Reply To: Quick but amazing looking washes for terrain?

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I still have some Army Painter Strong Tone in a tin – the stuff that looks like you should be painting your fence with. It’s amazing on terrain. Base colour, then just slop it on. It provides a hard gloss finish (great for protecting your terrain, which always seems to get battered more easily than miniatures). Then some Testors dullcote to get rid of the shine – but it also reduces the vibrancy of the colour a little bit too (again, perfect for terrain, as it allows your minis to really pop against their backgrounds).

If you want your terrain to be bright and pop-py you can always go a shade or two “brighter” in your choice of colours for the base coats. But I’ve found base paint, Quickshade Strong Tone (from a tin, not the water-based stuff) and Dullcote a brilliant combo for terrain (I do tend to add in some edge highlights after this, if it’s for a scatter piece or something I want to stand out in its own right – like a computer terminal or an office desk or something; walls and buildings just get the basic treatment).