The SECRET to Great Glow Effects!

[@athollmcnicoll1028]

What gets me about most models painted up and shown on various channels is the depiction that everywolrd is bathed in sunlight, same as on Earth / Terra but out in the depths of Space who is to say what light there is and what colour variations there are ?

[@HereticsHeroes]

Yep, you can do some great things by changing the environment

[@Tekkaman76]

one of the nicest applications of the glow effect I have seen!

[@HereticsHeroes]

Thanks so much

[@justinr4941]

25 seconds in on the first one of your videos I’ve ever seen and I subscribed. I love this channel already. Top notch quality in all aspects. Damn nice work!🤟🏻

[@HereticsHeroes]

Hell yeah glad to have you aboard

[@ericelson1781]

Good job Nick

[@hedu5017]

Amazing paintjob and really helpful tips, really keen to try this myself!

[@HereticsHeroes]

Glad to be of some help

[@wasteyelo1]

Cool to see black 4.0 being used on miniatures. You're the first painter I've seen using it, so far. Cool paint job

[@HereticsHeroes]

I managed to get an early access bottle of it so I may actually be the first Miniature painter using it on YT

[@DLoc83]

Love this so much, I'm starting painting again after a long time and your vid came up. Subscribed. Gonna have a look at your other vids now 😃

[@HereticsHeroes]

Awesome! Thanks for the support!

[@luke7834]

Great paintjob bud, got yourself a new sub and OH MY GOD THAT DOG IS A BEAR!

[@HereticsHeroes]

Sub for the models, stay for the dog

[@thePaintedDesk]

That looks great! I've found that hitting the model with a coat of AK ultramatt (before the black 4.0, it kills the finish of that) helps push the OSL even further, by eliminating the shine from the actual lights in the room

[@HereticsHeroes]

Yeah I use the AK ultramatte varnish a lot, but I didn't find it particularly necessary for this piece.

[@ChibsterofNurgy]

Subbed. Easy to understand and follow. Great tutorial.

[@HereticsHeroes]

Glad you liked it

[@KazuYuuu]

Fantastic painting tutorial! I love the emphasis on the saturation of color. I used to basically "dilute" the color of my paints by adding white in an attempt to make them appear brighter for lighting, and it always felt off until getting some fluorescent or highly saturated pigments. It's a game changer.

[@HereticsHeroes]

It really is super important! And you don't even need any special paints to do it, everything I used here was either GW or a standard Vallejo paint.

[@AgentEmbey]

Very solid tutorial. I'll try and employ some of these techniques when I find a model that begs for osl.

[@MisterTingles]

nice tutorial, boiling down of the crucial points is gonna help me practice effectively, and the editing is pretty stellar. great work.

[@HereticsHeroes]

Thanks I've been trying to learn as much about editing as I can lately. Glad it paid off.

[@Smoke11o3]

That was some great informative entertainment! I'm going to attempt some lighting effects on my Weirdboy and I'm definately going to keep a tab open with this video.

[@HereticsHeroes]

Glad you liked it and I hope it helps with your painting

[@thalliwell100]

Really nice, love the candles in particular!

[@HereticsHeroes]

Me too, I think they really make the whole model

[@SciFiPorkChop28]

This is a great tutorial, love the model, the concept, and the mix of skills used!!! Glad I found this channel!

[@HereticsHeroes]

Glad you enjoyed it! I'll strive to continue making good stuff!

[@Dalmango]

Amazing tutorial

[@HereticsHeroes]

Amazing viewer

[@Octo-Genius]

this is a great tutorial. I'm going to try some of this on my MCP Immortal Hulk, for his eyes and maybe some glowing veins. Get him real monstery.

[@HereticsHeroes]

Sounds like a fun project. Happy to provide some inspiration.

[@JonSteitzer]

Dude your content rocks

[@HereticsHeroes]

Thanks! I'm trying hard to make it entertaining and informative.

[@abrahambardalez4703]

Did you use florescent paint for the green or yellow? What florescent paint is recommended for miniatures?

[@HereticsHeroes]

Nope, all standard acrylics. Vallejo and GW paints.

[@robpaintsminiatures]

Nice tutorial... OSL is fun but takes some patience and trial and error

[@HereticsHeroes]

Patience: definitely. Trial and error: hopefully not too much after the video 😜

[@Mordraqq]

Glow effects dude, c'mon dazzle me !

[@s7r49]

Any inkling as to what the greenstufworld osl white airbrush effects paint is for? I asked them what makes it different than other whites and they just said its good for osl lol. I was thinking maybe it has a super small piggment size or something but i cant honestly figure out what purpose it serves

[@HereticsHeroes]

My guess is that it's just a very intense white that's intended to be airbrushed on to a surface you want to glow first, and then you glaze on the glow color on top. That's not the process I use since I don't have an airbrush, but I have seen others do something similar and get good results.

[@s7r49]

​@@HereticsHeroes ah It's coming with the extras/fx pack for a super dark black paint kickstarter thing i backed with them so i was curious about it. but I think there's a language barrier haha. I actually just got one of those cheap battery powered yygywen airbrushes a few other mini painters reviewed and was kinda shocked how good it works for 50 bucks so i guess ill have to buy something glowing and try it out xD i was just using it for base coats but i guess i should get more use out of it since it works better than i expected.

[@Valandar2]

Actually, the saturated colors are only to a point. Once you hit the "peak" of that color, you DO want to go desaturated. Look at a lightsaber - only the outer edges are the saber color, and the core glows white. However, only the absolutely brightest bits would be white or near-white. In fact, most of the not that good OSL I see is where they go straight to the absolute most saturated color. It ends up looking like it got sprayed by a splat of a bucket of paint. And the other major issue I tend to see is the falloff - they use the same amount of illumination from a light source, no matter the distance from that light source.

[@HereticsHeroes]

The reason I pointed out the saturation was because even though you do want to get to white or near white at the center, if you just mix in white to get there your colors will get dull along the way and it will compromise the appearance of intensity from light.

[@johncerasi]

This is a little too spooky 😅 had to watch under the covers 😮