Paints?

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by obsidianpainting
Ah ok, so essentially the vallejo are less saturated.
Depends of what saturation you mean.
Vallejo have a huge range, 220 paints I think, amongst them are some really bright colours as well as some very muted tones.
If you are meaning saturated as in Medium to Pigment then it\'s a yes and no answer.
Some colours (earthy tones like Ochre Brown, Gold Brown) are very pigment dense and do take a lot of agitation.
Others are easy to give a quick \"rattle\" and are ready to work with.

One thing I would strongly suggest to save on your pocket (I should have done this myself ) is to look at the colours you REALLY use the most and buy their equivelents rather than splash out on the whole range.
But several colours to consider:
Ivory is the best \"all rounder\" to buy, it mixes into so many other colours without bleaching.
Black Glaze
White Glaze

Vallejo Air Colours are incredibly fine pigment and their metallics are in my opinion the best metallics around.

Oh and a Tip, Take a long section of paper clip add a lump of spare Green stuff to one end, allow to dry and Hey Presto you have a handy Vallejo Nozzle cleaner.

 

[mickc22]

Originally posted by Crayfish
I have heard about putting in some balls of some sort to make the mixing work better, but i have such a huge amount of paints nowdays i dont think i have the time to put in two balls in every bottle... But i may have to, hate shaking for 5 minutes everytime i need a color.

just do it as you use them, or every now and then pick 4 or 5 bottles, just make sure you put the spout back, before you put the top on and shake

...I\'m admitting nothing......

 

[nadine]

All my Vallejos have a little glass bead I added to them to help with agitating. My problem was that I have very little arm strength so after shaking the bottle for long enough to have the pigment mix, my arms were too tired to actually paint! :redface:

I have a little paint mixer now (my guy wants to build model airplanes, he\'s gonna use the Vallejos) which I suspect is really the way to go.

When I bought new paints to play with I actually picked up Golden fluid acrylics. I\'ve not used them on a miniature yet but they\'re *amazing* on the palette so I expect they\'ll apply nicely. I\'ll get back to ya if they\'re horrid.