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Author: | Stingray [ Sat Jan 29, 2011 2:31 pm ] |
Post subject: | Stingrays Epic Mini Blog |
Im slowly getting back into things and collecting mini's for my new armies. So Im having a go a creating a record of stuff I do - hopefully it will encourage me to keep doing stuff! To start with Ive been following recent tips to look into washes. Doing some research I came across les washes on the DakkaDakka forums which looked pretty cool so I bought a bunch of inks and made a bunch up. Here's the results on a bunch of old beaky marines. ![]() Pretty interesting results eh. They're a little bit blotchy but thats probably cus the minis were previously trash/ badly painted and brush undercoated before washing. All I did was prime vallejo white and then wash. The wash colours (from les's names) are the following; soft body black, hard body black, red, blue, greeen flesh, parchment, dark sepia, purple,amethyst plane, plane, algae, sapphire,ruby plane, armour, sewer, concrete, stone |
Author: | Ghudra [ Sat Jan 29, 2011 3:56 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Stingrays Epic Mini Blog |
For Epic infantry, you'll probably get the most mileage out of darker washes, but it looks like a fun experiment. I like the Les post because it shows how simple it is to make an equivalent of the overpriced GW stuff. ![]() |
Author: | Stingray [ Sat Jan 29, 2011 4:47 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Stingrays Epic Mini Blog |
Yeh, not sure I'll get much use out of the straight color washes. I can see me making heavy use of the heavy and light body black washes though (may even make a super light for more subtle work). The dirtier washes should be good for terrain and buildings too I'm thinking - I like the concrete wash in particular. And yeh, tis nice to avoid buying GW products ![]() ![]() |
Author: | fredmans [ Sat Jan 29, 2011 5:16 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Stingrays Epic Mini Blog |
I'm with Ghudra on this one. The washes seem to be a bit too light for washing-instead-of-painting. However, they seem to be perfect for glazing or acheiving crystal effects and so on. /Fredmans |
Author: | Stingray [ Sat Jan 29, 2011 6:01 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Stingrays Epic Mini Blog |
Sorry, didn't mean to suggest I'd be using these washes in place of a coloured base coat! I used white as base for the washes so it's easier to compare them. |
Author: | epic [ Sun Jan 30, 2011 3:30 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Stingrays Epic Mini Blog |
Stingray, Hi im the same, always used to just paint the minis and had never touched washes until a while ago, they are brilliant and cant beleive i did not use them before! I did the same and used a load of the old sm marines to experiment, I base my minatures then spray a very light coat of skull white and add at least two colour washes, you can get a pretty good uniformed colour through out all the minatures ![]() Good luck with the minatures regards epic |
Author: | ulric [ Tue Feb 01, 2011 4:21 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Stingrays Epic Mini Blog |
cool care bears ![]() some of them are really inspiring |
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