Liquid pigments - what are they? A "must" for terrain painters? 

Just discovered your channel through this video. I'm floored how well produced your content is! Charming and funny too!

As Jon Scott says, I've been doing this for years. Pigment powders have to be fixed and there's a liquid for that purpose. I usually mix a couple of pigment powders with say, 5+ parts of water then add a drop of binder so it gets stuck in whatever surface I apply my pigment juice. I also add a drop of floor wax to break water's surface tension so it goes straight into the recesses. Surface tension is also to be blamed for drying rings (water drop's edge is like a wall where pigments are dragged into). This juice gives a natural dusty effect, tones down highlights, brings brown into rocks' crevices etc. Pure magic. And that's what liquid pigments are. Powders with lots of water and just a tiny bit of binder. That's why they separate so easily inside the bottle. The already have stainless steel balls inside so worry not. GSW mindset is to have products that give decent results by themselves, with ease of use, where having fun while working with the product is part of the process. I believe they include some retarder in the formula, as you have plenty of time to work and move them arround before they get dry. TBH got the 3 sets but have only tried the exact same thing you did: an oxide wasteland base. The urge to buy / bike rush part was hilarious 🤓 I've had that feeling before. The see through feature as you say is a bonus too. No matter you painted the roofs turquoise and then covered up: it wasn't a waste as the blue still shows and gives the roof chromatic richness. You should try these over texture paints. Vallejo has dry rust, a deep brown red with grain on it, much like games workshop typhus corrosion. GSW also sells crackle paint like dried up mud, liquid pigments really go well over that. Dunno what else to add... Writing thru my 2nd watch. White dust is a good thing to have in the recesses of red brick walls. Remember you can add dish soap or floor wax to increase the flow. Thru airbrush they give an uniform dust coating. That's great for war theatres where ruins, ruble and wrecked cars are coated by a thin white powder. AFAIK they do not reactivate like oils or enamel, maybe rubbing alcohol over a thin airbrushed layer. Best way to remove it is waiting halfway its drying time then whipping off the excess while still wet. I think that pretty much covers my thoughts and people's doubts. As always, it's my personal experience and yours may vary depending on weather, application, product batches... Excellent video, thanks for keeping this great stuff coming 👍

I was watching and absorbing this information, really getting excited and wanting these. And then I realized, I bought them. When I did, I was just looking at rust effects. But halfway through the video I looked on the bottle and there it was “liquid pigment”. Imagine that.

That ork village is straight out of world of warcraft, brought back very old memories! The floor finishes folks are adding are pretty much cheap acrylic medium and great for terrain jobs and big projects. To break the surface tension I'd prefer a bit of flow improver, there is a good bitt of something similar included in these floorshines to make them spread easily over old polish, but I like the control of adding just as much as I want. Whenever paint beads up with surface tension and it's not a clever look you're trying - flow improver...

Everything about this product just seems crazy good. The effect on the bases and the ground, as well as the rusty colors on the axes, it looks so good.

I've been really curious about these liquid pigments, and this review has answered all my questions about them. Thanks for taking the time to make this!

Wanted to buy some pigments, then I remembered this video. Insanely informative as per usual!

i have avoided pigments due to their none permanence or having to use fixers or varnish. This seems like an interesting product and i'll 100% give it a go. Great videos by the way, got directed here by one of Dana Howl's videos and i'm glad i did. Really chilled videos, great to listen too while i'm painting

Great results, Sir! Thanks for the demo!👍 Your paint scheme is evocative of Richard Corben’s ‘Den’ and ‘Mutant World’!😎 Bravo! Subbed!

Picked these up recently as wanted to try some rust effects, nice to see how they behave, thanks for the comprehensive tests

"You can tell I'm excited" - continues to speak in a totally unchanging flat tone 😂 Great video, I can always trust that you'll catch my attention with something different.

I have some of these and I really like them. I, too, found out about them for rust and then got curious-but I really had not thought this through as far as you. Many thanks for the insight here!

Just came here from Earh0x minis, great stuff and I’ll be watching more. 😃👍🏼

i'd been curious about these for a while and this video really answered all my questions about them, so thank you!

Another great video! I really like your style, especially your use of colors. Keep up the good work!

Glad to see you did a video on these. From my messing about with them, when rusting up small things like weapons and armor, i got a better effect by not thinning them down at all. I thinned them at first and got the same pooling/ring result you did. I finally settled on full strength, stippling on many layers of tiny tiny dots. I really like how your weapons turned out on these guys!!

I really like the color scheme on these orruks :) It's almost the way I want to paint my own. Not quite, but I will definitely use yours for inspiration.

Thank you Sir, I was looking for buying this but was not convinced. GSW should sponsor you :D

Im more amazed by your paint journal. I might copy that

I had no idea GSW made so much stuff. You hardly see them in Australia

I’ve been basically doing this for years by mixing powders with either acrylic medium or matte varnish.

This is really good stuff! I've only dabbled in pigment powders so far, these look very interesting

Super informative video. And that trash bash is unreal!

Fun watch, thanks for sharing!

Yeah, the results are great. It looks natural and realistic.

I'm not sure but I get the feeling these may act a bit like some weathering liquids that I have previously bought from a company called Flory Models. On your large tent test piece I would encourage you to see what happens if you use a dry and then slightly damp kitchen tissue... If this product is what I think, then it should reactivate and pull away the pigment. This would open up a wider range of uses such as weathering recesses and pin washing or streaking etc. I'm interested to know if this is what I think it might be

I notice you didn't try the rust on a metallic paint, Leadbelcher or Retributor Armour for the verdigris

Subscribed! Thanks for the review. Do you seal the liquid and/or dry pigments with varnish when you’re done?

Cheap pastels crushed up in a bag make great cheapo pigments if you don’t want to go the liquid way.

That’s interesting. I want to start playing with pigments in my next board game project. I’ll have to check these out. Where you diluting them 50/50 ‘cause that was the instructions? Did you try undiluted? Thanks!

do they come off easily like the normal pigments? it looks like they dont, so maybe u can work with them in a early stage of painting with not varnishing after useing pigments

I wonder how this thing will behave when diluted with white spirits... I grabbed these on GSW’s summer sale, but they have not arrived yet. I love the look of your video overall, I’m assuming it’s some video settings to give the footage this warm, soft, earthy look? Curious how it’s done, if you would humour me.

I find your vids very informal and useful. However I feel you’d stand to gain from background music during your videos. It makes the viewing experience better overall. And I would suggest doing so in the future. This is a minor criticism from me however. And the video is good.