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India ink vs acrylic ink for miniatures7/11/2023 You need to shake them more than other colored inks. Although the pigments in the muted lines separated easily. I only have specialized muted lines, so cannot compare fairly. Again, I never properly compared Amsterdam and FW inks on other color range, so this is not a proper comparison. I use these fluorescent inks to highlight monster eyes or plasma gun effect, and all Amsterdam Reflex serious do the purpose pretty well. Critical Role Unpainted Miniatures: W01 Half-Elf Echo Knight and Echo Female Little to no assembly required Primed and ready to paint Some miniatures include. (Note that fluorescent paints use fluorescent dye, not pigments, so that they have poor lightfastness.) Perhaps that's why Amsterdam does not produce fluorescent blue ink in the first place. I suspect that it's not FW inks fault, but the blue dye itself. However, FW Fluorescent blue does not stand out much compared to the other fluorescent colors from Amsterdam inks. I never had experience with FW inks except the Fluorescent Blue one, so I cannot say which one is better or worse. When I read various articles and Youtube videos, a lot of hobbyist talks about FW inks, but never Amsterdam inks. This makes them straight out the bottle good for staining/heavily tinting an area a bit like a heavy glaze. Yellow-ish highlights on green skins above are done in ink. The difference is inks tend to have finer pigment, a much higher amount of pigment, and less binder. Out of total 60 blocks made for acrylic colors, 52 (86.66) displayed. For the brightest highlight, you may want to mix with regular acrylic yellow paint. The drying time for acrylic color (1.30 ± 0.009 minutes) was significantly less than India ink (2.30 ± 0.05 minutes). Anyway, it’s easy to create smooth highlight towards yellow but it may not have enough strength of the yellow. I suspect that most model yellow paints are mixed with white pigment such as Titanium white. Also, by doing this, it is likely to create white-ish coffee stain effect on the surface. To achieve this using model paints, you need to dilute the paints significantly, and need to create 5 or more glazing layers. I found that this is much easier than using diluted yellow model paints. For example, you can create smooth rich highlight on the muscles of the green Orc using transparent yellow acrylic inks. Transparent yellow acrylic inks can be very useful for highlighting green or red surfaces. For example, if you apply transparent yellow ink on the red surface, it will turn to orange. When you apply transparent inks, they can never completely cover the base tone, but they can alter the color. For the transparent inks, you can use them for glazing or filtering.
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