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Hi as GW don’t seem to do one what’s the best spray to base dark angles, I guess the closest one to caliban green

they do, it called dark angel green, maybe its oop or...

They had Caliban Green Spray but it’s out of production now. There’s a few cans left here and there where it hasn’t sold. Closest and most widely available would be the Army Painter Angel Green, I don’t know how similar it is though

Army Painter have an angel green colour primer, they seem ok and match the gw colours

I was going to say.. I'm literally looking at a can right now in a newsagents. It's in Wallingford in Oxfordshire if you want it

The only two commercially available off the top of my head are:

Army Painter Angel Green (this is pretty dark, closer to the original Dark Angels 2nd edition style, and less the more "bright" recent style)



Vallejo "Dark Green" Hobby Spray (likely not a perfect match, but worth a look)



If you were starting new...I'd say just pick one that you can find easily and readily - but if you're trying to match an existing one, that'll be a bit more tough.

I’ve been doing my DA by hand but was wanting to get some spray to base then quicker as I have quite a lot to do

I just responded to this - but it didn't show up.

Anyway, yeah if you're doing stuff by hand....marines are super easy to spray. Even at $10-12 a can, each can will do several squads and vehicles and save you...hours upon hours of hand-painting. Definitely worth grabbing one or both of the cans suggested above and see what works for you.

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
I was going to say.. I'm literally looking at a can right now in a newsagents. It's in Wallingford in Oxfordshire if you want it

Man your newsagent is good what else do they sell?

Anyway you inspired me an I tracked a can down on the internet but it is deffo OOP. I’m hoping to get an airbrush in a few months so this will be an issue of the past

oooh I still have a can of Caliban green used twice. good to know will keep it safe lol.

A fair amount of GW spray colors come and go. They’ll produce a run of a certain color, it sells out, and maybe later another run of that color will be made. Maybe. Stuff like Chaos Black is pretty much always available, but a lot of the other stuff is not continuously produced.