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    This isn’t meant to be a completed model, but was a color and pattern test for something else.

    I originally was going to apply the blue ink wash and then reenforce it with some lighter blue as needed but the wash all over actually worked very well to both shade and stain in one step. Slapped some tiger stripes on to see how they’d look against it.

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        5ml matte medium

        5ml purified water

        15 drops of flow aid

        24 drops of ink

        Put it in a bottle with a steel mixing ball and shake it up.

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        Applied with a value pack craft brush. Just had to be careful no to apply it too thickly on the raised areas.

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            Simple, like applying any factory made wash all over a mini. Making sure to get it more densely in the folds of the uniform without so much that it would drip out.

            It wasn’t just the ink in my squeeze bottle but a DIY wash of that ink, flow aid, purified water, and matte medium. The end result flows into recesses and is less strong over colors than the ink on its own. The recipe was adapted from my brown and black washes.

            5ml matte medium

            5ml purified water

            15 drops of flow aid

            24 drops of ink

            Put it in a bottle with a steel mixing ball and shake it up.