"Who is Excited about Warpaints Fanatic?" Topic

I am a bit, though I'll likely just try this and that rather than buy six shades of teal.

thearmypainter.com/fanatic

Excited, no… but I'm glad to see that AP is elevating their dense pigmentation game. I'll always go Vallejo first, but I'll try anything except GW and their stupid jars.

GW jars seem devisive. Folks either love 'em or hate 'em!

I see that Don Suratos is all in on AP. I'm curious what the hub bub is but I'll probably pass on them since I have a bunch of paint already.

Interesting range but I have plenty paints already

Maybe a few interesting colors but mostly I'm set already.

The GW design is malicious, but you can go to Etsy and buy holders so the jars/pots won't tip over. They'll hold the lids back too.

With squeeze bottles--well, good luck getting the unused paint back in the bottle.

I'm not excited, but I might buy a few bottles of these paints if it turns out the Fanatic version has better coverage than the Colour Primer version – and the color is still a match for the spray primer. Some of the Colour Primer bottle paints are basically unusable.

The triad system (which is actually a sextet system..?) is a really nice idea, but I'm not sure I can find enough uses to invest a lot of money and space in it.

- Ix

"The GW design is malicious, but you can go to Etsy and buy holders so the jars/pots won't tip over. They'll hold the lids back too."

I still prefer pots to dropper bottles. You can rehydrate the colours, completely empty them etc. I have a few GW pots with built in lid clips, otherwise I just shove a short length of dowel in the hole on the others, which works.

I am gradually migrating to the hated dropper pots though, as they are ubiquitous. Waste loads of paint and really hard to mix properly. Ugh.

They had me at "Practical Color Naming"! Unlike others, they must not have wanted to use the same guys that name new meds advertised ad nauseum on TV!

Waste loads of paint and really hard to mix properly. Ugh.

Can you elaborate on these two issues?

When I was forced into using dropper bottles (as the jar options all disappeared from local stores), I also complained about wasting paint, but I've found the dropper bottles actually waste less paint for me. I have to squeeze out more than I use, but the truth is that I lose most paint to drying out in storage for years and years. I've lost most paints to glass jars with screw-on lids that stop sealing well – a problem completely avoided by the HDPE dropper bottles, which always seal well.

To solve the mixing problem, I put a mixing ball into any plastic paint jar/bottle/pot that doesn't already have one. Most of the dropper bottles are coming with mixing balls now, so I've had to do this operation less and less.

I've also come to really appreciate the primary purpose of dropper bottles – measuring paints for mixing. I've been doing more and more mixing as the years go on. It's nice to be able meter the quantities without extra tools and extra mess.

- Ix

YA, try storing opened glass paint jars upside down. Paint won't dry out. BTW I miss the old Polyscale line of model paints. There are some WWII colors I just have not found a suitable match for all these years later.

Reaper has been doing triads for decades.

I am excited as I have hit the perfect storm of coming back to painting after three years, much of my GW stuff is dried out, running low on all other paints and being a painter that does like pigmentation and hates thin coats! But, I don't think I'll go for the mega box, too many colours just don't get used enough to justify it.

David
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