"One Range of Paints?" Topic

Do you primarily stick to one range of hobby paints, or do you collect paints from various sources?

Various sources.

Variety of craft paints, Vallejo, Derivan, and a sprinkling of others.

I use a selection of craft paints and a smattering of hobby paints and inks.

Variety. Started with GW, moved to Apple Barrel (Walmart brand).

Variety.

Various

I find it hard to pass a paint rack without buying a bottle or two…

Various sources – right now, GW, Tamiya and Vallejo

Various.
Purposely been moving away from Game Workshop paints; too expensive for what you get and they keep changing names/formula more frequently as time goes on. They used to be my go to.

Cheap craft paints, Privateer Press, Vallejo, some Reaper, Scale 75, Tamiya, and a few Army Painter bottles are all knocking around. And a few non-dried out GW bottles are still with me too.

Various. I have Vallejo, Lifecolor, AK, Mig, Model Master, Italeri. Mr. Color, Tamiya, Citadel and Mission Models (which really sucks).

Various sources.

I have many sources of paints. Even enamels. All have their plusses and their inadequacies.
There is no such thing as a "perfect" brand of paints.
I've even reluctantly tried Contrast paints, even though I really dislike GW policy. In some cases, they're fine, even splendid. But I still have to paint the straps, and Contrast are totally inadequate for that.

Various. My favourite are Revell Aqua colour in their nice little square pots a good range of paints that cover nicely. I have others like citadel and Army painter to but I have come to the conclusion I don't really like dropper bottles.

A huge variety of different paints – but I'm now reading about GOLDEN a new range of premium acrylic paints and wondering if these should be my Go-To.

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I must have about 20+ different paint manufacturers, and 100s of paints. I probably mainly use Miniature Paints, Reaper, Vallejo, Foundry, Coat d'arms, & Humbrol scarlet. I have to agree with Prince Rupert in that I don't like dropper bottles too.

Mostly craft paints supplemented with a number of different
hobby paint lines.

Craft paints exclusively (oh, and artists' ink).

I use a wide variety of manufacturers of both hobby paints and craft paints.

For brush painting, I mostly use one brand (Vallejo). Maybe 75% of my bottle paints are Vallejo at this point, as I have been replacing used-up bottles of other brands with Vallejo.

For spray painting, I use a variety of hardware store brands. I haven't used hobby spray paint in a long time.

I use a pretty wide variety. It all depends on the effect I am looking for.

I use various craft and hobby-specific paints as founded and desired.

Mostly cheap acrylic paints. I believe the majority are Apple Barrel brand, with a signficant portion of Folk Art brand. I would have to walk about 10' to find out, which sounds like a lot of effort. That statement should give you a gauge on how deliberate my paint brand choice is.

That sounds like how I decide which shade of green to use on the Jaeger's coat. The one within reach.

Nope. I'll buy all the ranges – of craft paint. Hobby paint? Nope.

Mostly Vallejo and Ceramcoat but I still have several bottles of my old Ral Partha paints. I just add a bit of water once in while to keep them from drying out.

Primarily Reaper. But I also use AK, Vallejo (metallics), GW (mostly shades and contrast) Andrea, and Scale 75.

For the record, I prefer dropper bottles since I use a wet palette. I recently transferred about 50 treasured bottles of Polly S to dropper bottles.

I primarily use Humbrol paints for most of my miniature painting but have used craft paints and house paint for my terrain projects.

Liquitex Soft Body acrylics.

For ages I went with "whomever dies with the most paints wins". But at some point it hit me simultaneously that 1) hobby paints aren't the best quality, at least if I measure quality by opacity, consistency, and lightfastness ; 2) if I learned rudimentary color mixing, I could get by with fewer paint bottles; 3) paints made for artists are a thing.

This isn't exclusive. If I need a color I can't mix up, and another artist paint brand carries it, I wouldn't refuse to buy that brand. But, so far, this hasn't happened.

I only use GW paint and bathe in Blood for the Blood God.

It's a phase. Previously I was using the Dallimore method with Foundry triads. After a break some pots dried up so I switched.

No hobby paints here, either. Exclusively Liquitex artists acrylics for figures and Craft paints for bigger terrain projects.

Various hobby paints and inks. Vallejo, Army Painter , Reaper , MIG , FW and Windsor & Newton inks. Craft paint for bases and terrain. And yes, I still have a few Polly S paints hanging on.

I've got paints from quite a few brands, but the vast majority of my painting during the last couple years have been with Citadel Contrasts or Vallejo Game Color.

I am satisfied with one company's ranges: Army Painter Warpaints, Metallics and Washes. However, I do use craft paints for bases and terrain.

Mostly Vallejo, but probably have at least 10 others different brands as well.

If I were giving advice to someone just starting out and was looking to economize I'd definitely suggest going the craft paint route. When I stand in the paint aisle at Hobby Lobby or Michael's just looking at what's available from Americana, Ceramcoat and Folkart(the brands I use) it's amazing the variety of colors available. I think I would have no problem filling all my needs for my various periods.