Armour wash.

Short Stuf

Hey, I'm just finished building my first Necrons and I've decided on how I'm going to paint them. Now I just need some armour wash. I think it might be a mixture of two inks or something, but I can't find anywhere that will tell me. I can't find it in the local shop either, they don't have a great selection of paints, the closest thing I could find was Flesh wash, but I ddunno if its the same thing. Help aynone?

Benster

From what I remember (and it has been MANY years...) an armour wash is one that is applied over the armour main colour and is meant to pick out the detail in the recesses. It should therefore be dark. Black might be too harsh, so maybe make your own mix of brown/black or something. As long as you thin it enough to make it flow into the cracks and dry there without discolouring the highlight areas, you should be ok. What I'd do after it goes on is to take a tissue and lightly dab it on the raised parts of the model so it picks up the wash from them, so there's no danger if any discolouration there, but just dab, don't wipe, as you might pick up wash from the recessed areas and mess it across the existing paint.

Hope that helps.

B.

<edit> Inks should be used for this, dilute the final colour a bit so it flows ok. If you have no ink use paints, but dilute a bit more then.

Vodka Junkie

Yeah i'd go with the black ink assuming your using boltgun metal or a similar silver metallic. If your using polished blue or something then maybe a blue ink would suit better.

The watery the better, (almost ) Then you can always highlight with a lighter metallic like chainmail to get the dept.
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Necrons eat babies.

jaggeh

armor wash used to be a brackish wash that had a few aluminum flakes in it, so that you could retain the metalic look.

the best thing to do is get black ink, mix in boltgun metal and chaos black, get it nice and watery then add a smidge of bog standard washing up liquid.

it gives a good finish, give it a test and you will see.