Has anyone tried using glow in the dark paints for Cryx furnaces?

[Decade]

Evenin' Cryx. I've been thinking about our colossal, and how to make it even more amazing looking. Then I hit on an idea. Use florescent, glow in the dark paints to really make the furnace "glow." Ofcourse, I doubt I'm the first person to hit on this idea, so has anyone else ever done this sort of thing with their Cryxian furnaces, and does the result actually work? I'm thinking that if it works, the effect would be awesome.

[NapalmDeath]

Wouldn't this require playing in the dark? Bit weird :P

[DavidRM]

Bring Your Own Blacklight games. =)

[Kobold]

Actually, I have experimented with this. I drilled a hole in the base of a slayer and stuck a UV LED through it, and tried washing his chest with different kinds of blacklight and fluorescent paint (like this: http://www.acmoore.com/p-131929-glow...e-natural.aspx ). The results weren't that good. Under regular lighting, it was not even visible. In the dark, the LED bulb casts a faint visible purple glow, and the paint itself was washed out. My intention was to have things lit up a bit during play, so I moved to just using a green LED to throw a glow up from underneath. My idea from there was to hide the bulb from view with green-stuff/terrain to disguise it on the base. Things worked in principle, but I set the project aside before completing it.

One challenge I was running into with this was that a lot of watch battery holders (to power the LED) are thicker than the space under the base. If I pick the thing back up, my plan is either to carve into the base for more space, or just stack a hollowed out base underneath to gain more vertical clearance.

[GreenJello]

The PP Cryx glow, and it's Valejjo equivalent are both pretty bright and glowy even without being "glow in the dark", I'm not sure what advantage you'd get in a normal setting.

[Drzombieface]

The standard glow I use for my Cryx is a mix of Green Ink, Yellow Ink, and Necrotic Green (which IIRC is the studio mix, not quite sure), and in normal, every day store lighting it provides plenty of glow.

Glow in the dark stuff usually ends up being too thick and looks ugly in normal light levels.