I agree that the paint does need dilution before use – but then I expect to do that with all brands of acrylic paints. I am a little more concerned that you report seperation on the palette. I’ve never seen that with any paint. What do you use to dilute? I use distilled, filtered water mixed with W&N flow improver. I know that sounds like hassle but I periodically mix up a batch and keep it in a jar with a lid so it lasts for ages and then I use a pipette to put drops out on to the palette as needed.

As for paint drying on the palette – that cones with the territory, especislyl during hot Summer weather. One thing you can do to counteract that is use a wet palette. I know several painters who make their own using old ice cream tubs and greaseproof paper. One of these days I’ll get round to trying it out for myself.

Other colours? There’s certainly black, red and flesh, maybe more…

The white is interesting. The only downside is that it seems really, really thick. It will take some time to get the hang of cutting it down to a good consistency. I tended to cut it too much to begin with so that it was fine going on as a paint, but separated as it sat on the palate and then dried out really quickly. I love the color though. I could see doing some off white stuff with the 4th highlight really as a small highlight on things, or even being omitted altoghether (using 3 layers from the rest of the set).

Glad you experimented with this Martin, and made the effort to write it up. I prolly wouldn’t have tried it myself otherwise.

Now what other colors do they have?????

But it’s probably not a how a 28mm painter would use the set. The way I look at it is that it’s a six layer set and if you use them in the layered painting style you’d go from darkest to lightest (i.e. 2nd shadow, 1st shadow, base, 1st highlight, 2nd highlight, 3rd highlight). I’ve reached the conclusion that using all six is overkill on a 28mm figure and I’ve now settled on the three layers described in my posting above.

Lastly, all six paints are the same consistency – none of them are designed as washes or inks. But there’s nothing to stop you diluting them to use as washes if you wish – in just the same way you might with a Vallejo paint. Of course, I’m not going to be able to give you much guidance on that because I rarely use washes in my painting.

It may be a few days before I get to experiment as the A/C is out in my gameroom. But I’m curious about what is intended. Are the two shadow colors in the set intended to go on as a wash at the end? Are they the same consistency as the other paints? It looks like you just used them to build up from as a base.

Nothing in the packaging helps, maybe Andrea have some publications somewhere.

;O)

My intention wasn’t to buff the metal underneath. In fact, I was being deliberately gentle so as not to remove detail from the casting. The hot water is actually pretty effective – a bit like when I clean my ceramic palette (AKA an old cereal bowl) after a painting session. It doesn’t seem to matter how long the paint has been left to dry.