Im sure you don't have time to read all of these but we appreciate what you do and it was great to see you start with the spruegoo vids and move on to being comfortable painting and then excelling at it. Its nice to know that people aren't just magically good at painting and great to watch your vids while I paint. Cheers!
A lot of them seem more like colorful washes than a contrast-type paints with a few exceptions. Some I did like the colors of and some I didn't but was able to think of a use as a stain or shade for something. I wouldn't think of them as a total waste of money, but seeing them this way definitely helps with the decision-making of which ones to buy based on my projects' needs.
GW, before they had any sort of washes or contrast paints had Inks. Apparently they were pretty good. For me, i use inks when i'm recess-lining things because of their high pigment and high flow. Also they are my number 1 choice if i am putting a colour through my airbrush. They always spray perfectly smooth and thin yet they're packed with pigment. Over the years trying all sorts of different Acrylic Inks the one's that stand out to me are Scale75 Inktensity range (which i believe greenstuffworld ink range is a kind of copycat of. And of course liquitex. As a side note: Once you learn how to figure out all the symbols on traditional artist inks (The square box, the square box with diagonal line) - pick up some transparent inks, for Liquitex their transparent inks are labeled like "Transparent burnt umber" - These types of inks are absolutely fantastic for glazing transitions. It's like painting liquid glass, 0 fogginess and perfect see-thru quality to make your glazing as smooth and seamless as possible. Finally my last tip: I use transparent inks as filters sometimes if i want to punch the saturation. For example i painted a green tabard and it looked too washed out - so i thinned down some warm bright foresty green and put a thin layer over it, it was like putting a see-thru coloured plastic film over my work. Perfectly filtered the colour and did not make anything foggy or cover anything up. They are a fantastic tool and once you figure out the quirks they are a very useful addition to your skill-set (PS: use inks over metallics for some easy vibrant chroma-metallics)
Couldn't say for most (I hear they're very hit or miss). However I LOVE the Acid Green for my orcs. One thing I noticed though is that to get the result I want I need to cover slowly and let the zenithal/slapchop do the most work with a thin coating and ensuring it doesn't pool in bad places.
Vallejo are expanding their Xpress (basically contrast paints) line soon, i was wondering what your opinion of it was. They have added a few special Xpress colours named "intense" contrast paints which means they are extra strong basically.
They are already out and really really good. The ‘intense’ paints are super saturated (I think one-pigmented) I like painting with xpress more than the other contrast type paints because they dry a bit slower.
@@_walruseater the second wave isn't out in the UK till the end of January , been delayed since November . What a surprise that is ! Total shower of distribution company they use , was the same with the first lot . Why set a release date and constantly keep changing in for at least 10 weeks
I have to agree with most here - these are completely hit or miss - I see a few greens and browns that may work for me, but nowhere near enough for me to buy any - SpeedPaints for the win :)
Couple thoughts: First, thanks for reviewing these. Second, nice to see that GSW is putting out smaller bottles as an option. Third, I have full set of SpeedPaints and Xpress color, and some of the Dipping inks... personally i found the GSW product inferior as i think it is a bit too thin to achieve the one coat coverage. Lastly, i find that most of theie color line is not useful to me as it duplicates colors in other products. Very interested to see you use these in the future to see how they work out for you. PS; only colors that caught my eye here were the Limelight green and the Phoenix orange... may look into picking those up. Good video keep up the good work! I find myself watching this channel a lot. Happy New Year!!
Ok ok but who in this day and age where there's an absolute smorgasbord of painting techniques shown for our consumption is actually dipping minis. I could see me using them as a wash or glaze but dipping ? I feel like the painting gods would weep.
GSW dipping inks are hit or miss and pretty inconsistent. There are some really good colors, just gotta see what fits your needs and adapt to how it works.
They are for washes probably so to go over paint cus they are ink so that's expected but awesome on how many 48 is a great variety so I would think like the virtis it would make a great patina green for copper rust like look qnd so yeah wash not contrasting paint but similar for sure
I've always used them for building up intensely bright colours and glowing effects over a white undercoat. Usually requiring multiple thin layers/glazes. But I also thought the dipping inks were for washes rather than 'contrast/speedpaint' effects.
I would say that Hulk Green looks very un-Hulk like. However Acid Green looks like a perfect Hulk colour. haha Going off your video alone, i can't say I was very impressed with any of these. They all just looked like dull washes and very uneven coverage. Could have been the way you applied it, I guess? But you looked to put a decent amount of paint on each lid, so doesn't seem that is the case. A bit disappointing. Great video though!
I don't understand why they call them dipping when no dips anything in them apart from a brush Painting the bottle top isn't really a good test of the paint , they look very poor overall anyway
It doesn't matter they are good or bad, the are GSW and those assholes have some of the most shady and abusive business practices in the hobby marketplace.
Sometimes, lies about brands can be solved by talking directly to them. There are many who speak from hearsay and without knowing, but few who ask the company for information. I assure you that 90% of what is said about that brand is wrong or outright lies.
Such poor coverage. Low pigment content, I suppose. I guess we need to see you try them on some minis before passing judgment. Aside: Can someone explain the name "dipping ink?" It is suggestive of the Army Painter quick shade dipping approach, but obviously not packaged for that application.
Again, green-stuff world. If those were any good it would be just a mater of finding out who actually makes the stuff they are repacking and buy from their suppliers on the cheap. But this is just runny low pigment paint for a 100 the set and 2 bucks a piece its ridiculous. I got better pigments on craft paint on larger bottles for the exact same price, lower if I forage on person instead of online shop. Honestly this speed painting one coat hype is just annoying, the stuff that it spawned is not good, costs premium and, the worse crime, its falsely advertised. Not even the GW contrasts are all decent.
Im sure you don't have time to read all of these but we appreciate what you do and it was great to see you start with the spruegoo vids and move on to being comfortable painting and then excelling at it. Its nice to know that people aren't just magically good at painting and great to watch your vids while I paint. Cheers!
A lot of them seem more like colorful washes than a contrast-type paints with a few exceptions. Some I did like the colors of and some I didn't but was able to think of a use as a stain or shade for something. I wouldn't think of them as a total waste of money, but seeing them this way definitely helps with the decision-making of which ones to buy based on my projects' needs.
GW, before they had any sort of washes or contrast paints had Inks. Apparently they were pretty good.
For me, i use inks when i'm recess-lining things because of their high pigment and high flow. Also they are my number 1 choice if i am putting a colour through my airbrush. They always spray perfectly smooth and thin yet they're packed with pigment.
Over the years trying all sorts of different Acrylic Inks the one's that stand out to me are Scale75 Inktensity range (which i believe greenstuffworld ink range is a kind of copycat of. And of course liquitex.
As a side note: Once you learn how to figure out all the symbols on traditional artist inks (The square box, the square box with diagonal line) - pick up some transparent inks, for Liquitex their transparent inks are labeled like "Transparent burnt umber" - These types of inks are absolutely fantastic for glazing transitions. It's like painting liquid glass, 0 fogginess and perfect see-thru quality to make your glazing as smooth and seamless as possible.
Finally my last tip: I use transparent inks as filters sometimes if i want to punch the saturation. For example i painted a green tabard and it looked too washed out - so i thinned down some warm bright foresty green and put a thin layer over it, it was like putting a see-thru coloured plastic film over my work. Perfectly filtered the colour and did not make anything foggy or cover anything up.
They are a fantastic tool and once you figure out the quirks they are a very useful addition to your skill-set (PS: use inks over metallics for some easy vibrant chroma-metallics)
I got these the other day. Ive been using them through an airbrush. No complaints so far. Better than instant colors IMO.
Couldn't say for most (I hear they're very hit or miss). However I LOVE the Acid Green for my orcs. One thing I noticed though is that to get the result I want I need to cover slowly and let the zenithal/slapchop do the most work with a thin coating and ensuring it doesn't pool in bad places.
Vallejo are expanding their Xpress (basically contrast paints) line soon, i was wondering what your opinion of it was. They have added a few special Xpress colours named "intense" contrast paints which means they are extra strong basically.
They are already out and really really good. The ‘intense’ paints are super saturated (I think one-pigmented)
I like painting with xpress more than the other contrast type paints because they dry a bit slower.
@@_walruseater the second wave isn't out in the UK till the end of January , been delayed since November . What a surprise that is ! Total shower of distribution company they use , was the same with the first lot . Why set a release date and constantly keep changing in for at least 10 weeks
They have bottle toppers just for this. Tons of nice .stls on cult or MMF. Airbrush a base coat of white on em and start slapping paint.
Are the Intensity Inks meant to increase the vibrancy over the normal dipping inks? I noticed they were labeled differently.
I always enjoy your videos. honest straight to the point no bull. Keepin' it real!
Very useful video. Thanks a lot !
Called dipping inks have you thought of using them for hydro dipping?
I have to agree with most here - these are completely hit or miss - I see a few greens and browns that may work for me, but nowhere near enough for me to buy any - SpeedPaints for the win :)
Couple thoughts: First, thanks for reviewing these. Second, nice to see that GSW is putting out smaller bottles as an option. Third, I have full set of SpeedPaints and Xpress color, and some of the Dipping inks... personally i found the GSW product inferior as i think it is a bit too thin to achieve the one coat coverage. Lastly, i find that most of theie color line is not useful to me as it duplicates colors in other products. Very interested to see you use these in the future to see how they work out for you.
PS; only colors that caught my eye here were the Limelight green and the Phoenix orange... may look into picking those up.
Good video keep up the good work! I find myself watching this channel a lot. Happy New Year!!
Ok ok but who in this day and age where there's an absolute smorgasbord of painting techniques shown for our consumption is actually dipping minis.
I could see me using them as a wash or glaze but dipping ? I feel like the painting gods would weep.
GSW dipping inks are hit or miss and pretty inconsistent. There are some really good colors, just gotta see what fits your needs and adapt to how it works.
They are for washes probably so to go over paint cus they are ink so that's expected but awesome on how many 48 is a great variety so I would think like the virtis it would make a great patina green for copper rust like look qnd so yeah wash not contrasting paint but similar for sure
Best one is Deep black, the rest I don't really bother with.
Cool as always. 👍
If these are tge same as the ones they did in the huge bottles, in my experience they are very random and some crack when they dry.
Oh, their intensity inks are for hydro dipping? Ive always used them as washes that are more saturated
I've always used them for building up intensely bright colours and glowing effects over a white undercoat. Usually requiring multiple thin layers/glazes.
But I also thought the dipping inks were for washes rather than 'contrast/speedpaint' effects.
I would say that Hulk Green looks very un-Hulk like. However Acid Green looks like a perfect Hulk colour. haha
Going off your video alone, i can't say I was very impressed with any of these. They all just looked like dull washes and very uneven coverage. Could have been the way you applied it, I guess? But you looked to put a decent amount of paint on each lid, so doesn't seem that is the case. A bit disappointing. Great video though!
Now what happens when you cross similar paints?
Sprue goo video for old time sake❤😊
I don't understand why they call them dipping when no dips anything in them apart from a brush
Painting the bottle top isn't really a good test of the paint , they look very poor overall anyway
It doesn't matter they are good or bad, the are GSW and those assholes have some of the most shady and abusive business practices in the hobby marketplace.
They're just watery washes. Who needs that many washes? Not a fan. Thanks for the heads up!
Remember folks, friends don't let friends shop at green stuff world.
Anytime GSW drops a new product I can't avoid asking myself what other original product (or Chinese clone) have they repackaged and intend to sell me.
Yeah unfortunately they have a very bad moral reputation
Sometimes, lies about brands can be solved by talking directly to them. There are many who speak from hearsay and without knowing, but few who ask the company for information. I assure you that 90% of what is said about that brand is wrong or outright lies.
@@ideassearcher7731Sources?
Such poor coverage. Low pigment content, I suppose. I guess we need to see you try them on some minis before passing judgment. Aside: Can someone explain the name "dipping ink?" It is suggestive of the Army Painter quick shade dipping approach, but obviously not packaged for that application.
The name might also be a reference to dip ink pens - those classic split-tip pens that you literally dip (at least the tip) in ink to recharge them
Look more like glazes.
how man 6:10 the rush and result triggers me so much...those never stood a chance...they're good in fact...ça fait vraiment dégueulasse...
It's ink not paint so ink would be watery
Again, green-stuff world. If those were any good it would be just a mater of finding out who actually makes the stuff they are repacking and buy from their suppliers on the cheap. But this is just runny low pigment paint for a 100 the set and 2 bucks a piece its ridiculous. I got better pigments on craft paint on larger bottles for the exact same price, lower if I forage on person instead of online shop.
Honestly this speed painting one coat hype is just annoying, the stuff that it spawned is not good, costs premium and, the worse crime, its falsely advertised. Not even the GW contrasts are all decent.