 Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video and today we're gonna talk about creating and painting lightning. This is a weird one but it's fun. This is a quick little tip. I'm starting with a very small gauge paper clip. I just bend it out into you know something more roughly straight so I get a little piece and we're gonna grab ourselves a pair of pliers and we're just gonna start creating interesting bends and notice that I rotate it in multiple directions so you get something that's not just it doesn't it shouldn't be bent along one axis like I'm flipping it around 90 degrees turning it so I get something that's really crooked and bent in a lot of interesting different shapes right switching directions falling back stuff like that you can cut a lot of different little pieces and cut different size pieces you don't need to really plan it out just grab yourself some little pliers and start putting some bends in some paper clips it's real easy and fast right and once you've got a good supply of these built up you just kind of keep them it could be a little lightning thing this is great for an effect jumping off of power swords or coming out of casters spellcasters hands or whatever now what I'll usually do is connect it between the weapon and something else but here I'm gonna show you how I just put it on a base to make some little lightning striking so I start by getting some gel glue and we're gonna touch that into the glue and then put on a little accelerant so it stays in one place now I'm gonna screw this up right away because I let it fall the first time I did that was and that was me not being patient you know be patient so I put on some new glue and then to da now we got a little bolt so generally the other end of that would be at a weapon or something and you'll see how I actually do it in just a moment and they take another piece and then the key is you want to try to line it up with the other piece there in some way so you put the two pieces together so that they're touching as I did right there and now you've got a little split bolt and so the key is you just make different sizes like those two were roughly the same size but if I was gonna do a whole thing I would cut another little piece maybe a tiny one attach it down at the bottom right whatever and now they're nice and strong you can pick those up you can see here this is a big model full of lightning some of that's already modeled on but I added extra bolts to him this is the big sitan guy he comes with lightning but he didn't have enough lightning for me I wanted more connections to the actual ground so I made I saw you can see where I maybe you can see I don't know but I added extra bolts to it so now we're just gonna paint it I'm gonna make this pink lightning because I'm a crazy person like that I think pink lightning looks cool like volcanic lightning volcanic ash lightning is pink so I actually start with some contrast magos or vulpus sorry vulpus pink and what I'm doing is just I'm gonna base coat that entire all the bolt with it if you're gonna do blue lightning just pick a nice blue color like a contrast paint something is real liquidy real inky something that flows really well because painting these fully round three-dimensional surfaces are really annoying because you will miss spots left and right so get a big brush get a bunch of paint on your brush something like a contrast or an ink is the perfect place to start you in blue start with a deeper blue if you're doing purple lightning start with a deep purple if you're doing pink lightning start with a nice deep pink like this okay but that's the point you just base coat the whole thing just get all the lightning that color easy peasy so then once I have all that lightning that color the key is we now need to make it actually look like lightning and to do that we're just gonna do some traditional layering and we're gonna focus those highlights in on the areas where the bolts come together or change direction or you know sort of have a or end so in other words you just need to pick areas to create contrast to go from light to dark so I'm just slowly integrating some pastel violet into my pink color my magenta that I'm using here and I'm just adding it adding it adding it adding it slowly layering up and building it brighter and brighter and brighter and once I get you know so we get those really really bright hot points that look near white where either there's multiple bolts touching or where the lightning ends or where there's a big sudden direction change in a break and that'll create this nice contrasting variance between super light and super dark once you've done a bunch that you just take a little bit of a magenta you work it down to a glaze or whatever your mate your original color was and you smooth out those blends that's really all there is to it lightning is super simple it's it's fun to paint and it creates a lot of instant contrast all over your model so it's it's really a great time that's it this is a real short one so I hope you enjoyed this if you did give it a like subscribe for additional hobby cheating in the future don't forget to hit that bell if you want 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