The Army PainterSpeedpaint Starter Set - 10x18ml Speed Model Paint Kit Pre Loaded with Mixing Balls and 1 Brush Model Paint Set for Plastic Models with Free Bonus Item…

So the effect you get from this paint is fantastic. its consistent across the colours and superior the the competitors. The biggest issue is that water reactivates the paint. so if you want to use a single coat over your model and then go back with white to block out areas of detail. expect the colour to bleed the model pictured I went back and painted all the skulls white after putting the coat of blood red on and they ended up pink.To use these paints you need to either use a single coat and avoid any areas of detail you want to be a different colour.or you need to varnish the model after applying the speed paintSo I am struggling to think of who I could recommend these paints to.beginners will struggle with touching up and detail. also most beginners wont have an airbrush leaving spray cans of varnish as the only real option to paint over the speed paintExperienced painters will probably just go back to Contrast paints or inks for a similar solution as who needs to varnish your model several times.

I tried these on some 15mil historical figures, and I'm afraid the results were rather disappointing. The smaller scale doesn't allow the paint to pool in recesses or recede from high points particularly well, so it just becomes a solid coat of paint, with very little suggestion of shadows and highlights. Thinning them down would seem to be the answer, but the bottle of Medium is only included in the upcoming 'Mega' set. I did use water and that seemed to work okay, but in all honesty I wouldn't say the result was much different from just using thinned down 'normal' paint as a wash.*Update*. I went and had another look at the miniatures I had painted with Speedpaints, and I was reasonably impressed, albeit still unconvinced they were significantly better than a wash, but then I read David Sellick's review where he mentioned that they are not waterproof. I had only used one coat, (they were some medieval peasants, with very simple paint jobs), so by way of experiment I overpainted a couple of bits. Sure enough, the Speedpaint WAS picked up by the second coat. I have now given the paints to a friend who paints a lot of 40K stuff, as I don't think I'll find much of a use for them.

These paints do exactly what they are meant to, they are a single coat solution to basecoating highlighting and washing. They flow extremely well while giving the exact right amount of coverage. To test these paints I undercoated 2 models (pictured), the left one in halfords grey primer with a gw corax white highlight. The right one just in corax white. I used palid bone and blood red. (I applied these in a bit of a rush as I was eager to test them out so excuse the mistakes :P)

Was really curious about these paints so grabbed a starter set.Fantastic for people getting into painting miniatures for the first Time.Prime them white then paint them. Adds shade and some highlights.Great if you are in a rush to knock out an Army to tabletop standard for a game in a couple of days.I do feel a sliver and a gold or bronze should of come In this set so can paint weapons like swords etc maybe a black as well.One downfall the yellow seems more orange than yellow.The pallid bone and hardened leather are fantastic and look great once painted.These paints are pretty nice, in my opinion just as good citadel contrast paints.The great bonus with these is they don't cost as much as citadel contrast paints£4.45 citadel from my local hobby shop£3.30 speed paint

The distinct lack of white, black, and other flesh tones doesn't help with different varieties of models. If you prime your miniature with white, you are going to lose that white because there is no colour light enough for that white to come through.You can use the medium to really wash down one of the other colours, to just "shade" the white, but you'll be losing so much of that medium just doing that, and ultimately, they should just add the white and blacks into the set, and maybe have a lighter flesh tone.