason I always thought that the powerfist's colour is black not red, but I'm not sure...

 

From 2nd edition onwards Terminators have traditionally had a black left hand but its independent of the weapon: thunder hammer and power swords also had* black gauntlets, whilst lightning claw marines had one red claw and one black. I don't think I've ever seen GW put a black powerfist on a red power armoured BA.

 

* current studio sgt has a red gauntlet but the lightning claw termies still have 1 red 1 black.

What I'm really confused about is the direction of the glow. Does the brightest part go towards the finger tips, or it is the brightest paint closer to the glove. I want to start with a colour like blue.. or probably purple and move it up to a white.

If you want to make something seem like it is glowing, you need to paint it in reverse to the 'games workshop' style of highlighting. The brightest, and therefore white light will be closest to the source, with the colour bleeding out into the rest of the surface.

 

Ex Rackham painter Cyril Abati has a fantastic step by step guide using Space Marine eyes as an example.

 

http://neomodel.free.fr/tuto/tuto-casque-sm.html

Wow. I tried to paint a powerfist diferently to what I normally do. I think it looks terrible!! Don't take my painting advice when it comes to powerfists. Sounded good to me in theory! But yeah here's some pics for yall to look at though before I repaint this mess this arvo.

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Yours in Honour and Faith,

Chaplain Hiltraud

PS This should be called "don't drink and paint. At 2am"

I paint mine black. It started with the terminator's PFist tradition, black fists to symbolize the Rage, but I think it looks good on an powerfist. My only question is going to come when I'm painting my Sanguinary Guard. Black fist, or keep it gold?
I paint mine black. It started with the terminator's PFist tradition, black fists to symbolize the Rage, but I think it looks good on an powerfist. My only question is going to come when I'm painting my Sanguinary Guard. Black fist, or keep it gold?

 

Black would be a good contrast for gold actually. If you don't like it it's always easy to paint gold over a black basecoat :)

I've done one with the yellow and black striping, and a steel color for the fingers. All of mine have a steel color for the fingers, but another few I have one is black with a nice big blood drop hand painted on, the others are the red armour color with either blood drops/skulls or laurals.

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