The Effect paints range features a mix of useful additives and varnishes, as well as some specially formulated paints to create special effects like blood, slime and weathering. They are also quite affordable, which is a plus. They have more body than Citadel Shades, and most of them go on very evenly. Light Tone: Light Tone is a sepia brown, similar to GW Seraphim Sepia.Īll in all, I’m quite fond of The Army Painter’s washes. Compared to other Quickshade Inks, it didn’t settle quite as nicely in the recesses. It’s actually pretty close to GW Reikland Fleshshade. It’s much more reddish than it appears on the colour swatch. Mid Brown: This was quite a surprise, as it’s an even more reddish brown wash than Flesh Wash. Compared to Reikland Fleshshade, it’s a nuance less reddish and it settles better in the recesses. Note: Dark Tone, Strong Tone and Soft Tone are supposed to match The Army Painter’s Quickshade “dip” range, though I can’ comment on that as I don’t have their dips for comparison.įlesh Wash: A reddish-brown wash for shading caucasian flesh, also useful for shading gold and copper. Old Soft Tone Ink seems now to be Light Tone Ink. It’s actually quite similar to GW Agrax Earthshade.
Soft Tone – Soft Tone Ink used to be quite similar to GW’s old Gryphonne Sepia or new Seraphim Sepia Shade, but The Army Painter seems to have changed it into a more mid-brown wash, as seen as on the colour swatch. Please note that The Army Painter seems to have changed Soft Tone Ink since our review: Dark Tone Ink is a perfect match for GW’s old Badab Black or (old formula) Nuln Oil, while Strong Tone is a darker, more blackish-brown compared to GW Agrax Earthshade (but a very close match for GW’s old Devlan Mud). For reference, Green Tone Ink is slightly more muted than GW Biel-Tan Green, Purple Tone is a very close match to GW Druchii Violet, Blue Tone is less blackish and than GW Drakenhof Nightshade.ĭark Tone, Strong Tone: Also reviewed earlier, learn more about them here. Green Tone, Purple Tone, Blue Tone: We already reviewed these inks a while ago, check out the review here. I like it quite much, I think it’s great for shading drab or muted greens when you don’t want that yellowish hue of Althonian Camoshade. Compared to GW Althonian Camoshade, it’s less yellowish. Military Shader: This is a drab green wash. The new additions are Flesh Wash, Mid Brown, Light Tone and Military Shader. You cant go wrong having all three Parker Quink ink colors in your collection.I was pleased to hear that The Army Painter expanded their Quickshade Inks with four new hues, bringing the range to 11 washes in total. Great value, beautiful color, high quality imported ink. The Parker Quink Blue Ink should not be used as a permanent or historic document type ink, but has been enjoyed by many pen lovers for almost a century. The blue color fountain pen ink is very soft and can be used on a daily basis. This is wonderfully priced imported ink, with a large capacity unique glass bottle. Conclusion about the Parker Quink Blue ink However, using other nib variations will produce a slight shading, but not large. Using a glass dip pen there was very little noticeable shading. This is not a waterproof ink, in fact, Parker refers to this ink as “washable”. Running a wet cotton swab over the sample ink lines after a 3 minute dry time, produced substantial smearing, feathering and slight running of colors. However, under the water test (see below), there was very apparent feathering and line distortion. Using the Rhodia paper and the Rohrer & Klingner dip pen there was no feathering perceptible to the naked eye.
There was no bleed through using the Parker Quink Blue Ink with the pens used during this review on the Rhodia paper. Herbin glass dip pen (with an extra fine equivalent tip) the dry time was a more reasonable 5-7 seconds. Using the Rohrer & Klingner glass dip pen (Medium to broad nib equivalent) I showed a 30+ second dry time. Unfortunately the dry time was not very quick. This is a fantastic price for a imported large bottle of fountain pen ink. bottles cost a super inexpensive retail price of $10.81. The opening of the bottle is a very large mouth opening for easy access and maneuverability. The shape, which has flat sides allow for the bottle to be laid down on its side when filling a pen with the bottle’s final drips. The bottle itself is custom made for Parker with raised lettering on the bottom, as well as the Country of origin (France). Parker Quink inks come in a large 1.9 oz. This style of dip pen has a larger head, which is equivalent to a medium to broad nib size. We used a Rohrer & Klingner glass dip pen for this review on Rhodia N.
Please note some of the characteristics we found when using this Parker Quink Blue ink, which you may find helpful: Testing Factors
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