Adiken paint
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Wren
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Hiya. There\'s a thread from a few months back with some comments on the Adikolors, including a review I did. I haven\'t painted as much as I should have since that review, but I\'ll reread it and see if any of my opinions have changed...
Okay, updated opinions - I still like the Adikolor for skin colours, although the named ones I use for highlighting only. I\'m trying out Apocalypse for a dark skintone, I think it\'ll work well, although I need to find good highlighting choices. I haven\'t found a good substitute for my Reaper tanned flesh recipe, but I also haven\'t been trying that hard. ;->
Coverage ability varies, as The Artisan mentions in that thread. Some of my Adikolor cover better than similar Reaper colours I have, others take just a coat or two extra, and there\'s one or two I\'ve used so far where I\'ve found it easiest to put down a base coat of a similar colour and then did a couple of thin coats of the Adikolor to set the colour I want.
I have had fewer bubble problems on less bumpy sculpts than my first test one, but a tendency to bubble is still a weakness. A guy in a class I took at GenCon mentioned that using the Adiken thinner helps with this, so I picked some of that up, but I haven\'t as yet tried it. I also haven\'t tried the metallics or inks as yet (just got the inks at GenCon also, as well as something they\'re calling XPM - Extra Pigmented Metallics.)
Okay, updated opinions - I still like the Adikolor for skin colours, although the named ones I use for highlighting only. I\'m trying out Apocalypse for a dark skintone, I think it\'ll work well, although I need to find good highlighting choices. I haven\'t found a good substitute for my Reaper tanned flesh recipe, but I also haven\'t been trying that hard. ;->
Coverage ability varies, as The Artisan mentions in that thread. Some of my Adikolor cover better than similar Reaper colours I have, others take just a coat or two extra, and there\'s one or two I\'ve used so far where I\'ve found it easiest to put down a base coat of a similar colour and then did a couple of thin coats of the Adikolor to set the colour I want.
I have had fewer bubble problems on less bumpy sculpts than my first test one, but a tendency to bubble is still a weakness. A guy in a class I took at GenCon mentioned that using the Adiken thinner helps with this, so I picked some of that up, but I haven\'t as yet tried it. I also haven\'t tried the metallics or inks as yet (just got the inks at GenCon also, as well as something they\'re calling XPM - Extra Pigmented Metallics.)
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abstract_incendiarie
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extra pigmented metallics sound good, I may have to investigate, unless anyone can warn me against them?
AI
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Just started finally using the Adiken paints I got at Gencon - just 4 to try a new fleshtone. They have great coverage - I am always sloppy with basecoats, and had some black slopped on the legs of the miniature, but one coat and the black is covered by a mix of a midtone brown and a flesh color. So far, so good!
Finished the flesh and am pretty pleased with the skintone the Adiken colors allowed for, and the coverage (as mentioned before is great). The only hting I noticed is that there was some bubbling, but I might have thinned my paints too much.
Anyone used any of the other colors? Seems like all paint lines have some colors that are great and some that are hard to work with (Reaper Blue-Black is an example; great color, but I never get very good coverage with it)
Anyone used any of the other colors? Seems like all paint lines have some colors that are great and some that are hard to work with (Reaper Blue-Black is an example; great color, but I never get very good coverage with it)
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What I wanna know is, what do they TASTE like?
(still haven\'t managed to stop licking my brushes..)
(still haven\'t managed to stop licking my brushes..)
Wren
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Bubbling is a definite weakness of the Adikolors, IMHO. I\'m still experimenting with their brand of thinner to see how much that helps. Smoother brushstrokes seem to help, too.
I have the whole set, but there are a lot of colours I haven\'t painted with yet. IIRC, the browns have good coverage. Pinks and reds I\'ve had some problems with. What I\'ve tried so far (which isn\'t exhaustive), the blues are in the middle. I haven\'t experimented much with their greens yet.
Sorry Lutra Enterprises, I can\'t help on the taste question, I\'m not a brushlicker.
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Ahaa!
More dirty brush lickers! Vallejo is the best tasting paint I have used so far (mmm, fruity), with black Indian ink being the most repulsive and retch worthy.....
More dirty brush lickers! Vallejo is the best tasting paint I have used so far (mmm, fruity), with black Indian ink being the most repulsive and retch worthy.....
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abstract_incendiarie
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The lord Cyril has spoken!
*AI throws away any plans of buying them*
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*AI throws away any plans of buying them*
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SaxonAngel
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The God Cyril has spoken...
neither do I...
I tried some for the painting contest they had going at Gencon. The mini was given to you and you sat down at a table with a few sets around you. Kind of a paint\'n\'take thing. I managed to place third even though I never even finished areas of the model (got dragged off to a game, kicking and screaming by the spouse :~( ).
The prize was a selection of 15 paints I picked out there. And...I am very happy I didn\'t have to shell out any money to try them.
First off you have to shake the hell out of them. I used my handy little electric coffee-milk foamer that\'s modified to fit into vallejo bottles to stir up the thick pigment on the bottom of the bottles. This helped alot!
The pigment is strong but translucent in the purer, stronger colours. The binder in these tends to soften, even days after you think it\'s dry. This makes layering near impossible. A couple shots of a non-adiken spray sealer cures this problem.
The colours with a higher ratio of white pigment cover nicely though. I daresay the pigment is as fine or finer than vallejo... When it doesn\'t soften up, as mentioned above.
Of the more white pigmented colours there are some that I really like. Otherwise they suck IMHO.
I\'m a more of layerer. I almost never use washes unless they are inks. So these paints that never seem to dry and gum up on the model, do not agree with me at all.
I would be interested as to what Victoria Lamb or Eric Louchard have to say about these. They both use washes for their technique. They made first and second in that contest too (I think).
But one thing I really, really liked was their brushes. Both the synthetic and red sable are as good as Reaper\'s, and about half the price.
Adiken\'s miniatures are about as hit-and-miss as the paints. Some sculpts seem very elegant. The rest are...errrmmm... Interesting. You should see the spagetti arms on the one I painted.lol
Cheers!
:innocent:
neither do I...
I tried some for the painting contest they had going at Gencon. The mini was given to you and you sat down at a table with a few sets around you. Kind of a paint\'n\'take thing. I managed to place third even though I never even finished areas of the model (got dragged off to a game, kicking and screaming by the spouse :~( ).
The prize was a selection of 15 paints I picked out there. And...I am very happy I didn\'t have to shell out any money to try them.
First off you have to shake the hell out of them. I used my handy little electric coffee-milk foamer that\'s modified to fit into vallejo bottles to stir up the thick pigment on the bottom of the bottles. This helped alot!
The pigment is strong but translucent in the purer, stronger colours. The binder in these tends to soften, even days after you think it\'s dry. This makes layering near impossible. A couple shots of a non-adiken spray sealer cures this problem.
The colours with a higher ratio of white pigment cover nicely though. I daresay the pigment is as fine or finer than vallejo... When it doesn\'t soften up, as mentioned above.
Of the more white pigmented colours there are some that I really like. Otherwise they suck IMHO.
I\'m a more of layerer. I almost never use washes unless they are inks. So these paints that never seem to dry and gum up on the model, do not agree with me at all.
I would be interested as to what Victoria Lamb or Eric Louchard have to say about these. They both use washes for their technique. They made first and second in that contest too (I think).
But one thing I really, really liked was their brushes. Both the synthetic and red sable are as good as Reaper\'s, and about half the price.
Adiken\'s miniatures are about as hit-and-miss as the paints. Some sculpts seem very elegant. The rest are...errrmmm... Interesting. You should see the spagetti arms on the one I painted.lol
Cheers!
:innocent:
Thanks for that SaxonAngel (and to Cyril as well!). I rarely use washes either, so the problems you mentioned would surely plague me as well. I didn\'t come across it with the flesh colors I have, but I\'m glad I know tha problem exists with othe colors.
I got their brushes and do like them, although I have to admit it is the first time I have used sable so I am no expert.
I got their brushes and do like them, although I have to admit it is the first time I have used sable so I am no expert.
