 Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video and today we're gonna do an oft-requested topic We're gonna talk all about fluorescent paints how to use them what they're good at most importantly what they're bad at Let's get into it. Let's strict technomancer that is Vinci V Let us get to the technique and learn it Vinci V Now I love bright poppy colors There are many fluorescent paints on the market and I think a lot of times when you first Look at these paints or think about getting these paints You're sort of after the gimmick aspect if I want to make my miniature glow in the dark Now yes, some of these paints do glow in the dark But I'm just gonna go ahead and ignore that because actually that's just kind of silly and doesn't really do anything Like it's a funny me defect, but it's not really what we care about when we're painting Now despite that these things have an incredibly wide array of uses and frequently show up in my paint schemes However, they are a very very tricky paint to use So let's begin by just talking about what's out there There are a lot of different both fluorescent paints and pigments you can purchase Here you can see a lot of them laid out and as I said There's things like golden and war colors and scale 75 Vallejo makes some AK makes some and on and on and on There are a bunch of these Not all of these paints are equal Some of them are pretty good at what they do some of them are not Let's start with the colors Now you're going to see five sort of main colors when it comes to fluorescence pink orange yellow or some kind of chartreuse green and blue Now that blue we can go ahead and take that and just get that right out of here That is useless Pink fluorescent paint is great good for magical effects Sort of if you've got pop magenta lights or that kind of thing or an under shade of magenta awesome Orange great for fire effects all sorts of things like that Yellow good for just general brightening up or if you want a really intense light source If you want something that's actually giving off like yellow light and green That's good for your sort of warpstone or poison or anything like that any kind of toxic effect is really good Those four colors are really the fluorescence that you can work in Fluorescent blues aren't really fluorescent or even that bright a blue. They're just kind of Awful, so let's just throw those away The next thing you're going to notice when it comes to fluorescent paints is that they have wildly different consistencies Here I have three fluorescent paints on my palette One from golden one from warcolors and one from AK interactive third generations line Now you'll notice there is some slight tonal variation in the three of these But all three of these are really pretty poppy fluorescent pinks The golden is very liquidy the warcolors is very gummy the AK is somewhere in the middle more like a traditional miniature paint What's true about all fluorescent paints though is that they are super translucent and their coverage Sucks if you've ever tried to paint with fluorescence and just said I don't get it these don't work at all How do you apply this paint? Well, don't worry. We're gonna help you out Let's take a look at three different Skaven these three Skaven are in sort of different states of priming One is just black one has a weak zenithal and one has a reinforced Zenithal so that is to say I've gone in and put paint over the top of the zenithal either through dry brush or layering or You know a value sketch. It doesn't matter. We got it to more of a pure white When I apply that pink over The black it looks like crap. It doesn't cover anything You know, it's just it's doing nothing and it doesn't matter if I use the high-flow golden Or if I use the much thicker warcolors, it's just not doing anything Now if I go to the gray paint Sorry, the sort of midway step the basic light zenithal Here I have some effect, but it's still quite weak and again Regardless of which paint I use whether the golden or the much thicker warcolors You're just getting an incredibly translucent spotty uneven effect. Now. Let's go to the white So this is the fully popped Fully popped zenithal with the extra layers the sort of full value sketch where we go all the way up to white Here finally we see the fluorescent paint shine in This situation it really pops And that pink explodes off the miniature Creating a much more vibrant effect Really showing its true color and creating something that pops and basically nearly blows out the lens on my camera So it's looking almost overtly bright That's exactly the first key when you're using fluorescence. It's got to go over something bright It's got to go over White or something near white you can use off-color pastels Ivories things like that, but do keep in mind and you can use this to your advantage That you're the temperature of your under shade will also affect the fluorescent since it is so translucent If you use something like a glacier blue then your fluorescent pink will feel much more cold If you use something like an ice yellow or a very warm ivory, it's gonna feel much more warm That temperature will absolutely shine through to the surface layer now of course fluorescence aren't just good for You know making an entire miniature pink There's probably not much call in the world for hot pinkscaven though. I think there should be Even in our normal miniature painting We can integrate fluorescence to really bring a lot of pop and visual interest and color and tonal variation into our models So here we have a little goblin. His skin is just base-coated green I'm going to start by just applying Effectively an ivory over the top of that where I want the highlights to be I start with a thin layer That's going to be somewhat translucent and kind of cover those areas the fingers the knuckles the top of the arm and so forth and Then going back to the paint I go ahead and grab a little thicker version or a little less You know more of a like a layer version and I put that over those areas I want really poppy so now we have a basically a transition from green to Sort of white to really white or really ivory Now when I run the fluorescent green over that what I get is this really beautiful highlight It acts like a glaze Because fluorescence are naturally so translucent. They're effectively glazes out of the bottle So there's no need to do extra work to thin them down though. You can as we'll see in just a moment But because they're acting like a glaze they're both hiding the transition in between the various layers And also then reacting with that under shade in really interesting ways Where all of a sudden I'm getting some really nice tonal progression in that space. I Can also take the fluorescence and mix it with the base tone And it's a great way to just get some poppy high up our higher step colors or mid-tones to transition between the two So I in other words I can take that original deep green plus the fluorescent green work them into a 5050 mix and smooth that transition even more again Because the fluorescent is so translucent it will naturally make a thin layer a thin glaze It'll be much easier to work with for you to create those transition covers if you have problems or challenges thinning paints And at the same time, it's really making your model pop. Now, of course fluorescence can also be used for more traditional purposes For example fluorescent orange. I used here in Our vampire friends cape to show the reflective fire So certainly that is a great use if you really want to catch like a Fire effect of flaming sword working just a little bit of it. It shouldn't be the whole effect But just to show those really bright edges or that area of extreme glow of extreme OSL That can make it really pop. So for things like OSL Magical effects anything like that fluorescent paints can really be your best friend In each case The key here is it needs to go over a bright undertone like something like white and it needs to be used sparingly The less is more effect is very very much the rule of the day now it wouldn't be a hobby cheating video if I didn't leave you with one cool bonus trick and That is using fluorescence as an under shade themselves. So let's go back to our scaven. I Started by laying down the white. I put the fluorescent pink over the top and it popped. There we go We've got a nice bright extreme pink But let's actually integrate some red So here I have Golden's bold pyro red and I'm just gonna put it over sort of the gray part of the manager You can see what we get is a pretty flat pretty boring red and that's because we know red Much like the fluorescent colors itself needs to go over brighter colors When you're putting red over grays like this, you just get something that's fairly washed out red like the fluorescence is quite translucent If we look at the front of the miniature here, I've done the value sketch if I put the red over top I can get a pretty decent red It's not bad and a couple of applications of it will give me something that's pretty bright pretty good I got a nice bright pretty intense red But if I put that red over the fluorescent pink Some of that fluorescent power is gonna come through that highly translucent red And when it does so it's really gonna make it explode and make it feel much more vibrant So if you have a challenge with your reds feeling kind of dead kind of lifeless Using something like a fluorescent pink underneath can actually make the red be much more explosive much more intense in the color it resolves You can do the same trick with other translucent colors. So translucent yellow or sorry fluorescent yellows under your yellow tones Translute or fluorescent oranges under your translucent orange and so on and so forth using it specifically in the highlight areas normally Where you want that color to be super super duper intense and reflect that highlight in a really punchy way That's where you want to use it. So again, you're not base coating the miniature in the fluorescent less is still more But you're using it to really pop those intense areas of color out Where you want to show that it's really vibrant. So there you go. That's fluorescent paints I do hope that gave you some good ideas for how to use these This has been something people have requested a lot. I hope this helps you out if you're watching this Hey, give it a like if you liked it subscribe for additional hobby cheating in the future We have new videos here every Saturday. 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