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Metals and neutral colors black: vallejo- black 70.950 white: pro acryl- bold titanium white ivory: vallejo- pale sand dark grey: scale 75- petroleum grey grey: pro acryl- bright neutral grey silver: vallejo- duralumin or dark aluminum copper: vallejo- metal color copper gold: scale 75- dwarven gold bronze: pro acryl- matt cexwish dark bronze brass: citadel- runelord brass Contrast paints bone: citadel- skeleton horde light skin: citadel- guilliman flesh dark skin: citadel- cygor brown dead skin: citadel- magos purple green skin: citadel- plaguebearer flesh leather: citadel- snakebite leather reddish fur: citadel- gore-grunta fur transparent blue: citadel- talassar blue transparent red: citadel- flesh tearers red transparent yellow: citadel- bad moon yellow shading orange: citadel- gryph-hound orange black: citadel- black templar or black legion green glow: citadel- tesseract glow Basic colors dark red: pro acryl- burnt red red: pro acryl- bold pyrrole red pink: vallejo game color- squid pink plum: vallejo game color- warlord purple purple: pro acryl- vince venturella royal purple light purple: pro acryl- purple magenta: pro acryl- magenta dark blue: scale 75- navy blue blue: pro acryl- blue light blue: vallejo- deep sky blue jade: pro acryl- jade turquoize: vallejo- blue green 70.808 dark green: scale 75- boreal green green: scale 75- irati green puke green: pro acryl- vince venturella dark yellow green bright green: pro acryl- bright yellow green yellow: pro acryl- golden yellow orange: golden (brand)- pyrrole orange brown: pro acryl- ninjon warm brown (lots of other good options out there, allegedly) Washes black wash: citadel- nuln oil brown wash: citadel- agrax earthshade skin/gold wash: citadel- reikland fleshshade purple wash: citadel- druchii violet Wildcards (brad wanted to get to 50) red manipulation: pro acryl- mahogany (mess around with burnt red) faded purple: pro acryl- faded plum dark jade: pro acryl- vince venturella dark jade hot pink (don't do it): AK interactive- fluorescent magenta rust/aged bronze: scale 75- decayed metal

They bamboozled all of us with the community post

My approval is immeasurable and my Wednesday is saved. In all seriousness hope the editer didn’t have to push to hard.

I honestly have to say Berilio's editing makes podcasts so much better.

Yellow: Imperial Fists contrast paint over very light pink. It doesn't behaves like a contrast paint at all, doesn't pools, is highly pigmented. Its a total game changer.

Is Berilio okay? Blink 3 times if you were forced to overwork

Hej guys, so happy to hear that you enjoy our Signature Series Dark Bronze! 😁 Together with Ben and Jason from MH we have been developing our Signature Sets for around 1 1/2 years in total until we found the perfect Bronze paibt that no one else offered and is an ideal base for a number of Metals (and stays fresh until the end). Happy having found your Channel, keep up the great work! Liked + Subscribed! 😊

Vallejo German Grey. It's "light black." It's amazing. Nearest thing I've seen is Corvus Black from GW. Basically German Grey + Nuln Oil gets you "black, but with shadows." I can't explain it, just buy it.

Magenta is different because it's a combination of high energy light (reds) and low energy lights (blue) but almost devoid of any medium wave lengths colors (green). It's rarer in nature (hence why it's not in a rainbow) but our brains can perceive it. It makes it "feel" distinctive from pink (which is desaturated red). I believe this man made element to Magenta makes it feel appropriate in SciFi settings on an almost unconscious level.

Great episode! I'm a commission painter; based on everything that you guys have said in this I really think that you should consider investing in a paint shaker or a vortex mixer. Several of the paints you specifically call out as being difficult to work with are ones that I've noticed just need a ton of shaking before they work right. Extra special thanks to the editor!

as an european, paint ranges are always interesting to hear about from Amarikans because in the case of vallejo and pro acryl, we have the complete opposite. i have no clue where I can find any pro acryl at all but vallejo, it is everywhere. i think you can find vallejo even more then you can find citadel.

I'd definitely say a primer paint is a must have, no matter what colour. Just a basic grey spray is super useful. I've been using a Tamiya light grey spray, and it's great

I just wanna say, Berilio (I think I spelled that right) does amazing work on editing and y’all are so full to listen to. Love y’all! (And yes, I am looking for the soda for y’all. No luck yet)

Vallejo Xpress is excellent. Just one glaring issue tho: there's so very few of them. It's not even a quarter of a range. I hope this changes, Xpress' reception has been very positive.

Vallejo Orange Brown is the most underrated paint in the universe. Leather, wood, skin, rocks, rope, paper, NMM gold, it's useful for SO many things

G'day guys, hope the flooding can be managed. Love your content!

This video is just convincing me to buy all the pro acryl stuff from my LGS, I've been super happy with what I've used so far

I kid you not, I watched this video as I was taking off the seals of my base set of pro acryl paints that just came in the mail, and this video made me feel confident in my purchase

if you want to not die painting things yellow I highly recommend golden so flat yellows. They get basically full coverage in 1 thin coat and on black it just takes 2 or 3 thin coats. they are absolute magic

One thing i reccemend every painter, is use a notebook to write down the formula for your mixed colors

These madlads making me reconsider every paint I’ve ever purchased in one video. Also, man, they like their airbrushes.

I recently got into warhammer again for the first time in almost 17 years, and I have been paralyzed with the thought of budgeting for getting going again. I really needed this. Thank you PH

whenever im feeling lazy and my melee weapons look kinda terrible, i always just slap some blood for the blood god on it and no one will ever know how bad it actually looks

I'm not surprised to see Pro Acryl so much on this list. Monument Hobbies really nailed down the perfect consistency for easy brush/airbrush work with minimal thinning needed, and the price point per paint is very good. Speedpaint 2.0 has been a godsend for me. I agree that 1.0 was not good at all, but the 2.0 line does contrast much better, and more importantly to me feels a lot easier to work with. I'm fighting it for even coverage a lot less than I do with contrast paints or 1.0. I have an ork army that is mostly contrast, and after getting the 2.0 set and finding good equivalents I've switched over to speedpaints for the rest of my models. For ork skin, I'm also not a fan of the pale/pastel green. I'm really happy with Striking Scorpion, then 1:1 Frostheart/Medium (Shamrock Green and Magic Blue for SP). I gets you a much more saturated/poppy skin color without giving them Incredible Hulk skin.

Bought a bold titanium white, but then ordered the pro acryl base set so ended up with 2 bottles of the white. Nice to hear that's the opposite of a problem.

Thank you so much for this helpful and insightful advice. I’m new to the hobby and needed a place to start with paints, I just ordered your recommendations.

I've been using a lot of the paints from Reaper Miniatures lately, since I can order paint from them when I order figures and with their triad system, you've got your low, mid and highlight so you don't have to look through everything to find the right colors, plus they're easy to shoot through an airbrush and go on nice and clean with a brush too. That plus Anne Foerster's painting tips and tricks on their youtube channel have helped me improve even more than I'd thought I could, even after having been doing this for over 20 years. I'm just glad we've got so many different paints now, used to be the ONLY options you had were Testor's Enamel paints. Believe me, you don't want to try painting an entire army or a handful of D&D minis with just enamel. It does not end well.

With today's video drop and the scuttlebutt in the industry, Army Painter seems to have taken your video as a challenge. Even Brent from Goobertown commented on the Fanatic line's coverage. The orange from the range looks to cover well.

I started with the absolute minimum amount of paints. Army Painter: - Black, White - Red, Green, Blue - Metallics Gunmetal, Bronze - Nuln Oil All other colours I got by mixing 5 colors I had. First 1000 pts space marine army was painted with those. Then I got Browns, Purples and Technical paints, coz with existing colors it was hard to get those colors. So another 2000 points of Space Marines were painted.

Thanks for making this one, ive only just started collecting minis and with this months pay check im looking to get the paint. Been following and watching you guys for soo long and I'm buzzing you guys have made it this far 50K woo!🎉

More than happy to give this video at least one rewatch, as it came on the eve of a big trip to the LGS with a friend, with the goal to split either the Leviathan box, or another wargame box set like SW Legion or LotR. Many thanks to the hosts and the editor for sorting the wheat from the chaff, I will surely need at least half of these paints!

Excellent video! I’m just getting started with actually painting as a first time hobbyist, and I may add a few of these to the shelf. Thanks❤️

I always watch the youtube videos even after listening to the podcast, and this episode is a prime example of why. Some very good options here - definitely not using it as a shopping list, but there's quite a few that I'll be picking up in the near future.

These are a highlight of my week, so fun to listen to while hobbying

This is such a good video. I’ve been searching for a source like this for a long time and never found another video that scratched the itch

The biggest thing for me, regarding the total price of all the paints, that a new person should keep in mind is that you don't need to buy every single paint at once. Buy it as you need it. I made almost monthly trips to a local store to get new colours and something cheap to paint with it (they have pre-primed D&D figures that worked really well for this) over the course of a year before I had everything I felt I needed.

Dude I was literally a week away from needing to do research on what paints a starter needs, thank you!

Vallejo grey primer is great on an airbrush and the speed paints are amazing on an airbrush, just be careful as you lose the shading effect. But if you can overlap the colors a bit to show it’s not just one color on one part they are better then using a regular brush and paints. Moral of the story: but an airbrush at least for priming. I like pro acryl black or Vallejo grey. White primer is trash for everyone

This is one of the best paints recommandations that I’ve saw. No 100% marketing from a partnership with a brand ! As I’m in the move to order my first Pro Acryl, your video will help me a lot to choose. Thanks !

Im glad this is mostly a Pro Acryl appreciation video

Really tight editing ❤ with a list like this it couldve easily been boring at some point. Kudos to y'all 🎉

Excellent video. I hate it when painters give the ‘it’s whatever works for you’ answer. These paints all rock!

Well done and well done Berilio, we love you!

In Brazil we have BangStore, that have a fair product price, and there we can find hobby paints like: - Scale 75 (complete line) - AK 3rd Gen (complete line) - Green Stuff World - Pro Acryl It's also possible to find Winsor & Newton and Liquitex complete lineup in art stores. We already have good national hobby products such as primers, washes/shades, 3d resin, some acrylics paint in test fase and many projects coming up too. But our strongest point is definitely miniatures, we have a huge amount of awesome artist here. ❤

On the subject of black and white you guys are correct. There are also 2 alternatives to these magical paints. Ak interactive black can go complete pound for pound with VMC black. Also Duncan's Two thin coats white star is the best option if you can't get bold titanium white.

At first I thought this was a dumb idea for an episode but I’ve found it to be some of the most helpful and evergreen content you’ve made!

Bold Pyrrole Red is my personal favourite paint. Period. It was my first in the line of Pro Acryl and I've been a fanboy ever since. I love love LOVE that paint!

As someone who has an LGS with the Two Thin Coats line I've picked up a bunch. They're all really good so far and I would definitely recommend swapping them for GW equivalents but I don't have many in Vallejo or Pro Acryl to compare to because I mostly bought GW before now (I know, I know). The dark purple is fantastic for my tyranids, and the greens and blacks are very good. I like their lighter reds a lot too. The Rakarth Flesh equivalent is fine, but since I'm painting a lot of flesh right now I'm blowing through it. Their metallics are also pretty good as well, I've used a few and they all cover well and look good

I just tried Vallejo Metal Colour Dark Aluminium on your recommendation and thank you. THANK YOU! THANK YOU SO MUCH! FINALLY A SILVER THAT COVERS! IT'S SO GOOD!

Thanks for the Gold mix. Definitely going to try that.

Thank you for this useful episode, you guys deserve more views and subs!!

Thanks for the video. I've subscribed to the Venturella method of shading and highlighting and keep a Sunny Skin Tone and a Payne's Gray within arm's reach at all times. Those 2 colors will blend into anything (except black or yellow) and build a complete value gradient.

For Runelord Brass, I actually think Scale75’s Moonstone Alchemy is a very solid substitute, mainly because it doesn’t separate like curdled milk if you leave it alone for 5 minutes. It’s just a little thicker than Runelord. Also, Army Painter Speedpaints are a top tier option and don’t let anybody tell you otherwise.

This video turned me onto Proacryl Bold Titanium White especially since I'm working on White Scars. And At some point I definitely intend to look through Proacryls stuff so I can find a really good setup for my deep blue because I'd love to replace my Kantor Blue method.

I bought Vallejo Model Scarlet Red when looking for a red color, and I found that mixing it with the tiniest bit of white actually made a really cool shade of orange. I can't use it for red anymore though, it just looks like dark orange to me.

Great video, just in time as im just starting to get into painting minis

I have the full Pro Acryl range (except their metallics) and then I use the Vincy V recipes for metallics (Green Stuff World Gold + Gloss metal varnish, Vallejo Air metal Magnesium and Silver). I do have the new Matt Cexwish bronze and it's really cool! Other than that, Dirty Down Rust is super cool and also Molotow Liquid Chrome is insane.

Going to try out that Pro Acryl White and Royal Purple!

I'd say if you take a pass on the 2.0 Speedpaints because of the bad rap 1.0 earned, then you are doing yourself a disservice. They've been fantastic for me and cost literally half as much as GW Contrast with a better color range. Plus dropper bottles are just better than flip-lids to me. They don't dry out, it's easy to control how much I have in use while painting, and "how many drops" is just so much easier when mixing paints.

Before starting the video. Ak 3rd gen and Vallejo acrilics are the best paints. All of their colours act similarly, Most of the 3rd gen acrilics cover in two thin coats (even the pastel colours) For colours I'd say: Black, White, The colours of your army/you like the most (pick around 5 at most because you can have the darker and paller versions with black and white), one or two metalics (a medium silver and a gold are always nice), one dark brown wash like agrax earthshade or the one from vallejo game colours (because its more versatile than a black wash). Matt and gloss varnish (I recommend the big bottles from vallejo premium airbrush sets) and a cheap can primer (black imo because the details that you cant reach with a brush wont be noticeable) Note, If you're painting like a space marine or a stormtrooper with white armour, pick a white or light gray primer.

I’m heading to Monument Hobbies on Friday and can’t wait to see their store!

Vallejo PREMIUM Airbrush Color (62.052) Gunmetal. (60ml is £6.00) This thing is incredible. This range is built for airbrushing things like model cars/boats/planes that are larger. This is a very dark silver, like a really charcoal grey. Its coverage with both brush and airbrush is a dream. I use it as a straight up primer in itself and it is tough as nails. Do you have anything metal you want to paint? Put this bad boy on it... Oh, a Necron army? Boom, this is the undercoat, drybrush your Vallejo Aluminum over it and call them done. If you want to get fancy with light silvers, you can. Its so good, and the cost per ml is excellent

Am just getting into 40k with a friend of mine and had this exact question in mind! very sorry to hear about your paint collection.

the end of the video made me appreciate the selection at my LGS. able to find every brand mentioned in the city easily.

Custodian speaking! And I have THOUGHTS on Gold. The mixed gold they mentioned from Vince Ventrella video is, unfortunately, irreplaceable. I've looked at literally every gold i could find, both model and art lines, and even experimented with straight up gilding my models in leaf - and the best, most consistent gold there is, is that mix. Second place is gilding - which looks Amazing when it works, and Really Bad when you screw up, and there's no good way to undo mistakes when gilding. Third place is "Pale Gold" from Golden Fluid Acrylics - the generic artist level brand from Michael's in the US. This one's a *little* green and a little pale, so feel free to darken it up with an orange ink. Honorable mention to Sepia Ink over Duraluminum from ProAcryl. I think people are sleeping hard on gilding. When it works, there's no gold paint that can possibly compare. It's much more vibrant and reflective than any metallic paint is physically capable of being, and the leaf is thin enough that you shouldn't be worried about losing details. I've done whole models and love them, and only elements on models and loved it. It's much more accessible than I think alot of people are imagining, and it's SO FAST: you can get great results in 10 minutes of work, rather than coat after coat of bad coverage from most other paint options. Imitation leaf is perfectly fine - you don't have to break the bank here. I highly, highly recommend it. The only elements you should be cautious of are elements where you notice the medium (the glue that holds the metal to the model) could pool - narrow valleys, sharp right angles in the model, etc. If it builds up or pools on itself, then it won't behave itself properly when dry. But if you avoid this pittfal, and WAIT the 25-30 minutes it takes for the medium to become workable after it's painted onto the model, you literally can just slap the metal onto the model. Use a cheap brush to press that metal into the crevices and break off the excess. If there are tears or cracks, just lay another sheet on top of them. Bada-bing-bada-boom you're done. it's really that easy.

I absolutely love pro acryl bronze, it's one of my favorite paints lol

Proacryl's Bronze is my favorite metalic paint of all time. And I do amazing work with it. And now I have Dark Bronze, Bronze and Light bronze is just incredible.

I am shocked that there isn't more AK stuff in here. honestly you guys should really use some more of their paints. I loved using luminous orange for my necrons orange glow on their guns and eyes.

Thank you for giving me a reason to not hate my Magos purple contrast.

Ah yes, thank you for this very nice shopping list

Folkart has decent craft Metallics that thin and mix well. They're great for dry brushing and excellent value for terrain painting.

Bronze and other metallics from two thin coats are really nice. They're worth trying out imo

The best gold I’ve used is Vallejo Liquid Gold. Red Gold specifically. It’s not Acrylic, so it can’t be on the list, but it covers beautifully, can be thinned with Isopropyl, can be drybrushed, and usually only requires a single coat.

wish you guys made this video a month ago when I bought a bunch of paint, I was looking for a good turquoise and purple.

Aethermatic Blue is a great contrast if you need to have something glowing but not glowing green...like the coils on a plasma gun

Oh boy, my christmas list in one video! At least I wont be getting weird looks from asking for a modular compact shovel.

Can't say I've been in a hurry to transition into ProAcryl but I have to say the four signature sets are full of colours (uk) I've always dreamed of having

Thanks for the reminder that I don't need to buy literally everything that exists all at once when I haven't even built my first army yet. I'm just getting into the hobby and have what one might call a bad habit of impulsively latching onto large purchases without considering whether I'll even use everything in said large purchase. No I can not actually afford such large purchases with my current finances. It's good to get the reminder every now and then to slow down and actually think for a second "what paints/models/terrain/etc will I actually NEED for my first army" so that I don't end up blowing through my entire savings account before even buying any actual model kits because I spent everything on paints, tools, brushes, airbrushes and other stuff so excessively that I rendered myself unable to afford said model kits.

The Citadel Chaos Black spraycan primer is actually really nice and I would absolutely recommend for newbies. It's very forgiving, the wet paint just seems to flow and minimize. It's the opposite of skme white spraycan that is incredibly temperamental and easy to cake on.

Scalecolor Navy Blue is perfect for Crimson Fists. So good. For Orange, I tend to use Reaper Orange Brown as a base for brighter oranges, because like mentioned in the video, orange over anything else sucks. Reaper Orange Brown goes over most other colors pretty decently.

one of my favorites is black legion its been a massive help for my custodians

my fav paint ever is Khorne Red, it has amazing coverage and looks great

Really surprised ice yellow by vallejo didn't get a mention, such an amazing paint for any highlighting and others. Amazing. 😊

I appreciate the hot pink recommendation. I’m doing Nurgle and I want to go more dead pale purple flesh than the typical green so I need a more contrast for the guts and wanted a good poppy pink.

I got a set of Reaper miniatures paint set and they work fine. I like Apple Barrel Pavement. I use mostly white or light gray primer so this gray made a great undercoat to make it black enough to know while not darkening the detail out. A good craft paint is great for large areas base is fine. A good mother of pearl matelic. Mostly just a white matelic paint. It just has a nice edge high like for a blade. For gold. I use silver paints with all the shading and layers. Then a yellow contrast paint on top.

I started using Stewart semple/culture hustle neon pigments added to neons to make neons more manageable.

I have found Jaquard's airbrush paints to be super good, may need a bit of thinning, but for the yellow golds I used their airbrush True Gold, and their other paint pots reeeeally thinned down is actually really good quality and coverage for their colors

Love the slag at the bottom of tesseract green it’s so tasty :)

14:38 I was looking for a redish fur for some classic stonehorn paintjobs to make them how they look in Total War, looking forward to trying it out.

I'm really liking the ProAcryl artist signature series paints. I still need to dig into the two new sets, they only recently arrived and i haven't had a chance to work with them yet. +1 to Talassar Blue from the GW contrast lineup. Have you guys worked south Two Thin Coats paint yet? I'm liking them as a cheaper alternative to the main GW line. Each color already comes as a triad of dark, medium, light versions to take stone off the guesswork out.

Y'know, a long time ago in Covid times I bought some Eldar online really wanting to get into the hobby (again, I did as a kid but that's like over a decade ago), but I just ended up having real problems getting the paint I wanted (pink) and by the time I did, my energy to paint and get into the hobby had faded for whatever reason. I'm pretty sure my starter kit of paints all dried up or died, maybe I gave them away, I can't remember but I can't find them so the few times I did get the urge to go back to giving the hobby a try I never did. But this list actually has inspired me to maybe look at getting 3 or so basic paints, see how I go with doing up the basic looks of my Eldar, see how I feel about it. This is a really nice basic resource to just be like "Hey, so this pink is good, this white is good, this light blue is good, okay I have a base colour scheme to work with."

This is such a great topic. I Thankyou sincerely for the White and Gold you mentioned.

This is my favorite podcast u guys have done

I really like Vallejo Gory Red for my Dark red. I for a long time did hand brushing for my T'au battlesuits and it doesn't show brush strokes at all for me, even as an amateur when I first started.

My gold solution works really well for trim. Gundam acrylic paint marker gold. Super simple, it's in a marker with it's own applicator and it looks great. It's not metallic per say but has a nice sheen to it. It's a little bright for Warhammer but that's part of why I use it. Stands out on the table compared to other golds

Ice Yellow for basically every highlight.

My head canon is that you guys are actually a Thousand Sons sorcerer and a Grey Knight who are secret friends talking too each other thru the warp about random bullshit. I don't know why but that is just endlessly funny to me.

new speedpaint 2.0 is really good, the old 1.0 can be really good for blending and what not as the reativation means you can essentially wetblend on a dry model but personally i prefer the 2.0

Thanks for the duraluminium recommendation, my very, very old pot of boltgun metal was about to run out (I'm honestly surprised it survived this long).