Vallejo Game Colour review.

[Cosmic]

Well I ordered my first load of Vallejo paints on Friday, and they arrived Saturday!

So tonight I've been testing them out and thought I'd share my thoughts. I ordered the Game Colour paints....



As well as the Model Air set which I will review seperately at a later date.

The Game Colour starter set that I chose contains 8 basic colour paints, 2 paintbrushes, a palette and a single miniature. I bought this from Creative Models for around £18.99 and it's a very good set!

I decided to test the whole set so here's some photos...

I undercoated the mini with the Black paint. It coats very well, somewhere between Citadel Foundation paints and the standard Citadel paints, and spreads nice and evenly....



The 2 brushes you get are very nice too, a small drybrush and just your basic small brush. I then very slightly watered down the Blue paint and applied 2 coats. I then made a wash using the black and applied it to the creases. The paint works well as a wash, however, you're still best off using Citadel washes. After the wash had dried, I started reapplying the basecoat and started shading....




A bit of NMM on the groin plate trim and this is where we are at the moment...



Even though I have only done the left leg so far, I really like these paints and really recommend them for a few reason....

1) They're cheaper than Citadel at £1.90 a bottle
2) They're in handy dropper bottles so you don't waste paint, and you don't have to get angry at a lid that doesn't stay open!
3) They're better than Citadel paints! They have much better flow characteristics, they're all a perfect consistency and they're just overall much better!

The review will continue tomorrow hopefully.

Cosmic

[Gerner]

Nice little review.
I have one question. When you write better flow characteristics, do you mean that is has that milky consistent that we all have wet (trollol) dreams about?

[Cosmic]

Feb 26, 2012 16:45:23 GMT -5 Gerner said:

Nice little review.
I have one question. When you write better flow characteristics, do you mean that is has that milky consistent that we all have wet (trollol) dreams about?

Haha not quite! It's really hard to explain in words it just feels better when painting, just feels easier to control and doesn't spread about too much when watered down. Something Citadel paints have a tendency to do.

[Gerner]

Okay. So in some circumstances you would still mix water into to give it that milky feel?

[Cosmic]

Yes you would but I REALLY do recommend getting yourself some of these paints, they're cheaper and better!

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RISE NECRO THREAD! I'm sorry about this, though perhaps it's better than making a new thread. I'm using the Vallejo Game color paints and am using a the P3 wet pallet (which is really just like any wet pallet) I find my paints are having a REALLY hard time covering. Is it because I base-coated my model in black or is it because the paints are too diluted? It's most noticeable on my vehicles, but also on individual troops.

[Cosmic]

You seem to have a habit of doing this lol.

It sounds like a mipcture of the two problems to be honest. Black is a bad colour to use as an undercoat depending on what colours you're trying to paint on it?

[mugshot]

Hm.... yes, I see.... So should I just make new threads? But yeah, the last troops I painted were sprayed gray and now I can't do that since it's winter... eh, I'll figure something out.

[mugshot]

I'm sorry I'm not thinking today (or any other day for that matter)
My troops were primed with light gray spray paint, and even then the white and red didn't cover it too well, which is understandable since it's, well white and red.

My tanks I undercoated with black primer and then painted them with Casteallean Green or whatever it's called. This required umpteen coats of paint. Okay maybe like 3. But still, enough to make my painting skills look childish.

[Cosmic]

A grey primer would be fine, so it sounds like the paint is too thin if it isn't covering at all. But just remember don't want it slopped on, so thinly is good, and build it up in layers.

I use an old bathroom tile for my palette now, as the smooth surface is great for the paint. I've never used a wet palette but the moisture could be affecting it.

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I've used the Vallejo brush on primer, it's pretty thin to begin with so I just put it on a bit of plastic packaging like from a blister pack (but for magnets) but it dries out really fast. Do you experience that problem with the tile?

[emptyhat]

Since this thread is shambling already...

Cosmic, any updates to your Vallejo review?

[mugshot]

I am not Mr. Cosmic but I will contribute my knowledge. Vallejo game color paints are pretty thin in general but the metallic paint may need slight thinning.Perhaps this is my own problem, but it seems like most colors need two coats to cover satisfactory. If you choose to use the brush on primers, I would steer away from white. It doesn't seem to cover or even stick to the model (then again I'm painting metal models). The black seems to work fine, though both the white and black are extremely thin and do not need to be diluted further.

Also, there seems to be a lacking range of grays in the Game Color line. An alternative would to look towards the Vallejo Model color or the Vallejo Panzer Color (or is that Andrea?) Otherwise the colors are very close to the old citadel paints. You can find a color conversion chart here:Colour

Another word on the metallic paint, when dry brushing it seems to spread small flecks of metal to other areas of the model. I'm not sure if this is common among metallic paints or if it's just the Vallejo Game Color "Gun Metal."

[rayvn70]

I use Vallejo almost exclusively save for washes. They have better flow, like Mr. Cosmic has stated, when it comes to the metallic colors, I find that they are VERY thick and hard to use but they do cover very well. Dry brushing with them is a bit of an issue, I found that Over Brushing works better, for me anyways.