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

I held of on speed paints for the longest time. I'm glad I finally pulled the trigger. These get minis to the table and they still look great. There is a learning curve, but nothing a few youtube videos and a weekend of practice can't overcome. If you're a long time painter who is on the fence...just get them. They will make your life easier and change the way you paint.

Good quality at a good price

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!

I tried Army Painter Speed Paints for the first time, and was pleased with the results. I was annoyed, however, by the fact that these paints really only work in one way: a single layer over white or light-colored primer. The results: I white-primed, then painted one of my OGRE miniatures, the little base-station, using Slaughter Red. I tried to add some highlights using other AP speedpaint colors, and quickly learned that's not what they're for, so I stopped. You can see the little base station, and then you can see it next to an OGRE vehicle which I painted using layers of Citadel and P3 paints, with a bit of washing and dry-brushing. The base station took two minutes. The vehicle took at least an hour. To my eye the red on the base station is better than the red I got with layering, but the base station needs some accent colors before I'll be happy with it. Now, let's talk about the experience. The paints are very runny, like a wash or a glaze. They soak all the way up into the brush with just a touch, and go down pretty evenly, affixing to the primer while excess bleeds down and into crevices (which is how the whole speedpainting process works.) I was able to dip the brush in water, then thin the speedpaint on the model, allowing me to pull it further across the flat surfaces. It was very easy to get the highlight/shadow effect. The texture of the model and the flow of the paint did all the work for me. The Slaughter Red coat took about three drops of paint, but would have taken less if I'd used a tiny stainless or glass cup, rather than my plastic-plate palette which was covered with primer, and drank some of the paint. You can probably roll your own using a glaze of the right color, then adding a bit of matte medium and some "regular" acrylic model paint, but if you're going to that much trouble then you're not really speedpainting anymore. These are a bit more expensive than I'd like. I spent $60 on 24 paint pots, so it's less than $3 per bottle, but the bottles are small. Now, it's possible that the paint will go a lot further than the usual base coat paints from Citadel/Reaper/Vallejo/etc, but it's early days yet for me. I have about ten years of experience painting miniatures, and 25 years of experience as a professional artist (okay, cartoonist, but let's not split hairs.) I don't think I'd encourage beginners to speedpaint because it's important to learn other techniques before leaning into this one, but I'm not the boss of you. Or anybody, really.

Best miniature paints. Saturation quality is awesome. Worth the expense vs other paints for miniature stuff.

Gave it as a Christmas gift, came in fine condition maybe with a dent on a corner but for me isn’t an issue. Unless you actually care about something so meaningless, having gotten a package that’s traveled 100’s of miles to get to your house in a week. Doesn’t affect the quality of the paint which I’ve been told is good. Good color. Still need to get a spray primer though if you’re wanting good results.

Good value and selection. Ive never used the brush that came with it.

Ich hab mir die Army Painter Speedpaints geholt, da ein Freund sie mir empfohlen hat. Ich male sonst immer mit Citadel Farben und wollte die SlapChop Technik austesten. Diese Speedpaints sind noch die Version 1.0, bedeutet, dass sich diese schnell wieder reaktivieren lassen. Wenn man das weiß, kann man damit umgehen. Es braucht ein bisschen Übung, die Farbverläufe gut hinzubekommen aber ist auch nicht all zu kompliziert. Die Auswahl an Farben gefällt mir und gerade in Kombination mit Citadel Farben,kann man damit eine Menge machen. Gerade die Kombination mit Citadel Metallic-Farben und den Speedpaints ist unglaublich gut und ergibt tolle Endresultate. Von mir eine klare Empfehlung auch wenn ich mir beim nächsten Kauf die 2.0 Version holen werde.

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The paint works well so far with a try of 5 different colors. However, the packaging needs improvement as the bottles were scattered inside the box. Worst is one bottle has spillage, almost half a bottle gone inside and some of the bottle labels were stained with the spill.

Ya lo van a retirar y está muy bien. Algunos colores no pigmentan mucho pero en general te servirán para pintar rápido y a un nivel decente.

Really good paints,, makes life a extra breeze with how quickly you can paint and get half decent results. I probably wouldn't use them for my Commanders or table top master peices, but painting a Army really quick they are perfect