The Army Painter Product Overview
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In this product overview, I give you my thoughts on the Army Painter product range, covering everything from basing scenics to varnishes.
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I love my Army Painter gear. Highest quality without the killer price tag. I stack their paints against Citadel any day of the week. And much lower cost, at least in the States.
pretty sure I have PTSD from what you did to those models Mel
felhate Fuck me it hurt so bad but they held up
Oh my sweet summer child ...... lol
This video should come with a "horror" tag, along with a trigger warning.
On the other hand I'm looking up their varnish range xD xD
I recently bought the big set of Army Painter paints after liking the basing set. I am a fan of the Army Painter. I find their paints are not as thin as airbrush (like Vallejo's Model Air or Game Air) but they aren't overly thick either. So, not to thick not to thin. They are kinda creamy. The paints do take considerable shaking though...
One of the Army Painter guys has previously mentioned they add the extra medium so it effectively seals the air out and stabalises the paint much better while its in storage before it gets to you and recommends squirting out that top medium before shaking them to use. It is a bit of a pain though to have to do that with every bottle before using them.
You deserve way more subs
Amen to that, Mel is one of the best at what he does.
Cheers
He's getting there. He's grown heaps the past year.
well sorry but Army painter brushes are terrible at holding a tip. kill them quite fawst while beeing carefull
I've used a lot of Army Painter stuff and love most of it, especially the sprays. Not used the brushes and paints a lot mind you but they seem good. My only criticism of AP is their tools. I just haven't got on with any of them
You should be a Salesman for Army Painter! I've bought a few of their paints and things, but you've convinced me to try a few more!
I think I'm to honest to be a salesman mate
Great video Mel. The tip about draining off the binder is really useful. I have been tempted to stop using AP paints because of problems with mixing after being stood for a while.
Cheers
No worries bud
You can use a nailpolish shaker to really shake the paint. I use one and it is great... especially if you also put a glass ball in them. Then you will really see the quality of the army painters paint.
Man, big shout out to Dom for that awesome paintjob!!!
Late post - but awesome video. I've only tried out the Quickshades from ARmy Painter - not a big fan , but the rest of their stuff looks great. Informative video and many thanks for sharing!
I always recommend army painter. Their brushes are top notch! And the flock decoration as well.
Cant say enough about paints. Dident have the chance to use them yet. But definitely want to use the spray paints.
I have three sets of paints mainly because they all do different things I use Vallejo, Army painter and Reaper ( I particularly like their Desert Sand and Dragon red) and that's it really.
Each paint set varies slightly in colour and pigment and I often discover something that the other doesn't do. I don't use Citadel/GW paints for three reasons . The first is obviously the price they are expensive. the second the pots they are designed in such a fashion that they dry out because the lids don't close properly. And those lids!? Well, they tend to stick up way too far from the pot and they can catch on your arm or clothing and topple over spilling their expensive paint everywhere. I have recently become interested in the Scale 75 metallics as I here they are very good. I've yet to try those
As far as the scene stuff, I really like the quality tubs they come in, not just bags of which require you to transfer it to something else for storage and who knows was that 2mm random A brand or was it 3mm Random B brand...cant remember. Whereas having the Army painter materials in the small tubs with branding and stickers on the packaging you always know what you have been using and potentially want to replace. The tubs are also good for collecting your own local materials, I just don't really like the look of kitchen cliplock storage type containers lol
These products are so expensive here in New Zealand I use there grasse and a few bushes I have about 5 of the master class ones and I like the heaps, great review
Dark.... Angel green. 😉
I tried the Army Painter Quick Shade. After trying a couple of dips, I too switched to painting it on. The result was almost a semi-gloss. (Before anyone asks, yes, I stirred the bejebbers out of it." I need to go back and repaint 60+ figures. Never again.
Some GW Primers have an equivalent color and sometimes not. For example the black primer (Chaos Black) is of a different shade than the black base color (Abbadon Black). Some might think that's not much of an issue but you can see the difference. You have to prime your spay primed black minis again with a brush if you intend to use black paint.
Same with the Citadel Air range, the Mechanicus Standard Grey Air is darker than the Base. Not sure about the spray.
Thank you for the fun and thorough review, sorry about your skeleton warrior you didn't need to scratch them lol. Well done good show.
Subscribed for the inside joke about the automated shaker. I get it ;)
Use stainless steel nuts as agitators/mixing "balls", they don´t interact with the paint at all and have sufficient mass to make them move/mix the colour when shaking the bottle. Bearing balls tend to block the tip of those "drop bottles" (Vallejo/Army Painter style bottles).
Nice tip buddy
TheBod76 I use glass beads 8mm for agitators . £1 off eBay for over 100. Only prep they require is stripping the painted colour off with some spirit/Dettol.
I have never had one get stuck in a bottle tip. Not saying it's a myth but with a few 100 bottles in my collection I can say I have never experienced it.
Hey thanks for the tips guys...I'm brand new to this hobby and just placed an online order for a bunch of AP paints and would've never have guessed to put anything in the paint bottles to help mix the paints up. Just bought a bunch of 6mm clear glass beads :)
Super helpful review, first few of these paint i got were fine but sometimes i get really watery ones and i was wondering why but obviously there fine, also definitely gonna need to get some of those quick shade varnishes i have a ton of metal models to paint and i've been putting it off because metal models always seem to chip to hell.
Glad it helps mate
I couldn't agree with you more Mel! I'm an old-school figure painter, and have always struggled to get large numbers of minis painted in a reasonable amount of time. The AP method is fantastic, if used properly. Like you said, brushing on is much better than actually dipping. Great review!
Bloody good video Mel, I love Army Painter paints and sprays but didn't know about the quality of the brushes. Defo picking some up now :D
I'm still useing my warpaints back from the 2010 mega paint set! I just pull the dropper heads off and place those in warm water to clean and clear the dropper holes. Then taken a skinny metal rod, bent a small hook near the bottom. Stick it in the paint bottle and eaither spin it with your fingers or a small drill will work too. I gotta give it to the army painter, the medium/binder in those older orignal warpaints held up now over 13 years and still going!! Now that being shared, I may end up needing to add a drop or two of army painter warpaint medium but I haven't needed to as of yet but that is a possibility later down the road. Iv seen other brands citadel and even testors acrylic mediums and binders evap over just a few years...
Hello from the high desert of New Mexico USA 🇺🇸. I just found your channel and I liked and subscribed. I have been wanting to try a different paint system, maybe I will get some Army Painter paints.
I'd love a clear urethane varnish. First thing I thought when you mentioned them because I'm not likely to use the quick shade. I know you can get them for furniture and stuff, but it'd be nice to have one specifically designed for minis.
well its will see me got mix all types stuff GW reaper that one and so forth will got look fore some have fun camping see on live show
lol...what? >.
They have a good service too ! I got a white base coat spray can and after a while it just wouldn't stop spraying. I send Army painter a email and they send me a new can with a little extra.
I love the few things from the army painter range i've managed to get in. Sadly we've had issues getting them into the local store, but we're working on. Definately my recommed range for beginners or experienced. Great review Mel, I'm a bit jealous of the set.
I've had the Army Painter Mega Set for a few years and love it. The quickshade is awesome; I use strong tone for red, green, brown (warm) colours and dark tone for blues and greys (strong tone on blue looks horrible, dark tone on red looks muddy).
Like you, I prefer brushing on rather than dipping - apply liberally then take off the excess where it pools after a couple of minutes.
I found their anti-shine spray to be really disappointing - it frosts up the models really easily; a quick coat of Testors Dullcote brushed over Quickshade works really well, but also "de-saturates" the colours a bit (repainting the original colour over the dullcote brings some vibrancy back into the colours, but defeats the point of having a super-tough varnish on your miniatures).
Spray primer, add details, quickshade, edge highlight (fine details if you really must) and you've got a half-decent looking army fairly quickly.
I love the colour-primers and the matched-colours for the paints; makes painting multiple models at a time really quick. Maybe it's changed since I got mine, but the strong tone dip (solvent-based varnish) and the strong tone ink are nothing like each other and give very different effects when painted over plain white (strong tone ink over white creates a really nice "industrial" look for things like robots and sci-fi scenery).
I've heard people say that Army Painter are as good as Vallejo. I've only used Citadel and Army Painter - A/P dropper bottles are great for mixing your own colours, one drop at a time, and the paint has really good, strong coverage.
I've heard similiar about Vallejo but I've never tried them mate, so couldn't say. I've never had frosting issues but I bath my models in warm air when I spray varnish them bud
Repeat after me Mel......poly-You-ra-thane! ;)
I bit the bullet an ordered their 50 pot set. My pots were running dry after lock down. So thought it was time for a boost. Should have checked your review first Mel.
Unfortunately. Lock down been lock down, taking their sweet time arriving.
Armypainter doesn't ship to my state and Amazon scalpers charge an extra $50 off retail T_T
Thank you for reviewing the Army Painter range, Mel. It gave me heart palpitations when I saw you rough-housing your miniatures though...
I use the dip and I like is, but as you I use a brush instead of dipping. Way better control and allot less messy :)
I recently bought their paints and they came with little metal beads to act as agitators for the bottles.
We had a couple of boxes kindly sent from the Army Painter guys, we used them quite a lot. We found that the metallics are quite good, and spray primers are superb. That said, not great fans of the brushes nor the quickshades, as you we prefer to apply them by brush... and when it comes to acrylics we're just huge Vallejo fanboys, both the brush and airbrush ranges. We do use the occasional scenic products, but as you have said... we make our own in bulge (mostly you're fault... you taught us how to!! ;P)
Great vid Mel!
Never tried Vallejo tbh bud, other than the more realistic military / earth tones, whats the sell?
How would you advise painting a castle with Army Painter? I know there is castle Grey, would you just paint the whole thing that?
What an odd coincidence! I was just considering if I should buy their paint today.
Love the kalinsky I just went to miniature painting but I've always used kolinsky brushes from my painting with water colors
I have been watching Luke's App which has a review of Army Painter.
He does say that the feed back from his viewers were not GOOD for Army Painter pigments.
Luke's App said to add a metal ball bearing (7-8mm) into the bottle,
He also said it would be cost effective to buy a NAIL VARNISH SHAKER to help with the mixing
AND it DOES work, Good TIP
I didn't know AP did pigments
I mostly paint minis, using army painter, and my most used paints are their Leather Brown and Angel green.
I shake my paints by wrapping them around a sawsall blade with Velcro tape. Works wonders.
Drives me up a wall that you did not pull the dropper top out of the bottle and use a brush to put the binder and pigment from the styrene board back in the bottle. Then go get yourself some 8mm ball-bearings and you can put one in and you are good with a lot less waste.
Hi Terrain Tutor,
Nice review. Thanks.
I invented a Wargamers painting tool. It's very simple, and yet cunningly functional.
I started a small production of them in my own workshop.
It comes in a neat blister packaging.
Can I send you one for a review?
I'm not really a painter mate
Regiment brush for the win. Ive bought one every two years and it's my go to brush
I bought one of their paints to try once and had the separation problem, gave up on them immediately. This inspires me to give them another go!
I did the same bud, giv'em another go
Mel, I know its more of a model manic rather than a terrain manic question but... I have always used stained polyurethane as an all in one tone and varnish step. But its absolute hell on the brushes. Is the Quick Shade easy to clean? Or is it a craft-store brush affair where its trashed at the end?
Leave your brushes in thinner mate, just take them out to varnish ;-)
I purchased Army painter Olive Drab to base coat my Boltaction vehicles, and found that Vlero pain had a bit of a time takeing to te Army painter paint. Took a couple of coats to adhere to it
I imagine they're formuated their primers to work with their paint range.
Excellent review, Mel. I brush on the "dip" as well.
Very informative!!!
For an agitator, it might be cheaper just to grab a container of BBs and use those if you can't get the glass beads at a good price.
As a side note, the new GW primers seem to be color matched as well, at least if you go by their tutorial vids they've been putting up for a while...
8mm stainless steel.
Amazing
Great tip on the acrylic binder. Was well struggling with these paints and yes struggle with wasting some paint. But once done what a difference. Cheers Mel
Here to help mate
Iam suprises on your good review of brushes. they quite rubbish. using them for some time and after only few weeks they start loosing hairs very quick. paints are briliant. very good quality.
I've used army painter brushes and they're okay as long as you take care of them.
+Ghost Clown i always do. but I do commission painting and use brushes a lot more than usual painter/ hobbyst.
Fair enough, but I guess the demands for a commission painter are much more strict than those for the average hobbyist.
What are you doing with them???
+TheTerrainTutor just painting Mel. but I paint a lot and kolinsky last me for about year.
That hurt to watch those poor models
I'm not a fan of the Regiment brush that came with the 50 set, it was rather soft (I prefer stiffer brushes). The Brushes that came with the AP starter kit was actually awesome. The paints are good. I use a lot of AP with some Vallejo. I don't do basing, I rebase on clear bases (we play on a 40" touchscreen salvaged from a shopping kiosk, so the clear bases are awesome)
Mel, isn't there a spray they do that clear and protects? Aegis suit? Something like that
If they have, I haven't played with it mate
... Anyone else cringe every time he says "Poly You Therane" instead of polyurethane?
Primers are great
Hello
What would you recommend matting your models with after the gloss coat?
Matt varnish
Do you have any tips on a good place to buy cheap flock and stuff in bulk from?
www.javis.co.uk
Brilliant review, Mel!
your crazy varnish test sold me on it, no more scratched models!
It's what I'm here for buddy!
space marine heads are great agitators and theres tons in yer bitz box
I likes that idea mate
what is the difference between the inks and the washes?
One's an ink, so more translucent and the other is an acrylic paint wash
I have used the Humbrol, Tamiya, Citadel & more recently Ammo by Mig paints & washes in the time that I have been building models & I can say when it comes to painting figures Army painter has been the best due to there system in my option. When it comes to painting AFV & aircraft models I still prefer Ammo by Mig as their colour selection are easy to match to real-world colours, but are horrible for painting figures as the paint is so thin.
I´m jealous, I would love to have all of that.
I had a panic attack when you started "shuffling" your models lol...>.>
Varnished! :-D
TheTerrainTutor yeah I just ordered the two darkest ones I’m pretty excited
always give them a good stir (not shake) before each use mate ;-)
Thank you for your review Mel. Take care.
Hope it helps buddy!
Really great overview but...I realise its a regional dialect type thing but you really do say YE, about a billion times, lol
I can't stand the handles of the brushes
Really, I quite like them, obviously it's a personal thing but do you mind me asking why bud? Just curious
hey mel where did you get those models?
Dungeon Saga from Mantic and Runewars from FFG mate
How do you think the canned washes compare to the ones in their dropler bottles?
The dropped bottles are matt finishes and aren't a protective varnish compared to the tins
Thanks! That's clear then
When are you going to do an other bbb
Vid's coming out on Tuesday evening bud
Dungeon Saga miniatures! :D
Gotta love a bit of dungeon delving!
I dont think i have ever heard someone say the word "yeah" so much in my life . You use yeah like i use fuck lmao .
It's a type of tourettes called a verbal tic mate
@@TheTerrainTutor gotch ya , my bad lol
@@TheTerrainTutor still a good vid , i wasnt trying to make fun or anything i was just saying lol .
Brother! I just went out n bought a bunch of hogs hair brushes as you have been talking about lol
Thank you for this :)
Army Painter Quickshades, from everything I've seen, are indistinguishable from Minwax Polyshades. Well, except for the price; they're about four times as expensive per volume.
Oh, and Minwax makes a clear polyurethane as well.
If you can't get Minwax, then you go with what you can get, of course.
I'll check them out bud, thanks for the heads up
Oh Man.... control your "yea"
15:53 WHAT ARE YOU DOING ??!???!!
Testin' ;-)
Sorry I meant 14:44 x) I love your vid's !