On another stick, I used Army Painter Strong Tone Quickshade.
I was painting a DBA Early Egyptian army, so on one stick of archers, I painted all of the figures identically but applied different washes to each. I meant to get Army Painter’s Strong Tone Ink for a better direct comparison with the Quickshade. Army Painter Dark Tone Ink (not the Quickshade dip).Games Workshop’s Agrax Earthshade wash, which seems to be their replacement for Devlan Mud.When I was at Legions for Stoogecon, I picked up 3 possible replacements to try out: Unfortuantely, Devlan Mud is no longer available, since Games Workshop recently completely revamped their paint line. It works well straight out of the bottle, and produces reasonable results in areas where I’m not that interested in painting in highlights and shadows, but when I also don’t want to dip the whole figure. Games Workshop’s Devlan Mud wash has been a commonly used weapon in my painting arsenal since I got back into painting miniatures 3 years ago. Tyrell's Warband - The History of My Chaos Space M.Devlan Mud is Dead! Long Live Devlan Mud!.Dreadball Battle Report: Alpha Sigma Squeakers vs.Fulgrim, Primarch of the Emperor's Children.Fulgrim's armour has lots of detail so he'll need a fair bit of drybrushing, as will the very knarly rock. This is principally Fulgrim's face, which isn't quite what I had in mind - it might need a coat of Elf Flesh over the high points it to bring it back up. Next step is going to be to highlight, and to try and sort out those areas which have gone a bit too dark. Soft Tone is used on some lighter items like the hair, flesh and bones. The bulk of the figure not already washed gets the Dark Tone, especially the brown and the metal. I use the dropper bottles rather than dipping, because I want to avoid getting any on the pink. The rest of the figure is painted in Army Painter Quickshade. Purple shades alright with just black, but shading pink was really tricky without making it go brown - the purple, however, keeps the base colour nicely.Īs you can see, the skulls have indeed gone a more boney colour once the Quickshade goes on.
Quickshade vs washes skin#
but the skin is way darker than I want.Īll purple and pink on the figure was washed with Druchii Violet, which was a real gem in the new GW paint range for me. Since then I've started picking up store-bought washes again and while it still tends to dirty up the figures I use them on, I can get some good looks. I found with these improvised washes I had more control over colour. When I restarted I experimented with very thinned paint to make my own washes, and has some success - I'd go about adding water to the palette until the point where, when painting on my palette, the paint didn't stick flat but started quickly contracting inwards. When I was younger I found inks totally useless - I always got as far as a crisp base coat and I could get drybrushing to work, but when I put any ink or wash on the whole thing would just turn into a much.
I also realised I'd missed skulls on his own base, so I painted them as the display base ones - off-white. Metallic just seemed overkill when he was already fairly attention-grabbing. You'll see I stuck with flat purple in the end. This is the first time I've ever pinned a figure. A little leg of staple and a dod of Milliput was added into the hole and hopefully it'll be a bit more secure. I reattached the sword & pommel which are now pinned - I fit the smallest bit I could to my pin vice and drilled a hole into the hand and both accessories. Then, the same thing happened to Fulgrim himself.
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