My own beef with the speed paints is that painting minis is as mush a hobby as is a time killer. Finishing 50 miniatures in a weekend rather than 5~7 means that I have to buy more boxes of miniatures. Don't get me wrong, they are an excellent product, it's just a Me problem.
Thank you for your thorough review. I dont belive the speed paints are for me, but I only feel confident in that because you review was so in depth. 👍🏾
The thing with the Monument paints is they work really nicely when thinned to a glaze and airbrush perfectly. Also their transparent colours are something else and their transparent white is magical, imagine adding white to a red and it doesn't immediately turn pink it becomes a new red tiny well the transparent white lets you do that (unless you add a huge amount of the white)
They work well with any lighter coloured primers (eg. white, ivory and light grey). Zenethal highlights using black and a lighter primer can work but leaves a dirtier look as they don't cover any black speckles. Grey and white/ivory zenethal work well. I find them very more-ish. After doing a few hero models, I ended up hunting through my old boardgames games for random bunches of miniatures to paint. I'm doing a load of zombies from Zombiecide at the minute plus some mooks from Vengeance.
I just finished a cool floating mermaid 3d print and man I wish I would've seen this comment. I did the black and white zenithal and the black is too dark. It came out looking good (I'm a total noob) but I'm def doing gray and white next time.
@@derekfield4164 I'm a noob too, I only started a few months ago with Tainted Grail. I think there's some things it will work on like rock or stone (I've a carved statue I want to paint. I'll probably use the black for that) or if you want a dirty look (I've done some grimy looking zombies) but for anything colourful I'd say no.
