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So what are the chances of a major US restock tomorrow for forge world? Since they have preorders coming out. They wouldnt just send those and nothing else to the US warehouse would they?
 
An Ghost said:
1d4chan is back bois
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first three gaunts ghosts omnibus arrived today, should get me back into my reading spiral.
 
Why do you pay attention to trending words? It's not zoomers' fault they are absolute waste of fertile biomatter.
 
I have a question regarding washes:
How do you measure a 50/50 wash?
 
agility_ said:
I possibly am misreading your question, but it's a matter of placing equal parts of the wash and whichever other substance you're mixing.
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I meant mixing it.
It's not like I have a measuring cup or something like it to ensure I have a balanced wash.
Or is there something out there?
 
5t3n0g0ph3r said:
I have a question regarding washes:
How do you measure a 50/50 wash?
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By eye, really.

If you're making a wash out of a normal paint, start with 1 brush of paint and 1 of medium or water, gotta learn to eyeball it based on how it flows on your wet or dry pallet.

Same thing with using medium on nuln oil (why) or the contrast paints.

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5t3n0g0ph3r said:
I meant mixing it.
It's not like I have a measuring cup or something like it to ensure I have a balanced wash.
Or is there something out there?
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Oh! If you're trying to make a specific wash, like "3 parts nuln oil to 1 part agrax" most people measure by drop on a palette. 3 droplets (or brushfuls if you're using citadel paints out of the pots) of one, 1 of the other, then mix with your brush.

I guess your more advanced types could get a larger dropper bottle and pour entire bottles of wash into it. For example, this is a 30ml dropper bottle, and you could make a 1 to 1 mix of any two GW paint pots using it:



Edit: Back in the day GW had some form of tints that they sold that you could put "X number of brush fulls" into another GW paint pot, for example to make Grey Knights armor with the standard metallic + the blue tint they sold. they included little stickers to mark the paint pot of how many brushfulls of tint you dunked in.


Edit: This is actually pretty common with 2020 GW and their Contrast paints, it seems that they figured out contrast paints make excellent shades and tints. (Several videos show them using Blood Tearer's Red as a red shade on Blood Angels armor painted with normal paints). They always just eyeball the mix via brushes full of contrast medium and contrast paints.
 
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By eye, really.

If you're making a wash out of a normal paint, start with 1 brush of paint and 1 of medium or water, gotta learn to eyeball it based on how it flows on your wet or dry pallet.

Same thing with using medium on nuln oil (why) or the contrast paints.

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Oh! If you're trying to make a specific wash, like "3 parts nuln oil to 1 part agrax" most people measure by drop on a palette. 3 droplets (or brushfuls if you're using citadel paints out of the pots) of one, 1 of the other, then mix with your brush.

I guess your more advanced types could get a larger dropper bottle and pour entire bottles of wash into it. For example, this is a 30ml dropper bottle, and you could make a 1 to 1 mix of any two GW paint pots using it:



Edit: Back in the day GW had some form of tints that they sold that you could put "X number of brush fulls" into another GW paint pot, for example to make Grey Knights armor with the standard metallic + the blue tint they sold. they included little stickers to mark the paint pot of how many brushfulls of tint you dunked in.


Edit: This is actually pretty common with 2020 GW and their Contrast paints, it seems that they figured out contrast paints make excellent shades and tints. (Several videos show them using Blood Tearer's Red as a red shade on Blood Angels armor painted with normal paints). They always just eyeball the mix via brushes full of contrast medium and contrast paints.
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Thank you!
See, this was the kind of answer I wanted instead of @Stab You in the Back being a jackass.
 
5t3n0g0ph3r said:
Thank you!
See, this was the kind of answer I wanted instead of @Stab You in the Back being a jackass.
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For contrast mixes I've seen Warhammer TV and the like tend to go 1:1 Contrast:Medium or 1:4 Contrast:Medium, depending on if they want a glaze or a full on wash.

Duncan has a video up on Contrast here with his new studio:


This includes using two thin coats (ha!) to avoid patchyness, as well as using a citadel base paint as a glaze to fix the midtones, using it as a wash over metallics (although he doesn't dilute it), using black templar contrast for "fine lining" (which is a Gundam modeling trick), and wet blending (which GW doesn't encourage but other hobbies like Warmahordes use a LOT).

I really get the impression that GW realized Contrasts can be used as a replacement to their entire shade and their canceled glaze line of paints and might be aiming for that in the future.
 
If you don't have citadel's "contrast medium" or don't want to pay the ridiculous price for it, it's basically a gloss coat with a mattening agent. I often use mig or vallejo satin varnish as replacement.
 
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