Instant detail! How to use washes and shades for mini painting 

Therapist: unshaded warboss can't hurt you Unshaded warboss

I'm loving the colour scheme in this series of shorts

Ok, just want to make sure you know, something about your editing style, your voice, and your minis, makes mini painting the most appealing hobby in the planet.

I moved away from using washes recently, I just found that starting from a darker base coat and building up gives a more striking effect

I have been using it straight from the pot that explains the stain lines. Thank you for this tip

Great idea using the same model for these so we can see it progress through the steps

Breaking the surface tension of the water is very important. I've had very thin paint bead up on a model, and when it dries it looks like water damaged paper. I plan on using acrylic thinner/medium more moving forward.

This is literally the first good video I’ve seen on washes. I have so much trouble with them and this was super helpful. I wish we could save shorts to our favorites

I recommend a droplet of medium in your washes in addition to water and surfactant (soap). This keeps it working like a wash you might buy

You can also add a bit of isopropyl to further cut the surface tension

The creation of one’s own wash was a nice little bonus I didn’t see coming . Love it! Thank You! Great Work!

I've never tried the dish soap trick, but as I understand, it basically makes shade paints behave more like oil washes. I still prefer oil washes though, because on a varnished mini, it makes cleanup effortless. Shade painted minis often need other colors touched up afterwards. Oil washes let you remove the wash in any spots you don't want it by using odorless paint thinner, which won't affect the acrylic paint beneath (friction will though)

Love the paint scheme soo much i have subliminally started painting my orks this way!!!

Thanks! Needed a black wash for something, and this was the best video I could find.

Really enjoying the shorts, thank you

Wash paints are my favorite paints. Didn't know I can make my own. Thank you.

Thank you so very much for showing how to make your own washes, I’m too poor to buy good acrylic paint, so I have the usual poopy ones, and I have 0 access to washes, and now I know how to make my own, thank you sooo much ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Wow i learned so much in such a short video

He's finally painting the Warboss in Mega Armour!!

Pro tip. Don't use water with citadel shades. Use Contrast Medium. Will help with coffee staining.

Ork are probably the easiest to paoint starting out because if you mess up you can mess it up a little more and just make it as if the ork painted the armor

You know i actually like the unshaded one, it looks fun and cartoony

This has been super helpful. I didn't understand what to do with wash painting. This has definitely cleared a roadblock

I’m starting to move towards enamels like streaking grime through an airbrush and then working off with a qtip and white spirits. Much easier to correct a mistake than acrylic.

i don’t thin washes really but i also like my models to look super grungy an oily so i just like put wash everywhere and then use different washes in some areas for color variation and specific colors in certain areas for different types of oil/grease/rust/grime like theres always at least 3 layers of washes on em, then after I drybrush with leadbelcher to make scratches, and use a somewhat dry brush to restore some of the color to areas i want to be a bit brighter, though usually i do that ahead of time with the darkening of the washes in mind, tho i also haven’t painted many models yet cause it takes me ages to get around to it but the ones i have turned out really good imo

Army Painter quickshade washes are basically acrylic wood stains. That's why they also sell them in metal pots. Hardware store wood stains are way cheaper, if you're going to dip your entire minis!

Amazing tutorial on how to shade/wash. Now i'm just wondering how that Grot keeps hanging in the air

This is basically how I used to paint when I was 14. Paint everything the color I wanted it and hit it with a wash. I know slap chops all the rage right now, even though it's not anything new... This is OG speed painting in my opinion.

That close up of the nuln oil is basically smut for hobbyists

Says the guy with the cleanest base coat!!!

Awesome color scheme I'm currently doing my first army as purple orks

The soap is a real game changer

Adding water to a wash I never imagined

I learned to make my own wash. My mini's look a lot better when I use a wash.

Thank you for that tip I didn’t know no you need to been down wash pains😂😮

As a dyspraxic painter - yay!

I wanna try this now

im tired of you being so awesome >:(

Thin it with medium not water. Water makes it stain the model more in spots you don’t want shade at all.

Alternatively you can use oil paint washes or enamel paints for easier cleaning.

Man I really thought I could use washes straight from the pot 😂 somehow thin your paints keeps being the most important step

This paint scheme reminds me of 80's He-Man action figures for some reason

Do you remember the old colour 'AMETHYST PURPLE' love this colour for gems.

Can you do a tutorial/guide on how to make sure the wash doesn't dry shiny

So you can make shade paint with acrylic paint and a flow improver?

Excellent

DID HE JUST PAINT A PURPLE ORK?!?!?!?!?!

Guys, we did it… We found a purple Ork!!

do you thin the nuln oil? mine never looks that transparent its almost as if I just used regular black paint and makes everything look like I dropped it in in muck

Help, I painted my ork purple and now I can’t find him

So I accidentally bought a white wash paint.... What can I use that for?

But there's no mini

How am I seeing a purple ork?

What do u mean by dish soap like can any be fine cus I feel like my dawn might not work lol

I really struggle with washes, they go everywhere BUT the recesses.

Add *dishsoap* ...!!? 😮 Ya know, "fairy liquid" actually sounds like it could be a citadel colour...

I now understand why my shades are staining!

In the case that o don't have a sepia wash, wich colors should I use to make it?

I didnt know you had to thin washes!

"Thin it with a little bit of water." Proceeeds to squirt in half a pint of water.

Where's the mini? I just see a base

im so offended at you calling my stain lines ugly 😂

Wdym shading? I dont see anything to use shading on

Dish soap? Which brand?

Adding dish soap always wrinkles my brain

The screen is empty, what did he demondtrate the washes on?

Okay, cool.

Uh, dishwashing soap to the water. I’ll have to remember that.

Why did you put a ton of paint on just a base ?

I've given up on using shades and washes, it just makes the mini look grimy.

Wait I missed it… what’s the point of the dish soap?

WAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Guy, should I just slop it on all over the model or just in the detail areas, lots of different tips online

Waitasec He's purple, that means I can't see 'im! What da zog?!

Use medium instead of water

Why is he painting air

Just do a zenithal highlight then you don't need to worry about shading

Instructions unclear, spilled 10 gallons of Nuln oil.

Dish soap ???

Washes are like liquid detail

Does somebody know a similar blue purple color?

I always forget the the lil dab of dish soap when making my own.

“Tired of fl🦆t boring paint jobs”

Purple ork?!

Or u could just dip the whole mini in the bottle

Why are you just painting the air?

bro is painting at thin air.

He's talking about painting a miniature, but there are no miniatures in the video

But at some point you must learn mixing colors, highlighting, and blending. You don't have ti become a pro, but you just do justice to yourself to try.

You can’t even see the mini

Used to follow. But then you said “of course their where always female custodos”

Stop distracting me from college

Y iz de kid flyin? Can't see nuthin dere

dish soap. huh

Don't use shade paints from gw they are horrible. do anything else.

I’m sorry but that color scheme is just not it

NOBODY LIKE THE VIDEO, WE HAVE GOTTEN TO THE FUNNY NUMBER, PRAISE TO SLAANESH!!!!

Love the shortz!

Just buy a medium for $5 and make a proper wash