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Tamiya's X19 smoke is a thick, syrupy like wash/shade/ink that adheres really nicely to plastics and leaves a high gloss. I've used it on Reaper Bones to paint up undead figures in about five minutes. It's one of my favorite washes out there.

I'm about to start painting Cthulhu Wars The Windwalker Expansion. The models are all in a white plastic with a subtle hint of blue, it's a neat color. Hard to see here, but this is what the figures look like:



I was thinking a cool look would be to simply paint a few highlights and colors here and there, no primer, and then wash the things in a blue-ish version of X19... Trouble is, I don't know if Tamiya makes colored versions of X19, I've only tried X19, and one other acrylic paint that was so watery as to be almost unuseable.

Does Tamiya make a thick, syrupy blue wash?

Any ideas on how to take, for example, a GW wash and "thicken" it and make it less hydrophobic so that it would adhere to unprimered plastic? The black in X19 is pretty pronounced, so I was thinking it might not work well to say drop in a bit of blue into the X19 smoke, to "blue it up" a bit...

Thoughts?

Look for things labelled "clear". If I recall correctly X19 is basically a clear charcoal. X22 to X27 are clears and should be a similarly thick, transparent and glossy finish.

You are correct! I also emailed Tamiya, but didn't expect a reply so quickly (or at all...) but they emailed me within a few minutes!

X23 (clear blue) is the one I'm going to buy and try.
http://www.tamiyausa.com/search.php?q=81523

Thanks for the reply!