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So I'm running out of my favourite ink - GW Flesh Wash. It's an old paint, actually its not even a paint or a wash - its an ink and I need some more! So, two questions:

1. Does anyone know of a good replacement? The new GW ones are very different so it'll have to be another brand.
2. Does anyone have a pot they would be willing to part with? I have PayPal or whatever to sort out moneys or could do some other trade in minis maybe or even paint!

Flesh Wash Pot

Coat d'arms do the range from mid to late 90's after GW dropped them could check theirs. Also vallejo do some decent ones, not tried the latters but apparently the Coat d'arms ones are pretty much the same.

 John Rainbow wrote:
So I'm running out of my favourite ink - GW Flesh Wash. It's an old paint, actually its not even a paint or a wash - its an ink and I need some more! So, two questions:

1. Does anyone know of a good replacement? The new GW ones are very different so it'll have to be another brand.
2. Does anyone have a pot they would be willing to part with? I have PayPal or whatever to sort out moneys or could do some other trade in minis maybe or even paint!

Flesh Wash Pot

One of the old FLGS here MIGHT have some pots still... I'll check. Can't promise anything, though.

Vermillion wrote:
Coat d'arms do the range from mid to late 90's after GW dropped them could check theirs. Also vallejo do some decent ones, not tried the latters but apparently the Coat d'arms ones are pretty much the same.

This.

Though the CDA ones are one grade lower as it were than that generation of GW ones. CDA Chestnut Ink would be equivalent to that GW Flesh wash, just as CDA Brown Ink is equivalent to GW Chestnut Ink.

I've never used the "paint" in question, but judging by the picture (what little I can see above the sticker, at least), it looks a lot like Vallejo's Flesh Wash from their Game Color line - a muddy red-brown wash that goes on a bit thicker and glossier (more ink-like, really) than GW's most recently replaced line. VGC paints were designed to parallel that same line, more or less, including some of the colors abandoned when GW switched from Cote d'Arms, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was meant as a clone, in which case it should be a decent replacement for your dwindling pot.

Hopefully, someone has direct experience with both, since I can't personally confirm it.