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 Albertorius wrote:
Still doing tests, now with more textured stuff (a victrix viking), but honestly, as a one-coat solution, so far it's working pretty well...

Spoiler:

Damn, that is pretty good.

Just speed paints over white?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Just speed paints over white?

Over light grey primer with white drybrush.

Thanks. Sounds easy enough.

 Albertorius wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Just speed paints over white?

Over light grey primer with white drybrush.

I'd love to see someone try doing a dark brown primer, drybrushed white, then hit with speed paints. Or maybe a contrasting colour primer depending on what colours are being used.

I’m working on some getting some minis primed green. Then I’ll try drybrushing yellow or white and hitting them with green, blue, purple and red to see what happens.

I tried out the speed paints on a few minis I had primed, as well as on two dwarfs painted silver and on two Bones minis that had not been under coated. The mummy had been base coated in glossy white for reasons I can’t remember.

My initial thoughts are that the yellow, brown, green and blue stood out as the most satisfactory, especially the yellow (compared to how much I hate painting yellow). The red coated well, but didn’t have a lot of depth…so I’ll likely use it over something drybrushed. The orange shaded well, but is darker and duller than I’d like. The purple had issues on the Bones, although my brush may have been wet, I dunno. The bone color can work as dirty cloth, but not as white. The green and blue look sharp over metal. The flesh tone was fussy to use.

Tomorrow (schedule permitting) I will try some drybrushing over the paints.

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:
Still doing tests, now with more textured stuff (a victrix viking), but honestly, as a one-coat solution, so far it's working pretty well...

Spoiler:

Damn, that is pretty good.

Agreed 100 %.

Thanks for showing some samples guys, some really nice work there.

I have just got hold of some very bright ones (pinks and yellows for some Slaaneshi cultists) so will give them a go soon and report my results.

Wow, watched the video from Swords and Brushes - the experiment in using these for chipping effects was really cool. Really enjoyable video from a creator I'd not seen before. I'm glad to have these paints in my basement of shame - but they don't seem like a replacement for anything really.

Albertious results on that Viking almost sold me!

Especially since I recently finished painted that kit myself, so I know what it looks like without it....

 Easy E wrote:
Albertious results on that Viking almost sold me!

Especially since I recently finished painted that kit myself, so I know what it looks like without it....

They are lovely, lovely models. And the pricepoint is spectacular, particularly compared with... some other companies ^^.

Another test, to check some more options. In this case I used one of March's sculpts from the Anvil Digital Forge PAtreon:



In this case I applied speed paint white to all of the mini and after it dried I added the rest of the colors, to see how much of a problem would the reactivation be for me. So far, I'm happy enough with it.

After adding the rest of the paint I sealed it and washed it all over with Agrax Earthshade.

Do people have a recommendation of a matte varnish spray to use with speed paints?
I have only used brush on varnish.

 dan2026 wrote:
Do people have a recommendation of a matte varnish spray to use with speed paints?
I have only used brush on varnish.

I like Army Painter's a lot. IME it usually dries decently matte, which is what I prefer.

 Albertorius wrote:

 dan2026 wrote:
Do people have a recommendation of a matte varnish spray to use with speed paints?
I have only used brush on varnish.

I like Army Painter's a lot. IME it usually dries decently matte, which is what I prefer.

Many years ago I bought a can of Army Painter anti-shine and found it to be way too shiny, even shaking it like mad and following the directions for the correct spraying distance.

Maybe I just got a bad can. I have been using Testors Dull Cote instead, but my supply is running low, I'll try Tamiya or Gunze's offering next as I like most Tamiya and Gunze products, but haven't tried their rattle can clears yet (have used their airbrush clears and was pretty happy with those).

agreed, spectacular result on that mini, especially on the hair and face/skin - if I can do that by painting on one or two coats of speedpaint without even having to think about it then they are worth their weight in gold for that alone.

The 3D printed Kroot guy also looks pretty great.

Probably picking up my Mega set tomorrow. My hope is that I'll be able to paint my 4 Arachnaroks with it, I'd like to "Contrast" them up fast, but actual Contrast dries too fast to do such a large model.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Probably picking up my Mega set tomorrow. My hope is that I'll be able to paint my 4 Arachnaroks with it, I'd like to "Contrast" them up fast, but actual Contrast dries too fast to do such a large model.

Try mixing in a bit of Vallejo Airbrush Flow Improver. I've found that it helps a lot to get smoother results and extend the dry time in contrast paints.

Miniature Market sure is slow in getting the Mega Set in stock. My preorder is still waiting to process.

My local store says that the Mega Set shipment is stock on a container in port somewhere, nobody in the US is able to get them in stock at the moment.

Rough. We got ours in yesterday, but along with the super late mini set, so those who preordered that one because it was supposed to be out earlier than the mega set are SOL

 Albertorius wrote:
Another test, to check some more options. In this case I used one of March's sculpts from the Anvil Digital Forge PAtreon:

Spoiler:

Wow - that looks fantastic!

chaos0xomega wrote:
My local store says that the Mega Set shipment is stock on a container in port somewhere, nobody in the US is able to get them in stock at the moment.

That is a big fat lie,
Several stores in my area got them

I really tried to speed paint these guys (probably an evening's painting, about an hour in all). I can say the yellow and purple are great for anyone using those colours (I used purple, light grey and yellow here).

Mini on the far left I used Contrast pink. The brown and skin colour is also Contrast. From my very limited efforts, I would say it feels like the paint is slightly thicker than contrast. I had to touch up the purple in a couple of places, otherwise it was all single coat.

I've got to do about 20 of these guys for a couple of Necromunda campaign games for an arbiter controlled narrative event (they are Slaaneshi cultists) after which they will probably be put in a box labelled 'Miscellaneous' and never used again! So have to say for this kind of thing, these paints are ideal.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
My local store says that the Mega Set shipment is stock on a container in port somewhere, nobody in the US is able to get them in stock at the moment.

That is a big fat lie,
Several stores in my area got them

Are you sure they got the mega paint set and not the starter set? Because the starter sets are available widely, I have yet to see or hear of anyone in the US being able to grab the mega set from their locals or even US based online sellers (trust me, I've been looking).

chaos0xomega wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
My local store says that the Mega Set shipment is stock on a container in port somewhere, nobody in the US is able to get them in stock at the moment.

That is a big fat lie,
Several stores in my area got them

Are you sure they got the mega paint set and not the starter set? Because the starter sets are available widely, I have yet to see or hear of anyone in the US being able to grab the mega set from their locals or even US based online sellers (trust me, I've been looking).

I bought a speed paint starter set at Adepticon (because I waited too long and that's all that was left) and on the drive home picked up a Speedpaint Mega Set at either Little Big Wars in Fargo, or Source Comics and Games in Minneapolis. (I shop on the way home from Adepticon due to a lack of local game stores where I'm currently at, and I'd have to check my receipts to know for sure which store I got it at.)

Mega set was extremely briefly available on Amazon, managed to order one. We'll see if it ships.

Still waiting for my original preorder. Apparently expected arrival into Oz is now late May. Tempted to order some from overseas in the interim, as it would likely get here quicker.