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so basically its exactly what the title says. I started an army using a bottle of black ink to do my shading. I mad the assumption that GW had just changed the name of the ink to badab black....so i recently bought a bottle and to my surprise its totally a different color. I am nursing my precious bottle of black ink as its on its last legs....anyone have and idea what i can use that is comparable (besides heavily watering down chaos black)?

Check graphics arts supplies for black acrylic ink.

http://www.artifolk.co.uk/catalog/products/inks/daler_rowney_fw_acrylic_inks_295_ml_bottles.htm

I haven't tried it myself, but it should be worth a go.

If you want to water down a paint a lot, add some acrylic medium or it may fail to cure properly on drying.