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Washes and contrast paints are the lifeblood of miniature painting. sometimes called liquid talent, these paints can add shadows to your model with a single coat. However, they can also be difficult. Coffee staining, brush strokes and uneven coverage are just a few problems with these paints. Lets talk about how to apply citadel washes, contrast paints, army painter speed paints, vallejo xpress paints and more! This video is perfect for people looking for a beginner’s guide or beginner’s tutorial for using washes for your miniature painting.
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Lyla Mev The Mini Witch creates beginner miniature painting tutorials and easy-to-understand guides for Warhammer, dungeons & dragons, and more. My favorite things to paint are sisters of battle, display quality miniatures, and focusing on having fun.
00:00 Intro
00:51 The downsides
1:38 Painting in sections
2:29 Brush strokes
3:55 Paint direction
5:31 Don’t ruin your paint
6:09 Dealing with pooling paint
6:55 The right way to use a wash
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Do you prefer washes or contrast paints?
Painting cloaks etc with contrasts and not getting the pooling at the bottom is easy to avoid by laying the mini horizontally as the contrasts dry, that way you get an even line in the recess' not just a glob at the bottom.
Great tips on how to do washes and panel lining!!! Thanks
Good tip for the recess washes.
What you're describing is just pin washing which is one way to use washed. But it's not the only correct way. I use them plenty but almost always just on the base coat before any layering. Otherwise most the time I use them as glazes which works wonders.
grats on 100k.
7:55 You truly live to your name, that is witchcraft o.o"
I love your content, I really do, but your sound mixing physically hurts my ears. I think everything is too concentrated in the mids so it overwhelms. Me and my mates always have to watch with subtitles and sound off. I'm only commenting to be constructive. Please don't think I'm being mean for no reason. The video is great!
Great video! I would be interested in hearing your tips on oil washes.
the thing with the capes is ok though, as you would go back in and layer up the highlights. I usually use this soft black wash from secret weapon for red capes, it's great stuff. I hear great things about the army painter "tone" washes though, and have been meaning to pick some up to try out.
hey lyla, thanks for sharing these tips! what mini is that at the 2min mark? looks like a cool one to add to our d&d games
Very good tips. I actually learned a couple of things here that I haven't yet had the misfortune to discover on my own. Luckily, my daughter likes the way her Contrast Orks are turning out, and I'm going to tie it all together anyway with an all-over wash of Agrax Earthshade, INTENTIONALLY. Orks are dirty, rusty, etc., so it works, and the wash can hide mistakes. I just started working a lot with Contrast, though, so I'm just starting to make these observations, so it's good to have them confirmed across the range (and other ranges).
thanks for the guidance!
Thanks for the tips😁
And your water trick is great.
I’ve also noticed while painting yesterday I tend to dab/jab and stipple the contrast paints on and not drag them about and get less pooling for some reason.
Ima be getting my first army in 40k soon and I'm gonna use all your videos to make sure I don't suck at life!
I wonder about adding retarder to them would help
Why are you using a pointy tipped brush for this???
They make brushes with different shaped tips…like a Filbert for example, and they have larger sizes than the one you are using! XD
I mean, you may as well be painting with a toothpick
These are super helpful! Advice on painting contrast onto big flat surfaces like tanks? I always get coffee staining 😅
so helpfull will try this on a bust I'm working on that's being a pain to get all the wrinkles
For Al Gore's Rhythm.
Are you teaching a class at reapercon??
What wash are you using on the space marine?
Peanut Butter!! Nommy 😋
I've started painting the larger minis in my army so this will actually help a lot
That wetting the recesses tip is pure gold, thanks Lyla!
Thanks Lyla. You always help me.
This is interesting. Ive always wanted to do pin washes but never had any success doing them with a gloss base. So, the water can work in the same way as the gloss?
As for the red wash over the yellow base making orange, that's why in the rest of the modelling community washes are actually called filters 🙂