My Villainy Inks arrived this week, and I have been very happy testing them out. I also got a bottle of their 'Anti-Death' low-toxicity, odorless mineral spirits. I still use my ventilator since when it's chilly my painting area isn't the most ventilated(it's better when I can have the window open, but we've been slowly getting warmer up here, bit by bit), but they really do have very, very little smell(and the thinner basically has none.)
I decided to start with the Grim Core I set(and a spare bottle of Caput Mortuum, a color I figured I'd be using a lot with the next pieces coming up.) I pretty much plan on immediately ordering more; I think Flesh Core I coupled with Coelia Green and Ichor of the Damned. (I didn't want to buy a full set off the bat, and both sets 1 and 2 have colors I want/need for it. I can get the last four over time after I get the mentioned ones, since those seem a bit more situational.)
The packaging is pretty awesome.
Okay, so they uploaded backward, unboxed and then boxed.
The colors I grabbed seemed to be immediately useful to what I was doing; Goon's Grime is this dirty looking, matte-drying wash, Decrepit Filth is a black wash(and a favorite), Caput Mortuum is a reddish-purple and great for gore, Sector Rust makes a great first rust pass for rusty armor(and rest assured this will get a lot of work with Dirty Down Rust and AP's Grim Rust), and Decay of Death is a pale greenish type of deal that makes things look slightly decayed; it's going to likely be good in small bits for corpse stuff and the like.
So far, here's an example of a Hunter of the Left-Hand Path, with an initial Decrepit Filth pass(with a mineral spirit pass to remove some), followed by Caput Mortuum(not removed yet, but I did that this morning and it looks great.)
They have a bit of a learning curve, but they're absolutely going to be a ton of fun to experiment with even more! I mixed up some Caput Mortuum and Decrepit Filth to put over the gory bow and inside(inside: Bloodmoon Red from AP, covered in a wash mix of Carroburg Crimson and Purple Tone. Outside: 3 Parts Slaughter Red to 1 Part Murder Scene speedpaint, all over a skin tone of Grey Castle + Brainmatter Beige acrylics; it's basically a good setup for that.) Finally, ABT Ivory Black oils for the arrow and the nails, but I'll also be punching up the shadows with an oil wash in those bow recesses.
Basically it's been a lot of fun messing around with these!
Also if you're a TC fan, I'm sure that you've seen the Grenade Crab, a new mascot apparently. Grenade Crab is everything.
You mess with crabo, you get the slabo.
I also have been watching the Grimdark Compendium's Mordheim series, which they offered for free for a few days on their anniversary. It's stellar, and goes a whole lot into how to kitbash and the inspirations involved in all of this. They even have a terrain list too, and I had grabbed the Night Lords courses since I was looking into that Nemesis Box at some point. (Speaking of which, I found through that course that Liquitex Prussian Blue Ink is an incredible, saturated, overpowered blue that can be dialed down and actually I think I like it more than Night Lords blue.)
Blue OP, plz nerf.
Anyway, just wanted to update with how much I'm digging the Villainy Inks. I can't wait to try them out on more stuff and practice more with them. It's going to be a lot of fun playing with them on the Goetic Sorcerer and the Pit Locust, for sure!
'Til next time...
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