Can I get some opinions on additives?

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**Brillow80**

I'm talking about the various liquids and such we could add to our paints:

Mediums
Slow-Dri
Flow-Aid
Thinner
Water

Spoiler:

I was hopping to enhance the quality of my painting (fine detail work, airbrushing, thinning, blending) by utilizing the addatives...only I don't know what I need or how to use it (asside form some of the video's I've watched).

Could you possibly give me some pointers on how YOU have used them and how they improved your painting Kung-Fu!?

**Azreal13**

I love Glaze medium with inks.

Matte medium, dry retarder and flow improver are all key ingredients in my little bottle of paint thinning fluid I use rather than straight water for, well, thinning paint

I only use thinner when airbrushing.

Oh, and its additives.

**Yonan**

Dakka has a great guide on acrylic mediums that will give you a good basic idea of how things work. It is good to have the selection of matte medium, flow aid, drying retarder, thinners and distilled water. As Azreal said, I only use thinenrs for airbrushing. When brushing, I use water. Depending on the effect I want and the paint in question, additives and quantity of thinning varies greatly.

The best advice would be to get them all, read the article I linked, and practice using them on some test minis that you can strip and repaint many times. I use AoBR marines for this purpose, they have bathed in nurgles rot many times, only to be born anew in Tzeenthchs fires of change.

**Brillow80**

Yonan wrote:
Dakka has a great guide on acrylic mediums that will give you a good basic idea of how things work. It is good to have the selection of matte medium, flow aid, drying retarder, thinners and distilled water. As Azreal said, I only use thinenrs for airbrushing. When brushing, I use water. Depending on the effect I want and the paint in question, additives and quantity of thinning varies greatly.

The best advice would be to get them all, read the article I linked, and practice using them on some test minis that you can strip and repaint many times. I use AoBR marines for this purpose, they have bathed in nurgles rot many times, only to be born anew in Tzeenthchs fires of change.

Wonderful article! I never would have found that on my own...and I've poked around the article page more than a few times. Thanks!