Army Painter / GW wash (shade) differences?

[Urauloth]

I've been out of the painting saddle for a little while, and I've become kinda rusty on a couple of things which I'd like to clear up before I get stuck back in. One of those things is the difference between GW's shades and AP's washes - flow, interaction with medium, finish, etc. I know AP strong and dark tone are almost identical to the old devlan mud etc but it's been too long since I used those for that to be very helpful.

 

A quick rundown of the differences, any useful notes, anything like that would be great. Are there advantages to having, say, dark tone, strong tone, agrax eathshade and nuln oil? Might there be a reason to use nuln oil on one mini and its AP counterpart on another? Are they different enough, or just different means of achieving the same result?

 

Thanks in advance!

[Razblood]

From my experiences The Army Painter washes are a bit softer in shade than GW's current equivalents, they are a thicker consistency and seem to settle a bit better in the recesses.

 

When it comes to using mediums I've only used Glaze Medium, which seems to work fine with either.

 

Other behaviours I've noticed is that unless you shake the bejeezus out of the GW washes they seem to leave a white residue in the recesses which looks like the medium has separated and causes some nasty tide marks. I've never had this issue with the AP stuff, however on the flip side the AP stuff can sometimes be a bit glossy unless you shake it first.

 

Other than that you can use them pretty interchangeably, but the cincher is the fact you get more for your money with the AP stuff.

 

Hope this is helpful :)

[appiah4]

Army Painter Ink Washes (of which I recently got a new set, the one that includes the new Flesh Wash) are almost 100% exact matches for the old GW washes from before the whole rebranding.  As a result they have a different thickness and surface tension than the current line, and behave differently.  They settle better, which tends to produce darker shades and less muted highlights, ergo a better contrast and less need for a glaze on top.  They also better match the old wash colors.

 

You might find this interesting:

 

http://taleofpainters.blogspot.com.tr/2013/08/review-army-painter-warpaints.html

 

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gYBR18Ba5nc/UhkZRONnPbI/AAAAAAAAErE/T1ySvxNzLb8/s400/armypainter_inks04.jpg

 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZNl0YYxGQi8/UhkZRlf_VoI/AAAAAAAAErY/2093sPhcoww/s320/armypainter_inks07.jpg

 

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1HxmJjON5CA/UhkZRBEYzVI/AAAAAAAAErc/znFB1eFlCx8/s400/armypainter_inks06.jpg

 

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PErgbCCBCA4/UhkZREvFwII/AAAAAAAAErM/rvkPYrG_GDM/s400/armypainter_inks05.jpg

 

And this: http://taleofpainters.blogspot.com.tr/2012/04/review-army-painter-warpaint-inks.html

 

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9jAjA_nf7cU/T5XMiSMamSI/AAAAAAAACek/oeiskGWf4PQ/s1600/softtone.jpg

 

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ql8Bm_x7aSA/T5XMjOQvdZI/AAAAAAAACes/g41n3nGEU-U/s1600/strongtone.jpg

 

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aMFxRgV0rk4/T5XMhqz6ZFI/AAAAAAAACeg/qFfGkb95wTI/s1600/darktone.jpg