New Paints! Speed Paint 2.0: a Review

Dear Readers, I know normally, do painting updates on Sundays, but I just got these in last night, and I wanted to try them out!

I’ve been pretty happy with the speed paints that I’ve had. They worked well, with one exception: if you paint too close with one color next to another, the speed paint medium reactivated! This meant colors bleeding into each other, and a total mess.

Not. Fun.

I mean, I’d reviewed the previous speed paint set, but hadn’t actually had the issue, but that was due more to technique than anything else. And if I had to layer colors or paint colors too close to each other (thin strips of color or the like),this would have become an issue, as it had for many other people.

No longer!

Apparently, they fixed the reactivation issue. All that needs to happen is for the user to allow 15-20 minutes in-between coats/colors, and one is good to go! They also recommend doing light colors first and working your way out darker.

A big welcome to Speedpaint 2.0 f on Army Painter!

I went ahead and purchased the Complete Set, having found it on sale on a website called Watchtower Games (https://watchtower.shop).

I am so very excited to use them.

What’s In the Box

Th set I received had 89 paints, 1 small bottle of speed paint medium, one large bottle of speed paint medium, and 3 brushes. Frankly, the sheer number of paints, even for a complete set of specialty paints, is astounding. Among the paints are the “standard paints” as well as a handful of pastel colored paints and 10 of the the newest line of metallic speed paints.

So, using that technique, let’s see how it comes out…

I’ll be painting a female human wizard today. Nothing too elaborate.

Here are the colors I have chosen for the mini:

Dark Wood for the staff, Satchel Brown for her, well, her satchel, Peachy Flesh for her skin, Pallid Bone for the spell book pages, Hardened Leather for the spell book binding, Plasmatic Bolt for her robes, and Polished Silver for the metal bits.

I’m starting with the skin bits and the spell book pages first, being the lightest colors.

And so far so good!

I’ll be doing some fine detail work later with Matt Black to put some runes on the pages, but that’s future me to do.

Next I’ll be painting the robe and the staff.

If you can’t tell, I’m trying to keep colors/coats away from each other while letting others dry.

Well, that’s all I have time for today. I should have the rest finished later this week and I’ll include those pictures with my next post.

Until next time, Dear Readers…