So this evening I decided to crack on with the walker and got on quite a long way…
Still the metalwork to do followed by the muck and rust.
No while painting these I came across a rather ‘orrible realisation.
Well if you remember ages and ages ago when I first got into Speedpaints there was a problem with reactivation. So when I got Speedpaints 2.0 I gave one of my school leavers my 1.0 with the caveat that they would reactivate. Fast forward ten months and I am painting my miniatures…. remember this painted dude in the foreground?
Well that yellow paldron kept reactivating whenever I put white over it as I decided to go with yellow. I did think it was a bit odd… This evening I may have worked out why!
Note the bottle on the left has that 2.0 visible and the one on the right doesn’t… the blue arrived last week. The red was my upgrade in the past. I am now confused… did I give my upgrades to my leaver or is the 2.0 a new thing on the bottles. I really cannot workbout how i managed it if i did…If anyone knows about the 2.0 please let me know. Since typing this, I did a bit of checking around and it would seem the first run of 2.0 were using original labels, so I did seem to have given away the 1.0. Which then begs the question…why the reactivation?
Bogenwald 
newer non-reactivating SpeedPaint has the 2.0 on the label. Your blue is new and the red is the old.
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Cheers Eric, I thought exactly the same then i watched One of the older Stahly videos on YouTube and the box had 2.0 on but not the paint bottles. So still a bit confused… time fir another pointless paint reactivation test.
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I hear you on the testing, especially after your update post to this one. I’ve pretty much found if you go by the bottle label, you’re safe. Good luck with the testing, and I’ll be following closely as I like a good “murder mystery” 😉
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All my 2.0 paints have that on the labels. Eric is correct.
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I guess it would depend on which batch your red came from. If it has the old label and is reactivating it does imply that it’s the 1.0 instead of a mislabelled or first batch 2.0.
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it’s also possible I guess that both of your reds had the old label and you gave away the wrong one.
if you have any Citadel Contrast Medium, that’s how Juan heavily reduced the reactivation of his 1.0 speedpaints. Speedpaint medium might do the same.
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I am a cheapskate. I use a giant bottle of matt medium and water. I had considered I gave away the wrong red.
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They all have no number on. I have been using them for a year now and only realised the other day. I reckon it might be that white I reactivated. Further investigation is required.
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