Reply To: Acrylic inks

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For washes, search on Les Bursley’s (?) wash recipes. These are available commercially under license through Secret Weapon Miniatures washes. I highly recommend Stone if you have any dungeons to paint.

If you don’t have access to a FLGS for hobby paints, and don’t want to pay shipping for hobby paints, inks are an inexpensive way to experiment with colors. You can also use them as thinner with hobby paints, when you don’t want water (eg. you want a saturated color). I’d fiddle with them on top of a basecoat of a similar color, maybe use them as a shade.

I’m not sure which inks on Amazon to recommend. I went to Michael’s with a coupon and picked up a Basic Liquitex Ink set to start with.

Article on inks and washes : https://bigmek.net/painting-with-inks-and-washes-lyn-stahl-metalhead-minis/

Inks vs. Washes : https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/39508-inks-vs-washes/