So that is all of the Horse skin done, still the hooves and manes/tails to go. For some reason one of them has gone a bit blue. I will put a grey wash over it tomorrow and see if that helps.
The command section still needs to be undercoated.
I had a cunning plan yesterday, I still have enough knight parts for six more heavies. They just need horses. I can get six mounts as separate sprues from Perry Miniatures, but as I supported Wargames Atlantic think there are some suitable horses I could print….Time to head to the Computer!
This evening I was on puppy duty, This is basically following each other around waiting for one or the other to need the toilet. Quite a bit of it was Maggie was asleep on me so I couldn’t move.
I therefore didn’t get as much done as I wanted, but managed more than I expected…
Still a bit to go but definitely getting there.
Now doing a bit of research into what the thing was called I found out some new boring facts.
Firstly they are sacred spaces and offerings are buried in the centre. I knew they had a link to shinto but not that much. Secondly, I never knew women were forbidden… now I know why there are no female Sumo wrestlers 🤼‍♂️. Thirdly, knew they threw something white around before the bout, evidently it is salt.
There you go, boring facts that may help you win a pub quiz or trivial pursuit.
Sorry too tired to link it properly. It’s basically Peachy from the ‘Painting Phase’.
To solve the problem I am going to email Army Painter and ask them,oh and ask the sibling of the child I gave the paint to if hers has a 2.0 on it 🙂
Well if Geek Club has one personal thing going for me, apart from the warm fuzzy feeling, then it forces me to sit down and paint for about forty minutes.
Today I managed three miniatures. Two adult males and another child.
I still need to get the bases done as well as sort out the belt buckles on the three males.
So the two males on the right and the girl in blue join the rest.
I really do enjoy painting a nice simple miniature!
I managed another bit of painting this evening and got these finished.
I am quite pleased with myself as I was really not wanting to do anything. I started with the pony and as I had paint on the palette I moved onto the dwarf, ditto with him so a third miniature was done.
These were all done with Speedpaints 2.0. I had less problem with bleeding this evening… so either I am getting more used to them or I shook the pots more.
So today I set to work on the Speedpaints knight. These paints are a lot different to the Xpress ones. Colours are fine. The biggest issue I found was that they seemed to bleed/spread into other areas.
You can see how much the yellow spread.
Now to be fair, these paints are relatively new and as such I do need to learn how to use them. I had forgotten these weren’t what I am used to so perhaps I didn’t leave them long enough. Possibly a case of “only fools blame their tools, when the skill is lacking!”
So anyway here is the glamour shot…
I had a spare shield so painted it up.
Here he is with his buddy…
So, on the left Speedpaints 2.0 and on the right Xpress paint. Have I got a favourite… I am a bit torn… but if we look at only the blue, then i would have to go Speedpaint. I am going to print some more knights and do some with Contrast and the rest in the above two.
Zoggin Heck another day with paint on a brush….I must be Ill or something !
This chappy is done in Speedpaints 2.0. On this one I tried the metallic Speedpaint. It went on so nicely and sort of dried flat. However I put a wash over the metallic bits on the first knight and have actually ended up with a similar effect. I was going to dry brush them with silver anyway so no problem there.
So let’s see if I can manage three days in a row… (probably won’t pick up a brush for a month).
To be honest, I reckon the only reason I did anything today was because of Geek Club in school.
Last night I grabbed the only miniatures I had handy that were undercoated and were surplus to requirements…
I chose four colours and tried to match them as close as possible across the three ranges
I painted a strip of miniatures in each range. To make my life easier I did it in purchase order. So from left to right we have Contrast, Speedpaints and finally Xpress. These were all done neat. I will do thinned tests at a later date.
The results were quite similar for each range. I honestly thought there would be a huge difference based on the head colours.
I think using 6mm miniatures didn’t help either… time to find something else methinks.
Sooo I eventually got round to getting my paint toppers painted with the AP Speedpaints. They are definitely a lot different to contrast. They seem a lot thicker and although great colours aren’t really doing the highlight and shade the way Contrast does. This is not a criticism, I just need to work out how they work. I reckon there will be some thinning down with medium in my future….
When she came through my wife asked me why I was painting bottoms… I was looking at the front, she was looking at the back…
I now see what she means…
She thought they were grotesques mooning…
Out of interest the pure white one back left is the bottle of medium.
Well yesterday I threw some enamel matt white over four of the slugs I had repainted. The colours I chose were still bleeding through after four layers of white acrylic.
I gave them a blast with the hairdryer then shoved them in the porch to cure for about eighteen hours.
I got the pallid bone colour to go over the four with the oil based paint. Here are the results…
They are pretty much all the same colour apart from the green one.
So what do I think in general.
If you use enamels then you can cover over errors or overpainting on your miniatures. This does take a long time to cure and as such makes a mockery of the term Speedpaints.
They are nice colours, but due to their low viscosity they can bleed into other areas. This can cause problems further down the line. Now I may not have shaken them enough, but I don’t think so.
The reactivation is a total pain. Although, thanks to John, I can recover from a mess up, it just won’t be fast any more… leading to Slowpaints.., yeah I can just not mess up, but with the best will in the world, some paint will end up where it shouldn’t.
Price is a positive. They are cheaper than Contrast paint, plus you cannot spill them everywhere whilst in a dropper bottle.
One thing I have heard, but haven’t tried is don’t use them on a wet palette.
I would like to think that I have given these paints an honest and more importantly, a fair review . It was never my intention to stop anyone buying these, I am no fan boy of any one company. At the minute you can only buy the starter set and not individual bottles. This means you have to drop £34 on a set of paints that might not to be your liking, or at very least aren’t like you expected them to be. It wouldn’t be so bad if one could pick up an individual bottle to try out. I did reach out to AP to ask to buy a couple of bottles, but they weren’t able to help me out. My little blog was in no way big enough to warrant the expenditure of time and effort… I say this with absolutely no malice at all. It is a statement of fact.
Hopefully my little journey with the Speedpaints has been useful , or at least entertaining.
So a while ago I posed the question … Contrast or Speedpaints… we’ll I have come to a decision… I am going to be sticking with my Contrast paint that have done me well for two years at least. I know they Cost more, but they do what I want of them and I can get them locally.
Sorry Army Painter, your Speedpaints, like your metallics are destined to sit on the shelf.
Bogenwald 