Speedpaint 2.0 Real World Review 

PSA: mixing balls will lodge in the nozze if you turn the bottle 180º - please, please, apply to your palette at a 45º angle 🙏

"markings are a little bit rough" Proceeds to freehand a better lightning bolt than I've ever made in my life

The cracking is due to the primer/undercoat not being fully dry than being heated will affect the finish. I like to seal with a matt finish after using speed paints.

I cannot put into words how much I appreciate the honesty of this video. Too often we see people outright ruling out themselves from the possible causes of something going wrong; most of the time is just lack of awareness, not malice, but to see so much genuinity and openess here was extremely refereshing. Loved the video, loved Peachy!

Peachy needs to test Peachy Flesh

love these videos - can't get enough - really helped me not sweat the small stuff. keep them coming!

Best speedpaint 2.0 review I've seen! I use a lot of contrast and this has convinced me to get the mega set when it comes out.

No nonsense, honest and realistic testing video this! Nice one. Looks like there are some handy paints in that set for sure. Thanks for another great video guys! :)

Great job on this, nice results quickly.

A good way to see what the color is, is to prime/drybrush the lids and paint them, afterwards putting a varnish so it doesn't rub off. For those who haven't used speedpaints, the color is realllllly dark and lightens up considerably when applied/dried. I use the 1.0 Speedpaints quite abit and never had the cracking problem, but I've also never blow dried them before, so it could be that or the new formula they used? Another good way to get details to pop is to first do the details in the next darker color in between the muscles, undersuits, cloth fold lines, etc, and then go over the whole model with the original color you'd use.

Great video, thank you Peach!

It’s so cool seeing what you can do with these.

Really enjoyed this. Cheers!

Great video! Helped me decide on my decision to invest in 2.0!

Lovely colours! I found it super helpful running through the 3 different paint schemes, the yellow being a particular highlight for me with the pink basecoat/zenithal approach. I picked some of these up today at Element Games purely because of this review, can't wait to try them out.

I think I need to scoop this set now! Thanks man

Great video. Swayed me for a preorder. Thanks.

Thanks for doing this video!

Appreciate the review and also for taking the time out to try and recreate and get to the bottom of any weirdness - so many other reviews I’ve seen immediately jump to ‘Problem with the paint’ rather than problem with the technique used 👍🏻

Really useful vid, I’m gonna pick up a box for sure 🎉

I was curious about the speedpaint metallics. Look interesting. Great vid!

Nice was going to buy these soon.

Late to the party but wicked video, Peachy! This pack is now on my Christmas list!!

I'm new to painting and I just ordered this speed paint 2.0 Im super excited to try painting soon

For me, Speedpaints are perfect for painting minis for board games that have a whole lot of minis that don't need to look perfect, like Zombicide. They're cheaper than contrasts and you get pretty good results for very little effort and no one is really gonna inspect how the zombies look, as long as they have the shirt, pants, and skin painted everyone is happy and appreciates your work. Otherwise I really like the classic layering technique, it might be slow but it makes me calm and my head stays quiet, which nice :)

Best thing about speed paints is the working time is so much longer. You don't get coffee stains like with contrast.

Satin varnish over the primer and highlights! Solved my problem with cracking. It flows over it better and keeps your highlight from reactivating.

Recently painted a Khorne army with Speed Paints & also used Vallejo snow for the base - had the exact same bleed problem - problem was even worse if I got any paint on the base. Luckily for me it just looked like blood stained snow and I embraced it in true blood god fashion!

Even less of a fan of the Army Painter range..but HUGE fan of Peachy honest review!

The Bleeding into snow happend to me with lots of washes and contrast paints as well. It's probably something inside the snow rather than the speedpaints. (AK interactive snow paste, not Citadel though). Now I varnish my snow bases before applying the paste. That is an extra step, but it resolves the issue.

Thanks! Highly recommend a pipet. Saved so much paint.

Thanks Steve!

Great Review, honestly I'm happy that your first response to any issue is user error, so many would think it's a problem with the product.

I really enjoyed the first wave of speed paints. I've gone through three bottles of Magic Blue and counting on my Thousand Sons so far. Pre-Ordered the 2.0 complete set from Wayland and this video has kept my keen for the new paints nice and high. Cheers for a fun watch!

Blinding White in the complete range will be GREAT for White Scars!

Really good review, love the fact you left in the fact the top come off the bottle on the red( always learning) . The only thing to say tho is naughty Peachy, I see you bite your nails like me 🤣

That yellow on the imperial fist was perfect, very tempting to start using this technique, even if it'll make my army mismatched

I think peachy should get royalties for peachy flesh and just want too say I watch your videos cause their and you don’t take yourselves to serious and it’s just what the hobby should be I always watch peachy painting videos cause he’s a grate explaining to any painting level and doesn’t make you feel out of your depth awesome guys keep it up

Weirdly, I’ve seen similar errors on ceramics. I work with ceramics and whenever glaze or body (essentially primer) is sprayed, if it’s too thickly applied, the layers dry at different rates, you can get a cracking appearance Heat can amplify that effect too

Got mine recently form the preorder and I am really happy with it. On it's own if gives acceptable results but if you add the highlighting step as you normally would - you get to really nice results with skipping layering step AND the paint guides you as to where to put most important/strongest highlights. It really acts more like a guide then while removing one of the most boring step of basing/layering + washing. Two main issues I've seen with those was that some paints need additional water (especially blue ones) and most don't - so they are a bit inconsistent. Other thing is that Nuclear Sunrise is messed up from the box, I spoke with Army Painter and they say that this particular pigment is more affected by temperature as expected and has grain like clots of pigment in it. Army painter said they will be refunding/replacing those by request. Other than that, really happy with them - they are not a magic wand and the best thing ever but they are very convenient and they still allow for a range of approaches to quality. If you want to buy them, I would wait for a second release though. It will have the Nuclear Sunrise issue fixed, new labels describing what the color actually is in addition to the name. People who preordered got a bit of a raw deal there for sure, but in general it is worth the money, especially for a beginner/intermediate painter with time constraints. And I really don't see a point of paying more for contrast paints form GW, maybe not all the colors are good, but ones that are - are really good at what they do.

Nice to hear they have fixed the reactivation problem.

Useful review

That poor poppy red. The fact that it just wasn't adressed in the video made it so much funnier lol

very nice paintjob !! Iam covinced to buy the speedpaints 2.0

Always good to see reviews. Question from me is really, if I've already got a full set of Citadel Contrast, is there anything from Speedpaints that would be better that I need to pick up?

Thank you for this! Have you used the Peachy Flesh color yet? I'm wondering how well it will work for Eldar or elves. I have the hardest time painting skin colors. Thanks!

that magic blue seems brilliant for glow effects

I’m so glad you clarified there was no rubbing off on the Imperial Fist model. I assume you used the normal varnishing methods instead.

Add pale sand to any original colour works as a highlight….thanks to DH 😊

"Looks mega" I love you Peachy, so much. Idk how I have the same slang terms as you, maybe it's all the sheffield rock climbing videos I watch.

Been painting a lot of yellow recently may have to get that pixie pink spray

The Gravelord grey is the only contrast style paint over drybrushing that I’ve found works for slapchop-esque black armor - perfect for deathwatch, death company, etc! I could only find one obscure vid on it - hope you do a vid on it and pumped for this one!

I really like this imperial fist scheme!!

Great stuff. Glad you actually experimented with it. Maize yellow looked to have really disappointing shading vs the other colours

Did anyone else fall about laughing at the flood of red in the wet palette? 😂

I have the speed paint 1.0 starter set but haven't tried the 2.0. Great video as always! Also, why do you hate Orks?

To be fair the bleeding into the snow paste kinda looked like transparency of partially melting snow. Looked pretty cool I think.

I'm sorry, are you using contrast paints on a wet palette? How are you making that work?

I think the pink cracking on the gun casing on the imperial fist actually looks really good...

I think some of the details on the Imperial Fist looked rather flat. Speedpaints also have a much richer, deeper yellow called Zealot Yellow - the paint is actually red when it's a thick layer, but bright yellow in a thin layer. I think the Fist could have benefitted a lot from a wash with a very thinned-down coat of Zealot Yellow to add some extra depth to the shadows.

Good to see a video with maize yellow! Looking to paint my Drukhari like imperial fists 😂

It's nice to see they've solved the reactivation issue, hopefully the cracking issue is just a one off too.

Have you tried blending Contrast paints with Speedpaints? I do some blends with Contrasts, and it'd be interesting to see if the two ranges mix well or if they react.

I've only had cracking once with Contrast, was due to an old can of primer, the paint hasn't taken properly to the model and when the Contrast was added, because it goes on more liberally it lifted and cracked with the primer. Now I use an airbrush and never had the same issue, even with the same bottle of contract

Just started using speedpaints/contrast paints. Wow...

So ive fou d my favourite citadel contrasts have done this retracting thing on models. Black legion is the main culprit, i did Black Widow from MCP and in certain area the paint retracted, i dont know if this was due to me apllying it over a matte varnished slapchopped model, but seeing it happen to you made me feel better.

Was the snow effect icing sugar? Maybe the red paint was mixing to make jam 🍓

good to get a honest review including things that went wonky

I think this is a great review and a good product for Army Painter to put out. Fundamentally, I don't like the look of any high flow (Contrast/Speed/Whatever) on any Space Marine models. Nothing really saves on time if you want a good paint job, this one coat and done stuff to me is really better done by regular paints, sorry. The good news is...I think high flow paints are excellent as a tool in the kit, if you do multi-coats, and take the trouble to highlight as usual. Space Marines are cool, take the time!

“I’m excited to see how this works” he says as the painted model is right in front of him 😂 In all seriousness though, great video. Got the speedpaint starter set recently and they’re super handy.

Really appreciate your unbiased review. I've just seen too many issues with Speedpaint to feel compelled to try them over contrast. I can paint over contrast, varnish it, mix it with other paints and have no issues, so I don't really feel the need to replace them. The only issue with contrast is that it is quite delicate - though I suspect this is probably a problem with a lot of these sorts of paints, as they're basically inks and inks do have durability issues.

What did you use for primer in this video and what did you undercoat with?

What’s the recommended dry time between coats? Assuming it’s not quick if you’re using a hairdryer

Great video. I enjoy Speed Paint and I look forward to trying 2.0, but I'm finding I also like using layer paints in tandem. When I do use mostly speed paint/contrast paint, I find I can sometimes get uneven or splotchy results. Anyone else experience this?

Did you notice a difference using the speed paints on a wet palette as opposed to not? I have watched several other 2.0 reviews and the paints seemed to go on differently, more pooling in the recesses and more opaque than the ones from the wet palette.

Looking forward to the episode focusing on Peachy Flesh

Always happy to see a "real world" review of paints, rather than the thought experiments of other channels. One thing that might be a fun test would be to do a Contrast application, allow it to pool somewhere and then blast it with the hairdryer to see if the same effect is recreated?

I'm curious, what type of sponge did you use for the tipping? It looked like a bit of steel wool that you had torn into a ball.

I mentioned brushes before, please let us know what you are using if it is a brand brush. Id like to know what you use for the blood angel highlights

I have had army painter washes crack on me like this. The acrylic shrinks too much it seems and splits from the surface. Something with the resin they use. Does not always happen. Happens more so with an oil-based primer like Rustoleum.

Could’ve let the bleeding into the snow be like reflection from the armor onto the snow.

Great review and video. Nice to see peachy being able to joke around and be himself.

immediately seems like the new medium is much more liquid than the 1.0 run, reminds me of the Vallejo XPress colors

I could never fully understand the drama about speed paint, every single last acrylic ink can be reactivated, there are no exceptions.

Thumbs up for the UrukHai reference 🙌

maybe it`s off top. yes it probably off top. but i want to ask: what the AK interactive alternity to averland sunset ?

dont understand if this is a good set for a beginner starting out or the regular acrylic set will fit me better, i already tried to paint some blood angels and some death company with citadel acrylic with no issues but wanted to know it this product will be a better solution

I see a video on these paints the other day and the painter said they are better used not on a wet palette apparently

Do you find that 2.0 dries too fast? Is there a way to counteract that?

Please do a Ultramarine with Speed paint. I really haven’t found one video really doing it.

This is the best Speedpaint 2.0 review I've seen... and it has 100% convinced me not to buy them.

I feel speed paints 2.0 needed to be flawless but there are still some doubts with it. With contrast paints being generally solid and the potential of Vallejo xpress colour i think army painter are not onto a winner with these

That wet pallete shot…straight out of a slasher movie

peachy aggressively finding cool fx like cracking for legion of the damned with thick speed paint cured with a hair dryer!

Also what’s your snow?

Glad there was no rubbing off on the imperial fist, even with you being rough. I wonder if they are all fixed or just this colour? I think you should check this by seeing if you can rub off peachy flesh being rough. In the interests of science, of course.

How long did you wait between colours?

Peachy is a GW spy and we all know it.

So the metal speedpaints are actually proper metallic? thats cool coz contrast doesn't do that. i was very disappointed when i realised Basilicanum Grey wasn't gonna work for my bolters

This video makes me hugely concerned. I just bought the full set 2.0 and I am starting to hear about deep pools "cracking" when the paint dries. I'm super leery about opening up the box before considering returning it for a refund and getting the original 24 1.0. The reactivation that everyone talked about was nonexistence on the 4 colors I have.