Reply To: Contrast Paints, is everyone really using them and are they actually quicker?

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> I’ve not seen any YouTube or Blog offerings where painters have done this for the smaller scale minis

At least for washes, it’s the flat surface and lack of texture that’s a problem, not necessarily the scale. 15mm may be better for contrast paints, since any flat surfaces are smaller than 28mm, so the paint is less likely to pool on any flat surface.

As for color, the advantage of Goober’s DIY is that, since the inks are inexpensive, you can fiddle with the ink color before adding the medium (matte medium and a little flow aid). Frex, to desaturate blue, you add some white. Then add an amount of medium equal to the number of drops you used to create the color.