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You should probably add a little water as sometimes if you lay it on thick it can get streaky or chalky.

You should buy the whole set at Black Diamond! :3

Nah, but seriously, they are really good but you need to keep a few things in mind when you use them. Let me ramble:

One being that they are not game colors so they lack tooth. Two because they lack tooth they are easier to get some high quality blends. They dry more flat (not shiny), even the metalics. If you lay it on thick, you will see cracking from the top layer drying faster than the bottom. I love that the bottles have agitators already in them. Sometimes I think the agitators can plug up the opening. You really have to be sure to use a sealant, when you are done.

If you are thinking about using them, you might want to get a firm grasp on some advanced techniques and tools. (i.e. kolinsky sable brushes, wet pallets, glaze mediums, wet blending, feathering and lining.) Although, the results of simple dry brushing with this stuff is pretty amazing.

Bottom line, they are still acrylic paints, get them if you like the color they have. They will work much the same as others you have used. (Maybe a little better in my opinion. Or maybe on par with P3 just with a better pallet.)

djphranq wrote:So far, I'm impressed (I may even consider buying the whole set next time I'm up in the Bay Area visiting Black Diamond Games in Concord ).

If this were Facebook, I would be clicking that "Like" button right about now.

Candroth wrote:
These problems and solutions may or may not be resolved by the use of a wet palette. I've never used one myself so I can't speak to its effectiveness; I'm a fan of custom blending paints as I go and I'm not sure how a wet palette would work with that. For large amounts of the same color it might.

I wish I had the money to buy a whole set of paints -- heck I wish I had the time to spend painting to justify buying that many!!

A wet pallet is made for custom mixing on the fly. It is a piece of permeable butcher paper, on sponge, placed inside a close able container with water in it. The system replenishes any water that may evaporate out of your paint. You can even close the lid and put it in the fridge and work with the same mixes/blends the next day if you don't have time to finish.

For large amounts of paint, you will probably just want to get an empty dropper bottle (which reaper also sells) and store your custom color that way.

Since you are mass painting, I recommend popping off the nozzle itself and poor some out onto your pallet.