It would be interesting to see how the gold looks over a red undercoat. I used to do gold gilding and we used to put red pigment in the gesso to give the gold leaf a richer tone.
@@MediocreHobbies I think there’s a few colours that gilders use depending on what’s being gilded. I’m sure blue or black is used for silver or platinum, and I think Green for copper or bronze. It might be worth go as I know painters use a different toned undercoat so the top coat is closer to what the manufacturer intended on their colour cards. I’ve used contrast paints on a metallic undercoat but not a painted undercoat followed by a contrast metallic, who knows!
For bronze, I tend to use it extensively for Mechanicus and picked up the Talos a few months ago, used it recently for my Arvus lighters and with a metallic undercoat it shifts it into a brass tone that I really like. I also use it to add some differentiation with Custodes and anything else that uses lots of gold, creates a slight but noticeable differentiation
I would like to see you do a full range test to find all your 10/10s - like the green and gold you have already identified- maybe just a shield or similar painted in each one then you could finish with a model done with speed paints you rate the highest
I have Talos Bronze and Glittering Loot and I find them absolutely great to use. They are fantastic paints. Im blown away by them. Im on board. I have a few of the verson 1s and I liked them too. Didnt have the problems that some had. Hard to believe how good these are. I am thumbs up number 100...
I have that exact set so it's good for me to see you putting the colours on models. I agree about the gold and was thinking Custodes as well, you could knock out an army of those very quickly with that paint. I've put flesh wash on Orks green skin before, the yellow in it helps with the highlights of the skin. Worth a try sometime. 🙂
It's awesome that we now have access to contrast paints, and now speed paints ( by GW and Army painter, respectively). Thanks for sharing this video with us. Those models look great, too.
I know, right! IMO, we're in a golden era of anything miniatures related. Wargaming, RPGs, scale modeling, and all sorts of other niches seem to be flourishing these years. There are several other alternatives to speedpaints, just in case you haven't heard: Xpress paints by Vallejo and Dipping Inks by Green Stuff World comes to mind, but there are more
I absolutely love Aztec Gold, Talos Bronze, and brazen Copper from their metallic speed paint set. I want to say it was hoplite, glittering or hoard gold, can’t recall which, but it looks great against the Hardened leather speed paint.
I just picked up the new metallic set. It is amazing. I really love the way these paints flow, and I usually hate metallic paint as they don't flow well at all.
That gold is incredible. Very rich and shiny. The silver is also really nice, could make for an excellent way to paint Iron Warriors very quickly. Just needs to be a bit darker perhaps. For the bronze: the new style of Necrons go for a bronze scheme and I think it looks really good.
YEEESSS. Love these and another exceptional video 👏👏👏👍👍👌. Now for anyone using the new AP Metallic Speedpaints try priming the colours with a bright silver base. Stormhost Silver or VJ Metal Colour Chrome. Watch these SP Metallics pop over a bright silver base. Then cut in recesses and panel lines with a colour appropriate shade (Agrax for gold and a blue or black for silvers), then edge highlight with the original base silver. BOOM spectacular chromic golds/silvers/bronze. Another tip don't use the AP Speedpaint medium with these Metallics. I think the medium has a matting agent in it which kills the metallic shine. These paints thin nicely with water. So the bronzes thinned might work as shade washes for the golds? O and do try the other Metallic Speedpaint Golds, they are beautiful. Keep up the good work chap 💪👍☺️.
I have the entire speed paint range , it's def got some o my gosh paints in it , I like them for sure , I tend to pick up contrast paints more though , even though every time I try a speedpaint I love it way more then the results Im getting from contrast paints.......habits are hard to break. Thanks for the videos , I enjoy all of them ........keep up the good work.......
The gold is gorgeous a definite purchase. Wasn't sold on the silver until after the drybrush which made the difference for me. The bronze i can't see a use for yet. Please review the rest of the metallics if you can. Love your channel.
I love them as i do a sort loyalist iron warriors with some purple arm thisvworks plus they have black and purple metalics aswell ( i like to use metalic for armors ) and this copper i use copper on my tanks and dreadnoughts to represent self repairs as they refuse to work with the mechanucum
i got nearly all the colors and love them all. I found out if you use the speedpaint medium it dilutes the metallics to make other shades. And some of the stuff I paint it worked great (I am all over the place with miniatures).
I use bronze for all my non-powered necron claws, legs, etc. The canoptek alloy was just not intense enough for me. The army painter gold was just too reddish for me over white, but it looks great over a cool grey or medium brown base coat. I use both kinds of base/prime coats on the same model to get two different finishes on different parts with one application of final color.
The first thing I thought when I saw how that gold went on the model was "new idea for my custodes?". And that Talos might be ok for the Sisters of Silence? Especially after the wash, I think? But maybe there's something better in the line, gotta check it. Either way, great job with testing on real life models, and ones from StationForge at that :)!
As one thick coat over smooth wide surfaces it looks decent but anything with edges or details it sucks ass as a "one coat paint". Dry brushing is a solution to that issue but it adds an extra step obviously. Without the drybrush it leaves nearly pure white on the raised edges. I did test it as a wash over standard metallic and I thought the result looked better than a standard wash you'd normally use.
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I got "Hoard Bronze" and I didn't really like it. Would be interesting to see a direct comparison though as I only used it on small objects so far.
I’ve loved them I did a I guess slap chop of them with their metallics then a speed paint metal over top . Night scale up too fairy dust for the pre shade .
I got the metallic speed paint set before I got any of the other speed paints and i really like them. That hoplite gold is definitely going on my Custodes. If you get the chance check out Aztec gold. Its a cool greenish gold. I don't know what I'll use it for but i love the way it looks.
I often use Necro Gold from scale 75 and it’s a gold with a green tint to it. I found myself using it on anything “evil” like chaos space marine, or anything undead like skeletons etc. I also plan on using it for some Seraphon models at some point in the future.
I picked up the full set of metallics and I love most of them. The only one I didn't care for was talos bronze. I haven't found a use for it. I just need to play with it a bit more.
I have previously avoided the speedpaint metallics ( yes largely due to internet snobbery over you cant do metallic speedpaints type reviews) but this video has really convinced me to have a go with them, thanks. Did you by any chance varnish them after this? If so, what were your results like? Thanks.
Great video as usual. Do you think the gold would be good for the trim on thousand sons over a blue undercoat? I didn’t know if it’d be a bit runny and hard to control.
Sold! I never had an issue with the old speed paints. But I’m mediocre at best😊. Speaking of sold, I sill plan on getting the trench bases for my guard. Will using your link get you a kickback? Or just tell’um Andy sent me 😂
I coundn't believe how good the bronze came out once you'd finished shading and drybrushing it, cos i thought it looked crap out the pot, colour just seemed totally off to me. gold looked fab, silver a bit meh initially but again great after you'd finished. tbh i'm sure i see the point of metallic speedpaints yet as they do look good with the extra work you put in, but i thought they were supposed to work out the pot. imo only the gold really worked straight off 9although it looked a lot better with the wash etc)
Sorry I kinda don`t understand how it is faster (or different) than the ordinary "Base-wash-highlight" process? Don`t get me wrong these results are cool, and colors are pretty interesting, but even the black primer plus a drybrush of arts`n`craft metallics give pretty cool metal effect. Anyway thanks for the interesting and useful video!
I have a video in my channel comparing the speed of basecoating a model with normal paints and then the same model with contacts and the speed difference is huge.
Will they be selling these individually or only as a set? As I am painting CSM right now and there is a lot of trim, I'd like to try them out! Thank you for the video!!
I used broadsword silver and it is pretty nice paint with good coverage. But it costs more comparing with common metallics (like all speedpaints) and I do not get significant benefits or differences - it is not translucent like other speedpaint, so makes no sense for slapchop, it flows better, but I can thin common metallic to that viscocity. So what are benefits?
The end effect for sure isn't bad. However, the entire point of it is moot if you need to use a wash and a dry brush afterwards to get it to look decent. You can get the exact same effect by using a normal metallic paint then, and more likely than not get an even better result because of it. The only advantage I see is that it's less thick and thus easier to paint on. But there are brands out there that already make metallic paint that is just as smooth if not smoother. As someone who likes contrast and is very impressed by what you can do with it. I'm going to say this one is a fail.
I don’t agree. If you watch my content I use contrast as a very fast way of applying basecoats. I then always always shade and layer the parts after that. So the point I’m using them is time. And I’m my opinion saving time painting is one of the most important things. Especially if you want to be an army painter……(see what I did there?) so there not pointless at all. But I appreciate your comment.
I was wondering the same thing, but I think you can't underestimate the utility of having something that is ready to go at the right consistency and pigment density right out of the bottle. I think you are right that there may be some metallic products that are thin and smooth with more pigment - I have some Winsor and Newton silver metallic ink that comes to mind - but having used it on plastics I know it has some adhesion issues, and it is expensive, so I'd hesitate to use it for something like a large basecoat. I also wonder if it would be owerpowering as it is very bright.So personally, I could definitely get good use of something like the speed paint, and there probably isn't ANY kind of paint that I'd just leave without shades and highlighting. Still though, I think you raised an interesting point.
