This is an excellent black/Dark Lume tutorial made by Fleed: memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4421
Original Thread: http://www.repgeek.com/showthread.php?t ... =dark+lume
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Hi all!
this is a quick pictorial/tutorial about how to make dark lume for your Phantom/Stealth projects. To make dark lume you'll need:
-Luminous pigment (Superluminova, Noctilumina, gx-pigments...)
-Binder / varnish
-Graphite powder
-Mixing cup
If you don't have graphite powder, you can make it yourself;
Just rub a pencil tip back and forth over an emery board (best to work over a scrap piece of paper) until you have a small pile.
Once you have the graphite powder ready, you can start.
1.) put some varnish in the mixing cup
2.) ad a small (very small) amount of the graphite powder
3.) stir it with the binder till you get a dark-Grey body color.
4.) Ad luminous pigment and stir it again during 30 seconds
This is how the dark lume should look now
If you like it darker you can add more graphite powder.
Once your lume is ready, do some test on a white base before starting with the re-lume work.
This is how the dark lume glows compared to a "clean pigment".
This is a quick example of how the lume looks like once it's applied:
These are some samples of a less dark lume (Grey)
Thank you for reading,
fleed
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Original Thread: http://www.repgeek.com/showthread.php?t ... =dark+lume
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Hi all!
this is a quick pictorial/tutorial about how to make dark lume for your Phantom/Stealth projects. To make dark lume you'll need:
-Luminous pigment (Superluminova, Noctilumina, gx-pigments...)
-Binder / varnish
-Graphite powder
-Mixing cup
If you don't have graphite powder, you can make it yourself;
Just rub a pencil tip back and forth over an emery board (best to work over a scrap piece of paper) until you have a small pile.
Once you have the graphite powder ready, you can start.
1.) put some varnish in the mixing cup
2.) ad a small (very small) amount of the graphite powder
3.) stir it with the binder till you get a dark-Grey body color.
4.) Ad luminous pigment and stir it again during 30 seconds
This is how the dark lume should look now
If you like it darker you can add more graphite powder.
Once your lume is ready, do some test on a white base before starting with the re-lume work.
This is how the dark lume glows compared to a "clean pigment".
This is a quick example of how the lume looks like once it's applied:
These are some samples of a less dark lume (Grey)
Thank you for reading,
fleed
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