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<blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 8773164" data-attributes="member: 11">While it is possible to make your own washes, my advice is to buy a set of basic Vallejo washes and use those just until you get the hang of using them. They can even be thinned further to make them flow and last more.Personally, my attempts at making washes have mostly left my minis looking dirty and uneven. (Once I learned to use a few drops of dishwasher rinse aid they got better - but still I mostly use homemade washes for terrain and vallejo ones for mins).I stick to lighter colors drybrushed over darker colors, working lighter as I go and as necessary - and have not had as much success drybrushing dark over light.&nbsp; Cheap make-up brushes you can get on Amazon work great for dry-brushing - but any old brush will do - in fact, the older and shoddier the brush (up to a point) the better they can be for that purpose.My experience is that once you get the hang of dry brushing and using washes to even the most basic degree you will end up with results you never though were possible from your level of skill. I am not a great mini painter, but I do have stuff I am proud of because it is far beyond what I ever thought I'd be capable of when I decided to paint a handful just for use on the table when we switched to remote play using a table camera when the pandemic started (before that I just used unpainted minis as DM with players painting their own or asking others to do it - and occasionally I'd have a player I could trust to separate knowledge paint a special monster for me - I did it that way for about 23 years!).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="el-remmen, post: 8773164, member: 11"] While it is possible to make your own washes, my advice is to buy a set of basic Vallejo washes and use those just until you get the hang of using them. They can even be thinned further to make them flow and last more. Personally, my attempts at making washes have mostly left my minis looking dirty and uneven. (Once I learned to use a few drops of dishwasher rinse aid they got better - but still I mostly use homemade washes for terrain and vallejo ones for mins). I stick to lighter colors drybrushed over darker colors, working lighter as I go and as necessary - and have not had as much success drybrushing dark over light. Cheap make-up brushes you can get on Amazon work great for dry-brushing - but any old brush will do - in fact, the older and shoddier the brush (up to a point) the better they can be for that purpose. My experience is that once you get the hang of dry brushing and using washes to even the most basic degree you will end up with results you never though were possible from your level of skill. I am not a great mini painter, but I do have stuff I am proud of because it is far beyond what I ever thought I'd be capable of when I decided to paint a handful just for use on the table when we switched to remote play using a table camera when the pandemic started (before that I just used unpainted minis as DM with players painting their own or asking others to do it - and occasionally I'd have a player I could trust to separate knowledge paint a special monster for me - I did it that way for about 23 years!). [/QUOTE]

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