Using Washes To Paint Your Miniatures

Advice on using washes to paint miniatures.

Speed Painting With Washes

This video is about painting orcs, but the techniques can easily be extended.

Using Washes To Create Weathering

Armorama has an article on using washes to weather your armor models. While its intended for plastic modelers, it also is great advice for 15mm and 25mm – 28mm gamers. I’m not so sure that it would be useful for anything smaller, though.

Making Oil Washes For Your Miniatures

Here’s a set of instructions for making oil washes for your miniatures. One key that I had not thought of is to first gloss coat your miniature for a smoother surface over which to put the wash.

I am seriously going to try this on my next batch.

How To Make Washes For Your Miniatures

Luks Aps has a video on how to make your own washes. As teh commercial washes are fairly expensive, this is a good method.