I'd be happy to share! I primed everything with Alclad primer which comes out a light grey. I masked some of the areas that were going to have the glow effect but not all. I was partly feeling my way as I went.Originally Posted by VGMStudios
Once the parts were painted their main colours (blue, black, red and white), I masked off the parts, leaving exposed the areas that the glow effects were due to go - this was painstaking and took ages. I painted the areas white first, then a custom pink in circles leaving it a little more pale on the inside. Then around the outside of the areas I painted purple, again leaving it lighter on the inside, darker towards the outside. All the painting up until this point was done with an airbrush.
From there, I took all the masking off and by hand did touch ups surrounding the glow areas to make sure it was all nice and clean (still have a few pieces to finish this process on!). I then used thinned down dark purple and used a panel lining technique to catch all the darker edges of the glow areas. Finally, I used a 50% mix of clear and white acrylic paint and sprayed very lightly with the airbrush in the centre of all the glow areas to highlight them. The effect of this particular technique is more visible the larger the areas.
The finger tips were done with this technique, but I didn't do the last step as the areas were just too small.
Hope the explanation is clear enough! Any questions, just ask.
Soon!!
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