"Best Army Painter Paint Color?" Topic

Which ones are your favorite? Any that you can't live without?

Vomit Vermillion
Cquat Cyan
Malal Mauve
Chapter House Chestnut

… I'm afraid that if I keep going, I might actually name one.

Wouldn't that depend a little on what I'm painting? Or has miniature warfare progressed beyond that?

You misspelled "Colour"…

There are a few Army Painter offerings I've found tremendously useful.

A few spray primers work really well as a basecoat for WWII planes because they are almost the exact right color right out of the can, and the matching bottle paint makes touch-ups easy:

Wolf Grey (USN early Pacific War blue-gray)
Angel Green (late IJN dark green)
Desert Yellow (desert tan colors)
Fur Brown (RAF dark earth)

I also think Necrotic Flesh could be turned into early IJN gray-green with minimal work (except I don't need that color anymore), and I keep finding uses for Skeleton Bone.

There are two Speedpaint 2 colors I just discovered in Oct:

Howling Sand (sunbleached/holystoned wood deck color)
Grim Black (19th C. black ships' sides)

I also found Howling Sand to be a good base color for mixing darker/browner deck colors, and yellow ochre "buff" color for the black/white/buff ship schemes.

I've been skeptical of GW contrast paints and their copycats since they appeared. They don't do anything different than the acrylic inks I've been using for almost 30 years, and they're more expensive. However, a couple months ago I was looking for something in the FLGS I could make use of (I try to buy something every time I play there), and decided to try a small selection of Army Painter Speedpaints to see what the hubbub was about. I picked out colors for the project I was working on: late 19th C. ironclad battleships. I liked them enough that I later I got all the Speedpaint colors I thought I could ever use for historical topics or mixing, and now I have a paint storage problem. I also have WW2 uniform colors picked out for a few different forces. I was planning to mix up all the colors I wanted from acrylic inks, but the Speedpaints gave me colors I could use right out of the bottle, and a lot more colors to use in mixing.

- Ix

You misspelled "Colour"…

Only if you are British! – our American cousins simplified some of our spellings, probably quite sensibly.
For example our Aluminium drops the 'i' to become Aluminum.

This is the internet, spelling is always optional. :) Or grammer, or complete sentences, etc…

Only if you are British

I believe the people at The Army Painter are …

Danish

So, do they write American or British English?

The question reminds me of long-time BBC performer Sandy Toksvig. As I recall her story, she has a "fake British accent" because she learned English going to school as a kid in NYC. But when she returned to Denmark, people expected her to have a British accent, so she adopted one, which helped her get work with the BBC.

That sounds like an aside Alan Partridge would lay out there.

Sadly Sandy suffers severely with the 'So…' syndrome.

The sprays I use the most for a wide variety of purposes:
Army Green and Fur Brown

Using the Green for the base of some copper clad rooftops today even. Will dry-brush with some blue and medium green later.

Proper spelling is a trick question. Side of the cans read "Colour Primers". Top of the caps read "Color Primer".

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I mostly don't like AP's regular paints very much, but I have become partial to their washes. If I have to name a single one, I guess it's Soft Tone, on account of it being the one I've used the most.