The Army PainterSpeedpaint Mega Set 1.0, 24 x 18ml Acrylic Paints incl. mixing balls & 1 brush - Contrast Miniature Paint for D&D & Warhammer Miniatures

I’ve been painting fantasy minis since the 80s and wow has the hobby evolved over the years!…and along come the “speed paints”.I want to get my one complaint out of the way and that is color selection (well, two complaints. As someone else mentioned…yeah, be ready to receive them with a bottle busted open). I would love to see twice as many colors available. The first thing I did when I got the paints was to download pics of what each looks like on a mini. It’s a bit hard to tell what you’ll end up with until you’ve grown accustomed to them. But I’m finding that mixing the paints puts me back in the dark as the resulting color on my palette is hard to decipher until I’ve applied it to the mini. Maybe there are sample photos of say, 50:50 “Palid Bone”:”Purple Alchemy”?Hmmmm, Might have to create my own reference chart with various Speed Paint colors mixed 50:50? 🤔Anyway! After watching some videos I started as many suggested; white primer or even zenithal priming.First, I didn’t like what I was getting with plain white primer. Not enough going on. I liked zenithal better but these paints don’t convert black primer to any given shade of color so (though more stunning), the minis were coming out just too dark.Then the breakthrough! Slapchop. This is a method where you prime the mini in black, then (with some force) dry brush the whole thing with grey and then (more delicately and selectively) dry brush in white. After the grey dry brushing your mini should MOSTLY be grey. Let the black primer stay in the very deepest recesses and you won’t have the issue I had with zenithal priming I mentioned earlier. Dry brush the white on the whole mini but sticking to the outer most areas instead (don’t apply with as much force as you did the grey). Check out videos on YouTube.Then…1:1 color and medium! Don’t use these at 100%. I find them to be too saturated.Wow! Now I’m getting the results I was hoping for! The mini I show pictured took about 10 minutes to paint.In one weekend I painted two expansions to God Tear (board game).These paints and the “Slapchop” technique work WONDERS! Again, don’t forget to use a 1:1 ratio (a bottle of the medium comes with the set). I can easily paint up 5-8 minis that look pretty darn good and spend only about an hour to do them instead of spending hours to do just one!And right now I’m seeing them at half price! $50?? I’m getting another set!EDIT: I see they have released the 2.0 version of the paints, doubling the available colors (and even adding metallics). So yeah, I’d go straight for that if you can afford it (roughly $140….can’t seem to find it on Amazon, however?). Otherwise, this is still a great set to get started with!

Best paints out there if you have little to no experience painting. Liquid skill

These paints are AWESOME. My husband is an avid D&D player and has 4 3D printers currently in use. He prints minis on his resin printers. So. Many. Minis. to paint. After a base coat and a highlight, we paint our minis with these paints. When they dry it looks like they have been painted professionally.Only con- do not try to layer different colors, things get muddy very quickly. Just make sure you put paint where you want it and you will be good. If you want a slightly lighter or darker color mix it on a paper plate or something and then put it onto the mini.

Like any paint, Speedpaints take a bit to get used to as you learn its properties for yourself. They wet blend well and give the advertised coverage quickly. They cut down the time for my painting of various monstrosities considerably.In terms of tips for a new user. 1) Where they work great as a base coat in most cases, I would still do a dry brush or highlight pass over many of them. 2) Use your normal paints for everything other than your base coat(s). 3) You will want to seal your mini after your speedpaint coat though, as water will re-activate the paint, causing a mess. 4) You should also be aware that the speedpaints are fairly translucent, so your undercoat (primer) matters a lot. If you use zenithal priming, you will probably want to switch out the black for a medium or even light tone, as the speedpaint won't really be visible on black.

I tried Army Painter Speed Paints for the first time, and was pleased with the results. I was annoyed, however, by the fact that these paints really only work in one way: a single layer over white or light-colored primer.The results: I white-primed, then painted one of my OGRE miniatures, the little base-station, using Slaughter Red. I tried to add some highlights using other AP speedpaint colors, and quickly learned that's not what they're for, so I stopped.You can see the little base station, and then you can see it next to an OGRE vehicle which I painted using layers of Citadel and P3 paints, with a bit of washing and dry-brushing. The base station took two minutes. The vehicle took at least an hour. To my eye the red on the base station is better than the red I got with layering, but the base station needs some accent colors before I'll be happy with it.Now, let's talk about the experience. The paints are very runny, like a wash or a glaze. They soak all the way up into the brush with just a touch, and go down pretty evenly, affixing to the primer while excess bleeds down and into crevices (which is how the whole speedpainting process works.) I was able to dip the brush in water, then thin the speedpaint on the model, allowing me to pull it further across the flat surfaces. It was very easy to get the highlight/shadow effect. The texture of the model and the flow of the paint did all the work for me. The Slaughter Red coat took about three drops of paint, but would have taken less if I'd used a tiny stainless or glass cup, rather than my plastic-plate palette which was covered with primer, and drank some of the paint.You can probably roll your own using a glaze of the right color, then adding a bit of matte medium and some "regular" acrylic model paint, but if you're going to that much trouble then you're not really speedpainting anymore.These are a bit more expensive than I'd like. I spent $60 on 24 paint pots, so it's less than $3 per bottle, but the bottles are small. Now, it's possible that the paint will go a lot further than the usual base coat paints from Citadel/Reaper/Vallejo/etc, but it's early days yet for me.I have about ten years of experience painting miniatures, and 25 years of experience as a professional artist (okay, cartoonist, but let's not split hairs.) I don't think I'd encourage beginners to speedpaint because it's important to learn other techniques before leaning into this one, but I'm not the boss of you. Or anybody, really.

This is a great product with great pricing. Army painter product line are the best in the market in my opinion.Not like GW overprice and plain grade products.