3 Easy and Fast Ways to Paint a Power Sword

You don't always have time to paint the perfect Power Sword, but even if you are batch painting or speed painting, you still want to have a nice energy effect on your minis.
In this video I am showing 3 ways, one fully with brush and two with an airbrush, to paint a power sword effect fast and easy. These techniques work for Warhammer, Infinity, or any other Sci fi wargames.
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[@ph3lansminiatures]

Hey guys! Which method do you like the most? Do you have an easier way to do a power sword?

[@adamsnellgrove7522]

The first one looks the best and doesn't seem "that" complicated

[@cowboydan3663]

Excellent work, I liked the first option best

[@fruityscone1736]

All three we're great techniques to be honest, thank you for sharing. I think the airbrush can really shine for things like this but can be time consuming when it comes to the fiddly masking stage, again great to see three super simply techniques. Personally I liked the third technique.

[@crae100]

Liked the third one best. I know you know this but the edge highlight also being a gradient makes it even more smoothe.

[@jamesbide-thomas6745]

Thank you! This is wonderfully simple and easy to follow.

[@Samanar]

Great tutorial! For the easier & faster method there're of course artist oil paints. They naturally blend one into another with simple brush stroke, acrylics can't really compare at all. I've recently did the following - blended transition on power sword in like 30 seconds and came later with acrylics to edge highlight - best of both worlds :) One hint when playing with oils though - you need to basically drybrush them, wipe almost all of the paint off - if not it'll dry forever. Cheers!

[@ph3lansminiatures]

That's a great idea. I use oils here and there, especially for washes, but I haven't tried them for power swords yet 😅 I'll definitively give it a shot, thanks for sharing!

[@benjaminargus9563]

Going to try method one with vallejo fluro purple, have been looking for a tute just like this

[@knightsljx]

contrast paints will do in 1 layer what the fluorescent paints does in layers. I use Xpress Color Mystic Blue for blue power swords

[@ph3lansminiatures]

You can definitely do it with contrast paints or Inks as well, but there is going to be a big difference in vibrancy. The fluorescent paint will look brighter and much more colorful, than any contrast in my experience. (but the contrast is easier to apply for sure).

[@nacidocoqui]

Hello, data gathering before I try my hand at power swords, and I happen to have that same blue (I use it over liquid silver for eye lenses); so it's the same steps with the diluted white like in the video, and then straight Xpress overall, or diluted a bit?

[@TheKenji2221]

I like n3 the most

[@oktoberbabyfee]

The first one (green) is best.

[@adamsnellgrove7522]

00:14 I feel targeted But a really good guide! I like the first one the most and will try it hopefully with my Eldar Corsairs

[@ph3lansminiatures]

This one was definitely done only for you, Adam 😀

[@larsgottlieb]

I'm sorry. You painted THAT in 4-5 minutes? How? That's at least an hour for me, probably three.

[@ph3lansminiatures]

To be fair, these were done in the easiest possible way that I could think of. My friend challenged me to come up with a way to paint swords faster since he was not willing to put in more time :D Normally, I would spend way more time on a sword for much better results, but if you are painting a squad or a whole army with a lot of stabby things, 5 minutes per model sounds much better than 1 hour and might be worth the drop in quality :D

[@larsgottlieb]

@@ph3lansminiatures I'm just amazed at the speed you claim to be able to pull that quality off in.
I definitely can't, and I've been painting for many years - not calling you a liar, just impressed (o: