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I use Reaper Master Series as my primary paint, and supplement it with some Vallejo paints. I also use a handful of GW and P3 paints simply because they have shades found nowhere else -- like P3's Blighted Gold and GW's Warlock Purple. And recently I've started to use a lot of GW's washes and foundations.

I just use gw paints, am too lazy to get hold of any others.

I personally use GW, Reaper, Tamiya, Testors enamels, and Poly Scale Steam Power Black. I find Tamiya paints don't dry-brush nicely or work as washes and the GW and Testors are used because I have them. The Poly Scale is used because it's more paint than any other company sells in one bottle that can be used in any application which is great for flat black.

Testors and apple barrel. If you know how to use them, they work fantastically.

Haha, GW paints have 666 votes right now

I use GW paints...they're the only ones readily available

I use GW,P3 and Vallejo game colour

Mainly Citadel but sometimes other acrilics for spraygunning

Good ole Folk Art paints from Hobby Lobby.

DickBandit wrote:Good ole Folk Art paints from Hobby Lobby.

Same here, 'cept I get mine from Wal-Mart.

~~Yzz

Citadel all the way

having used both games workshop paints for the past 10 years and recently moved to using both vallejo ranges I wish I'd have known what I do now years ago. Vallejo are a far superior range, boasting more colours, more paint per pot, cheaper per pot and some other little gems like metal medium allowing you to mix any colour into a metallic version or formulated thinner to help the colours flow! I'll never recommend games workshop range to anyone ever again having made the conversion myself...especially with games workshops constant price rises :(

Just GW stuff.

It's as good as it needs to be.

Craft Smart and Folkart by Plaid. 2 fl oz of paint for about $1.25 each at Walmart.

Nice metallics.

I happen to love Tamiya, but only for their b;ack spray. It seems to stick to metal (I'm in a love/hate relationship with that damn pewter) which is great

And of course I use citadel. It's the only one I can actually get without ordering from somewhere shady online

I use mostly GW. When I started, I bought alll my paints from the FLGS-now defunct and it was all they had - even though I had a friend tell me to get Vallejo.

Now I wish I had listened to him and tracked it down on the internet. I plan to switch over to Vallejo paints as I use up my GW stuff, though that will be ages and ages from some of them. Scorched brown will be gone fairly quickly - Liche purple might take a few decades.

I also have some Reaper paints and they are great (and the only other paint aside from GW I can get locally). But the shear number of triads I would need is offputting. But I will use all their excellent skin-tones.

when people ask me for painting tips the first thing I tell them is. "don't buy GW basic paint."

I tend to use any paints as long as they are matte acrylic GW are overpriced.

I use Delta Ceramcoat and Folkart craft paints almost exclusively, though I do have a couple of pots of Mechrite Red in my collection just to help get red paint over a black undercoat to look better.

I've been stuck on Citadel paints for years. I tried Reaper Triads and loved them but of course my FLGS stopped stocking them as he said "No ones buying them". Once my current stock of Citadel runs out I may acquire some more Reaper and give a go with Vallejo if the price is right online.

I love GW paints.

infernus1986 wrote:If i could get exact matching colors from the vallejo line i would switch.
But after starting army's with GW paints im afraid to switch and have to custom blend all my colors to match whats already done.

Same. I do dislike the way foundation paints tend to flake up so easily in the pots, and though citadel washes are fantastic, one fault is that it does get thin and gunk accumulates at the bottom, which means you have to really dig at it in order to use it.

I still use my Ral Partha paint too!

folkart and americana paint, good acylic paint, tons of colors and not very expensive, doesn't chips or fad eand is pretty cheap compared to other acrylics

I use some off brand stuff designed for models that my local hobby lobby has. very cheap paint =)

I use citadel paints but P3 primer, its cheaper than citadel primer and I think it works very well!

Games Workshop Paints so I can scab paints of GW Stores.

I also use Rembrandt oil paints besides the GW and Vallejo game and model color acrylic range

Normally i use the well know paint range 'the cheapest i can find'

I use Reaper Paints. I was introduced to it by dakka users. Expensive, but works extremely well, they have every color I need, and only on very rare occasions do I find myself going back to find GW paints.

Before I used Citadel Paints, I used Testors Enamel. I stopped using it, but one of my friend's still uses it. The colors are very rich, but it's hard to do any kind of subtly or depth with it. It can also be a pain to work with, as it's much thicker than normal paint. You need a chemical thinner, and it tends to dry out on the pallette.