

Value (how many ml of paint do you get for your money?).You can always add more to get it darker without turning it into a completely brown mess, but correcting it requires adding a LOT of the main color back in the mix, and that never works well.8 Other notes and tips 10 criteria to judge Miniature Paint Ranges on It works really well, but you really only want to add the tiniest bit of the other color. Those nice deep shadows on reds are built up with a bit of green in the mix. Mike gave these tips out when he and Ali were still working in the Privateer Press studio. If you add a very small amount of a dark green (Dark Angels green type of color)in with your normal red shadow color, you'll get a very nice deep shade color.Ĭheck out anything that Ali and Mike McVey have painted ().

Red is the complimentary color for green, and adding a very small amount of it into your green wash will help give a more natural shadow tone to darker greens. To shade the darker greens, mix a very small amount (and I mean VERY SMALL) of your red wash in with your green wash. Shown below with primer only, for reference. In case there is something needs testing, armour, a face etc.įor a test model I used CW's very fine Cadian standard bearer.Wash applied over a suitable colour, to show how it fares under real circumstances.

I use my mix with 1 part Pronto and 1 part distilled water, so in this case in fact it is 3 parts water, 1 part Pronto It disappears though as it dries.I mean the colour. However we have this floor finish that is almost identical, but is not clear but have a pale almond colour. Of course it is not nihilism, I'm not worried about the national debt, but we have no such product, as Future or Klear, or Klar etc.

Wash diluted with distilled water, 1:1, over grey primer.(this is a fine light gray polyurethane resin primer, ready to use in an airbrush, but good to apply with an ordinary brush too.) I tested the washes basically in 4 or 5 different settings:
