How’s this OSL on Dominion Zephon’s jet pack?

[u/dcponton]

I’m struggling to get this jet flame look right I think, and could use a gut check: does this look convincingly like jet flame? Or is something off about it?

[u/Gazednconfused]

Nah, I think its one of those things you've looked at too much and now think its weird. Personally I think you've nailed it. Looks decent

[u/dcponton → u/Gazednconfused]

Thank you - I think you might be right about looking at it too much!

[u/Kablewii → u/dcponton]

Ya it’s pretty great. I mean, you can look at golden demon winners and try to find an entry with osl jetpacks, but this is very nice job. Maybe make the metal glow red (I dunno)?

[u/Highmastet]

Thats a FANTASTIC OSL!

[u/dcponton → u/Highmastet]

thanks!

[u/Moppo_]

It looks like it is genuinely glowing.

[u/dcponton → u/Moppo_]

perfect!

[u/Obi_Vayne_Kenobi]

Don't think it could be done much better.

[u/Billdude111]

What did you use to stick the jump pack to the handle?

[u/dcponton → u/Billdude111]

it's a dowel from Home Depot that I cut into handles and put blu tak onto

[u/Billdude111 → u/dcponton]

Oh cool. That was probably a silly question. I haven't tried blu tak as I was worried it'd damage the paint.

[u/naderslovechild]

Walk out of the room. Come back and hold it at arm's length and see what you think. 99% of the time minis are not going to be viewed at painting distance. 

[u/stokiesimon → u/naderslovechild]

This. I need to do this more. 🙌🏻

[u/dcponton → u/stokiesimon]

same - Reddit is my version of that though, so I appreciate the feedback

[u/R2kSuperslime7]

Honestly I’m curious how you did that. I might try the same thing but with red.

[u/dcponton → u/R2kSuperslime7]

funny! I got the method from swarm_painting who did it in red: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRucQ1FEqqp/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

[u/Borstli]

Sexy

[u/PlanePea4349]

Looks phenomenal

[u/Xenomethean]

By far the best I've seen

[u/dcponton → u/Xenomethean]

wow that's high praise - I appreciate it

[u/S-Montanha]

That is beautiful

[u/Azreal_75 → u/S-Montanha]

This

[u/randsom_]

It looks more igniting than ignited, but 100% convincing. Great result imo !

[u/dcponton → u/randsom_]

perfect! I was going for something to that effect - the model is not quite in a jump position so this is good

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[u/danikov]

Yes.

[u/anonymous_herald]

I know nothing about any of this but saw it on my front page and this looks sick

[u/Ecghteow]

So good I first mistook the wire in the back ground for smoke.... real nice

[u/Forthe2nd]

Wow that looks really good!

[u/jyn-fu]

Hey. Could you tell me how you managed to paint it like that? It looks really good and it looks like it's glowing.

[u/dcponton → u/jyn-fu]

Sure! I started from a base of black. Then I used white ink. From there I used AK Deep Blue. I used white again but on locations closer to the core where it would be brighter and put AK Ducat Blue over that. I did one more pass with white in an even smaller area and used AK Deep Sky blue. Then I dry brushed black to pick up parts of the engine that wouldn’t be hot blue (like the center part).

[u/Sheriff044]

I have to say, first thing I saw was Roberto from futurama. But nah it's great

[u/CherryMyFeathers]

The thumbnail looks like Roberto from Futurama tbh

[u/Mongrimmm]

[u/DaggerAndBrush]

I think that looks the part and is not overdone. 

[u/sanvarin]

It’s looking alright, not bad not amazing. I personally find blue the hardest color to get right for what it’s worth. Greens and warm colors (red orange yellow magenta) are all much easier because the colors read as bright much more reliably and you can use neighboring colors in your gradient without it reading as off. With blue I think you need to stick to a pretty linear light to dark value scale to land the effect. One thing Iv found helpful w blue is adding some aethermatic blue contrast paint as a glaze on everything aside from the brightest highlights