Dilution of artist acrylic for washe?

[6milPhil]

Allo All,

I need to do a wash over my boards, and rather than spend an arm and a leg on a gazillion tiny pots of wash like I use on minis, and in 6mil those go a looooooooong way, I've bought some artist acrylic in a tube, Burnt Umber, but not sure about the dilution I should use. Any suggestions?

Cheers in anticipation...

[Ahistorian]

I think mine is about 1:5 or 1:6, mixed with Klear.

[6milPhil]

I assume that's just a few drops of Klear to break the surface tension?

[SteveBurt]

Or you can use Acrylic Flow Improver, which has much the same effect - reduces surface tension.

[6milPhil]

Excellent, thanks.

[Ahistorian]

I assume that's just a few drops of Klear to break the surface tension?

Actually, I use no water - just magical, magical Klear (you need to get the right sort though). That way it doubles up as half a coat of varnish.

[Fitz]

This is a bit of a tangent, but only a bit.

I saw a guy on YouTube who made large (huge, really) quantities of wash for use on terrain by using cheap water-based decking stain, diluted with plain water and using a squirt of plain old dishwashing detergent as a flow agent.

He was buying 10 litre buckets of the stain for just a few pounds at a British chain we don't have here in the Antipodes; as he said, one bucket would provide him with more wash than he could foresee using in a lifetime. In the video he was dipping complete GW plastic Gothic ruins into the mix, rather than brushing it on. Like I said, huge quantities.

[Predatorpt]

This is a bit of a tangent, but only a bit.

I saw a guy on YouTube who made large (huge, really) quantities of wash for use on terrain by using cheap water-based decking stain, diluted with plain water and using a squirt of plain old dishwashing detergent as a flow agent.

He was buying 10 litre buckets of the stain for just a few pounds at a British chain we don't have here in the Antipodes; as he said, one bucket would provide him with more wash than he could foresee using in a lifetime. In the video he was dipping complete GW plastic Gothic ruins into the mix, rather than brushing it on. Like I said, huge quantities.

Was it Luke? 15 liters for £3 -

There's also this tutorial, using acrylic paints and diluting it like Ahistorian does:

[Fitz]

Was it Luke? 15 liters for £3 -

That's the very guy