I’ve had an eye on The Army Painter’s new range of ‘Speed Paints’ since last December, and last week I found the starter set containing ten paints in my friendly local game store. I also had a lot of cheap Wizkids DND miniatures sitting around, and what better use for these than testing out speed painting with Speed Paints?
My tests were hardly scientific or comprehensive – you might check out Goobertown or Dana Howl on YouTube for that – and I wanted to try using them both with a brush and with my airbrush. The main difference in result between these two tools is that with a brush you benefit from the way these low viscosity paints will flow into recesses, producing easy shading and contrast, whereas with an airbrush the paints’ low opacity makes for colour filters that look great over, say, zenithal priming or other forms of underpainting.
