"Paint quality differs bottle to bottle?" Topic

I've noticed lately that the paint quality between bottles is different for some manufacturers. I usually use Army Painter and Coat d'Arms paints and it seems the paint is different bottle to bottle.

Does anyone else have problems like that? I stopped using GW paints because I didn't like them but now maybe I should switch to another brand?

Has anyone ever used Vallejo paints for brush painting?

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Vallejo has both "brush" and "airbrush" line of paints, so I suspect there is a lot of brush painting going on with Vallejo. I use Vallejo in both manners. I've noticed different mixing and coverage properties from color to color, but quality differences from bottle to bottle of same color is not something I've noticed. I would note though that I don't go through bottles very fast so probably wouldn't remember quality characteristics from bottle to bottle.

Testors Model Master acrylics are famous for this. Every third bottle or so seems to be super thick and practically unusable.

I have not noticed any issues with Vallejo though.

Try Vallejo, Reaper or P3 paints.

there are only a few manufacturers of paint and inks. the difference in the bottles is the batch number and the label (brand).
ymmv,

I've definitely had Vallejo brush paints vary from bottle to bottle with the same color. One bottle with be very thick while the next one I get of that color will be basically lightly colored water

I wonder whether hobby paints are just so small in production it doesn't make sense to have any kind of manufacturing QC?

I've had the experience with different consistencies and even different shades (gasp) with both Foundry and Vallejo over the years. I've started doing more with Andrea paints and I hope they are more consistent because they are so nice.

Good to know. P3 I don't like because of the limited palette of colours. I never tried Reaper since I'd have to order it online and last time I checked it came in sets.

I guess I can try the Vallejo. I really do like the dropper bottles. It's so handy and helps keep the paint from going funky. That's why I used the Army Painter products.

I've had trouble with Vallejo ghame colors, never with Model colors.

I might add, if you go in a store and there is dust on the bottles, you may want to order online from a company that turns paint faster. Vallejo lasts a long time but if theres dust on something who knows how long it has sat there!

How long the paint has been stored after manufacture and how it has been treated during that time can have a serious impact on how it performs. Even if it is a "new" bottle from the hobby shop, it may have been mistreated in the distributor's warehouse.

Never had problems with Reaper. Consistent and completely matte from bottle to bottle.

I, too, like Reaper paints, although I do NOT like the change to the current dropper bottles. I very much dislike dropper bottles. I also am not happy that Reaper has renamed some paints from the original ranges, making it harder for me to match my older paints with the newer versions when I need replacements.

But they are good paints and they come in lots of colors, which makes them my chief go-to paints now that my stock of Armoury, Ral Partha, and Polly S bottles are at last becoming extinct.