Another great video Luke!, For those asking, the bottle in the video appears to be 120ml (4oz US), with 1 - 1.25ml of matte medium added as the final ratio.
You can also recondition older paints that have really solidified or "gone weird" from sitting for years between uses. Just use an eye dropper with distilled water, and another for dropping in liquid matte medium (or regular medium, but it takes more water). I think my oldest citadel paint is like 8-10 years old in those awful screw top lids.
This video, along with your nuln oil and agrax earthshade, has had a huge impact on my hobby (and the associated costs). Thanks for the inspiration man!
You have got to be kidding me. It's that simple. It's essentially when companies like Bausch and Lomb do where they will sell you the same saline solution for washing contacts as contact eye drops in a tiny bottle for twice the price of a large bottle. You are a savior for showing this all this stuff!
But theirs is better, because it's the highest quality water and the highest quality matte, mixed together by professionals. Plus, with their distribution system being worldwide, it pushes the quality even higher. You can't get medium from anywhere else in the world approaching the quality of GW medium. Says so in the Scriptures.
Well...mine was left open and it dried. From a full bottle of medium it was left with a bottle that seemed half filled with a hard chunk of plastic. So I'm guessing half and half.
Dude, I love your Videos but the stuff coming out of a condenser is basically distilled water, not deionized water. Difference being one's made by heating water (so that Ions remain as residue) and condensing the water where it's clean. The other's made by piping water through two ion exchange resins, replacing cations with hydronium and Anions with hydroxide. Both then react to form water with no impurities left. Distilled water will usually be slightly acidic due to carbon dioxide it catches from the air while deionized water would be ideally completely ion free, if you remembered to Regenerate your resins and kept the process slow enough for the resin to do it's Job.
Finally someone has answered the question I've been trying to find. Which is "What exactly is the difference between Lahmian Medium and a product like Liquitex Matte Medium or LIquitex Glaze Medium?" And the only answers I ever get are "well they're the same. So have fun." Obviously they aren't exactly the same. And I see here just what that difference finally is. Awesome video.
Just one thing to add, if you are going to use tapwater, write the date you made it on the bottle, too, so that you can keep track of when stuff goes 'off'
So I decided to try this using matte water based interior finish... Closest I could find was minwax water based matte polycryllic. Got the idea from your video on the interior finish is matte medium video. I'm just curious if you have tried making lahmian medium with the interior finish and what ratio works if so. Love your videos especially on making things for cheap! Been making bags of flocks for terrain and basing... Now I need to start working on alien world materials. If you or anyone for that matter has any experience with my current attempt any help would be awesome!
I think we need to summarize a little, I watched 3 or 4 of your excellent videos about home-making washes and now medium... and I'm a vit confused/astonished :D In the end it all boils down to: RATIOS. The ingredients seems to be the same: color/inks (I have yet to understand if ink is better for washes though), deionised/distilled water and matte medium. More water for glazes and very slippery washes. More matte medium for washes that stays a little on the surfaces without slipping only in recesses. Do I get it right? :) Your videos are amazing, thanks! You are a staple of this hobby!
Distilled & deionized water are the same, for all practical purposes. Distilling used to be the only way of purifying water by removing dissolved solids, deionization is cheaper and generally produces purer water. Water from a dehumidifier will contain pollen, lint, dust, etc..
My guess the reason people think Lahmian medium is clear is because the way Warhammer TV films everything. Between the extremely bright lighting and using a bright white palette gives the illusion of being transparent. That aside this makes me very happy to know it’s not hard to make in the slightest. Any opportunity to deny GW my money...except when they put our models that I really really want haha
Any chance of one of these guides of yours on how to make something like Typhus Corrosion? That would really save me a fortune as my Death Guard use tons of the stuff!
Hey guys, I guess I'm doing something wrong, but it seems like after adding the matt medium to distilled water, I have some particles flowing all over the bottle that don't want to dissolve, but it also creates foam on the top after shaking up. Few minutes later when it settles, all of the matt medium seems to sit on top. Here is a picture (photos.app.goo.gl/Ta7qEkM8YUPuUmHu7). When I try it with de-ionized water it seems to dissolve better, but there is still foam at the top (photos.app.goo.gl/s5we6aZrEe458PAH9). In both cases I cannot seem to achieve the same results as shown in the video. Thanks in advance.
You've helped me so much with your video's! i want to start painting mini's but obliousley dont have 50 euros for paint and this helps me so much, thank you for your video's!
Glorious vid. I don't own Lahmian Medium. How does it compare to Glaze Medium? If it's different thing any chance for you to make video about Glaze Medium?
Great video! I hadn't realized it was so simple a formula. I used to use the Pledge/Magic-Shine method, but I just never liked the results I got with it.
New to the channel, and after several videos, this and your vid on replicating the Martian Ironearth prompted me to hit the subscribe. Big thanks for this, I knew somebody would find a better way than spending 4 bucks on a 12ml jar. Would you recommend adding a flow-aid of any type to this, or is that more for the washes? I'm mostly asking because I have a bunch of old Citadel pots that I've got to reconstitute and move to droppers, and this seems like the perfect thing to use in place of Citadel's.
Great job again! I really enjoy your videos! I suggest I could use any matt medium from any fabricator, right? Or is there a difference due to your experience?
Loving this one, bit late to the party but would this thin standard acrylic paints to the level of miniature paints? Looking at creating base coats at the moment.
Thanks for a very useful tip, getting back into the hobby after many years. I have a quick question, what happens if you add too much matte medium? Will it dry too fast/slow or have any negative effects apart from longer drying time? Currently trying out my own mixture with the W&N matte medium.
You should be able to find distilled water from a good service station as its used in car batteries and radiaters. Ask somone next time ur stopping at a shell.
at least in the US, you can also get distilled water from grocery stores and hardware stores, as it has uses in both cooking and various DIY projects. I get big ole 3 gallon jugs of the stuff with a spout on the front and fill up straight from the tap!
The consistency of the finished product looks a lot like Vallejo Thinner Medium. Could that be on or close to Lahmian Medium in terms of using it to universally thin down acrylics for use as a shade/wash/glaze?
Hey, good tips. Question about the Pledge on your table in the intro. Do you use this for the "magic wash" "Pledge Klear Coat Trick"? Do you use it 100% pure/ mix it/dilute it? I have pledge (here in the USA) and find it will turn my washes and some paints a nasty yellow tinge. I am using this with Army Painter skeleton bone, then I airbrush Pledge. let it dry. Then use my vellajo sepia wash, then hit it with Matte Dull Cote. I notice that some areas the Pledge has turn the wash a greeny/yellow. Can you please due a tutorial/review on how the proper use?
Afraid to say, what you’ve made is not Lahmian Medium. When commercial Lahmian dries out it leaves a solid lump of plastic-like material about 50% of its volume. This suggests it must contain at least 50% acrylic resins of the type you get in Matte Medium or floor polish. You’ve still made a useful paint thinner but t’ain’t Lahmian, mate!
Hey Luke. Just started this whole painting thing, so sorry f this sounds stupid, but... I managed to make some pretty decent washes with Rinse Aid (used as I had some and i am a skin flint. worked for me, but took some trial and error). Can you use it in the same way to make this medium? Or to thin down the craft paints to a more workable consistency? (Followed to this link from the one detailing how to thin craft paints). Thanks for ya time! Keep up the good work!
Great video Luke as always. Just one thing i have got the winsor and newton matt medium but i also have the same make but the extender. I thought the job of the extender was to thin paint down but keep the viscosity as in this video. Am i right or not as i am a bit of a newbie to this. Cheers mate.
Hy thank for sharing you tricks. I having trouble to understand and find equivalent in french. Is this a binder or a thinner? Because I found a brand I love art and they have an acrylbinder 10€/L. Is it the equivalent of liquitex matt medium? If yes that is crazy since liquitex is 4 to 5 time the price of the brand I just found. Have you tried the contrast medium from cit? Do you think it is possible to find a close recipe as you did with lahmian. Si this DIY meidum is a better to do a wash than the pledge? and it would work with any colors?
Tried this through an airbrush? Usually use Vallejo flow improver cutting my paints. Tenner for a big bottle and lasts for ages. Tenner for near unlimited amount makes more sense though.
@@GeekGamingScenics Cheers man! Great tip this. Your video on the toxic goo pool is banging aswell. Defo going to be giving that a go when I get through my Necromunda gangs I've taken on.
Hay Luke, I don't know if you answer comments on old videos but I was wondering if this could work with Vallejo Matt Medium and deionized water? I can't seem to find W&N medium in stock in my local craft shops.
Hi! Great tip! One question though: in my local store I could get my hands on Liquitex Medium Matt. Could I also use this brand for this purpose? Thanks
Jose Maria Demenzia This is used instead of water to thin down your acrylic model paints. The paint is pigment, water and acrylic binder to stick the pigment together and to the model after the water evaporates. As you add water to the paint there is less acrylic binder and eventually it stops working as a paint. Just like if you water down PVA it stops acting as a glue. So this medium contains acrylic to help thin the paint without destroying its ability to form a coat over the model. Artists who use acrylic for painting also have this problem and use similar mediums. Better than having your painting drop off the canvas.
After watching this vid I subscribed! I have been wanting to find a way of making my own products that are affordable for me. I am an artist who cannot afford to be one. Smile. I am going to look for your web blog online. Is this dig medium the same as Golden's GAC 100? I have been looking for a 100% acrylic polymer (that is affordable) to use like GAC 100. I found Acryl 60 - still expensive in the US. Then I found a concrete add-in liquid (100% acrylic) that binds old concrete to new and seals it against water. It looks the same and feels the same and is made of the same stuff as GAC 100. I will test it now.
What would happen if you added more of the Matt medium to this mixture then added to the bottles of craft paint from your other video? You mention 4-5 drops initially then later on say it might take more.
Hey, love your videos and thanks for them! I do not have any Pledge multi-surface floor polish where I am, I live in Egypt. Is there any other alternative that I can use to make my own stuff?
azncowman - I wouldn't... You'd have to add a lot more water to get the right viscosity. The more water you add, the more likely that you'll reach the point where the paint breaks down. That's the point of using a medium (instead of water) in the first place, to thin the paint without wonkiness at very low viscosities (such as you want for washes or glazes.) Actually, mediums are designed for thinning heavy bodied paints, which won't flow off of a brush really at all without some degree of thinning. Gels are for thickening paint. It really would be a waste of your gel.
Does gloss medium have a different or noticeable effect? I wouldn't think so at those proportions but I suppose I'll just have to do my own little experiment. Great tip though! I've been wondering for a while now what the difference between Lahmian medium and regular medium is. Seems like lahmian medium/"mix" is the way to go with thinning at this point.
So, if lamian medium is matte medium with water, and interior clear varnish is matte medium (as mentioned in another video), does that mean I can water down interior varnish and use it like lahmian medium?
hey that windsor newton stuff is like $45 here in australia, but there is another brand of matte medium by liquitex, it says its a fluid medium on the bottle. Will this do the same job?
imacie - yep. matte medium is matte medium. Some brands are better than others, obviously. Winsor and Newton is top shelf, liquitex is not, and that's because higher quality brands perform more consistently. and they perform better over time. that being said, when it comes to mediums, there's no reason to spring for the w&n when the liquitex will do the same thing (unless you're creating heirlooms that will last for years beyond our own lifetimes :D) I'm using liquitex professional mattte medium at the moment, myself... if we were talking paint instead of mediums, I'd have different advice for you. (I have a painting degree, so I'm not just making things up, here)
thank for the tutorial Luke, may i ask, i already make a homebrew acrylic airbrush thinner from Alcohol, distill water and a lilttle bit of retarder. Should i also drop a few drop of Matt medium in it too ?
i just finish my test brew, and it work flawlessly on normal color, but it seem not really work well with metallic paint (or it just because the paint, need further testing though)
Was just because i never noticed you using it in the video i was unsure,but i picked up some deionized water from Halfords and made about a 100 ml bottle with the winsor and newton matt medium,i look forward to making your nuln oil and agrax washes,keep up the good work !
I'm sure this will get lost, but does anyone know if matte mod podge is a matte medium. I've looked and looked and looked and can't find a concrete answer anywhere. Can I use it like I would the liquitex or any other brand that specifically says "medium" plz help. Thankssss
I've finally got round to getting a tub of matte medium. Out of curiosity, whereabouts did you get your deionised water from? Reckon poundland will sell it, or is that wishful thinking?
Hey Luke. I'm really late to this one, but on the off chance that you see this, I have a question: I have liquitex matte medium. Could you please say how many drops I'm looking at for a bottle the size you used? Thank you!
@@GeekGamingScenics thanks mate. Looking to make a lamhian medium equivalent. So basically just keep adding the stuff to the water til you get the results?
