Tesseract Glow - First Impressions on the New Citadel Paint! 

The mixing ball I added was The Army Painter's Mixing Ball, specifically designed for this purpose :)

A bue version of this would be really nice for power swords and the like.

A wargaming store owner who's been giving me painting advice to noob me suggested using this along with Hexwraith Flame to create a yellow-green Warpflame effect, and I the results were STUNNING. I tried it first on an Exalted Flamer with Corax White base, hitting it with the Tesseract Glow and then adding more and more layers of Hexwraith towards the end of the flames for the yellow to green gradient. I couldn't be happier with the results, it looks phenomenal.

"Just a little bit for the eye...okay a little bit more for the eye." Yeah, I've been there so many times. Lol

2:43 Tesseract Glow on paper towel 3:43 Tesseract Glow tested on a model 9:44 Results when dry To me it looks like a brighter Warp Lightning Contrast, which is great because I heard that paint is in low stock in the UK because of the new necron release

Thanks for testing it out and showing the results, it is neat to see it in action.

why was this the most calming video i've ever watched. i've seen painting videos before but this was on anothor level of just chilled out.

Also, so glad to finally see someone experimenting with this stuff! Would have expected more focus on this by GW leading up to Indomitus.

Liked and shared, great review! I also had the issue with the paint separating! My most memorable painting experience was sitting on my parent's window shelf and painting my first ever squad of tactical marines in 1999 - No primer or anything! The smell of old citadel paints instantly transports me back to that time!

Impressive vibrancy I thought on all the surfaces, even the gold and the lreviously painted green arrow piece were enhanced by it. I love your testing process. Thanks for this!

I just picked some of this up and am so excited to use it! Also this was the most relaxing painting video I've ever seen; even moreso than Bob Ross.

OMG! The brush in the lid of the pot to keep it open. Why have I never thought to do that? 🤦‍♂️ that is a game changer right there 😎

Thanks for this video. I was on the fence about this paint, but seeing the results you got made up my mind. This paint is fantastic. I used to, painfully, go from Dark Angels green (old paint) to Warpstone glow to Moot green and now I get a better effect, faster, with Vallejo Dead white and Tesseract Glow. Now I want to re-paint all my old Necrons with it.

Looks cool, especially like the effect over the brassy gold. I'm happy it behaves like a wash and not like contrast paint. I'll have to pick up a pot for myself, I can see it being useful for lenses, gems and eyes

My son and I saw this in our local Coliseum of Comics, now that I've seen this video I'll be picking it up soon. Thanks so much.

Excellent video, gotta try some of these out myself. Very cool colour the Tesseract Glow, great minis and colours to test on too

Howdy! I'm a new subscriber, commenting for the Aug 21st Indomitus drawing. I've shared your channel on facebook, and it felt right to comment on the first video of yours I saw. I've been a Necron player since 6th edition, and so I came across this video while brainstorming the color scheme for my upcoming new additions to my necrons, but I've been in the hobby for about 18 years now. I never expected I'd enjoy painting as much as I have, and your videos have been fantastic for ideas and techniques! I have to say my favorite painting memory is starting off with my first army, the Tau. I make an off-the-cuff decision to color code my squads, putting a line of color on their guns to denote their squad. It's my favorite memory because of all the painting I've done since, that one choice is the one that I still get compliments on today.

Quests 1 and 2 completed. My favorite painting experience was finally doing a good job painting faces. It was such a challeng but so satisfying.

I like how those turned out. My favorite was the stone enhancement where the green glow pooled in the grooves

The glow on the gold effect worked quite well, it gave it an oozing slime effect seeping from the broken tablet.

This would be great for a more ethereal Nurgle army.

Hexwraith Flame is one of my favorites, so I will most likely use this new one as well. I just love glowing bright colors, mostly in combination with black armors to make it pop.

Very nice all those experiments with differents colours! thanks!

Of course they released this paint _after_ I was done painting my Skaven army's warpfire effects! Also, enjoyed the bonus paint pot opening ASMR at the start, ahaha

Thanks for the informational testing!

Yay! Finally something informative about this paint, unlike the official videos that don't really tell you anything about it beyond its basic hue. I can see this working well for green flames if you let them dry upside-down. That said, kind of a misleading name, yeah, but since GW never pointed out any sort of actual (fluorescent) glow effect when they demonstrated the paint, I've already had weeks to make peace with it most likely being yet another not-quite-Shade, not-quite-Contrast paint in their Technical range, which it indeed turned out to be. Anyway, I may end up using it for some glowing eyes or cracks (in skin or ground), but large areas not so much.

I hope I'm not to late, but I have completed your two quests I have subscribed and shared your channel on Facebook. Now for the completion of your third quest. My favorite painting memory was when I painted my very first miniatures. It was a ork loota squad that my older brother got me for my 15th birthday. I spent a hour assembling my loota squad. I fell in love with the hobby on the spot. But I had no paints for them, so they sat there for months waiting to be painted, untill it was Christmas were I couldn't sleep my mind filled with thoughts of orky goodness. So I went out of my room to find all of my siblings and parents awake at 3 am. So they let us go through our stockings. What lay in mine? About a dozen paints and 3 brushes. I was so excited I grabbed my lootas and got painting. I spent 2 hours painting them with my older brother. I never had so much fun painting anything before or since.

It looks like it could be used as a wash. Lovely video and very insightful. Keep up the great work.

Looks great on the leaves of the Dryad, like an animated tree surging with energy!

Indomitus Here to report I've completed both steps for the draw! My most memorable painting experience? well that's an easy one, about 2 days ago since I finally started painting miniatures after a few years of watching battlereports and painting videos of every game I could find. I'm painting a warband for frostgrave, and I love the process, I started with that since it's cheaper than 40K and easier to get my friends to spend on minis haha. Love the content!

I bought this on the weekend, and love it. You're right though, shake the hell outta that. It settles so fast too. I keep intending on buying some agitators, finally placed an order on Amazon - thanks for the reminder. ;)

😀 Very informative! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this. I love the gradient look the wings got.

looks interesting, could probably be used with contrast warp lightning for very easy wet blends

I'm still testing out color schemes for my new Necrons, so I haven't had the chance to really try it out yet. But one of the places I think it'll really shine is on recessed glowing details, including eyes and stuff like the whorling designs on Sylvaneth. I've got a basing idea where I think it would look really neat and eldritch too, if I can pull it off.

Thanks for the demonstration. I'm thinking of using this sparingly as the second highlight for my Salamanders after Moot Green.

OK, did the first 2 quests and my most memorable painting experience came from last weekend. Myself and my 6 year old son converted and painted some of his hot wheels into post apocalyptic war machines. He did most of the painting as I have a broken arm.

Definitely going to try this on my vampire wizard’s orb focus!

Thanks for the video. Love the variety of paints you use. Would like to see how well it does to some of the other fluorescent paints or transparents out there, including airbrushing. (like say to the testors aztek fluorescent green, or Golden brand opaque bright yellow-green perhaps). I think this paint would really do well over a white highlight for a glow effect on something, or maybe with a zenithal lighting method. Thanks again for the vid - good info, good production quality, detailed tests.

Thanks for the video. Nice to see someone try it out over different paints

6:20 "Oh pooling! Pooling aaarbitrarily!" I really feel you there hahaha.

Hi there! I've painted quite a lot in my time, I'd say the most memorable was the time in high school I thought I'd invented drybrushing because I stumbled upon the method when working on a canvas, and had no clue about proper techniques. Was a koi fish jumping out of a pond, it turned out okay, but I thought it was the best thing ever, might give you a laugh. Hope the winner likes their indomitus!

The effect on that Gehenna Gold painted skull skulpture thingly was suprisingly good. Also I like that you added part about mixing. I am about to use this paint, which I bought some time ago, and when I noticed stuff at the bottom of the pot I thought another paint went bad.

My entry for the competition: Ive shared this video to twitter, I’ve been subscribed for a little bit now and my most memorable painting experience was my first model after returning to the hobby, I took a picture of it and posted to reddit and was just overwhelmed by the positive response I got from it! Really helped my confidence and helped me feel better about pushing forward

Thank you for showing off how this new product works in conjunction with various base colors. Yes, I found it very informative.

Thank you! Learned about mixing your paints before use in this one

I have completed the first two tasks! Since this video was Necron flavored, it's fitting to drop my painting anecdote here. It wasn't until I quit caring about being super precise that I finally *got* edge highlighting. I kept trying to make the edges super thin and barely even touched and it just never looked right. Once I got frustrated and let the edge be a bit rougher on my first Cryptek, I noticed that it actually looked pretty good! Looked more weathered and scratched up. Loved the effect so much, I applied to everything I could touch... Which may have been slightly overkill.

I haven’t tried teseracht glow yet but this video encourages me to splash out on some. Thanks 🙏

I shared this on my tumblr so I can reference it readily when I get my own pot of this. So excited!

Thank you for the demo video! I'll be putting this in my Gnawholes over Contrast Warpstone Glow (which isn't very glowy in itself).

A good title for this video: Heretec Magos Biologist try new necron technology in xenos life forms.

Glad I picked that up. It's beautiful 😍

Your channel was new to my feed. Glad to be able to see a test for this new paint. From the wing test, on the wing that was just based in Wraithbone, it seems like this paint acts almost like a shade or possibly even like the contrast paints from Citadel. Does that seem somewhat accurate? I do like the color itself and really enjoyed the way it worked with the Gitz Yellow. Can't wait to see the other tests you have of the new paints! :)

that demon with the dagger's base actually gives me an idea: this is gonna look great for death guard's more bile-like or oozing toxic bits. a good way to highlight focal points of their nastiest bits

Definitely popped on the dryad! Nice work!

Looked real good on the tree-dude's arrow! Reminds me of those 'gem' paints, in that there's only really one good use for them.

It looks like a solid base for glow effects. You still need to add yellow and white to complete the effect but as far as color placement goes, it is nice.

Hello!!! I have completed the tasks maam!! The first time I tried painting my 3d printed parts. It was a hoot. Now I allow primer extra time to dry!! 😆

hmm, thank you for the review, very instructive. I might go with Vallejo's fluorescent colors instead, they seem to have better consistency.

I know that normally, when you want to do a flow effect, you have to put white paint as the first "layer" of the gliow. So, would it be more glowy ( I think it's not glowy enough for me) if white is put under that color ?

I had to watch twice. Your voice was so soothing I kinda tuned out the video portion the first time, lol.

Just found my Ork/Grot "Contrast" paint. Thanks for this.

Do you have any recommendation what to do against overflowing dropper bottles? My converted citadel paints act just start pouring out as soon as i open the lid. Some more then others, but almost all of them do. I shake them (with mixing ball), i tried opening up and down, doesn't seem to matter much.

Be interesting to see it over a dry brushed area as it seems dependent as to what's underneath. If it blends and tidies up dry brushing and pools in the recesses where you want it might help a very quick dirty dry brush.

That looks like nice stuff. I immediately had 101 uses pop into my head. Very cool.

You can add some airbrush flow improver to the paint. It'll make it disperse more evenly and give it a bit of a glossy finish.

You mention trying a medium to adjust viscosity? What do you mean and what do you use?

I was very happy with this experiment. When I first saw the results on the white wing I thought, this will be awesome for my Salamanders. I just put down corax white, iyanden yellow and tesseract glow. Bam! Instant Salamander! So I'm kinda happy to see that it doesn't work like that, so I don't ruin my Salamanders. But it'll be awesome for a brightly coloured tyranid. Nothing like the sound of breaking the seal on a new pot of paint! :-) I thoroughly enjoyed that.

What colour were the eyes on the dryad before adding the TG? That seemed to come out very well.

Really dig some of the effects especially on the yellow and gold.

I have completed the first two tasks! My favorite painting moment was a few month back, about oktober i think, i finaly sat down to paint my necrons a bit further. It was about 40 warriors, 20 immortals, an overlord, lord, 2 crypteks (one with the canoptek mantle and one i kitbashed out of spare pretorean parts), 10 lychguard, a handfull on scarabs and finally 6 destroyers, so a good batch. The friday i painted all of it, i started about 3pm and when i thought it could be 6pm i took a look at the clock and it was 10pm, i was completely lost in painting and got a lot done. :D Sadly i havent gotten to the vehicles jet....

what i realised when i got it is that alot of very thick paint was stuck on the bottom of the bottle - normally a bit of shaking is enough, but this time i had to stir it with a stick really well

Thanks for making the test.

Thank you for doing something a little different and actually experimenting with the new product instead of the usual "I used it for exactly what they already used it for" video. Have a great day and please be safe!

did they say if you can thin it with water, lahmian medium or contrast medium? cause just from the looks of it, it kinda looks like contrast paint, which would mean you would need contrast medium to thin it properly

I've completed the other two tasks! I shared this video via Twitter, I hope you can find it that way! My most memorable painting story would be the first miniatures I ever painted. When I was in high school, the Lord of the Rings trilogy movies were coming out and I was really into Dungeons and Dragons. I bought the Lord of the Rings paint set for the Men of Gondor to use as miniatures for D&D. I painted up a few soldiers with the included starter brush which is how I learned that you can get a lot of detail using a dry brushing technique. When I got to painting the eyes, the starter brush was not sharp enough, so I bought a #000 brush from my local hobby shop. When I showed the soldiers to my friends they thought I painted the eyes with a single hair! LOL! I still have these soldiers to this day, and I have them displayed on my desk at work. Still looking good almost 20 years later!

It'd be interesting to compare to Hexwraith Flames technical and Warp Lightning Contrast. It seems similar just a little brighter.

I didnt even know there were mixing balls lol. Safe to say they are in my basket now thanks for that video this is a game changer for me. Big thanks

Hi I'm new to your channel :) I really enjoy your review. Subscribed with notifications on, I look forward to watching more of your videos.

Hi, thanks for making this video. I am intending to use tesseract glow on my Necron weaponry so good to see it in action. I noticed you use the vallejo chrome paint. Have you used chrome on larger surfaces and is it at all reflective?

I might be a bit late to the video, but I've been using this as a highliight for Hexwraith Flame to make fires and other similar effects look very VERY eldritch, and it works amazingly together :D

Great job! I would have liked to hear more of your opinions though on the effects on each color. Did you think it works or not on the chrome? What did you think about it on the gold? What color worked best for you? I hope you do a vid on multiple coats of the stuff. Seems like a good paint but I'm also annoyed that my necrons don't use green.

on the gold it reminds me of a moss look. it would be good for highlighting something.

I have completed the two previous steps for the indomitus box give away (channel shared on twitter by LittleMissLuthor). I think ny most memorable experience painting so far would have to be being introduced to it by my parents. Painting that first rando ork was fun, even if my workmanship was kinda bad at ... shit I would've been 15/14 years old.

I'm planning to try this over the top of a white made with the culturehustle green LIT UV pigment.

Perfect for my deathguard plasma and plaque spitters, would love a purple version of this for things like warpflame

Your glow effect with that green is going to be best displayed with a heavy dark contrast like the barrels of the Necron guns in which the power pulsates through gem's (?) in along the black barrel.

I was pondering/wondering what that color would look like applied direct to a blank surface and I now realize I can use a napkin but dirty-ing a brush un-motivates me. I got that color for some necrons intended for use but the tesseract glow is too thin and does not meet the requirements I had demanded. So looking for new colors to color necrons. The tesseract glow and some other colors would be nice for tyranids and I intended to apply that to a tyranids color palette. But is not compatible with necrons at least not for my standards. But great for the tyranids. Thanks for showing.

A nice experimental video Thank you for this. I would be interested if GW did the same with an orange colour considering some Necrons were given that colour years ago in a Forge World publication.

It seems like this would work well for dripping into the glowing slots in Necron objects like Iike Immortals' gauss blasters. For stuff like Necron power cables, it seems you'd want to turn the model upside down so that the paint pools at the base of the cable, not the outer curve of the cable. And maybe over a light paint like Ushabti Bone to get yellow at the lighter part on the outside curve of the cable.

That looks liek the old Scorpian Green I have from back around 1998. I still have a bottle of that paint. It is kinda thin and ended up drying with a gloss finish.

Do you think the Glow might work on one side of a blade for the poisonous look or would it be unbalanced?

Huh, it's made for glow effects, but from what you've showed us this seems far better suited to painting leaves, vines and other naturally green colours.

It was interesting. It's sort of like the Citadel Glaze paints from 2012 where they add the depth and richness to the existing colours while toning down the stark highlights, like what the Tesseract Glow has done to the Furies dagger and the Kurnoth Hunter's arrow. I'll get a pot to paint some of my models to see if I like them? Thank you for this video.

cheers, great guide before I put the brush to model~

it brushes on more like an ink or shade/wash, for sure. thanks for the review, now i know what it looks like. 🙂

I have started to use resin to make things and was wondering what it would do to a transparent piece. I did not see you put it on the barrel of that necron's weapon (I may have missed it), but it seems like it might "magic glow" more if light is passing through it. Great video; you have me some ideas.

I would actually love a similar paint but for blue (for Thokt dynasty Necrons), so I am really wondering how it's made. Anyone got any ideas if it's similar in composition to the 3 'ghost paints' ? Because I have seen some tutorials in how to make them and could probably replicate it but with a nice Azure blue.

Nice. These glow washes from GW are awesome

I'd like to dry brush the white 1st or light colors, then dry brush the green for that glow👍

Thenks for experimenting with that paint. Can you maybe compare it to Vallejo green fluorescent paints?