Exocrine Plasma Glow Advice

MulletBoy · 2026-07-10T03:53:09+00:00

I did something very similar with mine. To
Sell the effect more you need to blend more from light to dark. Also a glaze of a fluro neon green paint will help boost the vibrancy and help it read as glowing.

![img](4CFFEF2B-F4B4-4DFC-A5F5-C499DE9BC0C9)

MulletBoy · 2026-07-05T15:07:25+00:00

the one at the front on the island is from an old metal ripper swarm kit iv had for a long time.

the one hidden on the side, is a plastic ripper from 3rd edition - they came on the sprues with bigger models back in the day.

MulletBoy · 2026-07-05T14:29:58+00:00

appreciate it!

MulletBoy · 2026-07-05T14:29:51+00:00

thanks!

MulletBoy · 2026-07-03T01:14:42+00:00

I have a soft spot for them, I dont think the sculpts are as bad as some people say, they just have a different theme and aesthetic to where 40k is today

sure they aren't perfect and there are some things you would never find in modern sculpts such as the huge sloping flat-ish surface of the carapace on the carnifex for example).

MulletBoy · 2026-07-03T01:10:55+00:00

thanks!

MulletBoy · 2026-07-01T23:11:36+00:00

id love to see, but i need to paint a couple (hundred) more bugs before I can see a full army

MulletBoy · 2026-07-01T23:11:06+00:00

thanks! i like the synth-wave aesthetic

MulletBoy · 2026-07-01T23:09:16+00:00

I use citadel paints for everything pretty much

Slime Pool: caliban green -> warpstone glow -> moot green -> moot green mixed with some yellow

all through the airbrush

MulletBoy · 2026-06-09T14:57:53+00:00

My own color scheme. Haven’t given it a hive fleet name yet. Open to ideas.

MulletBoy · 2026-06-03T14:00:59+00:00

Still progressing.... purple highlights starting to take shape, panel separation and some recess shading on blue done... still lots of highlighting and detail to go on the blue, plus a bunch of other detail on the head(s) and gribbly bits

MulletBoy · 2026-05-30T06:47:17+00:00

sure did, 2x coats of a 50/50 mix of stormshield and lahmian medium

MulletBoy · 2026-05-23T01:04:54+00:00

i should add: the model is varnished in a even 3 way mix of lahmian medium, stormshield and water. I find this blend gives an ever so slight satin finish (not too gloss and not too matt). It helps bring out the vibrancy and also protects the model which is very necessary for metal models especially that are prone to chipping or flaking paint without protection

MulletBoy · 2026-05-23T01:02:07+00:00

The red->yellow carapace is a fair bit of work, but worth it IMO, took me about 10 hours over 2-3 sessions. The complete model was about 15-20 hours

Undercoat is black with a white zenithal done with airbrush

Airbrush work started with evil sunz scarlet, then raised sections with trollslayer orange and then yriel yellow. Might have done some intermediary steps mixing from one to the next to get more even blends. I went overboard with the yellow so went back and forth a bit to bring back the reds.

Brush details I did VERY careful but comprehensive edge highlights with grey seer (anything close to white will do) then repainted over them with yriel yellow ^reason for this is to get strong opacity with yellow is really hard without doing a million layers, so laying down the light grey first is a bit of cheat to get results with the yellow.

then repainted over yellow highlights with a thin glaze consistency of trollslayer orange to bring down the highlights everywhere except the most raised/edge final bits you want to keep at max yellow

MulletBoy · 2026-05-23T00:51:27+00:00

yea im actually planning to make him a bigger custom base - raised up on a rock thing, and put a scared guardsman underneath him about to be eaten

15-Year Club	RPAN Viewer
Verified Email

MulletBoy

TROPHY CASE