Rumour is that before all the paint Vince has put on him, Larry the Ogre was actually an Elf 😁

Great review. I've switched to using almost just these guys. As a tank and armor modeler, I love that I can put these down and then not have to worry about clear-coating before I use enamel weathering products over them. They don't react with harsh weathering products at all!

Been waiting for this! I have been switching over to these slowly and they are SO GOOD

1:55 I believe the indentation is ment to better seal the dropper, so that the paint will have a longer shelf life. Vallejo bottles don't have them, but some of the empty ones you buy for decanting and personal mixes do.

Thanks so much for doing this review. I've been watching a number of reviews on this range, but was waiting to hear what you had to say as I value the amount of hours you put in with them. Sounds like these would be a great replacement for my Vallejo paints as I use them up :-)

I bought their standard gold color and I am blown away by it.

Thanks, Vince. I really appreciate your reviewing style.

Thank you for the very thorough review Vince! I'll definitely give these a try.

Larry the Ogre is the most loved testing model of Vince Venturella. But how can not not love this full figured curvy model? Also thank Vince for the review.

Thank you for this Vince. This has been a game changer for me. I've been a big fan of these paints since they appeared, but I've consistently struggled to get them to behave through my airbrush. I tried a 1:1 ratio up to a 3:1 ratio, and they always spattered, even at a high pressure. Obviously I wasn't thinning them enough. I've now found my sweetspot at 6:1 and they're perfect. I was about to give up using them through my airbrush entirely prior to seeing this vid. I've always been a big AK fan, and these are great to brush on, but I was petty disappointed with the results I was getting through my airbrush. Now that I can confidently apply them and get consistent results I'd reccomend them to anyone. They're like Tamiya paints but without all the esoteric guesswork that comes with them. Thanks again Vince. I'd been banging my head against a wall for a few weeks with these.

i bought into these paints in Feb and i LOVE THEM. go on without primer as advertised. great colors. nice and smooth coverage. would get the whole collections if I could find it still. Black priemer is matte and goes on great with a brush or airbrush

Good review, Vince. I am also impressed with AK products. Unfortunately i still have lots of Vallejo paints to go (17ml bottles, i just started) so when i am buying replacements and new ones, i would go for AK 😊

I got three of the yellows in an asset drop box last month and I was very surprised at how smoothly they applied compared to the vallejo yellows I have. Good to know this is mostly consistent in the range

I also bought a few of these to test out and fool around with a bit. I mean, they're just good paints. Cover good, easy to work with, nice and matte. AK really did a good job on this line.

Always enjoy the return of the bellow fellow.

Good to know, I was thinking abut picking these up but I have the afore mentioned equivalents.

What is with Spain that there are so many of these paint companies? Vallejo, Scale75, AK Interactive and Greenstuff World at least come from Spain.

Thanks Vince. Hopefully you gonna finish that ogre one day ;)

recently ordered 2 bottles of ultra matte direct from Ak and they sent me a pot of 3rd gen Grimy Grey in free with the varnishes. It was a really good paint, really smooth flow, kept wet well, didnt clog up and get thick on me. Coverage was excellent, the colour Grimy Grey is somewhere between say Ushabti Bone and White, a very light bone colour. It was a lot more smooth and fluid with way better coverage than any paint from vallejo or citadel Ive tried in that sort of colour. Only tried that 1 bottle but next time I need some paints Im gonna be grabbing these rather than reaching for the vallejo as I usually would.

I bought the NMM gold set a few weeks back and just got round to using it last night. Although the NMM I attempted was terrible, I was amazed by the quality of the paints. The pigment richness was amazing. Even nicely watered down it went on and covered well even in lighter colours. Was really nice to use and went on very easily. Love the bottle design as well. I was suitable impressed, I might even prefer them to Vallejo!

larry is one colourful dude :). thanks for the review.

Burnt Red is my fav. love it for red demon skin! 3rd gen Brass is real good too

Great to see test Ogre back again, i was beginning to worry he'd been thrown in a maw pot

Reporting back. I bought all 5 fluorescent paints and was able to airbrush the yellow one without issue. Cleaning the airbrush was also easy enough. I would say that it's harder to clean the airbrush after priming and easier with regular colors. Also one thing that can help is that most of the time you mix the fluorescents with regular paint/ink to still get the pop, but at the same time lessen the neon like property of the fluorescents (kind of getting the best of both worlds).

Yay! Larry's back!

I tested them now too and I started to migrate to them, currently I use Vallejo, Army Painter and Citadel. In the future I likely will go with AK 3rd Gen and Citadel only (Citadel for their Contrast Paints only). I think AK is best in class today. Superior for Airbrush AND brush painting. Pigmentation is better, flow is better and they maintain it over a longer period. Also less shaking needed but I use a Four E'S shaker anyway :) oh and in the 3Gen the German Dunkelgelb variations were corrected to the real colors ...

Useful as always!

I was very tempted but i recently got 3 full ranges, so i think I'll hold off for now. That being said, I am happy with the 3 mediums I tried from this range.

My experience with these paints is that they cover very well so they feel like citadel base paints but in a dropper bottle. They do better with thinning than citadel though imo.

Was literally just looking at these and ammo by mig. Apparently these guys are very good for effects and weathering paint. Mig used to own a part of the company as I understand t but had a falling out and made his own. Has a line of washable acrylics that have some interesting efdects. Either way thanks for this. I'm already getting their matte varnish

The top is very well thought out. Better grip when that top on tight. Happy to see anything that saves my pack teeth more cash for models lol

Have you ever thought of doing a product review for Liquitex Acrylic Gouache? Marco from NJM used these for a sketch-style tutorial on a Fyreslayer using the CMY system. I'd be interested to know what you think of these paints. As always, thanks for a great video!

Great review,love them too,work brush & airbrush with Vallejo model,Citadel,AK 3gen.. Do you try Garage Kits Colors,Badger FreakFlex paints and Kimera colors,nice to see some tests from them !👍❤😊

Thank you Vince, I live in Spain and in here this colors are dirty cheap, also free shipping, but I was concerned about the quality: now I have no doubt!

Bold move literally making a copy of Deck Tan. One of my absolute favourite paint from VMC

Always great having a video starring Larry! How would you compare these colors to Scale 75?

Thanks, Vince you just saved me money.

Thanks Vince!

Nice, fair..I like my pro acryl..but will try some

I hear a lot of great things from a Vallejo Pale Sand, however the store I went to today never had it. They did have a AK Interactive 3rd gen paint with the same name lol. So I picked it up. Iv never used AK before ! Not sure if they are the same color.

I tested all 5 fluorescent paints. The yellow is a great color, a bit on the greenish side (not as warm as most yellows), great for mixing with other colors to make them pop and somehow has very decent coverage, which really surprised me. The orange is just an insane color, would never use on its own, not even when painting actual neon lights, so a little too bright, but nothing a little mixing doesn't fix (I did and that worked fine), not the greatest coverage, would have thought it would cover better than yellow, but apparently not. The green is very poppy as well, it looks a little like livery green from Vallejo game color, but brighter, interesting color for making a green feel unnatural (poison, warp stone, glowing eyes of an unnatural creature). The magenta comes closer to an actual color and could almost be used on its own, very interesting hue, definitely something Vince would like, would be great for highlighting slaaneshy pink stuff. And then there is the blue, which is totally not a fluorescent paint at all (which kinda makes sense, but hoped for a little more nonetheless), it looks like a lighter version of Vallejo blue ink, so there doesn't seem to be any white in it (so maybe good for glazing over a zenithal highlight?) and in that way a true blue color, pretty disappointing, so please be warned about that one. If anyone has any questions about these 5 paints, let me know. EDIT: also like I mentioned in my previous comment, they do airbrush much better than I thought, which is handy if you are highlighting a larger model with these paints.

I like what I see of these paints just wondering if they make 3rd generation in gloss I build mostly cars trucks motor cycles also to prime or not prime

I wonder if Pro Acryl edges this out for being in bigger bottles (22 instead of 17) since they're similar paints (plus the free mixing ball in pro acryl bottles). I wonder which is more pigmented in the budget pigment range that isn't Scale 75?

Hi Vince, now that you had time to experiment more with this line I would like to know what your favorite paints are. I am especially interested in purple tones (your specialty), because that is what my paint collection is missing the most.

If you absolutely had to rank these against traditional mini paints like Scale75f&g and Pro Acryl how would they stack up? These are much easier to get than either of those and I love all the ones I've tried - except their clears (red and smoke at least) are super glossy which I don't like. I think they don't have a real equivalent to the Pro Acryl transparents, so that's something. My impression is that overall pro acry/ak 3rd is the way to go for typical mini paints, warcolour/scalecolor for gels, and VMC for metals?

Just ordered red, blue, yellow, off-white, and gold to try. I want to see if I have chalky issues with the white, and I haven't found any golds that I really like

hello again. have you tried the yellow label range of "intense" paints, I think there's 11 of them from the 3rd generation set. And i read that the AK paints hold up well to enamel thinners; would enamel thinner eat up unvarnished vallejo model paint? thanks for replying

Wonder if these paints would still be a recommend from Vince? Gonna go to my hobby store the day after tomorrow and pick some up, they’re a bit cheaper than the other brands there, including Vallejo.

Lol i was just thinking about buying these, i hope they're good.

I have to say I love them. Got them a few months ago, seemingly right after they came out. The ice and pale yellow are amongst the best yellows I've seen (though I also don't have seen many) and the best part is, that they are stocked at one of the few sources around here, where I can get colors other than citadel and vallejo.

Hi Vince, another great video. I've always had issues with acrylic paints not keeping their vibrancy when they dry. From what I hear these keep their vibrancy when they dry unlike other brands of acrylic paint. Is that your experience with these paints?

Excellent video, Vince, as usual. May you please share what settings did you use when airbrushing? I get continuous clogging. What thinner? What nozzle diameter? What pressure? Thank you very much and keep up the good work!

Hi Vince. What is your opinion on the blue range ? I've tested 5-6 of them (imperial blue, ultramarine blue and deep blue among them) and the coverage is very bad over a black primer with a brush. The consistency of the blue paints seems like a gel. Perhaps I got a bad batch. The rest of them however, reds, greens, and some pale blues are really good. Thank you for doing this review.

Thanks for this video, just what I was looking for, I was curious to have an opinion from someone in the fantasy/Sci-Fi to balance those from the military modelers. Also I wanted to have more informations on how they glaze and how they mix with other range like Vallejo. How would you compare the metallics to the Vallejo Metal Color? I have some VMC and like you I think they are the best water based metallic so far.

Vince, thanks for the review; I just ordered the Night Creatures Flesh set to paint the face on my Abaddon model. Question: if you were forced to choose one line of paints to take into a bunker that you might never leave, which brand would you choose? Which brand would you say has the most consistently high quality of Acrylic paints? Edit* I bought the Pro-Acryl line, thinking it would be the only paint I need but I've found glazing to be horrible with it. I've tried glaze medium and such but no matter what I use, it goes all gritty and nasty as soon I thin the paint beyond a roughly 1:1 mix of paint and thinning medium, whether its water or dedicated mediums. I'm not sure why it's doing this but I'm not glazing with it any more because of this issue.

Hey Vince, any chance you'd review the Abteilung502 range of oil paints from AK Interactive? They're apparently made specifically for models, and they seem a lot cheaper than high quality artist oils.

Is there a possibility that you could do a review of foundry paints and their system?

Hi Vince, what are using for a thinner for airbrushing the AK paints? I have read feedback from others that they can't seem to get the right thinner to make them spray well.

Great review. Would it be fair to say that if one does not have a particular color and options are between Vallejo and AK: AK is the way to go?

As you add to your collection, would you recommend SWITCHING from Vallejo to these? Say I needed a new red... Vallejo or AK? That is not replacing Vallejo, but just buying these moving forward?

Thanks for the review Vince? been curious about those since they've announced it but couldn't get my hands on these with the Covid situation... Have you tried the Ink/Metallic/Intense part of the line?

Dear Vince, I'm currently trying "all" the paint ranges a bit, I never tryed before and I really enjoyed P3 Paints. They feel and behave somewhat different from my Citadel, Scale, Vallejo etc paints and I had really fun, painting some fun little miniatures with a small selection of like 20 paints of them. I guess, you have also used them before, but I didn't found a video of yours about them, so I'd ask you for your opinion on them. :)

Thanks Vince! How do their metallics compare to the top-of-the-line Vallejo Metal Colors?

Coming back to this vid, I just wanted to ask about your opinion on the yellow colours in this range? I know they are always a difficult paint, but interested if the formulation is better than most here. Many thanks!

i realized with vallejo after leaving a few paint drops/blobs on a dinner plate that it reflects light . the scale75 and the Ak 2nd gen paints dried flat matt as flat as can be.

Hi Vince, I was wondering if you could say how closely AK colors mirror their VMC counter parts. I'm a long time user of VMC but have gotten a taste for more matte paints recently and was curious if say dark sea blue from VMC and dark sea blue from AK are close enough to say you can just replace one wit hthe other? Pro Acryl has become my new love and was thinking of replacing my VMC as they run out with AK to have a more consistent finish to my paints. Thank you for your time

Vince, what thinner do you use when airbrushing these? Do you use the original AK thinner they recommend for these, or do you go for the cheaper Vallejo (or even water)? Do you also add Vallejo Flow Improver? If so, how much? I'm just asking because many people said they had issues with tip-dry whenever they airbrushed these AK 3rd gen colors. Thank you kindly.

It sounds like you like AK's fluorescents about as much as the Warcolours. For me Ak interactive paints are easier to come by, than Warcolours paints (same price per pot, but extra shipping and longer delivery time). Also, I would like to airbrush them. On the other hand, intensity is high on my list. Would you recommend buying these over the Warcolours? Ps I know I asked a similar question on another vid, it's just hard to figure this one out and hope answering these questions is not too much of a bother.

I've heavily bought into Warcolours and painting mostly with feathering, glazing, undershading and love them (all thanks to you and your reviews and videos!). I need a heavy opacity paint to pair with them - would you go with AK 3rd gen or ProAcryl?

Would you still choose vallejo? Or Ak all the way since their colors are so similar

How do you thin this range of color in the air brush? I’m having spotty issue coming out of the airbrush that other paint brand does not give me thanks

Do these have the same paint separation problem as Vallejo?

2:35 you mentioned high pigmentation. Would you say similar or higher than Vallejo model color?

Hey Vince! I'm wondering, have you ever had any trouble with these having poor coverage? I'm running into an issue where diluting them to the point of smooth flow in the airbrush they have extremely poor coverage and go on very wet with a real risk of spidering out of control every time. However if I thin them less they just sputter alot and have poor flow with negligible gain in coverage. Could this be helped by less pressure? I'm generally running at roughly ~25ish psi which works perfectly fine for just about anything else. In addition to this, I used some on a model (primed with vallejo primer) and when I got to enamels and cleaning paint peeled off in random spots, though strangely it wasn't even spots that had the most aggressive cleaning and was only a few small areas. Is this a paint issue or a primer issue or something else entirely? I really want to like these paints, they have a good variety and are relatively easy for me to get, just so far I've had alot of trouble and I'm not really sure what I'm doing wrong at this point. Thanks!

Hey Vince, did you get the chance to test the metalic ones? anyway thanks for the review

Hey Vince. How exactly did you get them to a glaze? I have been trying many things and they always come out as thick goo

How would you rate their "mattness"? Very matt (e.g. Kimera/Scale75/Pro Acryl), matt (e.g. Vallejo model color) or slightly satin (e.g. Vallejo game color/Citadel)?

How do these compare to monument pro acrylic? Which do you prefer?

What about the metalics? I've seen some pictures and it really looks chunky with almost visible pigment flakes.

QUESTION : do you have a video on the 3rd gen varnishes? Or how about this. What semi-gloss would you recommend?

I assumed these were a replacement for their scale modeling airbrush acrylics (“3rd gen”) but I guess they’re a different line altogether. So they have their “acrylics” (model air equiv) and “acrylics 3rd gen” (model color equiv). Confusing. Anyone who wants to try them should go direct to their EU store. Their USA retailer markup is insane and is probably why they have a reputation for being overpriced. Every Black Friday they give 25% off storewide. These guys can be had for $2 per bottle on sale, or about 2.70 normal price, no tax and free shipping on a large enough order. I placed an irresponsibly large order last year abs will probably again this year to try these out.

what did you think about mix it with other water base acrylic or acrylic ink Vince?

how about the claim that they do about no need of agitator ball?

What are you thinning the AK paint with? Just flow improver?

How about metallics? Stick to VMC?

Do you have any idea about the metallics from the range?

I wonder if Vallejo have hit back at their copying of paint names?

I've been using them for the last month and a half. I like them, but i don't like their 'washes'. I used their flesh wash, and it was extremely glossy. I know that you kind of what that, as it works with a reduced surface tension feature in mind, but meh. I think its just me.

What are your thoughts on their metallic range?

Do you think these are better than proacryl overall?

Would you rather recommend AK or Pro Acryl?

They are vastly superior to vallejo, more robust, better medium, better model, thins better and honestly a joy to work with.

Here’s a painting style challenge: painting non-fluorescent fluorescents. For the sake of lightfastness.

Still think we need a stripping video. Larry/Bob the Bullbelly got to be heavy with all them coats of acrylic. As always.....informative. oh, no imaginary people around this video

hey i know vallejo has huge consistency issues with their colors. for example olive green today will be a different hue in another bottle from another batch 6 months down the road. Ive personally experienced this as have other from whaat i read on the internet like this example here reddit.com/r/minipainting/comments/9rujdi/can_i_have_some_goddamn_consistency_vallejo/ How are the AK Interactive 3rd gen paints?

The answer is always 42.

Do you find the colors need water added them or are they good out of the bottle?