[Paint] Magic Wash ink

When you're using Magic Wash (1 part Future Floor Wax, 4 parts water IIRC) to
stain and seal your minis, how much ink and what color do you use? (I've
gotten "as much as you like" and "add ink to taste" but that's not really
helpful)

On a mini-painter list that I'm on, watering down with 3:1 water:future
is recommended.  Pigment/color is added to that mixture to taste
depending on the effect you want the wash to have.

--Flak

> On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 12:55, laserlight@quixnet.net wrote:

Reading over your question more, I realized that I hadn't given you anything
you hadn't already heard. Duh. My mistake, sorry.

Unfortunately, that's really all there is to it. Perhaps describing what "to
taste" means in this context would be more helpful.

What you want is enough color so that as the magic wash is applied that it
darkens the areas in the recesses without making the raised areas look dirty
or too dark. (The point of a wash I guess.)

The colors you use can be whatever you want, and "whatever you want" should be
a color appropriate to the area you are applying the wash to. If you're
darkening a blue area, use a VERY dark blue for the wash, how much you add
will depend more on the paint you use and it's opacity. If
you're washing a green area, _sometimes_ brown is a good color to use,
as it doesn't distract from the green color but still provides the shadows
effectively.

If you have access to Vallejo paints there are those who swear by the
transparent colors, particularly "smoke". I haven't tried them, but it makes
sense, it would be fairly easy to wash with a transparent paint versus an
opaque one.

Hopefully that's more helpful than my initial response.

> On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 13:25, Flak Magnet wrote:

> On 4/2/02 10:25 AM, "Flak Magnet" <flakmagnet72@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On a mini-painter list that I'm on, watering down with 3:1

Perhaps this will help:

If you want about the same effect as the inks you already use, add enough
pigment/ink to get a similar translucence, More, more; less, less.

Keep in mind that Future tends to dry glossy, but gives superior gradation.

Flak said:
> On a mini-painter list that I'm on, watering down with 3:1

Schoon added:
> If you want about the same effect as the inks you already use, add

Can you give me a rough ratio? 2 parts ink to 1 part Magic wash? 1 ink to 7
magic wash? I don't mind fooling around with it a bit but I'd like a starting
point.

On  2-Apr-02 at 15:29, laserlight@quixnet.net (laserlight@quixnet.net)
wrote:
> Flak said:

I just add ink until it looks right, but GHQ recommends 15 parts water to 1
part ink. Substitute magic wash mix and it should work fine.

On 4/2/02 12:28 PM, "laserlight@quixnet.net" <laserlight@quixnet.net>
wrote:

> Can you give me a rough ratio? 2 parts ink to 1 part Magic wash? 1

When I thin down inks normally, I usually go for between 1:2 to 1:4 depending
on how dark I want it, so I'd use the same ratio for Future.

I'm not sure about the "Magic Wash", but I've been using the "Miracle Dip" for
my ancients minis. This is the Minwax polyurethane finish that does both wash
and seal at the same time. For this particular method, you don't need to add
water at all, and can just dip the figure into the can.