I'm in the middle of an insomnia jag, so the last post was kind of rambling without making much of a point.
Here are some final notes that might actually be useful:
Ogryn Flesh is crap as a flesh wash- it's way too chestnut/orange. Use Devlan Mud instead. Or black ink/matte medium mix.
Devlan Mud will easily be the "go to" wash of the group - if you're not sure what wash to use for a base color, thinned Devlan Mud should take care of just about any situation. "When in doubt, Mud it out". There. There's your catchphrase. I coined it.
The washes have a great ability to tie together the color palette of your figures. A thinned wash of the predominant color on your figure brings the whole thing together. Note: use common sense with this - if your dominant color is purple, and you don't want your skin tones to be purple, don't wash the skin tones with purple.
You will still need to do the blacklining on your figures. Unlike the ink/matte mix, the washes won't do this for you (and the ink/matte mix will only do this for you with experimentation - you have to find the "sweet spot" to mix it right).
The washes are great for basing. GW should really make larger bottles of the washes if for nothing else than for shading bases which they excel at.
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Pictures and a mini tutorial on using inks would be awesome... of course, it may be hard for people to get hold of the inks now! I still have a few I've collected over the years. I don't know if any of mine are twenty years old yet, but a couple of them are in their late teens!
I did check out your blog about the magic mix. I've been a big proponent of matte medium for years. It's the best stuff in the world for making washes, I guess I should have used it in my inks too!
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