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So I've been knocking out a load of terrain peices recenly and have started painting them. I'm well stocked for decent paints for the bases coats but looking ahead I want to do some black and brown washes on them.

Can anyone suggest a decent wash product that can be bought in largish (say 100-200ml+) bottles. My usual GW preference will be ridiculously costly and I'm too lazy to make any.

Suggestions gratefully received.

You could use Vallejo washes, which come in 200ml bottles.

Might want to check a local art supply store, might find something in a larger quantity then you will find at a gaming store.

Your best bet is to make your own though if you are going to need a lot of it. Les Bursley has a video on youtube that might make it easier for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEkMnP6p08I

You could also try some acrylic ink products (Liquitex I use) and add flow-aid until it wicks into recesses to your liking.
I suggest the inks because the grind the colourant finer so helps with surface tension issues.

I did a sewer table for Frostgrave a while back, lots and lots of washes. Used the magic wash recipe and heartily recommend it. I make all my washes now and will never look back. As good or better than everything else and about 10% of the price.

Have you thought about oil washes? Just regular craft store oil paint, thinned a lot. It's pretty cheap.

The problem wih oils is that you have to fix them so I'm not keen. So ideally I hoped someone might recommend an acrylic range. Liquitex is a idea (Thanks Talizar I'd completely forgotten about them) and wasn't aware Vallejo did bigger bottles, so thanks to Ashenwyte too.

search for Les' wash recipe here on Dakka..

 notprop wrote:
So I've been knocking out a load of terrain peices recenly and have started painting them. I'm well stocked for decent paints for the bases coats but looking ahead I want to do some black and brown washes on them.

Can anyone suggest a decent wash product that can be bought in largish (say 100-200ml+) bottles. My usual GW preference will be ridiculously costly and I'm too lazy to make any.

Suggestions gratefully received.

I had some good responses on my thread of the same subject a few days back

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/700529.page

I'd like to see a few pics. If the stuff is sandy, it will have a lot of surface area for capillary action and won't have any flat areas to leave rings, so watery craft paint might do. If the terrain is detailed to the point of being miniatures, you may need to get the hobby level stuff. If the stuff has a textured surface, you'll be doing drybrushing. And so on.

What kind of terrain are you building? I build alot of terrain and I usually just use water and paint. Depending on the terrain, it's often best to put it on heavy and let it dry overnight.

You can see the results I achieve here:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/651712.page

Sometimes I'll use Future Floor Finish mixed with paint and water for a "Magic Wash". Alot of folks get better results with Future Floor Polish and ink. I'll probably switch to ink soon

Often a brush-dip is the right choice also. Skip armypainter and ask your local hardware store what stain+Poly product they have (I use Minwax Polyshades in the states). You can thin it a bit with turpentine/mineral Spirits.

Both of the a "dip" and Magic wash will probably need a matte varnish to cut the shine afterwards.

As for an oil wash what do you mean by fixed? I don't think it necessarily requires a varnish and you can just mix up what you need (oil paint+mineral Spirits) as you need it.