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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 3675673" data-attributes="member: 94">Wow, what a great thread. (Come on, pogre, you should point me to these when they come up.)I am not a painter anywhere in the mold of pogre. I paint to play, which means I paint for speed. I consider myself a very good speed painter. (I can typically paint a 1500-point army in two weekends.)In the evolution of my painting I started with GW's Chestnut Wash and I have probably gone through more bottles of that than even White or Black base coat. (Considering how I clean my brushes that probably means I've ingested an ounce or two of ink...)I discovered very early on that Chestnut Wash improves almost any figure, which I think is confirmed somewhat by the brown stains being suggested in this thread.I used the GW inks in general with a very heavy brush to cheat all my shadows, and a really amateur drybrush afterwards (usually just with white) to pick out highlights.A few years ago (back when I was still painting regularly) I discovered WonderWash which is also a really great cheat. It's just black ink, water, and a drop of dish detergent, if I am not mistaken. (The detergent helps the water dry evenly without puddling-- in theory. I think. The detergent changes the cohesive properties of the mix, somehow.)I used a really heavy brush with WonderWash and went through bottles and bottles of it-- so much so that if I had been thinking I could have very well combined them all in a single container and gone straight to dipping.Which brings me to a few questions for folks who know a bit more about the chemistry behind the washes and the stains.1) Would a water-based stain dry more evenly (with fewer puddles)?2) Would a water-based stain with a mixture of detergent in the vein of WonderWash work better?3) Even just using the basic stains folks have been using here, do you recommend picking out details like eyes, claws, and teeth after the dip-- or will the stain repel the paint? Or do you not really need to do eyes at all? I have to imagine that the eye sockets will pretty much suck the stain right in.This thread actually has me itching to paint again! I have a box of 20 or 30 mummies that's been sitting around for ages unpainted, I bet I could get them all done in an hour. =)EDITInteresting:<a href="http://armypainter.fanatic.dk/" target="_blank">http://armypainter.fanatic.dk/</a>All of the links under the Union Jack open PDF files like this one:<a href="http://armypainter.fanatic.dk/UserFiles/File/UK_Q&A.pdf" target="_blank">http://armypainter.fanatic.dk/UserFiles/File/UK_Q&A.pdf</a></blockquote>

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