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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guillaume" data-source="post: 500480" data-attributes="member: 8052">Hey welcome to the boards.If you feel confused about painting minis, don't worry.  I've been doing it for a few years and I'm still baffled by my inability to get the results and precision that I read on the Net.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> To answer your question, a wash is basically painting miniatures with a very thined paint (ie, it's got so much water to dilute it that it looks like skimmed milk) or with an ink.  It is generally used for lighting effects.  However, it does have the advantage to seep into the crevices of the miniature bringing out details that were not immediately obvious.How to do a wash?  Well, here is how I do it.  Put a small amount of paint on your pallet (any colour will do, chose it depending on your design) and add water to it.  Keep adding water until you reach the right consistency.  Then, just apply the diluted paint to the area of the mini that you want to colour.There have been a few sites mentionned on this thread to give you starting tips on painting minis.  I would add the WOTC site.  It ran a series of articles a while back about mini-painting.  Here is the link:  <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/pp/pp20010607a" target="_blank">http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/pp/pp20010607a</a>There also was this series : <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=minis/mi20010312i" target="_blank">http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=minis/mi20010312i</a>Good luck,Guillaume</blockquote>

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