Glass Tinting Effects?

[doom-kitten]

Hey guys, looking for tips and advice on a tinted glass effect, not to keen on painting my venom's cockpits so I'm just gonna paint the see through piece. My paint scheme is black with a dark blue edge highlighting and royal purple warpaint, basically not wanting to clash to heavily with these colours. Any pictures would be awesome as well.

[DarkLink]

I did the same thing. I just painted it boltgun, then heavily drybrushed the bulge with mythril and washed the edged with badab black. Nothing fancy, and there're probably better looking ways to do it, but it turned out pretty good. You could do the same thing with gold, too.

[fuzzbuket]

if you want to keep it see through or make it opaque may i recomend the clear paints by tamiya? they work well!

[DarkLink]

Here's some real nice-looking ones:
http://justyna.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341cf6ad53ef0120a6a1bc8e970c-800wi
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XxdgU-mVbm0/S-3oZc5ZThI/AAAAAAAAC84/B8HNumUY_dg/s1600/EVBA+008.jpg

[hisdudeness]

I would suggest paint the inside. This will give the canopy a glass look and still meet your requirements.

[elmir]

if you want to keep it see through or make it opaque may i recomend the clear paints by tamiya? they work well!

There's your answer. There are many other alternatives, but you might want to pay your local model train/RC store a visit as well. I used "hobby colour smoke blue" for my stormraven gunship.

http://www.bnamodelworld.com/images/medium/paints/GSI-H096_MED.jpg

Clear acrylic paint. You may find other brands... they all tend to do the same.

[Rev. Tiberius Jackhammer]

If you prime the inside lightgrey then ink the canopy it would give a neat effect, I believe.

[CrimsonTurkey]

I put a couple of layers of ink on the inside. I think it's four or five on my eldar vehicles and I get a dark blue, opaque but still glassy looking result.

[doom-kitten]

Thanks for the advice XD but do gotta looking to make it non see through kinda like the polarized face plates on the Halo Spartan helmets. But anyways thanks for the tips, probably shoulda been more precise in the original post...my bad.