How to apply washes to 10mm

[chalkie]

Hi, what's the best way to wash 10mm ?

[Leman]

I picked up a tip that if you use satin varnish first it helps the wash stay in the creases. Matt varnish when thoroughly dry. However I no longer wash 10mm figures. Instead I undercoat black and then paint highlights.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Base coat, Windsor and Newton inks, dilute 50/50, most of the time...

[chalkie]

See I've always undercoat then highlight too but
Fancied doing a wash but don't have much experience with 10mm .

[Leman]

I have found that if I use ordinary ink, which admittedly works very well, then the only way varnish can be applied is by spray. I am not keen on this method but I have heard that the most reliable spray matt varnish on the market is that supplied by Warlord Games and the least reliable is Humbrol.

[jimduncanuk]

Hi, what's the best way to wash 10mm ?

I wouldn't bother washing 10mm figures.

Undercoat, basecoat, highlight, varnish.

No need for fuss.

[Subedai]

I was going to say with a big brush, but then thought that sounded a bit too flippant. 

If I am going to wash anything I use the Magic Wash method. I have dark brown and black, neither of which needs spray varnish over the top and also acts as a layer of varnish..

[Wulf]

I'd actually say use a SMALL brush, with the minimal ammount of wash (OK, not THAT small, a No. 1 will do). I use the Army Painter washes, whatever they're called again. But I'd agree to avoid Humbrol spray varnish.

[Leman]

Magic wash works very well as a top coat, but it is not flat matt. If that does not bother you (and it hasn't bothered me in the past) then it does a very good job. I find the black magic wash makes much more of a difference than the brown.

[Ithoriel]

I use washes, even on my 6mm stuff, usually of Citadel inks or the various XXXtone equivalents. Sometimes thinned with water, sometimes neat, depending on the desired result.

[chalkie]

Lemon, what's this magic wash then ? Heard it mentioned a few times at the club but never asked about it.

[Roy]

All I do is paint on all the  basecoat colours. Give a generous application of shading wash of GW Agrax Earthshade (brown colour). Use the basecoat colours, or a highlight colour to pick out the detail. That's the method I use for any and all scales.   

[Leman]

Lemon, what's this magic wash then ? Heard it mentioned a few times at the club but never asked about it.

Try here:

www.fat-wally.com

then click on painting service.

[Fenton]

I go with the Henry Cooper Brut approach

[Mostyn]

For what it's worth I use the army painted inks which work fine. I don't think they save any time in comparison to highlighting and you do loose a bit of contrast (in a trade of for brightness) which I think is pretty important for smaller scales.  Clearly if you're painting skeletons, armoured knights of ethereal stuff etc. then washes are the way to go - I'm just not sure they're suited ot the old guard.