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I have all the materials to make Les Bursley's recipe for black washes and while I use them personally, I figured since he has discontinued selling them, that I could do a single batch to get some out there. First run will be 50 15ml bottles of Soft Body Black and if it all sells then I'll start running batches of other colors depending on demand. The washes are only really worth making if you do them in batches, as buying the materials for a single pot would cost about $10 if not more.

So would you buy them at $2 each? What other colors and weights would you want to see put out?

Maybe some links or some insight as to what this is might help?

I know we all have google, but a picture or two, maybe an explanation and I'm sure more interest would be generated.

I'll take some pics of what it does today and get them posted. My own fault for not doing that already.


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This is the original thread, but like I said, Les has discontinued making them.

Soft Body Black is the first pic listed and the video shows how to make them. Doing this as a project to save other people the startup cost on them.

I want to see how the wash look son the model. So... pics please!

here are some empire troops I was fiddling around with. All this is base colors and soft body black except on the non bearded soldier who had his red highlighted already and green highlighted with snot green.

Colors used are Astronomicon Gray, Goblin Green, Mechrite Red, Calthan Brown, Chainmail.

Basically it covers more like an ink than the GW washes which change the entire tone of whatever you paint. So black adds shading to armor without darkening the armor itself.

Hmm looks pretty good. With results like that I think people would be very interested. Just gotta get the word out.

pretty much. The stuff works wonders on armor to where you don't have to worry about painting each plate separately. Just paint the entire armor as one piece and wash, voila! The wash fills the lines between armor sections and makes it look believable.