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I've just been browsing some paints, and saw this:
VALLEJO GAME COLOR EXTRA OPAQUE LARGE PAINT SET

Looks to be Vallejo's take on the foundation paints. Has anyone here tried them or have any experiences with them?

Tried the heavy purple and it is excellent. Totally recommend it.

I have a few, along with Foundation paints. Not much difference between the two if I am honest, except for the better bottles and price of Vallejo's.

Jonp wrote:I have a few, along with Foundation paints. Not much difference between the two if I am honest, except for the better bottles and price of Vallejo's.

+1

The paints are basically the same. The only difference I've found between the two ranges is, that the GW Foundation Yellow (Ilyanden? Darksun) is a tad lighter than the Vallejo equivalent.

Cheers,


IK-Painter

From my understanding the Vallejo Game Color Extra Opaques use the same formula as the Vallejo Model Color paints.

http://www.astronomican.com/showthread.php?20455-Vallejo-Extra-Opaque-Vallejo-Model-Color-GW-Foundation

4th post down confirms it.

I have them all and they are great. The colors aren't exact matches to the foundation set but most are pretty close and in my opinion are better quality shades of colors. Ad they don't ave that horrific foundation taste (brush lickers you know who you are).

For example: if you count fenris grey as a shade of blue, foundation has 3 shades of blue while VGC has one heavy blue which is a match for mordian blue. Also there tausept ochre version is slightly lighter. The orange is a bit paler to the gwf solar orange. The greens are quite nice. The heavy khaki is a close match to gretchin green. The charcoal is awesome as well as the red and sienna which is darker than calthan brown and the heavy warm grey looks a little too purplish to match dheneb stone. Sadly there's no real match charadon granite, which I think is a phenomenal color.

I personally use both the vallejos and the foundations, you get a much broader and more flexible range of shades that way.

Totally worth it to get it.