I think one way would be to check out the "Selfilumination" never really got that to work (tried with the lightning bolts) but I know that Diving Duck and privateer has been doing it over in the SH3 workshop.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...lfillumination
This is also pretty interesting stuff
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...104514&page=37