These are a commission of the old slightly smaller Imperial Assault figures. Still have to do more work in places but 80%+ done. The bases were directed to be painted but left as-given in terms of texture, otherwise I’d have added sand to all of them.
Those bases only have one layer of khaki, they’ll eventually be flat colored, as requested. I suspect customer is going to base them in his own way anyway.
The stormtroopers are washed with my own DIY black wash using Liquitex black ink. It acts very similarly to GW wash. I could make it act like a panel liner with more flow aid but have not here. The stormtroopers were primed black, painted grey, wash drawn along the panel lines, and then painted white. This is my quick’n’dirty white armor workflow. Not award winning, but I can knock out squads like this.
I’ve been thinking to buy some inks for a while, which colors do you recommend on liquitex? Or other brands
The inks were all bought to be used in DIY washes. Washes were made with flow aid and matte medium (also Liquitex) and purified water. The brand choices were more about price and availability than anything special.
The main colors are black ink and burnt umber, which are mixed to make a warm black wash. Then I bought Burnt Sienna, which when mixed in a different ratio with the previous inks makes a general purpose brown wash. I bought FW brand Red Earth which I found works great as a fleshwash substitute. I also bought Liquitex Prussian Blue to make a wash to quickly paint blue uniforms.
The price of ink bottles is higher than wash, but when you make a wash you only use a handful of drops, which over the long term makes them very cost effective.
For warm black wash:
1 tsp (5 ml) Liquitex matte medium 1 tsp (5 ml) water 15 drops of Liquitex flow aid 8 drops of Burnt Umber Acryllic Ink 18 drops of Carbon Black Acryllic Ink
For brown wash same ingredients but 8 drops of black, 10 of Burnt Umber, 8 of Burnt Sienna
Fleshwash just 26 drops of Red Earth.
Feel free to experiment to taste to find just what looks right for you.
Thanks for the detailed explanation