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a free, everchanging online hobby painting guide by www.warcolours.com Tip : Remember to thin down your paints with water or Warcolours matt medium to a ratio of 2 water : 1 drop of paint .  Mix them separately so you can control the final mix Tip : You may go back and forth cleaning up the lines, there is a lot of clean up  which goes behind the scenes and it never is one clean brush st*oke. Tip : for this step non-thinned paint can be used for maximum opacity Tip : Progressively thin down your white highlights to achieve an awesome realistic highlight.  Hey there, true believers, today’s topic is Blood effects and how to make ‘em work for you.  Blood is a substance like few others. It has several unique visual properties, depending on the state you come across it. This effect can prove very difficult to capture in miniature. If you can nail it, you can add a ton of visceral carnality to a piece and really evoke an emotional response using subtle (and less than subtle) visual cues. There are a couple of tailor made products for the effect, Citadel’s “Blood for the Blood God” technical paint, and Tamiya’s “Clear Red X27″, but I’ve found you can get a higher degree of Being able to capture these moments successfully can lend a ton of dynamism to a medium that is often comparatively static. Combine that with the emotional response that blood evokes in people (up to the extreme of some people feeling unwell at the sight of it), and you can see how carnage can be a powerful tool to employ as an artist - Provided you have mastered the effect. In the same way a well done blood effect can tie a bow on a scene, a poorly executed one has a decidedly more distracting and comedic Blood has several different distinct visual states, depending on its age, viscosity, depth, source, etc. For simplicity sake, and since we’re limiting the application to miniatures, we’re only going to discuss three types of blood, as these will be the ones most often