Using the lids for painting the actual color is ... mindblowing, why haven't I thought of that :O

finally someone who tried the "normal" painting test route.

So instead of treating this rehydration trait like a flaw, and trying to force it into your workflow, you just adapted your workflow and turned the trait into a strength. That is awesome, keep up the good work!

So the rehydration thing let's you achieve something similar to an oil wash without having to buy all the extra stuff you need to do an oil wash? Definitely sounds like a benefit.

I've never seen such heresy as painting lego bricks different colours!

I can't understand how this channel don't have a few millions subs. Keep the good work!

That opening about killed me. 🤣 Also, zenithaling and painting the caps is a really great idea!

My man! I love them walkers.

The Cap Idea is amazing, damn I will steal this =D

Well that speed paint on the marine sold me…. I definitely want to try it now on the rest of the marines.

As a 34 year long dark angel player I would add the ap you did to my army and melt down the contrast one. Yes my first marines where black in colour and from the 30 marine box.

I started working with mine today, and i'm really enjoying them. I love that they don't have that splotchy effect that GW's Contrast Paints leave behind.

The reactivation is just kind of something that happens with inks so it's not particularly huge if you're used to it. The only real advantage I seen for contrast is that you can more easily glaze with it.

Awesome video, I find the Army painter speed paints to be fairly consistent but just gotta understand the caveats, the Citadel contrast paints from the ones I have tried seem to act differently from one another, and the splotchy look drives me a bit insane... doing extra layers makes the color look smoother but just really dark. I have my likes and dislikes for both... nice to have options just wish the Army Painter stuff was sold individually as the mega set does have some stuff I like thats not in the little set.

I am just entering this hobby via Kill Team. I never painted miniatures before and put off painting them until these paints came out. So I have no experience with any other paints. My minis look better than I expected them to and that may have inspired me to try other methods. For someone with no painting experience, I think these paints are fantastic. I'm very happy with my results.

I love your paint style, it goes to show it's the painter not the paint that does the work, cos all your stuff looks like it was painted by you no matter what you use

Spraying the caps and painting them to get both the paint colour and know which one is which in one go? Mind blown!

My two year old heard you say “3, 2, 1, boom!” From the other room and it made him start giggling so hard. Now he keeps saying it.

Gotta admit that cap concept is quiet clever. Rather than just one quick monotone smear of paint giving it a proper zenith really makes it easy to see each colors offering for future use. Win/Win.

Thanks mate, you’ve sold me on the new stuff. And the fact that i can rehydrate it is actually fantastic.

So, I've been using these for quickly painting up mobs for D&D. They work really well for a one layer paint job that is quick and easy because I have difficulty with painting for a long period of time. I was injured years ago and my right arm tends to start hurting really badly after a while, so I can't really paint large groups of models for a long time. I really appreciate paints like this that work quickly and needing very few layers to get done

Fantastic stuff. Finally someone realises that the "controversy" is a feature not a detriment... But I must say that I did get myself the big box though. Haha

I mean, the rehydrating issue can be solved with varnishing the model once it's done, can't it?

12:21 damn that AP one looks amazing! Not just the colors, but how solid it looks compared to GW's.

Super smart painting the caps like that. Just for ease of finding the right paints in the future.

Spraying the caps is genius.

For a niche paint like this, painting the caps is genius!!!

Thanks for not wasting our time with "unboxing"... that alone is worth the upvote! Mine arived yesterday and I am looking forward to get some work done at the weekend.

I’ve been liking your videos more and more lately but this video is what sold it for me. Great demonstration!

Really nice review, great to hear about using reactivation as an advantage. And excellent idea to paint the caps!

Cheezits man, I really needed that. Dana Howl's video and this one from EBA had what I really wanted to know. Thanks for the effort and your time. Excellent advice as always yo..

Thank you very much! Finally a good comprehensive review with a nice plus on the rehydratation factor, I think it could be pretty easy and fast to do full model shading the same way we do with oil paints only using one of the darkest tones of this paints diluted with the plus of using water instead of white spirit to do the clean up; some people will say you are forced to varnish and seal the model but the same is neccesary with contrast paints, this ones peel off if arent properly sealed

I just got my speed paint starter set today, I’ve only messed with contrast medium from GW and it seems ok.

Awesome thanks! I'm starting with this new hobby and from your vids and a few others I think it's also a good starter pack for beginners.

Thanks for this video. Was very informative. I liked the ending regarding the boxes and paints you don’t want. What a helpful insight.

Used my dry pallette for PVA and discovered that if you leave a thin layer of PVA to dry and peel it off , then the dry paint peels of with it.

Speed Paint marine looks amazing! I mean, to a certain extent it's a little bit of personal preference... but that AP marine looks super and would fit in with my existing paint method. Can't wait to try my own AP speeders! Thanks for showing this stuff off!

As a glazing tool I really like the army painter speed paints. I really like to drybrush white or the like in between layers for my highlights then hit it with a new glaze. These have been nice to work with. As for the reactivating part I also like it; its actually kinda cool to be able to pull off part of your glaze. Its like a low key version of what people can do with oil. I found you get much better results when you do this within the first 20 minutes, it was hard to do this the next day.

I really liked the GW black templar contrast for my marines, it let me cover up mistakes on their armor with just a couple of coats and it didn't look thick like with just straight abbadon black being used. So i was really interested in trying the army painter ones eventually. Specifically the reds. I like to use red for my energy colors on my necrons, and lights and stuff on my marines. So having a red paint that can seep into crevices nicely sounds like it will be very useful for me.

Great video guys! Really good. I brought the box after watching ALL the videos on the topic and it took a lot to decide. Your video would have saved me so much time... But I'm glad I watched this anyway. Great review, very helpful examples and comparison.

This is the best video I’ve seen covering speed paints. Well done

That rehydration sounds less like a bug, and more like a feature!

Awesome to see Legion minis back on the channel and these AT-RT's look great! I really appreciate your take on these paints. I'm struggling with them a bit but I'll keep trying.

wow, painting the caps is a very smart idea. I will be doing this when i get my mega set. Thanks!

Another excellent video! The only practical SpeedPaint video that shows results sans endless verbose opinions. Well done.

Hello!! This is the first of your videos that I found. I like your presentation and energy! Really enjoyed the video and will hit sub!!

I honestly thought you are not gonna like AP SP specifically because of reactivating, but oh boy was I wrong. I'm using them and they are really cool.

Great review, I'd love to see you paint some tyranids using these speedpaints? If they save time on a horde army that would be incredibly impressive

4:55 "...... Uh" Please never change Jay XD I adore you.

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Good work as always guys ! I received my mega set TAP Speedpaints not so long ago, quite happy with them actually :) They indeed need a bit of practice and to learn how and when to use them, but it's a nice addition to our tools set :) Gotta say, they work pretty dope in these pesky cloths and robes my techpriest wear : black primer, white zenithal highlight, a generous coat of Blood Red aaaaaand done ! :D Also good tip : with a metalic priming/basecoat, some are REALLY shiny and make metalic paints from other lines look pale^^

Painting the bottle caps is genuinely genius! Please companies take note

Mate, i dont know how old you are, but you have the wisdom of a 90 year old. When u started talkin purchasing tactics you had me sold, i subscribed, u know ur ship!

The cap tip at the beginning is amazing! Thank you so much

Been working with these paints over the past week and 100% agree with your assessment. Well done on the video.

For marines, I use zenithal and then airbrush contrast. Not really what they are designed for, but it really takes advantage of the zenithal because they are so transparent. And they go on very smooth and even.

I love my speed paints. They do what they are intend to do but they work so well in ways I wasn't expecting (I have never used contrast paints). People told me speed paints and contrast paints won't work for Warhammer 40k models as they tend to pool on smooth flat/larger surfaces but I haven't had any issues painting my Blood Angels because Speedpaint works from an airbrush (2mm). I then roughly spot/line wash with the same paint but it is colour matched and doesn't change the colour/tone of what I have already painted. Other reasons I like them are: I have massive range of metallics because I can paint over Chainmail silver (Runefang) etc with the colour I want. They blend really well. I recently painted a jumpack exhaust stands for my inceptors and used 3 of them (zealot yellow, Blood red and gravelord grey (over Vallejo grey primer) and paint a band of colour (starting with lightest and the with a wet brush pull the paint up to graduate it.

Very neat to see you trying almost an oil wash-like technique based on the re-hydrating, and I was hoping people would come up with some cool ideas. I've not gotten to check them out yet, but it seemed to me that a lot of the "Oh no! Rehydrating!" was a bit overblown.

Great review. I've been really looking forward to getting my hands on the Speed Paint line. I also agree get a handful of paints to start. That marine looked great - keep 'em coming. The controversy isn't really there, especially if you know about it ahead of time. Just something to look at when you start using them.

So, Army Painter Speed Paint isn’t an energy drink that helps you to paint faster? Dang, back to Baja Blast for this guy!

Great, well structured and clear review. Hilarious opening 😁

The cap idea is genius. Now i wabt to paint all my caps

You keep calling them the wrong name. LOL Thanks for the review and hope you continue to enjoy the range!

Painting the caps is a brilliant idea...going to steal when my speed paints arrive. One other advantage of the reactivation is that you can "clean" off over paint. In some of the review videos, they tried to correct over paint by covering it up with more of the base white colour, which didn't work because it just mixed with the other paint. This is the normal approach with acrylics as errors can be covered once dry. With the reactivating colour, you could simply rewet it and clean it off. Or if your are painting the area with a darker colour it likely won't matter that some of the other colour gets mixed in.

From what I've watched and read I feel like your review and Brent's are the most objective ones. You pointed the good and the bad. Thanks for your quality content.

HOW DARE YOU PAINT LEGO! But the cap idea is brilliant and made up for it.

Seems like mixing and matching speed paint and contrast is the answer but really it depends on what you're painting as that'll drive the colour need and therefore influence which brand is best for you. Great review though. I'd expect GW to come back and reformulate Contrast soon. They do it regularly with the "normal" paints so watch this space.

Man I love the way you guys do videos 😂

Can't wait too se the video about women space marines!!!

Best cold intro ever

holy sh*t.....priming and painting the caps of the paint bottles is....genius omg Especially for these kinds of paints cuz the caps have recesses too.. @_@ this just blew my mind

Painting the lids is absolutely inspired! Stealing that idea for my set!

The cap idea is one of the best I have ever seen! Thank you!

Just started using them and I'm really impressed. It's a great result in next to no time at all. I'm experimenting with some glazing over the top to smooth things out and it works really nicely. No issues with rehydrating them, but it's definitely good to know it can be used to help age/weather the model.

I love all your vids but it is especially a treat when you break out the Star Wars Legion minis 👌

Hey, thank you for the video! I have purchasd the starter set to paint War of the Ring Can you give a hint which colors must to have from the mega box? Grim Black for instance

that troll at the start. I love it. fucking funny dude

Awesome video! Live the caps idea, I had thought of doing this but now seeing yours done I’ll definitely paint my caps. I’m a new painter and am recording my experience on this channel - Speedpaint is excellent for beginner painters with no art experience like me 😄

Awesome video. Keep up the good work.

Painting caps, genius!! Really good review, thank you. Subscribed!

The proud look of a man who has burped

Great video! Love the perspectives and the idea that bugs can also be features!

These may be worth investing in for sure. I currently paint Space wolves and i use Space wolves contrast as a basecoat over grey seer then glaze Russ grey Over it avoiding the shaded areas.

This was a great video. Thank ou for that. You said at 6:40 that you used pigments and the result looked reall good. can you tell which one ou used? Keep up the good work

I got the small pack this week, I've used them all on different models. As a new painter it's improved what I'm doing and I'd highly recommend the set to fellow new painters

Dude, you sold me on these paints. Other videos had me on the fence, especially with my partner just starting to get into painting...was looking for the easiest product for her to start as she's gotta build up the patience for fiddly bits. And honestly, your tests just got me excited to try them on my own pile of shame 😅

I love the miniatures, but what you have done with them is even better!

The painting the Cap idea is just fantastic. Great review.

I love this and your use of the lids was great but I wish this video was in your Star Wars legion playlist

I found the Leather color to be perfect to make a nice gold once put over a silver undercoat

Perfect video. Thank you!

Been loving Speedpaints. One technique I've been trying is blending black to white on parts of the model and then hit it with speed paint to create interesting gradient effects.

This is a great video! Subscribed.

Yo that cap plan is made dope genius thank you so much. If you were to suggest one line of speed paints to buy which would you suggest? That scale 75 looked really nice.

I use Kandaras Green contrast with a moot green drybrush for my Salamanders and works good for me. I do two coats of the contrast and prime it with rustoloem ultra matte Slate.

Painting the caps is such a cool idea

This is the best review i've seen of this paints so far.

Thanks for all the tests best reveiw of the AP speed paints and explaintion of their use on KZfaq! I wouldn't use them though as I don't high light my minis only got for their true color.

got the small pack and churned through 80 models quickly. Some are ok and some look better than my normal painting. Blazing through the POS (pile of shame) and may need to start breaking out the boardgames soon.

Oh, I like the painting the caps thing you did. I should do that myself!