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When it came out, it damn near revolutionized painting dozens, if not hundreds, of models at once that will never need any sort of upkeep as it's been varnished already, since the only thing you'd really need is to keep it from pooling outside of details you wanted highlighted and took a process that could be close to hours and turned it into minutes. The Army Painter decided they would take this age-old concept and make something actively designed for miniatures, creating what they call "Quickshade", a specific type of varnish in various strengths and shades of brown to black designed to be used in miniature painting. The idea is that you can get around the arduous process of painting and washing the details of a model using the right pigmented varnish, but it has always been a bit of a mixed bag historically it used stuff like shoe polish or floor varnish, which is very difficult to use, noxious, took days to dry, and can absolutely fuck your model right up if you weren't attending to it constantly. Miniature "dipping" has been around for awhile as a concept, usually by those turbonerd boomers who aren't painting Orks with chain-axes or skeleton wizards. Quickshade, and miniature dipping in general The Nolzur's Marvelous Pigments line is largely a bunch of rebranded stuff from the regular line with an extra shade of purple, just now with a bunch of D&D terminology slapped across it. Pretty much "babby's first paints" when you want to escape Citadel's insane pricing.įurthermore, their starter kit is a fucking disaster of organization that you'll have to do yourself if you want to make any sense of it. Their paint range is usually considered cheap in price and in quality you need to put more coats to get a decent coverage, sometimes too much medium dilution and all-around lower quality check than other, more expensive brands.
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One thing that can be a drag is that the bottles aren't made with the same kind of rigor as a Vallejo bottle, so some of them can be cracked on purchase. Much "spongier" in finished paint texture than Citadel paint since it uses a gel based medium, which for some can be a bit off-putting since that means it dries slower, the coverage of this stuff is right on par with Vallejo and Citadel, all in an industry-standard 18ml dropper bottle for individual colors. 2 Quickshade, and miniature dipping in general.Trivia: in 2020, they temporarily halted production on all paints to get little danish children a personalized bottle of hand sanitizer for their return to school during the Coronavirus pandemic, fulfilling a promise they made earlier in the year. In the 2010's, they struck gold when they ended up the official paint and painting supply for Dungeons and Dragons with their Nolzur's Marvelous Pigments line. Their aim was (and mostly still is) to expedite the process between building the model and getting that sucker painted up, and they've largely done that with the invention of "Quickshade", and much cheaper paints than the competition. They have a hell of a pedigree in wargaming, with founders Bo Penstoft working for over a decade at Games Workshop on their marketing side and being a staple of tournaments in northern Europe, and Jonas Faering working for 'Eavy Metal for quite a while before they both set out to create their own company. The Army Painter is a Danish hobby supply company that produces paints, basing supplies, brushes, and tools for painting models. The new school of basing and battlefields. 40pxThis article is about something that is considered by the overpowering majority of /tg/ to be fail.Įxpect huge amounts of derp and rage, punctuated by /tg/ extracting humor from it.