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Hello everyone here is a quick video I made about painting crystal blades/powerswords. It's a pretty common topic that has been covered before I know but in this video I will discuss in more depth how I go about getting the cleanest and smoothest results on special effects such as these.  

I am working on creating a lot more of these shorter and more in depth videos on particular topics as well as the usual longer format full tutorials. I would like to build up the library of content here on the Patreon and make specific topics easier to find instead of being hidden as part of larger projects. Moving forward I would like to add a few of these every month on top of the regular content.

PDF guides are also in the works for a lot of these videos ,including older tutorials, for those of you who prefer having a written guide. Just another way of adding some extra value for the monthly sub cost and a token of my appreciation for your incredible support so far.

Look out for the next quick video later on today for hazard cables.

Hope you are all having a great weekend! 


-Dave

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Robert

Great wee video, Dave! Thank you.

Hellglazer Painting

Gorgeous! Inspired to get my Eldrad blade done 🤘🔥

Nemrex

Yippee!

timofthestars

Ghostly music to match an ethereal blade? Very appropriate! I liked the emphasis on being patient, controlling the amount of paint used in each layer and need for subtlety. These videos just keep getting better and better :D

VVenture

Awesome video dude, honestly felt like a really great tutorial for glazing/blending with how much it was used and how gently it had to be used to get the right effect.

Jacob

Mr Brush. Is there a particular reason why you paint wearing gloves?

infernalbrush

Hey Jacob. Yeah there's a couple of reasons why I personally like to wear gloves. It protects the parts when handling them ensuring I don't accidentally rub off any highlights and secondly I paint on my hand quite a lot to remove the excess paint and test consistency before applying the brush to the miniature, so it just keeps my hands clean from paint.

infernalbrush

Thank you Tim! Yeah I think it's important to show the as much of that as possible and the patience required for glazing.

Anthony O'Donnell

Enjoying these shorter in depth videos on various topics, thank you :)

A.S. Miniatures

I love this sword ! Thanks for the great content ! :)

Bourru 63

Hi Dave ! It's a shame that the Patreon player does not offer automatic translation of subtitles. For non-native speakers like me, this is a very important feature of Youtube, especially when you speak very quickly like at the beginning of the video. Furthermore, the subtitle system offered by Patreon is very difficult to read and makes a lot of timing and superposition errors. I really miss the time when your videos were also available on the Youtube player...

infernalbrush

Hello, yeah I understand that the Patreon player is far from perfect at the moment I hope they continue to improve it as it's only a feature they added last year and I think its still in development. I would suggest reaching out to Patreon and letting them know there are issues with it.

SHOGUN40k

Just magnificent 😁🔥

Bourru 63

Good idea ! I can imagine that this feature is complicated to set up because most automatic translators are proprietary. Actually the basic feature is already better today. Like always thanks for your quick response. ;)

David Hardy

Thanks for this, these shorter videos are fantastic. Do you use a home made wet pallet or an off the shelf one?

Jacob

Righto! I always found them uncomfortable or sweaty. Used them for years at work when I was a body piercer. Maybe I should try some that don’t become so sweaty. If there’s such a type.

Roktul

Just awesome! Thank you for the Guide.

infernalbrush

I just use one of the smaller Red Grass wet palettes but I use baking parchment instead of the paper that comes with it. I should make a video on this!

David Hardy

Thanks for the reply. I use the the same V1 version but I find the paper provided isn’t very good. Seeing your set up, how you thin paints and loading your brush would be so helpful.

Giuseppe Nicola Ancona

Great tutorial, really inspiring as all your videos! May I ask how we should deal with the other side of the sword? I mean, light and shadow position remains the same or we need to invert it (light spot on side A = dark spot on side B) ? For double edge sword I guess we go exactly as in this tutorial where the flat part counts as the second edge. Hope I will never find a double edged sword with a center flat panel… 😅

infernalbrush

Hey Giuseppe. He s holding the sword fairly flat on the final pose so I would probably invert the shading and highlights and then apply some secondary reflections in a similar way. I would also push the top side of the blade slightly brighter as it's going to be reflecting more light than the underside. I hope this helps. I still need to finish the rendering on the other side as I've been busy with other projects but when it's finished I will post some reference shots, in the meantime the box art version is a good reference for this although sadly there is no 360 shots on the website currently.

Jonathan Harman

Fantastic video again, thank you so much Dave. I wonder if you were going to do a red power blade what colours you would go for and how far would you push that highlight to avoid pink? Thinking about trying it out on a Space Marine power blade for a bit of nostalgia

Darran

Hello Dave, nice video, thanks, May I ask what model the blade is from?

infernalbrush

Hey Jonathan that's a tricky one I would probably use something a bit more muted for the highlights, a slightly orange flesh colour perhaps like Cadian Fleshtone instead of pure white. You could then add white into that for the furthest highlights. It's quite tricky to highlight red with a strong value contrast without it dipping into pink but adding a touch of orange or yellow brings some saturation back in without it looking too orange. Hope that helps

Jonathan Harman

Cheers Dave, that's helps a lot. These shorter videos covering some more universal materials are great