I managed to try out the new inks from The Army Painter this evening in between dealing with firefighting for work & feeding some starving children. The figs are still drying but for now I am impressed. We’ll see what they look like when fully dry but I can see myself going through large amounts of Soft Tone & Dark Tone ink for my figures.
In an attempt to speed up my painting I’ve been moving towards doing a more basic block painting combined with washes and selected highlights, and I think the new AP inks will fit into this scheme very well. After getting the basic color blocked in I gave my figures a coat of Future to try and reduce the amount of ‘tooth’ in the paint. After the Future finish dried I hit them with the AP inks and they seem to have flowed nicely into the cracks.
I did some experimenting with the tones and at this point here’s what I think:
- Dark Tone will be my goto for silver metals, blues, greens, greys, among other dark-ish colors. The black works well to shade a lot of colors without overpowering them. I will also use them for white belts & straps to give it more of a pipe-clay look.
- Strong Tone will be used for yellow metals and browns.
- Light Tone will be used for flesh (Caucasian at least) along with off-white and other lighter brown-ish tones.
For my Russian Musketeers I worked on tonight, most got the Light Tone for their trousers & flesh and dark tone for everything else.
I’ll post a follow-up once things dry totally. Thanks to Der Feldmarchall again for the tip.
Excellent. That’s the 2nd recommendation I’ve heard on on this product today. I’ll have to grab this and give it a go the next time I get down to the Source!