2 Miniature Paint brands you MUST TRY (And 2 to skip) | Pro Acryl, War Colours +more

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While I agree that most people can skip War Colours, I feel that the review did them a bit of a disservice. War Colours are a gel based paint whose strength is their consistency and transparency. They are not a citadel like paint system, they are a specialized paint line with a specific purpose, wet blending and glazing. I'd highly suggest checking out other reviews that give a more indepth review to show how to really utilize them properly. Their black and white are some of the best I've used and allow you to have far more precision with the tone compared to other black/white paints. Similar to Kimera or Scale 75, they are NOT beginner friendly paints. But if you know how to use them you can get truly amazing results.

I recently bought Golden Soflat basic sets and I'm in love. Single pigment, high opacity, consistent texture, very fine pigment. You can dillute the heck out of them and they don't disperse. Best white I've ever owned.

I own most of the proacryl range (can't justify the shipping cost for expansion 3 right now) and agree your notes. I strongly dislike the default lid and prefer their dropper lids over the screw top.

I've got to agree on the Pro Acryl from Monument Hobbies! Every time I try one of their paints, I'm always impressed and blown away every, single, time. It is such good value for the money.

I absolutely fell in love with Pro Acryl paints from the moment I used one for the first time. If I could go back and tell younger me not to buy half the paints I did (ESPECIALLY the shitadel paints) and wait to get the whole Pro Acryl bundle off the bat, I would.

Just wanted to say Lyla that you have helped me tremendously not only in my miniature painting but also across my model finishing spectrum. Thank you very much! Great channel lyla, keep it going.

Crazy how availability changes between US and EU. You cant find Pro Acryl in Spain but GSW, Vallejo, Mig, AK 3rd Gen is pretty much everywhere. The latter is my favourite so far, and I definitely recommend it to you.

I absolutely love ProAcryl. I bought two full sets. One for home and one for my work office during lunch breaks. Incredible opacity.

Thank you very much for an excellent paint brand review……seems like you covered all of the important topics quickly and clearly. Appreciate your time and help.

I have switched most of my paints to pro acryl. The vibrant color, good coverage, and extensive range have sold me. I swapped out all of the twist tops for flip tops, and they have been great. I painted some grey primer onto the flat lids, then painted on some of the color, which makes it very easy to see what the color will look like on the model, and find it in the rack. They also sell empty paint bottles, making it very easy to pour two colors together to make a bottle of a custom color. I use this mainly for transition colors between two colors. For example, I made two extra bottles for the mid points between Bright Jade, Jade, and Dark Jade.

Love Pro Acryl Paints. I am in the process of moving all of my collection to their line. I hope that they continue to expand so that they become more easily available. Great value and great paints. Keep up the awesome videos! Be safe and be well

Vallejo's new line (the black-top Game Color ones) has become my go-to brand. Great coverage, great pigmentation, and just the right thickness. And they're not expensive, either.

Just a note regarding Green Stuff World, they're not the greatest company out there, whether it's trademarking other people's work, or putting a strike against a hobby youtuber (Sworde & Steele) I'd recommend choosing a different company to buy hobby supplies from if at all possible.

Pro Acryl, Reaper, Vallejo and Scale 75 are my go to. Im sad that in all the years, no one has made a paint as good as Polly S fantasy colors from the 80's.

Reaper Miniatures makes my favorite paints. If you like magenta, their Clear Magenta is a single pigment paint, works great for mixing and glazing, but opacity is low due to the nature of the pigment. They have a magenta with more coverage called Thuvian Sun Orchid which I think is lovely.

I have to be honest and say that I love the citadel range. I supplement this with inks from daler rowney, a white from liquitex and a couple of alcohol based metallics from vallejo. I find that they all have good parts and bad parts. The citadels range of colours is massive but the liquitex white has no chalkiness.

If I were to start buying paints now, I'd buy a combination of Scale75, Reaper, probably some Vallejo, and artists' fluid acrylics/acrylic gouaches. Reaper's browns and neutrals are generally very nice, both in consistency and color, Scale75 has brilliant metallics and quite good flat colors, Vallejo has everything, and artists' colors are heavily pigmented with excellent acrylic monomer density, though they do require a bit more knowledge of mixing (and the price per volume for artists' colors is quite good).

Pro Acryl. Nothing else. Pro Acryl. All. The. Way.

Thank you for this (and to the commenter who mentioned pro acryl new lids)! I've been looking to branch out with paints and this has convinced me. As for other paints I've tried, I really like Turbo Dork. They're expensive and metallic only, but they do some great shifting paints and just really pop overall. Thanks again!