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Hello Dakka:

I wanted to give you a brief review of my experience with the Caliban Green spray for my 60 infantry models this week.

Introduction:

I have been in the process of building a DA army of around 4,000 points for the last 6 months. This army is a combined force army that includes lots of Ravenwing and Deathwing with a large supporting TAC, new plastic Sternguard as Vets, and Devastators. I'm not a fan of the Dark Angel Green Army painter product just because I haven't figured out how to spray it very well. I also wanted to be a completist with an all Citadel paint product testing and painting for this army. (Don't ask it's the OCD in me.) Anyway, for this spray I bought two discounted cans of Caliban Green and two discounted cans of Chaos Black primer. Both were sprayed at 80F with low relative humidity (25% or less).

Priming:

I tested one figure with straight Caliban Green spray on plastic, and I found that it not only coated extremely well, but it also was difficult to scrape or SimpleGreen off. Unlike other reviews of the Mephiston spray, I found that had I wanted to go straight to plastic I would have save the color being slightly lighter than I wanted. I primed two light coats, then coated two very light coats of the Caliban Green.

Painting:

The new spray was very forgiving and really coated well over the black primer. Thin coats worked like a dream.

Price:

I paid $13 per can which is expensive, however, it was really a joy to use and the color is just right for my airbrushed Citadel paint Dark Vengeance tac squad.

Overall:

I recommend it. I'll try to post some pics later.

I'm glad it works and meets your needs.

Honestly though a friggen $13 can of spray paint better be the best stuff ever.......

Why pay for primer and colored spraypaint when you can just use Army Painter's colored primer?

 Tyberos the Red Wake wrote:
Why pay for primer and colored spraypaint when you can just use Army Painter's colored primer?

He answers that in the introduction

How well does the spray color match the brush on color for Caliban Green?

 Tyberos the Red Wake wrote:
Why pay for primer and colored spraypaint when you can just use Army Painter's colored primer?

Maybe becuase GW is more readily avalible to him and e dosen't have a warapaint for touch ups.

Any photos of the results?