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I'm not normally a fan of OTT stuff like this, but for some reason kind of like her.
I agree. She has a very Chaos Renegades/ Fantasy Punk barbarian aesthetic and looks like she is ready to kicks some tail, not just pushing her goods out there. Also kind of neat that her less armored side is her shield side, so not completely idiotic.
I do like her Bones base better than the broccoli base, though.
I agree. She has a very Chaos Renegades/ Fantasy Punk barbarian aesthetic and looks like she is ready to kicks some tail, not just pushing her goods out there. Also kind of neat that her less armored side is her shield side, so not completely idiotic.
I agree, I think the big FU demon shield actually makes the model work. Subconsciously at least something is triggered saying "This makes enough sense." Not a lot of sense, still crazy, over the top Fantasy Punk as you put it so nicely, but in a strangely more practical sense.
Possibly also because she doesn't look to be wearing combat stilettos.
I've no experience with Reaper Paints. Does anybody? What sort of quality etc, are they? How about the brushes?
They are pretty good, although their metallics are underwhelming compared to Vallejo or Citadel. The HD paints compare very nicely to GW base paints, while the basic colors are nicely grouped into triads for easy layering. The range is also huge, which can be nice.
Overall though, it's not a really necessary range, but there's nothing wrong with it.
spiralingcadaver wrote: Reaper's got some pretty nice colors, IIRC they're slightly thinner than vallejo, but pretty similar.
Yes, it can be quite a chore painting over a black basecoat with Reaper paints (other than the HD paint series). They do have a broad range and lots of options for skin tones and good array of tones for layering or high lighting.
Stick to the W&N and Raphael brushes. I've been on the Reaper forums for years, and nobody talks about the brushes.
The paints were designed by Reaper's staff painter, who, before Reaper was producing paints, had to mix her own. So when Reaper decided to make paints, they asked her how *she* wanted her paints, and there you go. Reaper paints have a high amount of flow improver. IMO, The MSP paints are meant for advanced tabletop or better. The HD paints are for "one coat" coverage, although I prefer the thicker Army Painter paints for it. (I'll still use an undercoat.)
BS: We have our Master Paint and our Master Series HD Paint. Our HD paint is based off the same formula as our Master Paint but it’s formulated to cover better. Our original Master Series Paint was designed by Anne Foerster, who is a multiple international award winning painter, who said I need a paint I don’t have to futz with. She had been using a couple of our competitors GW and Citadel and Vallejo and some of those, and was always adding additives and additional mixtures and working to make the paint work. She said I want to make one that works the way I want it. So she developed our Master Series Paint. We’ve been working on that for years now and it’s been incredibly popular. But one of the biggest complaints we got was because it’s designed by a pro painter, with layering and blending and those kinds of techniques in mind, it’s a little thing and doesn’t have tremendously good coverage. It does cover but sometimes you need two or three or four coats because we wanted to layer with it and blend with it. So we developed the HD paints so that we have a one or two coat solution. We have a one coat solution on everything but our red. Our HD Red I believe still requires two coats. But even the HD yellow is a one coat coverage over your primer and it’s amazing. So it’s really great for your based coat, really great for your foundation. Or if you are a novice painter it’s really good to get you started in painting without having to worry about all the techniques of an advanced painter.
I will parrot most of the above. The majority of my paint is Reaper. GW metalics are better, though. I especially enjoy Reaper's HD paints. HD Red is excellent.
I've no experience with Reaper Paints. Does anybody? What sort of quality etc, are they? How about the brushes?
They are pretty good, although their metallics are underwhelming compared to Vallejo or Citadel. The HD paints compare very nicely to GW base paints, while the basic colors are nicely grouped into triads for easy layering. The range is also huge, which can be nice.
Overall though, it's not a really necessary range, but there's nothing wrong with it.
The only thing bad about the range is that not alot of Local Stores Carry it for people, even if they carry reaper mini's. Means your ordering online alot of times for your paints. If you prefer ordering paints online, then it's very good since reaper dose free shipping to US&CAN on orders over $35 USD.
If Vallejo was not easily available locally, I would use them. I just order from them for speciality colours like their Drow Skin Paint triad, and other odds and ends.
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I am a Vallejo man, but I have been picking up the HD paints with every Bones Kickstarter, and I am sold on them. Maybe not quite as heavy coverage as GW's old Foundation line, but close. They also mix up well, and with a little airbrush thinner go through my airbrush nicely. And dropper bottles are great.
I haven't tried Reaper metallics, but I am not in love with Vallejo's either. I rather like the GW ones, but I haven't picked any up in a long time so I am using VJ's till mine run out.
Interesting to know that Reaper's normal paint line is a little thinner and such. I might have to give that a try sometime.
The only "negative" or "bad" review I've seen of their paint was basically: Vallejo works better for more styles and Reaper's was made to do a style I don't use.
Personally I love the Reaper paint, it's ready right from the bottle while I find Vallejo (Model Colour) needs a little thinning. I do prefer Valejo Metalics for golds and silver. I was using Reaper Honed Steel for ages but I like standardization so swapped over to Vallejo last time I needed steel.
Bright red/orange/yellow still need a second or third coat even with the HD when doing large areas but that's situation normal in my opinion. However Polished Bone (Master series) has awesome coverage and is close enough to white 90% of the time.
As for brushes no idea, for a couple years now I've used Blick Scholastic (ox hair), DaVinchi (black sable), and Windsor Newton Sieries 7 (red sable) so I couldn't say for certain but if they're synthetic or mixed natural/synthetic I'd skip them unless they're really cheap as they'll develop an annoying curl.
I have a fair amount of Reaper paints from both Kickstarters and just general purchase and personally I find blending with them to be a real chore compared to GW or Vallejo.. Granted my GW paint experience goes back to the old screw tops to the foundation.. so whatever is newer than that I dunno. I find Reaper's suspension separates from the pigment too much and results in just a really bizarre "floating" of the pigment. I have my own thinning solution that uses Vallejo retarder and thinner medium and it just does not play well with whatever Reaper uses for me.
That said.. I know the paints themselves have it in them.. So all of what I said above is specific to me. I'm not an amazing painter or anything either I just have my own way I like to blend and it doesn't play well with Reaper.
I will also say that I find the coverage to be weird just laying it down on a primed model. To me, it doesn't seem like water based acrylic as much as acrylic pigment in some kind of smeary oil or something. YMMV
I've got a bunch of reaper and find it really good, especially for smooth blending on skin tones (they do a wide variety of triads for different one),
but you will have to put on several coats and the first one can look smeary, but once you've got smooth coverage it gives a really nice finish as shown on one of my mierce minis below
they do separate, but are much easier to shake up than Vallejo so I don't find that an issue
the one real weak link in their range is the metals which are average at best
I've been using paints from the various ranges for a lot of years (in some cases close to 30) and I've recently switched almost entirely to Reaper after having used and been very pleased with their paints in the last 5 years. I still get my metallics from Vallejo's Model Air or the newer Metal Air range and my washes (on the rare instance that I use premade washes) from Citadel.
I'm too lazy to bother with any additives beyond water and Reaper paints allow me to do more with that than other ranges, I have found. As always, buy a few and see if they're good for you.
For brushes: Winsor & Newton series 7 (not miniature series 7 the bristles are too short - hence the "miniature" - and don't hold enough moisture) every time. I use a #1 for everything; it has a big enough belly to hold a good amount of paint without drying out and a sharp enough tip for detail work. Wash them with brush soap after each painting session and they're last a very long time.
Thanks for the replies guys I think I'll add a few colors to my order, next time I order something from Miniature Market. I like the idea of a nice matte finish, and I don't use metallics anymore for miniatures. I am lazy about thinning too. But I manage.
Normally I use Delta Ceramcoat (a higher end craft paint), or acrylic artists paints (I learned how to work with that stuff in painting classes years ago.) because it is readily obtainable. It will be interesting to compare it to a paint ostensibly formulated for miniatures.
Lockark wrote: The only thing bad about the range is that not alot of Local Stores Carry it for people, even if they carry reaper mini's. Means your ordering online alot of times for your paints. If you prefer ordering paints online, then it's very good since reaper dose free shipping to US&CAN on orders over $35 USD.
If Vallejo was not easily available locally, I would use them. I just order from them for speciality colours like their Drow Skin Paint triad, and other odds and ends.
This. I like their color triads a lot, but I don't like ordering paint online if I can avoid it. With Vallejo and Army Painter and even Citadel paints available to me locally I just use them. Any benefit that Reaper Paint may offer not enough to off-set the ease of local availability of the others.
Red Harvest wrote: Normally I use Delta Ceramcoat (a higher end craft paint), or acrylic artists paints (I learned how to work with that stuff in painting classes years ago.) because it is readily obtainable. It will be interesting to compare it to a paint ostensibly formulated for miniatures.
Some people dismiss craft paints, but I've experimented extensively with Delta Ceramcoat (I've actually got a whole rack of their paint on my painting desk) and gotten really good results. Their properties are a bit different than the specialist paints, but if you know how to work with them you can get good results.
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I think I'll add a few colors to my order, next time I order something from Miniature Market. I like the idea of a nice matte finish, and I don't use metallics anymore for miniatures. I am lazy about thinning too. But I manage.
