Green stuff world Color shifting paints?

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**Supershandy**

bubber wrote:
Sal4m4nd3r wrote:
I was interested in painting my plague drones carapace with this paint. Thought the green/purple would make it look like a pearlescent beetle shell. I stayed away from it because they only sold the bulk box like another poster mentioned. I think these would look great on eldar vehicles.

I think i saw an FB post the day that they're now selling them in singles...

just checked & yes they do! 4.15 Euros per pot: http://www.greenstuffworld.com/en/chameleon-acrylic-paints/686-chameleon-colorshift-martian-green-paint.html

How much????

Even if I add these to the INSTAR range we wouldn’t be that extortionate!

Our Metallics for 20ml are £2.29/€2.62

**Todosi**

But these aren't metallics, they are polychromatic paint. They are a very different beast.

**Ulfhednar_42**

Todosi wrote:
But these aren't metallics, they are polychromatic paint. They are a very different beast.

Yep, I can only assume the flake GSW is using is at least as expensive as the automotive flake, which runs about a dollar a gram and runs about 25 grams to the liter.

**Supershandy**

Ulfhednar_42 wrote:
Todosi wrote:
But these aren't metallics, they are polychromatic paint. They are a very different beast.

Yep, I can only assume the flake GSW is using is at least as expensive as the automotive flake, which runs about a dollar a gram and runs about 25 grams to the liter.

Depends on the supplier, when we were looking into it we could get a finer grain and a similar effect and still keep the cost low.

This is the reason INSTAR exists to give a fairer price to the community.

That’s not to say the paint doesn’t look amazing (because it does) but that’s a very steep price....

**Desubot**

oh goodness im back to the thread i started and no surprise supershandy is here

Congrats on the website.

The price...... i dunno iv bought automotive flakes before as well as some taiwan gundam death chemical that i swear gave me cancer and the former the flakes are too big and the lather takes 2 months to ship but the flakes are perfect. but both are fairly expensive compared to the GSW stuff.

also alclad II paints are fairly expensive.

but then i dont know how well this stuff works or if its a lacquer or water based formula. (i actually like it in lacquer as it dries super fast and strong though it kills my airbrush)

**Supershandy**

Desubot wrote:
oh goodness im back to the thread i started and no surprise supershandy is here

Congrats on the website.

The price...... i dunno iv bought automotive flakes before as well as some taiwan gundam death chemical that i swear gave me cancer and the former the flakes are too big and the lather takes 2 months to ship but the flakes are perfect. but both are fairly expensive compared to the GSW stuff.

also alclad II paints are fairly expensive.

but then i dont know how well this stuff works or if its a lacquer or water based formula. (i actually like it in lacquer as it dries super fast and strong though it kills my airbrush)

I have no idea what you mean......

Thank you though about the website

**FrozenDwarf**

Lance845 wrote:
FrozenDwarf wrote:
ChargerIIC wrote:
Anyone had a chance to try these out?

barely, but first impression was not good. did a lot of testing with shading allso, so no point in showcasing my test.
using brush and trying a gold/red tone, even with 6 thin layers there was not a solid basecoat. i can see the colour change of the paint, but the black primer still shines true, so the paint is realy thin. (and the first layer i did the gold/red appeard as green......)
so that lead me to the conclusion that this is airbrush paint.
ordered a cheap airbrush as i dont want to taint the only 1 i have with metalics. it should arrive later this week and i will continue to test then, but brush job is prolly just for the highlights after you have shaded the model.

Did you watch their videos for using their paints?

i did.
idk maybe the green one in the vid is different to the gold one.
my airbrush arrived today, so using a different paintbrush then last time i did a new test. 3 thin layers in and the colour is not covering the black primer. meanwhile 3 coats with the airbrush and i have the same result as showcased on their colour demo vid.

so yea, airbrush for the basecoat, paintbrush for highlights. (atleast for burning gold)

i have no other models i want to use the other paints on atm so cant realy test the range fully. i bought these to be used on firestorm armada when that game is rebooted and other space ship games.

**Desubot**

Ok so my order came in and i gave storm surge green a shot.

turns out its the same kinda flakes as the automotive stuff which particle sizes makes the model incredibly glittery

the effect works 100% it goes from green to blue.

little disappointed though personally. i think i will stick to my taiwan death chemicals

**torblind**

No pictures?

**Supershandy**

We’re going to be looking at introducing one in about a week or so, should be a finer grain as well so less “glittery”

**emptyhat**

This seems right up my alley for a few projects so I ordered both sets. Looking forwards to trying them out.

**Supershandy**

We just received our colour shifting metallic at INSTAR, we're testing a brown/green one this weekend using our formulation.

Have to let you know how it goes

**Desubot**

Welp let me know if you can get it to the level that these guys at modo has

its bloody expensive and hard to get in the states. :(

**Yodhrin**

If you guys can pull of a tealish green-blue(green dominant) and a blue-purple(blue dominant) where the blue is the same in both paints, Alpha Legion players everywhere will owe you a debt.

**Desubot**

Yodhrin wrote:
If you guys can pull of a tealish green-blue(green dominant) and a blue-purple(blue dominant) where the blue is the same in both paints, Alpha Legion players everywhere will owe you a debt.

Iv seen a cosmic one somewhere that is green blue AND purple color shifting. was thinking about it but i prefer the normal green - blue from the picture.

**Supershandy**

Yodhrin wrote:
If you guys can pull of a tealish green-blue(green dominant) and a blue-purple(blue dominant) where the blue is the same in both paints, Alpha Legion players everywhere will owe you a debt.

We'll see what we can do, so far it's looking good

**Supershandy**

Hi there, Apologies for resurrecting this thread but since people were interested in it, we've just released our versions of Chameleon Metallics, we've only got four paints available though at the moment!

**ChargerIIC**

Nice - anyone have shots of what the Red-White metallic looks like on a model?

**Supershandy**

We’ll try and get some shots up when we get the opportunity, we have had a customer already buy some so they may get there before we do

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We will say though, it’s really really good, excellent for scales and gemstones!

**Niiai**

Seeing these makes me think itbis exelent for dark eldar. Pitty mine alreqdy are green.

**Geifer**

I bought a bottle because it could be a cool effect if it works out. Going to start testing immediately. If all goes well this will result in shiny, oily toxic waste terrain.