Arguably the best paint reviews on RU-vid?! I'm Stahly, the mysterious masked painter from Tale of Painters, the unofficial Warhammer hobby magazine and blog. Since 2011, we've published over 250 painting tutorials, 220 product reviews, and 1800 model showcase posts. Visit us at www.taleofpainters.com.
One thing I wish I knew is how desaturated the paints are, due to heavy amounts of white pigment in every bottle, and because of this, some paints dry "chalkier" than others. I picked up a few, and I'm struggling whether I even want to keep 90% them, and just make room for Vallejo's model color/game color revisions instead. There are some standouts, like Angel Green, Warlock Magenta, & Matt White, but the desaturated tones in all the others are really killing me(okay not really, but just a real buzzkill) Also the "warm" red triads are literally ORANGE both on the palette and dried on the model, and I actually returned those for my money back. Those colors were Absolute garbage IMO, and I'm wondering if I got a literal lemon. I'm grateful I did not grab any of the sets, and only just a few. However with my own personal qualms, you did a fantastic job on the mini, and explaining the best solutions to problems even you encountered, and The paint itself is good, I just hate the finish and muted tones.
I've honestly replaced pro acryl with ak almost entirely. I'm also using the new vallejo model color and two thin coats. Between those 3 ranges, I am fully set
@@stahly_taleofpainters we used some GW primer - old ones. Now I ordered Army painter primer (a darker grey + white). But the most problem was with an valejo color over the primer and then the speed paint on top. So we maybe have to stick with warpaints fanatics + speedpaints and throw out our old paints from 7 years ago. We just getting back into the hobby....
I have a fair bit from the Space Marine era of Epic as well as the later flavours though I have no idea where my old Thunderhawk from the mid/late 90s has gotten to. Loving the new scale stuff
Army painter could tell me day is light and night is dark and you'd catch me outside with sunglasses at 9pm just in case. 10 years in the hobby ive learned trying to save some bucks going the AP route always ends up costing more because you get theirs, try it, then get what you wanted originally.
Pro acryl easiest to work with for beginners, but has a lot to offer any level of painter...takes the cake for consistency, vibrancy, and mixability. The price is not great though.
Army Painter Anti Shine (and Aegis Suit) are the best spray can varnishes I have ever had. I never had any frosting with them, compared to other brands like Citadel and Vallejo.
I would love a video series where you go through each color and test as many as you have, I'd prefer one for turquoise. Or pink, turquoise I use a lot pink I never use
I did not see much metal color Vallejo love in this I keep seeing paints compared directly to citadel metal paints, like they're not the gold standard. They're pretty low, like don't get me wrong Pro-Akrol has some bad metal paints, but they're dark bronze magnesium, any of the newer ones are much better, and army painter fanatics metal great, but Vallejo metal color is easily the best still, blows the hell out of scales and citadel
Ya know, for as much time as you put into videos in comparing paints, is there a reason why you haven't come out with a video where you show use what you use. Like for instance, 'I use these paints/colors from this line, but not this line.'
Well as I test so many paint ranges and new paints come in all the time, my "rotation" changes quite often. But yeah, I need to do a video about that :)
To be fair, especially with the frequency of new paint lines coming out you're basically doing the same thing by going through them, the only problem is is that the amount that I have to go through to find the best paints each year is increasingly getting high
