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What wash would be best to use on white? Id like something to add some depth/detail but without changing the color.

I was thinking maybe some very thin, very light gray applied only to the details, but Im not 100% sure about it.

Depends on the look you want. If you started with a browny white and bone white then using a sepia or very light brown wash is a good idea. If you did a lighter blue or grey white then using a wolf grey or light black wash is the best.

Just think about whether you want the recesses black or dark, because often there is a difference.

also it depends on what army you're playing. you wouldn't put sepia on grey knights, for example, but you might on deathwing.

I usually do the following:

Clean, crisp white = Paint the white like you normally do, then wash it with a thinned down(very thinned down, like 1:3 Water-Wash) and have the model upside down while the wash dries. You can do this by putting a toothpick beetween its legs and place him over a peice of plastic glass. Then kleen it up until the black wash is only in the crevises and shaded areas.

Brownish, little shading kind of white = Again, paint the white like you normally do, then wash it with Gryphonne Sepia, and do the same as above, toothpick until dry, clean up.

Brownish, heavy shading white = Same as the Gryphonne Sepia recipie, only with Devlan Mud instead of Gryphonne sepia.

I use something more like 20/1 water/ink... but then I'm still using up my stocks of GW Ink vs. the new washes. Badab Black doesn't seem to be as dark as Black Ink was.

gretar wrote:I usually do the following:

Clean, crisp white = Paint the white like you normally do, then wash it with a thinned down(very thinned down, like 1:3 Water-Wash) and have the model upside down while the wash dries. You can do this by putting a toothpick beetween its legs and place him over a peice of plastic glass. Then kleen it up until the black wash is only in the crevises and shaded areas.

Thanks, thats the thing I was looking for. The "dirtier" whites are easy, just wasnt too sure about a real clean bright white.

I'd probably use a really watered down blue wash. Also, gretar, that's a clever idea for letting them dry, although I don't know exactly how well it would work.

Brother SRM wrote:I'd probably use a really watered down blue wash. Also, gretar, that's a clever idea for letting them dry, although I don't know exactly how well it would work.

I only recently started doing it. It pretty much prevents all(pretty much meening 90% if you'r washing it right) pooling on the miniature aswell as makeing the areas look cleaner that otherwice.

That's awesome, if I'm ever painting white I'll look into it