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How do!

Really quick question which is in the title. Need something suitably bright so the lenses on my Heresy Dark Angels really pop.

I’ve heard of a Titanium White, but when I went looking all I could find were oil paint style tubes, which I for one can’t be bothered with.

GW pot fine, dropper bottle preferred.

Haven't got any yet but hearing a lot of people saying Pro Acryl titanium white is the best white out there at the moment. It's what I'll be buying when I need to replace my current Vallejo game colour...

Yep, just about every painter I've seen on YouTube turns to the ProAcryl white. I have it, and it is very good.

Add a bit of water/thinner to it and it will just flow off the brush into the eye lens on a marine.

Well that seems a solid recommendation!

Now to find a stockist.

A lot of people recommend ProAcryl white, I find it okay, but not exceptional, I didn't fall in love with it. I like P3's white (whatever it's called, Morrow white I think?). But I'm not going to say it's objectively better than ProAcryl, but subjectively I prefer it. Perhaps if your local store sells P3 but not ProAcryl give it a try.

People have also suggested thinning white paint with white ink instead of water/medium/whatever... I bought the ink to try doing that but I never actually got around to testing it. But perhaps another idea to try.

Another one I can recommend from a friend is Tamiya acrylic flat white XF-2. He swears by it and is objectively a much better painter than I am...

Crispy78 wrote:
Another one I can recommend from a friend is Tamiya acrylic flat white XF-2. He swears by it and is objectively a much better painter than I am...

Tamiya acrylics are a nightmare to paint with a hairy brush, and need to be thinned with their own thinners rather than regular water or other mediums.

Perhaps for painting eyes they might be okay, because the absurdly fast drying time and fact they eat underlying paints might not be a problem, not sure, would have to give it a go.

Tamiya acrylics are awesome through an airbrush though, and cover better than most paints in that role, the symbols on this plane aren't decals but were masked and then airbrushed with Tamiya white...