glowing powerfist, how to?

[Lonewolf]

i'm wanting to paint a glowing powerfist on a miniature im doing but i'm struggling to get it to look right.
i know i've seen some good ons about but cant find any examples now i want them

can anyone shed some light on the subject? (excuse the pun)

[arctica]

Well kinda sounds like you're going for an OSL effect with the fist as the source itself, i would recommend a dark model to start with and a dark coloured base to really help emphasise the fist itself. That would be my initial thought and then place highlights from the fist around the exposed area of the model.

[Demi_morgana]

Shawn R.L. made top tutorial for painting osl - just browse cmon articles

[Lonewolf]

well i gave it a go.
Once the competitions done i'll post a piicy so you can see how it turned out

[mahon]

yep, the more obvious you want the glow to be, the darker model you should paint. remember about strong shadows from strong light.

[Skeeve]

I would say it depend on the predominant color of your miniature.
You can either do classic OSL starting from light blue (almost white actually) core and do a series of transition toward you base color.
The way I did it once was almost a reverse highlighting. You put light blue in fist's recesses and then blend it to you base color on flat parts of the fist in such a way that fist is generally dark but glowing from inside. IN my case it worked because the miniature was a dark templar, so between black and bright blue I had sufficient contrast to pull it off. I am not sure how well that second way will work, say, on a red or a blue marine.