The Army PainterSpeedpaint Mega Set 1.0, 24 x 18ml Acrylic Paints incl. mixing balls & 1 brush - Contrast Miniature Paint for D&D & Warhammer Miniatures

Best paints out there if you have little to no experience painting. Liquid skill

I’ve been painting fantasy minis since the 80s and wow has the hobby evolved over the years!…and along come the “speed paints”.I want to get my one complaint out of the way and that is color selection (well, two complaints. As someone else mentioned…yeah, be ready to receive them with a bottle busted open). I would love to see twice as many colors available. The first thing I did when I got the paints was to download pics of what each looks like on a mini. It’s a bit hard to tell what you’ll end up with until you’ve grown accustomed to them. But I’m finding that mixing the paints puts me back in the dark as the resulting color on my palette is hard to decipher until I’ve applied it to the mini. Maybe there are sample photos of say, 50:50 “Palid Bone”:”Purple Alchemy”?Hmmmm, Might have to create my own reference chart with various Speed Paint colors mixed 50:50? 🤔Anyway! After watching some videos I started as many suggested; white primer or even zenithal priming.First, I didn’t like what I was getting with plain white primer. Not enough going on. I liked zenithal better but these paints don’t convert black primer to any given shade of color so (though more stunning), the minis were coming out just too dark.Then the breakthrough! Slapchop. This is a method where you prime the mini in black, then (with some force) dry brush the whole thing with grey and then (more delicately and selectively) dry brush in white. After the grey dry brushing your mini should MOSTLY be grey. Let the black primer stay in the very deepest recesses and you won’t have the issue I had with zenithal priming I mentioned earlier. Dry brush the white on the whole mini but sticking to the outer most areas instead (don’t apply with as much force as you did the grey). Check out videos on YouTube.Then…1:1 color and medium! Don’t use these at 100%. I find them to be too saturated.Wow! Now I’m getting the results I was hoping for! The mini I show pictured took about 10 minutes to paint.In one weekend I painted two expansions to God Tear (board game).These paints and the “Slapchop” technique work WONDERS! Again, don’t forget to use a 1:1 ratio (a bottle of the medium comes with the set). I can easily paint up 5-8 minis that look pretty darn good and spend only about an hour to do them instead of spending hours to do just one!And right now I’m seeing them at half price! $50?? I’m getting another set!EDIT: I see they have released the 2.0 version of the paints, doubling the available colors (and even adding metallics). So yeah, I’d go straight for that if you can afford it (roughly $140….can’t seem to find it on Amazon, however?). Otherwise, this is still a great set to get started with!

Like any paint, Speedpaints take a bit to get used to as you learn its properties for yourself. They wet blend well and give the advertised coverage quickly. They cut down the time for my painting of various monstrosities considerably.In terms of tips for a new user. 1) Where they work great as a base coat in most cases, I would still do a dry brush or highlight pass over many of them. 2) Use your normal paints for everything other than your base coat(s). 3) You will want to seal your mini after your speedpaint coat though, as water will re-activate the paint, causing a mess. 4) You should also be aware that the speedpaints are fairly translucent, so your undercoat (primer) matters a lot. If you use zenithal priming, you will probably want to switch out the black for a medium or even light tone, as the speedpaint won't really be visible on black.

These paints are AWESOME. My husband is an avid D&D player and has 4 3D printers currently in use. He prints minis on his resin printers. So. Many. Minis. to paint. After a base coat and a highlight, we paint our minis with these paints. When they dry it looks like they have been painted professionally.Only con- do not try to layer different colors, things get muddy very quickly. Just make sure you put paint where you want it and you will be good. If you want a slightly lighter or darker color mix it on a paper plate or something and then put it onto the mini.

Cons. The paints reactivate with other paint, sometimes water, and look darker on a pallette than they do on a model.Pros. Cheaper than most. Really good colors. Varnish seems to stop reactivation. They kind of work for wet blending (ima noob so don't trust my opinion).Still am doing more testing. I think the issue is calling them speed paints. They are cool paints though.These are speed paints and other paints rather caked on in thick layers to bootleg resin models. You maybe able to see where the washes picked up the speedpaints or where my failed attempts at highlighting are. All and all for a noob my stuff looks cool thanks to the paints

This has changed how I paint! The results are fantastic, made it easier to achieve excellent results in a much shorter time! Now I have more time to add details, weathering, highlights, upgrade the base with gravel, water effects, grass, Tufts, etc.

Nice assortment of colors. A reasonable price.

I've been painting minis for 20 years and have used just about everything from Privateer Presses P3 to all the Games Eorkshop paints and I have to say, this is my favorite so far. This has sped up my paint time significantly. These days, I'm mostly painting miniatures in board games and not looking to win any awards but rather, just get the models painted to look decent on the board. This is the perfect solution for what I'm looking for.