Warpstone Glow

 Here's my first go at doing warpstone glow - object source lighting effects - with the airbrush on a model. It's a little bit scary to do, because it involves painting the miniature to a reasonable finish standard, then very carefully spraying the lighting effect on the miniature with the airbrush.

Because it requires a lot of control of the brush, controlling the directional spray of the paint to hit the correct area, as well as balancing the air flow and amount of paint that gets atomised and blown out, I had a few practice runs on some paper first. You definitely want to practice controlling the paint mixing so you can do a very light coloring to get the feathering. You don't want to accidentally blast the spot with full color! Also draw some lines on your practice paper, and practice hitting those spots with the brush. Try varying the distance you hold the brush from the paper as well, and notice how that affects the intensity of the spray too. Once you've got it mastered, try it on the miniature.

I just took my time and carefully built up the glows using very light applications of color. Try to have an idea of how intense you want the glow to be, and whether it casts light off on nearby parts of the model too. Is it just a very slight glow, or does it cast light up under the head, or onto a shield, etc.

Once I'd applied the glow effect, I carefully went back and painted in the crystal using the brush, edging with Scorpion Green, and a Golden Yellow highlight, with an extreme highlight on the edges of the crystal using spots of Skull White.

I'm absolutely thrilled with how it came out, and its building my confidence more in using the airbrush. There are some excellent tutorials for airbrush usage by Ichiban on Youtube which are worth checking out if your just getting started with an airbrush. I can't wait to dig out my Ghost Knights and have a go at doing them now.