Easy, cheap DIY dip wash: make your own Nuln Oil
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Here are the materials and stages:
1:41 Acrylic ink (1 part)
2:17 Painting medium (1 part)
2:54 PVA glue (1 part)
4:04 Water (8 parts)
4:53 Dish soap (a few drops)
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Mixing strange varieties of goop with an outer space soundtrack. Excellent!
Space goop is best goop ;)
0:35 You know when someone's youtube channel is going well when they can afford the good jam
Whipped up a jar following your instructions. Perfect results including dipping miniatures for my 70 man guardsmen gunline. I’m in your debt!
Happy to help!
I probably have only started on the, "how to make wash paint" videos but I think this is the best mix your paint I have seen. I LOVE that you show actually measured stuff. instead of "guess" your puddles are the same. I think the glue tip is great too!
Glad you found it useful! :)
I appreciate the way you measure your wash components. "Add some of this, and a few drops of that" can be infuriating, especially to someone who's never done this sort of thing before.
The 'Are you childish?' mug cracked me up. Must have!
Finally! Someone noticed :)
I've seen this videos so many times it's burned into memory, doesn't mean i'll stop
Just whipped up my first pot. Well see how this turns out. I need to do loads of terrain for Necromunda so this will be perfect. Thank you for this video. Perfect pace. Easy to follow and does a great job explaining as you go.
Yeah! It's miracle juice for terrain pieces :)
all your videos have made making my first army so much better and more unique looking, thank you very much
This comment totally made my day! Thanks for watching :)
finally got my backside in gear to make some of my own washes up using this tutorial, and i am now finally realising just how much ive been shelling out for "professional" washes from you-know-who for years, got 3 50ml bottles made up and loads of materials to spare, fianlly spurred to act as i have a big ole kings of war army to get painted and it was gonna cos an arm and a leg in washes, probably 3 times what i ended up paying for all these bits :)
Many thanks for this tutorial,. really clear, concise and easy to follow, definitely gonna make up a batch with the glue added for terrain work in the future, shade and seal in one? perfecto!
yes! i've been looking forward to this tutorial since i found your necron tutorial. so glad it's finally here
Yas! Good luck :)
Good well paced and good focussed camera. Content was bang on and just what I need right now. Thanks mate! I’ll buy you a pint if ever I run into you.
I'm getting thirsty already
@@MidwinterMinis and I'll buy you a paint.
I truly hope Guy got his pint
@@xunxhinexuicide looks like this rounds on me!
This is hands down the best DIY wash video on youtube. Everyone else wings it with the measurements. Thanks.
Thanks Justin! Yeah, I was pretty dissatisfied with the vague instructions from others, that's why I made this :)
This is awesome. I always use dishwasher rinse aid instead of soap because it doesn't bubble up. But I'm most def going to invest in some acrylic medium.
Ah, that's a nice idea! Hadn't thought of that :)
the label on that jar is just perfect
Bought nuln oil.. knocked it over immediately.. but loved the effect of what little i managed to get on my miniatures! this video has saved me, thank you so much!!
Five years in and I still go back to this video whenever I need to make myself another pot of wash.
I've been using Les's recipe for washes for a while now. It seems to be a little different with equal parts water and matte medium. I don't know which is better but it has been working well for me. I keep some around without ink to make paint based washes on the fly. I take my base coat color, add a small amount of black ink and squirt in some wash recipe to make a wash that is tonally compatible with the original base coat color.
Yeah, there's lots of different methods! Wash/glaze-making is turning into a bit of an art form these days :)
This was the cruellest tease since your first sandstone necron video. FINALLY.
But for real; this is super useful. Thanks!
Treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen ;)
I used this recipe but didn't have any artist's ink, so I used some cheap artist paint from Amazon I had around the house instead. I got surprisingly good results! It probably would have been better with proper pigments but I just thought I'd mention, this recipe seems to be pretty adaptable with adjustments depending on what one has. Thank you so much for this, I feel like I have jumped up to a whole new level with my hobby without having to spend hundreds of dollars on expensive professional washes and contrasts
Happy new year! Recently found your channel and I've just knocked up my first batch ready for speed freaks. Great tutorial!
Woo! Happy New Year to you too matey. Good luck with the terrain :)
This is really a good way to make washes.
I most humbly thank you, Midwinterguy !
Finally got round to going to Hobbycraft and getting all the stuff needed for this. Now I have two big jars of black and brown wash, and the results have been great. Thanks for creating this walkthrough, now I won't need to pay through the nose for GW Nuln Oil or Agrax ever again!
This is by far the most simple and effective recipe I've seen so far. Thank you.
*suscribes *
Woo! You're welcome!
Awesome tip with using the pva for texture washes!
Perfect for shading my Boarding Actions terrain without going bankrupt...!
Thank you very much! ❤
This is the only DIY wash recipe that's worked out for me. I added some liquitex flow aid and it's perfect. Thanks!😀
What ratio/parts flow improver?
@@ProjeKtWEREWOLF flow aid is a surfactant, so take out the dish soap and add a similar amount ( just a few drops) to get the same effect.
This is literally the best DIY wash video out there. I love your DIY videos.
Doh! I was at the hardware shop and got cheap craft paint ,because I was trying to remember this recipe from 3 years ago.
Distilled water is a good idea as is RO/DI. You can get it from a car store or fish/pet shop respectively and is usually cheap. Tap water can become stale and things can begin to smell over time. With distilled or RO/DI, this is far less likely to occur. Just a handy tip for anyone that didn't already know about it. It's also pretty safe to add to water based paints that are drying out a bit.
Nice! Good tip, thank you. What if I like smelly paints, though? ;)
///Tap water can become stale...///
Depends where you live. Rule of thumb is if your tap water is safe to drink, it'll be fine in your paint.
Awesome tutorial, great job. I made a similar wash when I needed a really large amount to go over my Realm of Battle boards.
I used Pledge floor wax as the main carrier, it's essentially a liquid acrylic medium, a little matte varnish mixed in to dull the shine, but everything else was pretty much the same, ink, p.v.a. and water. Stuff is practically bulletproof, gamed on those boards for years without any chipping.
RE: water. Up here in Yorkshire the water is pretty variable by area. But around where I live we had a lot of water-works go on and the water changed to hard afterward strangely. For the purposes of painting with my airbrush or big mixes like above I found the solution was to buy big jugs of De-ionised water, it's used for ironing and car batteries to combat scale build-up, I found it pretty easily in local supermarkets and places like Halfords and it's not too pricey either.
Keep up the awesome work, really enjoying your channel. I considered starting up a hobby channel but had no idea how to bloody go about it lol.
Thanks mate! Yeah, I've heard good things about Pledge floor wax, maybe I'll give it a go some day soon! Great tip on the de-ionised water! :)
As far as starting a hobby channel goes, if you enjoy doing it, just go for it! I didn't really have any expectation of audience or success or anything, I just wanted to help new painters out :)
I use something similar, but replace the glue with Acrylic floor wax. It will give them a glossy coat but the inks tend to do that anyway. Thanks for the video, good stuff. Loved the Necron video and their paint scheme.
Thanks Rob, great tip :)
This will ne useful for the Vastoyan army my lastest clent comissioned me for. I am not getting into those cracks and crevices on their fur hats by hand without a Space Marine's lifespan!
This is great, what a huge money saver and thanks for sharing this!
No problem! Pretty good time saver, too! Dunk, wipe, dry... DONE!
I guess you could use flow improver rather than dish soap? I bought some after Vince Venturella said it would help with edge highlighting (I'm still bad at it)
I use windshield wiper fluid as it works without the bubbles.
Just found out your channel yesterday. Glad you continue to make videos, they are all great. Keep it up :)
Thanks! Comments like this make it worth it :)
Very helpful, especially if one has been out of the painting scene for quite some time and wants to get get going again rather fast. Brb - mixing inks and waters alchemically.
Don't forget EYE OF NEWT.
Great video thank you I need buckets of wash for a big terrain project, I will definitely be using this recipe!
A really good video.
Good content, good camera work and a great pace.
Thanks!
Thank you! This is perfect for ageing and distressing stuff as well as just being a great wash! Interesting music! I will definately pass your details on to any other miniaturists...we all seem to have a dark kind of tilt to what we do so I'm sure you would go down well...anything that makes things look grimy or beat up tends to go down really well lol!
Made my first pot of wash today! Thanks, Guy!
Thanks for the video! Thought I would share my (albeit first) experience of following this recipe. My first attempt did not go into the recesses very well and stained flat panels (undesirable for me). After some thinking and research, I found out that different dish soap brands actually contain quite different levels of surfactant. Fairy Liquid for example can contain up to twice as much as cheap supermarket brand stuff (the latter I unfortunately used in my mix). I'm going to try again by adding more of my cheap soap and see how it goes...
How did it go?!
@@codykrueger796 not great, the mixture didnt flow very well on the models and often sort of coagulated (for want of a better word).
Someone else in the comments here uses windshield washer fluid instead of dishsoap!
So one thing that always bugged me back when I used to do games workshop and years later when I ran my own gaming place was that far to meny scenic bases were desert or some kind of dried earth, I bring this up as while you disliked the effect the blue Tac glue gave i thought it was interesting as it made me think of a swamp or mud slick field, it would just need a slight different colour palette, I know it wasn’t what you where looking for but sometimes it’s happy accidents that lead to new ideas.
It was just such an accident that lead me to making some of my favourite bases ever a tiled floor effect that started off when I Applied a bit too much plastic glue and ended up making a plastic puddle after it dried, I later cut a tiled floor into it and paint it black and white, this mistake also lead me to making some really interesting looking Nid ships for BFG out of plastic glue and model frames (the bits that plastic kits come on that we normally throw away) and while I never did get around to making the demon army I was thinking of I planned to do a similar thing to make my own greater demon.
Yeah! That's definitely a different way of achieving a nice mud texture :)
Awesome! Thanks, very handy for large amounts of terrain washing without going broke!
Exactly! Who needs a mortgage for Nuln Oil? ;)
Nitpick from a PhD: 1. great vid thanks. 2. Bottled waters can still be very hard (they advertise based on 'healthy' minerals in them after all...) depending on the rocks they are filtered through. More limestone/chalk = more hard. Thinking about the UK, Buxton water & the French Evian are both hard, but the Scottish or Welsh bottled waters will be much softer. Regardless, I think any bottled or tap water will be good enough for the wash. You only get scum from boiled water because you evaporate off water and leave a more concentrated, more carbonate-rich, harder water behind. (Goobertown Brett could probably do a vid on it...)
PS. Whoops. This is an old video and a fairly pointless comment...
Good for those of us not wanting to buy a bunch to make this!
It's all good...videos like this get regular traffic, so it's much appreciated to have the extra detail. Looks like distilled water would be best.
I was looking at the Amazon links. But they are all UK links. You should add some USA links too! Great videos all around.
Great video, very useful to have a cheap supply of washes.
Exactly! :)
Going to give this a crack today.
I have watched this video so many times as well hahaha😊
i use a mix of matte medium, ink and W5 rinse aid, works brilliantly, no water needed
Really good easy to follow tutorial vid. Great job guys. Oh and thanks for theThe 'Evil Dick Van Dyke' label! Loved that.
Super helpful tips for a beginner like me. And who knew about van Dyke.....it's always the quiet ones. ^_^
Brilliant video! Easy to follow and perfect camera handling. Great tips, hadn't even thought about water quality.
This is awesome. Keep up the good work.
If you have a condencing Tumble Dryer you can also use the water from that. Plus it smells laundry fresh, mmmmm
Your hard water is awesome for brewing beer! Wish I had it. 🍺😃
Borax is another alternative to the dish soap, and will leave your wash in a state where it won't foam up when you shake it.
The problem with PVA is that it is hydrophillic meaning that it will absorb moisture from the air and slightly soften the paint. The mini or terrain piece may feel a little tacky to the touch during periods of high humidity.
If you don't mind the extra step, then adding a layer of varnish ought to fix that no problem. For game and terrain pieces you should be varnishing anyway, don't you think?
Thank you very much, nice recipe very well explained.
Glad you found it useful :)
Awesome tutorial , I’ll try to make that in my next video , thanks you
Great video thanks !
I'll personnaly add some drops of toad slime too.....
Made it! Works so well!
Fantastic tutorial, thanks for sharing this.
No, thank YOU for watching :)
Love your work mate! This will save me a mint!
Just found your channel. Great stuff!
Thank you!
does this have a limited shelf life? like, should i make small batches to use on a project, or can i make a big ass jar to hold on to?
Great to have a more accurate video on washed - the bit of this drop of that does not work for me. Thanks. Love your soundtrack - am an ambient fan form way back. Off to Bandcamp to check it out!
This was helpful and well done. Thank you.
good video. since its all water soluble wouldn't be easier just to use acrylic paint, glue and dish soap?
Possibly, but not all paint has the same pigment density, inks are much more uniform :)
"if you are never going to use this wash to fix textures just add 1 part medium instead"
Can you clarify what "fixing textures" is? I plant to wash the models just like you did in the sandstone necron tutorial, to seep into the cracks for contrast. Is that fixing textures or not?
Sorry, completely new to this hobby. Thanks for the great content!
Hey there! So "textures" could be things like weathering powders, rocks, sand, etc. As far as his Sandstone Necron tutorial is concerned, this will also protect the texture of the "cracked earth" effect, which can break off some over time without added protection.
@@Korachof got it! Thanks!
Thanks for this! I'm tired of spending $$$$$ on Nuln Oil wash!
Just use an oil wash. You can get a large tube of black oil paint for 10$ and it'll last you a lifetime. Gloss varnish the mini once you've finished the mini, thin the oil paint with mineral spirits and then test it on your skin. It should crawl through the of the deep crevices of the skin along with being dark enough and at that point you just gotta slap it on the model, wait about 2-3 hours. Then grab some paper towel dipped in mineral spirits and scrub the model in a downward direction. And there you go, you have a cheaper cleaner and more effective wash.
Hey Guy, I know this is an older video, but can you explain why you'd use this DIY wash as opposed to say, citadel washes? Is it just for cost effectiveness and "customizability" or do you think it sets better/has less tide marks, etc?
A dip wash is the goal of this video.
If you can afford to buy 500 mL of citadel washes for a dip wash then go ahead.
@@Corey91666 I understand that's a big part of the appeal, but I was just wondering if there was any other advantage. Is this dip wash actually superior to the GW stuff, for instance?
@@Evisela i think its mostly a time saver.
The citadel stuff should have better quality i guess.
Great man! I’d never heard of “centilitres” before.
You learn something new every day :)
THANK YOU VERY MUCH Mate
You're welcome Eric! :)
That girl from Reddit is probably happy you made a video on dip
I got there in the end!
Have you tries deionised/car battery water? Super cheap and has zero minerals/additives
Good idea!
@@MidwinterMinis my wife has a reverse osmosis plant for her aquariums that use occasionally to make my washes
The blue-tak glue base looked muddy.
It seems like it would be a good wash for wet environments looks.
Have you played with that at all?
3 bloody months waiting for this but... it worth it :D
what's the different from using inks and using oil paintings? There are also too many tutorials using the second one. Also with oils it'd much cheaper as well
Haha, lordy, has it been that long? Time flies when you have almost no hobby time, haha. Oil washes are planned for a future video! :)
Haha, lordy, has it been that long? Time flies when you have almost no hobby time, haha. Oil washes are planned for a future video! :)
@@MidwinterMinis pls, do it ASAP! haha. Don't wanna wait another 3 :D
Oil washes I presume u meant, they take longer to dry so u have more time to work it and u can remove wash from the surface with a cotton bud while still going heavy in the recess and they don't pool. inks in my experience can be tricky to get the right concentration as they will either be too strong and change the color of the minie too much or too diluted and need several washes to work. Also ink tends to leave your models really glossy so u need matt varnish. On the oil one u might need to glooss varnish before applying the wash as u are mixing your oil paint with paint thinner that can ruin the acrylic.
Love this Video!!! Could one use Air Brush Flow aid to replace the soap/dish washer rinse solution?
Thanks for this, good video. If you omit the PVA glue, should there be more of something else? Or just leave it out?
Maybe just a little bit more medium :)
@@MidwinterMinis that makes 2 parts medium?
seriously, man.... I'd love to see how you do with some of the named inquisitors!
I use the inks strait out the jar with small amount of water.
This is the first video I came back to when my Nuln oil spilled all over my desk
great recipe! can you also brush it, or is this only meant for dipping? thanks! :-)
I brush with it all the time! :)
YES !!! THANKS !!!!
Great simple recipe!
I had a few question about replacing some ingredients!
Can I use pouring medium instead of regular medium?
And can I replace the dish soap by glycerin or flow improver?
The high quality of your minis has motivated me to abandon my "only layering, all the time" approach to painting to try some speed painting techniques. I tried making up some black and brown wash with your recipe, and couldn't get the results you were - clean high spots and dark recesses. The recesses were dark, but there was still plenty of pigment on the high spots. And this was with the wash diluted 1:1 with water. What am I doing wrong? Not dilute enough? Needs more dish soap? Any help appreciated, and I know this is an old video, I'm just hoping. Thanks for the great content in any case!
This video is great! I have only one question: is it good as a normal wash and go to your minis with a brush rather then dipping them?
2021 Question for you Guy and or Penny,
Hobby craft have since stopped producinh their paint medium, will this recipe work with the same Galleria matt medium from the Midwinter Medium video?
If not do you have any alternative suggestions?
Cheers!
Love the video, have you tried using floor polish like pledge of future floor polish as opposed to dish soap as a surfactant? you suggest dipping can you brush this mix on?
Respect the jam jar
Cool video. Thanks!
I'm guessing this is only cost effective if you are going to use the Inks and Medium for other purposes.
Very useful.
No worries Frank!
Brilliant video thanks. My hobby shop does not stock Acrylic Painting Medium. Is there anything I can substitute it with> Cheers
I have found a very cheap, but extremely high quality wood stain here.. has 28 colours, water based and has even flow-aid in it (creates thousands of tiny bubbles).
Its a literal pain to apply tho, took me 10 coats for the Tank mini i had.
Have you folks used any ?
And im trying out alcohol inks for nolzur minis today - the lady of my local store has liquid metal too, which is an interesting paint , around the same as Humbrol metallics.
Interesting! I know a lot of terrain makers use various floor polish and wood stains to get their effects on a budget. I'll look into it!
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Its like your wash basically, from what i got its a form of ink. The ones i got are the cheapest, but i bought it just as a test - its a mix of isopropyl alcohol, flow aid and the pigments- that are literally invisible.
However i experimented with PvA+Wood stain mix - it turns into a solid plastic material - see-through under a light, but otherwise solid.
Weirdly, it melts any pva ..but after it dries it gets much much stronger and hides it completely
This can be used a spray too - interesting ideas to be found.
Was waiting for that wash lid to come off when you where shaking it not going to lie, then a video of your body being found in the garden
Rather than dish soap could you use air brush flow improver or thinner?
Do you still add the 8 parts of water if you’re doing a second part medium as opposed to PVA? Or would you go with less??
Nobody else seems to have asked, but now that we have all of this quarantine stuff going on, you think normal old Elmer’s glue over in the states would be fine? I remember it not being a thick consistency at least. Going to need a bunch of wash coming up for my Orks and supplies are scarce 👍🏻.
Yes, Elmer's would work.