Re: Painting tips

>You really want to spring for proper acrylic inks. Any art supply shop 
>should have an excellent selection of colors. You get Really Good color
in 
>a well-made ink. The bottles are designed for people who do this for a 
>living, not by packaging design "experts". Best of all, the prices
usually 
>work out to a lot less then game companies sell them for. Now, artists 
>acrylics can get very expensive even compared to the most expensive
gaming 
>paints. But Games Workshop won't sell me a Cadmium Yellow with actual 
>Cadmium in it.

For my "big" washes, I use artists inks -- India Ink and Burnt Sienna,
both 
from Pelikan.  Being married to an artist has the occasional advantage, 
y'know.

I've had no problems with using the hobby products, though.  Vallejo's
stuff 
is fantastic, the Reaper colors (Wood Wash and FLesh Wash) are both
quite 
nice, despite their glossy finish, and that GW Flesh Wash is such a
unique 
color that I would have no idea how to duplicate it with artist's inks.

Besides, I spent maybe $9.00 for those nine bottles of GW ink 15 years
ago 
now.  The minute they run out, I'll replace 'em with something better.	
Until then, though....

(Ah, for the days when GW was a good way to get INexpensive stuff.)

John Crimmins

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