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barkel

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Does anyone have any tips on how to make real looking lightning? What materials would you use? Is there a sturdy plastic that I accessible?

Also, if I have to resort to using green stuff/sculpey, then I\'m going to have to do a pretty convincing paint job. Are there any good pics of models with lightning?

Or even some good pics of models with a blue glow, either from ice, or magic, or lightning, or anything else?

I have an idea that should be easy, but I need to practice this blue glow thing. Any pics would be wonderful.

much thanks
barkel
 
Dragonsreach

Dragonsreach

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Wow Barkel you\'re not asking much are you?

I\'ve seen people use very thin wire bent into jagged shapes but it always looks false.

Lightening being so fast, leaves trails on the retina which are almost impossible to paint in 3d. The effect you need would be something like NMM but far, far more difficult.

One thing I might suggest, but you could only view it from one direction, is to use a small section of clear plasticard and paint on the lightening strikes. You would need to ensure that this stood out by having a dark background to the figure. Not forgetting that this would have to be painted in reverse, ie brightest line first, mosving away to the softer dispersed glows around the lightening.

Hope that this might put you in the right direction
 
Chrispy

Chrispy

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If you really want to try it, I suggest making a GS model first (or even brownstuff, as it give better edges) and then re-casting it in clear resin. Temperance would be the authoritarian (is that a word?) on this, though...
 
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barkel

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thanks

I\'m probably going to try to sculpt the lighting tonight and paint it tomorrow. I know that it won\'t look exactly like lighting, and it will probably only look \"right\" from one vantage point, as Dragonsreach mentioned.

I thought that I might try to trick the eye by painting a blue glow on everything within the lightnings vicinity. If I pull that off, which I\'m not likely to do, it may draw attention away from the fact that the lightning itself is not realistic.

I was wondering if anyone had ever used anything like water effects. I have seen people make some \"clear\" blue water with Woodland Scenics. I was thinking I might try it for a lightning effect. If I made a lightning mold for the water effects to dry in and maybe mixed some blue ink with it, it might work. Mightn\'t it?

The big problem, and the thing that will probably kill my idea, is that I need the lightning to act as a support for none other than the storm cloud creating it. But, I may have to scrap the idea of the cloud for practicality sake.

barkel

ps. Any more suggestions or pics of blue glow are most appreciated.
 
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JonG

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I\'m sure I recall a diorama on CMON which featured an GW mounted elven wizard lightning-zapping some orcs/goblins while riding through a forest glade. Anyone able to point barkel in the direction of that one? I wouldn\'t know where to start looking for it on here...
 
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smokey

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The big problem, and the thing that will probably kill my idea, is that I need the lightning to act as a support for none other than the storm cloud creating it. But, I may have to scrap the idea of the cloud for practicality sake.

barkel[/quote]

You could use synthetic batting, available at your local fabrics store, for the cloud. this will be wispy enough to look like condensed water vapor (a cloud) be light enough in weight that it shouldn\'t put too much stress on the lightning, and you can paint it as dark as you like. I haven\'t seen any good examples of it online, and I don\'t have a camera, but I used a similar effect for a missle launching space marine I did for my dark angels army.

In fact, if you took tamiya smoke and painted the outside of it pretty dark it would probably look pretty badass.

GOOD LUCK!!
 
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