Hey All,
I just wanted show you what a little black wash and dry brushing can do for your figs. These took just a few minuets a piece. It's really easy upgrade that shows off all the hidden details of these awesome figs. Enjoy.









I'm getting a GG Galactus next week and I will be doing the same to him.

Nice! I've done this to some of the figs to. It really helps them.

I had a question on washing over white/sky blue and metallics. Is it best to use black wash, or will it darken the colors too much?

I need to get a Surfer tonight!!! I have to do this, he truly looks amazing.

That's crazy, the Dooms don't even look like they're the same figure. Nicely done.

That black wash on Doom is mandatory. His cloak is far too bright/light a green otherwise. Placing him next to other Dr. Dooms from previous sets he looks like a lemon.

While it won't really darken the core color of metallics, it will on most other light mat colors. It's easy to fix with a light dry brushing of the original color to hit the highlights. I however prefer the darker tone, as illustrated with Doom's cape.

sorry I am unfamiliar with painting, what did you do to these pieces?

you take black paint and water and mix them, then you use that to paint your figures. basically what it does is make the paint go on in a very thin layer which may darken the color a smidge but most of the paint will dry in all the small nooks and craneys and that REALLY helps bring out the details that are already on the figure but hard too see if the paint isnt there. i dunno what ratio of paint to water he used but i usually put like 1 drop of black paint with like a cap full of water (like a cap from a 20 oz bottle of pop) you will want it to look more like dark water than paint. super easy to do and as you can see in his pics it can make a huge differance.

A Black Wash is when you coat an entire sculpt with black (or a dark color) paint. Then, while still wet, you use a rag or paper towel to wipe down the entire sculpt and remove the majority of the paint. The goal is to leave paint in the concave areas of the sculpt, making them appear shadowed but remove it from every where else. If done correctly it will give a darker tone to the figure and offer a gradient in and out of the shadowed regions.

Dry Brushing is almost the opposite in that you paint a sculpt with a small brush having first removed the majority of the paint from the brush by roughly wiping the brush on a paper towel or some cardboard so little or no wet paint is on the brush. Using this technique you can eaisly add highlights to a figure without undoing the shadowed Black Wash effect you are going for.

What kind of paint would you use?

guess i do it a little differently then he does but it is a simular end product. i use acrlyic paint on all my figures but again thats just me.

I find acrylic paint works best but I know some use the more specific Warhammer paints.

Can you make a you tube of you doing that so I can try to repeat you. Cause that's so awesome.

I second that

thirded. I hella want to copy this!