If the new warpaints are as good as they look they will only have to improve their primers to literally have no bad paints in their range
Fuck it, im a believer now
If the new warpaints are as good as they look they will only have to improve their primers to literally have no bad paints in their range
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Never had a problem with Vallejo myself.
You clearly never used their game color line.
Or their Xpress colors.
The air and basic model color series are solid though.
Is there any better metallic paint than you can find in Vallejo Air?
nope, youd have to get metallic pigment and mix the paint yourself of you want anything better
Vallejo metal color since it uses aluminium flakes instead of mica flakes
I've generally had some pretty good luck with the Pro Acryl metals, but I find their weird dropper bottles annoying since they tend to waste paint (though not at GW pot levels). I do mostly use the Game Air Gunmetal these days so I do agree that line is heavenly.
I use mostly Game Colour and I also use XC a lot. Certain XC are great but some are mediocre to poor.
game color is excellent
model color is excellent
xpress is mid
Their new game color line where they used all the same product names and numbers but changed the colors is unforgiveable. Is also kinda fucked their xpress color is the only minipaint that their polyurethane vanish will reactivate after it's fully dried and cured. Their surface primer sucks. Their white mecha primer has poor coverage. And their paints in general seem to bubble up like no other.
I've had 0 trouble with bubbles. I don't know about new GC. I use their varnish, primer, and XC, and have noticed no poor interactions or reactivation. In fact I just varnished a large vehicle model with Vallejo primer after painting it mostly with XC but also a bit of GC over a Vallejo spray primer base and it all went extremely smoothly.
Vallejo's primer is a bit of a niche product; it's airbrushable out of the bottle, but it's also vinyl based (it'll tear if you try to sand it). It also needs a day to cure before you start painting on it. If you can play within those rules it's great.
I also hate vallejo surface primer, but vallejo mecha primer is my favorite airbrush primer since I started using it. It's very possible the white has poor coverage but the black and grey ones are great. I don't think it's vinyl, or at least I've never had the peeling problem.
It's specifically their polyurethane varnish. Their acrylic varnish is fine. Polyurethane varnish is a bit notorious for reactivating acrylic paints that weren't given the full 24+hours to cure. But xpress colors are known to sometimes reactivate under polyurethane varnish regardless, even if given ample time, while similar paints like contrast and speedpaints don't have this problem.
This isn't really a problem with their varnish, just their xpress color. It's just funny to me that the only paint that suffers from this is from the same company that makes the varnish that gets the worst rap for it -- probably because people turn to it when they don't have an airbrush and the weather isn't ideal for rattlecans, then brush it on, which is obviously rougher on the paints beneath.
What exactly is the point of the polyurethane varnish vs the acrylic?
Polyurethane does a better job holding up to the solvents and cleanup involved with oil and enamel washes. It's more durable, but I have my doubts that the difference in protection is meaningful when it comes to handling minis.
After speedpaint 1.0 I don't believe in Warpaints Fanatic.
>Is also kinda fucked their xpress color is the only minipaint that their polyurethane vanish will reactivate after it's fully dried and cured.
Are you seriously saying this from experience? Did you brush on the polyurethane varnish or airbrush it?
>paints seem to bubble up like no other
Is there a way to prevent this?
Generally I want to avoid Citadel paints like the plague.
They're Spanish.
Do you support the great Satan if you can avoid it?
In terms of minis Spaniards see pretty great in terms of skill and supplies, but the lows are fucking low, IE Greenstuff World.
Redpill me on Greenstuff world?
I has to boycott them for using word Black black on paint, since George Floyd got innocently murdered. Black Lives Matter you racist spanish fucks.