Good Job Marco. I am a 58 year old japanese businessman. I do not have much time, but I always bought some packages and painted them here and there. Your channel is by far the best one I ever saw, you are providing us with real treasures of informations. Not just in this video but in general. Thank you very much and the work you put into this videos is highly appreciated.

I'll say it again, Marco has the best miniature painting channel on KZfaq. Great info. Thanks for sharing!!

Scale should be very happy with you. These paints have been out for a while but have received very, very few reviews. They’re a very special product, I like it a lot (I went for the full set in their KS), and I think it deserves to be better known.

One of the things I like about these is that because they are less liquid you can, if you want, mix them unsmoothly, so there's some local variation to the colour. How I found out about them was through Asset Drop-they sent me three greens to try and suggested that I paint some moss, and I found that by mixing nearby colours very lazily I could get some nice organic looking effects with no real effort. So *that* ended up in me spending some money… ;).

Great review, I will be picking some of these up. I really like the fact these won’t turn to washes overnight in your wetpallet.

I am using these paints to do a fantasy army and I am loving them. Smooth, great coverage, great blending....and you use so little from the tubes. I am a fan.

I came here looking for clear and precise info on this product and was not disappointed. Big thumbs up for your work Marco, you're an amazing source of inspiration and information!

I actually bought traditional acrylic guache because of your videos. It was very fun to paint with different types of paint. Experimenting with different mediums is half the fun.

These have become my favorite final detail acylics they work well with loaded brush technique for me

When you are just going to sleep but you can't miss a video about a superyoutuber trying scalecolor

Thank you so much Marco. I bought the basic colors set a few months ago to test them, and I’m totally in love with them. But it’s very useful to have a great test, challenging them with other products, and a sincerely opinion by a professional like you. Grazie veramente

Thanks mate, I was watering them down waaay too much; this weekend I'll try again working with a thicker consistency. [thumbs up] great vid as always

Great review! I'm glad you compared them also to the artist acrylics as well as normal hobby paints. I wanted to buy some better paints as I'm fed up with transparency and mixing issues of the more popular brands and was leaning towards Kimera but I have a project with a lot of skin coming up so I think I'm going to try these instead as it means less mixing=more consistency.

Really great review Marco... always a pleasure.

I appreciate your honest review. I love these paints! I have the basic set from the kickstarter, it's nice to see they put the pigment on the tube now, originally they didn't have this info. It was only after pressure from the community that they finally provided it.

I heard their quality varies strongly from color to color. For now I have a few and am happy with them.

Nice work Marco...I agree with you.knowing pigments helps...and leads the way towards paint by numbers approach all too frequent..

Just put mine to use and happened to see this video. These are great paints but the one flaw, unless its changed, is that they dont sell individual colors which ruins them in the long run as I wont want to replace the white and black over and over with the basic set as I will still end up with a lot of extras

Hi Marco, wanted to say thanks for this review! Initially, when this line first came out, I had to do tests myself. I tested the consistency and the lasting power inside the wet palette (since my main issue was the paint getting "soggy" when leaving it inside overnight), however, I only bought a greyscale to test it out. I was concerned and skeptical that it was only for the black and white pigments, but I'm glad to see that it's not an issue with other colors as well! I'm now convinced that I should get the rest of the colors. Paint companies should really sponsor you their paint lines to review because you covered a lot of key points that a lot of other reviewers don't cover like how it lasts overnight in a wet palette.

All questions answered! Thank you!

I picked these paints up after recommendation from a friend and watching this video. Great review

Your test on the black-primed card gives me a feeling the light paints are formulated with some kind of opacifier, maybe white PW 22, which is more transparent than PW6.

Scale 75 does fantastic figures too

I'm ordering a few of these sets this week. I've never seen acrylics that act like oils so much.

Just got my Kimera set and Alfonso Giraldes is one of the painters credited with the original idea of the set. That's bonus points for his Scale 75 product, then :)

thank you marco for this review, i'm honestly considering getting this line a try! even if i'm far from a mediocre painter myself :)

Marco, your approach to the mixing and practical appreciation of paint and paint media is the best I've ever known. Like your Kimera review I'm left with a strong sense that I deserve to be able to use these paints for the sheer joy of having great tools to work with. That said, my hobby dollar is stretched all over and everything, models, games (kickstarter addiction), tools, paints has to be squeezed through a cost-benefit battle. To bring your paint reviews into absolute focus, and based on your impartiality born of just wanting the best stuff for your brushes and your models whoever makes it.. If like all of us here you already had a good range of our hobbies paints already, mine for example is pretty normal and happens to be 95% vallejo game colour, bits of GW and army painter mostly washes and Daler-Rowney inks, and you could stretch to around £100 maximum to add to it for now - what would your spend be? What would pass your rigorously determined test of paint qualities and bring the best beautiful new possibilities? I appreciate that Kimera and Scalecolour artist have similarities but also differences, but if you can't throw down the cash for a full set of both and live in that painting heaven, then what would you, Marco buy? I really must know! ;0) Looking at scalecolour boxes I thought the basic box but then though that's a nice red, I'd still need to buy a loose tube of magenta at least to be able to mix better colours, so long as the primary blue and yellow meet the same foundation pigment test? That would leave me just enough to stretch for a full set of Kimera and stay under the abstract but very real budget. But then more and more my colour contrast (hue) is coming from glazing, especially into the shadows, would it be better to swap in some heavy artist acrylics (I currently only have a few that were left when the wife stopped painting landscapes) for this so I'm not fighting the wonderful pigment densities into transparency for this? (and risking them break) Or are these great paints still fundamentally workable for that?? I know I've plucked a budget out of the air but if you'd consider the question and then give us your strong sense of the practicality it would really help those of us selecting without ever having been able to see these paints in the flesh. Your vids of course discuss with your measured depth of knowledge and experience and show the qualities there on the palette with accustomed camera quality, but my head still aches and once spent I've only one shot for a while. Appreciate it Marco, you are simply the best I've met at this stuff and my work benefits hugely from your joy, understanding and sheer ability to convey it simply and clearly. Maybe it's because we share a sci background, chemistry in my case. My thanks m8

Marco, love the channel, but still waiting to see how you paint black!!

Dammit!!! Now I want more colors! :)

This is is such an amazing channel, Thank you for the great content! Theese colors are a bit intimidating for me (i've painted for about a year now). But I've decided to order them anyways, from watching this video I feel like they could be a very valuable tool as a learning experience. As a way of understanding color and contrasts, this seems like a great tool . Now I just gotta buy some practice models to ruin while I try to get the consistency right :)

they have such a nice packagings.

Would have been great actually seeing you thinning and applying the paint properly on an actual model. Thanks for the review no less! :)

I'm like you: if the packaging is gorgeous I WILL get interested. It usually also tells about the brand's selfrespect. I've been looking into getting back into modeling and I've become interested in painting minis and figures. So far on my to get list are these Scalecolors, Kimera paints, inks (forget the name) and oils... Most likely not Abteilung even if they're specialized for modeling. Though an airbrush does intrigue me too.

I just recently switched to the scale75 fantasy and game colors and i can not say enough great things about them.

thanks for telling us about these! i went all-in recently and got the whole set just like you, then we had so much rain my hobby area flooded and i couldn't paint for 3 weeks. when i opened my wet palette again, these paints were still perfectly usable and none of my mixes had separated or dried - amazing paints!

damn Marco, now i gotta buy more paints!

Sempre top anche nei consigli pratici e tecnici 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😉😉

Great work as usual Marco. Damn you, more of my pension disappears!!! keep safe my friend.

Very interesting and educational content, thank you Marco!

I'm an intermediate painter that picked up a set from the kickstarter, I've tried them a few times but can't get them to work for me. They don't thin well for me. Further instruction on how to correctly use them would be appreciated

I backed these on kickstarter when I was *just* getting into painting and still haven't gotten the hang of using them.

So I have this whole set and they are great, I was ordering some stuff from AK Interactive’s site over in pain and I saw they have Abteilung 502 Artist Dense Acrylic paints which seem to be a direct competitor and they are way cheaper and now I'm super curious to try them.If you ever get some you should do a review of them.

Thanks for these reviews! Have you ever tried Warcolours?

Hey Marco have you considered selling your own merch?

I think it's not call consistency but it's viscosity.

Do these contain opacifiers / fillers? or is it purely the pigments listed like Kimera? As opacifiers might explain the less pigment density and they also market it as being with good coverage

I want that set, but I just bought the fantasy set from scale 75

Hey, Marco, great video as usual. Have you considered doing a tutorial on these? I got a set to try them out and I have to say I'm struggling to get them to work.

(Also, I think your link in the description points to Vallejo glaze medium, even though it says Liquitex.)

The term "scale color" (as opposed to the brand name) use to mean the changes in color due to the scale size. Painting a 1/700 scale model ship in US Navy "Haze Grey" is a different shade than painting the exact same ship but in a different scale. The same Haze Grey appears much darker on a 1/700 scale ship than it does on a 1/350 scale ship. It has something to do with the amount of surface area and the light that reflects off of varying sized models. I don't know enough about figure painting so I'll ask..."Is it the same for miniature figures ? Should colors be lightened to take into effect scale size" ?

Hi Marco, did you see the "Color Theory Banshee" set made in cooperation with Alfonso Giraldez specifically for mixing colors using Scalecolor Artist and Inktensity? It looks like a very good all-in-one kit for someone who might not want to buy the entire range, yet who is also not satisfied with only the basic box, like myself. And I think it complements Kimera very nicely for a similar price.

What is your opinion between scale and kimera? Do you think it's worth to have those two brands, for example for primary, secondary colors?

Thank you for your review! I think I will buy the basic color set to do my homework as you call them. 😏 But one question: What colors of this artistic range would you recommend for CYM painting? Magenta of course, but also the primary blue and yellow? Or different one? 🤔

I have purchased these but I am still waiting on them as the Covid has stopped shipping to my country from Spain. :(

Ormai metto mi piace prima ancora di guardarli i tuoi video :'D

Awesome video as usual. Would you suggest the scale artists primary blue as a good option for a primary cyan or is there another colour you would choose?

That was super helpful thank you Maestro Frisonji! Also, I’ve got myself Kimera Kolors and are glad they’re higher saturated.. are they still the highest pigment rate colors available?! Greetings from Germany 🙌🏼🌞❤️🐝💨💨

so having used them for so long, which do you find yourself using more often; Kimera or Scalecolor?

Cool.

hello maestro

Great review but could you tell me what the difference is between these paints and regular artist acrylics. Is there something that makes these paints more appropriate for miniture painting then say golden or any other type of artist grade acrylics. Keep up the good work

Hey Marco. My fellow aircraft mechanic at work and I have a bet going on. He's from Italy and I asked him to guess what part of Italy your accent might be from. Are you a northern or southern Italian?

Another nice video. If you have to choose only one now with the years of practice, would you go for Kimera or scale artists? (I've understood that the paint doesn't make the artist, but I just have some ready mixed paints for now).

Hey mate, great review and you answered a bunch of questions I had regarding these paints. Question for you if I may - all mini painters I know around here primarily use watercolour brushes, myself included. Given these are genuine acrylics as opposed to "typical" miniature paint, do you think brushes more suited to gouache may be advisable? What did you use and did you need to adjust your brushes/technique?

Marco have you used their regular acrylic paints that come in dropper bottles? What do you think?

Great review, I really should get these paints for my collection! And am I subbed to you yet? I've seen to that now!

@MarcoFrisoniNJM Nice video Marco! Can you tell how the paints behave compared to oils for wet blending? Obviously they will dry faster than oils but they seem like a good alternative, like an in-between.

Great video. Did you notice any solvent smell when using these scale artist paints? I’ve seen a couple people mention it and I’ve never noticed any with any of my previous hobby paint.

Do you prefer Khimera or these paints? Just curious!

Marco please, contact scale75 or something, you gotta at-least get a little of the thousands people will be spending after this video ;).

Another great review, thanks a lot for that! I do have a question though. The paint looks way too thick to apply smoothly to a mini. How much do you have to thin it to get a nice smooth coat? Or does it spread out very smoothly on a small area like a small horn on a mini?

Which would you recommend between these and the Kimera Kolors? I'm trying to start using a limited palette and more mixing. Love your videos, thank you for sharing!

Good and thorough review. I bought the Basic colours, but would like to expand into CYMK paint mixing and scetch style painting. I have found the magenta in the line, but there seems to be no cyan other than "Cobalt Blue" - the pigment used is PB15:1 - Phtalocyanine Blue RS - Would that by Cyan? Thanks in advance.

thnx great vid ..:)

Thanks for this Marco! by any chance would you recommend other heavy body acrylics aside from the scale75 artist range, Jo Sonjas or Maimeri to paint miniatures? tbh it's just to save more money. I recently bought Jo Sonja paints and its definitely cheaper than the hobby paints and was wondering what other heavy body acrylics are viable for miniature painting.

Thanks for the review. I'm torn by this kind of paints. I'm very experienced army painter and can whip up a big uniform army really quick using basic methods of airbrushing, GW washes and edge highlights. But I'm struggling to reach the next level. I could get this set, use it once or twice on practicing on some not so important miniature and then once I start painting yet another army I'd slip back to my comfort zone of GW paints and washes since the recipes are easy to reproduce and you get good speed/quality -ratio on progress. So (there is a question here) Marco (and other painters here on the comments as well) what are your opinions how to break this spell? Should I order the full range of these paints and throw away my GW collection or are these more suited for busts and Golden Demon "one miniature, four months" -style of painting. Cheers!

@Marco Having the Kimera kolor set which from the Scale range would complement better any missing colors from the Kimera set?

hey marco. Random question - Do you have blue light filter glasses on? It kinda looks like it and I was wondering if that affects your color mixing?

Said very humbly, and from my supremely limited experience: I don't think I quite agree with your statement about *light* colors having weaker coverage on acrylics. I believe it's *saturated* colors which tend to be transparent - even colors like Phtalo Blue, Dioxazine Violet tend to be quite trasparent on their own, not just poor Hansa Yellow. The only colors that cover very well (outside expensive stuff like cadmiums, that is unlikely to be employed unless you're on high-end colors) are desaturated colors -- ochres, blacks (carbon or Mars), Green Oxide (often a component of olive greens) and, of course, Titanium white, which is bloodly everywhere. As i recall, when I was just getting started, I was puzzled by how my dark purple covered worse than light purple, and thought it was because the purple was a low quality brand - whereas it probably just meant the lighter purple had PW6 diluting the PV23 -- and I thought a super cheap line of chinese paints I found locally was great because their yellow ochre covered decently despite being a yellow, whereas it's one of the strongest colors. Comunque, a suo tempo, avevo iniziato a smanettare coi Maimeri, mi trovavo bene, da niubbo non sapevo se era perché eran buoni o perché ero un incompetente che non sapeva usare i colori da artista serio. Ti avevo chiesto, mi avevi detto che eran buoni, li ho usati con meno paura, ed è stato uno dei consigli più buoni che abbia mai ricevuto. Con il fatto che sono in gel, è molto più facile diluirli correttamente senza fare il disastro che faccio coi Vallejo, con le informazioni su pigmenti e trasparenza sul tubo ho imparato un mucchio sui colori, ed ho sempre un'idea chiara con che colori fare basi o glaze... ed anche i metallici sono buoni. Poi, rispetto ai colori da miniature, smanettando come un bastardo ho trovato anche prezzi buoni: a 3 euro per un tubo da 70ml, che non finirò mai neanche se lo "spreco" sul terreno. Ed ho i colori Acrylic, quelli (relativamente) economici... i Polycolor o i Brera probabilmente saranno tutto un'altro cliente. Grazie mille ancora Marco, sembra un cazzo ma m'hai proprio dato una mano a far meglio quella volta.

What about their finish? Are they as matt as the scale color range? I love those particularly because of this.

Hey man, your videos inspired me and I spent way too much as my first dive into miniatures, but I'm still lacking inks. I was shopping around and I found a Vallejo set (to which I'd have to add a Liquitex white), System3 and FW sets at the same price. Is there any one of these you'd recommend over the others? Furthermore System3 and FW are from the same company, yet I can't find any differences between them from their descriptions, so I'm stuck deciding between the two (or a Vallejo ink set + Liquitex white). Many thanks!

What do you think if Game color. I found in dime yellow or Orange very poor coverage. Do you think os because specific colors ir It is something that happen to all the Game color brand?

hello! i just saw this video, im wondering which colors make the perfect picks for the cyan magenta and yellow colors? would you recommend the primary yellow, magenta, and primary blue? or is the turquoise blue more of a cyan in this range? I really want to try out the CMYK color palette with this paint range, im just not sure which paints are the right choice...thank you!

Problem is the Kimeras are hardly in stock anywhere as far as I can tell.

so...in your feel ...whats better SC Artist or Kimera ?

Marco, what I am seeing is dropper bottles, is this different?

What will you be using them for more specifically? Apart from glazing and consistent mixing I seem to have missed the point

Do you recommend getting this line if I want to start painting more busts and display pieces? I currently have a load of army painter paints, but I am not that happy with their coverage.

Marco sir. Have you tried the scalecolor Floww oil paints?

Would you say these paints are similar to acrylic gouache?

Oh boy... here we go again.... *looks at wallet*

sorry for the question, but where did you get these little metal mixing helpers at 11:35?

hey Marco, i wonder, where did you find the file to print your gw pot holder ? i need one. just redid my knees with nuln oil one hour ago :'(

Marco, where do you get those metalic dishes to mix the paint?

Marco, great video again ! How would you deal with painting armies that have a peculiar scheme with these paints ? I see it would be hard to mix paints and get always the same exact color time after time (like painting a medium to large force of space marines with a singular color like sons of Horus for example). Thanks !

Hi Marco, I'm just getting into using these, but primarily mixing colours - I have the primaries, black, white, flesh, burnt umber, off white - and have just added magenta - do you know which of their artist range is the closest to a pure cyan?

Are these not just the same thing as Windsor and Newton water mixable oils?

I guess I understand that they fill a "blend your own colors" role similar to Kimera, but it seems weird to me that Scale75 would compete against its own Scalecolor line. Is the idea that this line is for more experienced painters, or is there a reason for an experienced painter to still use scalecolor over this line? As it is, Scalecolor is already a bit of an expert-level paint it seems.

Can I ask where there paints are available from ?

I had promised myself to finally stop buying paints... and now you there u are fueling my addiction again!!!!!! shame on u! ;) (anyway it's like with kimera: I am a shallow consumer and what really convinced me was the pretty box)