WARNING LONG POST
So everyone, as you know i’m not a famous influencer so noone sent me shit for free.
like every person with common sense i bought my box of Army Painter Speed Paints.
As following there will be my personal rubbish opinion about them, or as i say, my Angreview
1st thing lets talk immediatly about why people are looking into this, lets be frank, fuck GW and their prices, right? Right.
Here the price is 89€ for 23 colours, 1 medium and 1 big brush = 89/24=3.7 per bottle, and it contains as much as GW contrasts.
3.7 VS 6.3 (no brainer here)
the bottle is the droplet one, and has a metal ball inside each one of them, so fuck yes worth everything!
2nd the range of colours is quite wide, i wish there were more browns, but you can easily work with all of them. Many colours are really saturated, few are light in tone, mostly all of them are really vivid, like a punch in the eye, and it’s what people generally want for those kind of things (my favourite one is the Sand Golem one)
3rd the application is smooth as fuck, they are not as liquid as gw one, so they dont run around like screaming kids at the mall, they pool from the edge in a great way and they make no stains/coffe spot at all. I was rock hard, like the sand golem color i mentioned before.
4th you can change easily the effect by giving to the white/light base a different undertone.
Found the best use for this are the flesh parts, adding some regular paint pink or a heat map with yellow/orange/blue on the face made a much better result like i did for the 2 cheering hobbits
5th the big warning in my own experience, those colours are ment to be, as the label says, speed paint: 1 layer then move on with you life, stop playing with dolls ffs.
so here’s the thing, 1 layer and that’s about it, if you put it down and you dont touch it (like what your parents said to you when growing up) the result is great, but if you start to apply extra layers, washes, glazes, other speed paints, the result is disastrous.
BECAUSE IT ISNT THE WAY THEY ARE SUPPOSE TO BE USED
this part is fundamental, we all have to keep in mind that those colours perform in a great way for not important things, like the cheering fans i’m painting, some veichles maybe, terrains, or some warmaster stuff, because doesnt really matter the quality of the final result, being a secondary character/item itself.
if you wanna add more layers and all of that, this is not the product for you, it would necessairly require to be varnished, airbrush is the best option (yeah, like if i own one, right?) or with a spray can, but defenetly not with brush and varnish paint, or you’ll smudge everything once again.
All the colours reactivate, some more, some more, some more, some more and few less, mostly some more. a lot more. Like the white shirt and the guy eating pasta. Same effect.
Having to varnish between layers, remove the “speed” part from the idea itself, but once again, because this isnt the way those colours are suppose to be used, those are not GW contrasts (damn you GW)
So what are those colours good for?
Final glazes, tints, but used as only as final touch to the model before varnishing
Secondary stuff, or some projects you wanna quickly done, some work where you splotch some colour over and you are done with it.
If like me, you dont like the idea of painting with contrasts already, you wont like those either, BUT if you wanna some tool that will help you to quickly do your army, man, those are fenomenal, much more than GW, much cheaper, much more vibrant and much smoother.
Do i like those? Yes
Do i suggest you to look into those? Yes
Would i keep those? Nope (gotta check that amazon refound)
They are not the tool i thought they were, so my bad, even tho i didnt find anything about this reactivation thing on the Army Painter page/videos.
It’s simple not what i was looking for, it seems my idea was actually what GW produces
so, after all this chatting, i’ll show you what i quickly made in those 3 days
you can see the difference of the skin tone i meant before with the fat guy (white base) and the dwarf+hobbits (pink base)
This is the 1st model i tried, so lot of imperfections, but came out still muddy on the skin, which i used 2 colours, sand golem + camo green layered over
this frog i swear, base with yellow, then green and orange over the areas.
the orange was removing the yellow below, showing the white base coat, while the green was picking up the under yellow, clogging the model, gave up shortly after, when i added some blue in the recesses.
in the, now, splotchy recesses.
<Ciao belli!