ATOM Basic Set Smartpaint for Miniatures
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ATOM Basic Set Smartpaint for Miniatures
Set of water-based, high-quality ATOM colours specially selected to paint your miniatures quickly and easily. Give free rein to your imagination, or stick with the lore. This set allows you to choose from the most used secondary tones for your armies or figures, saving valuable modelling time. These highly saturated colours provide extremely vibrant finishes.
The water-based paint formula behaves as a lacquer, and is optimized for maximum performance with both brush and airbrush. These paints stand out for being self-levelling and quick drying, and for their covering power, making them unique to the market. In addition, they are extremely durable, allowing for acrylics, enamels and even hotter modelling products such as decal solutions to be applied over them.
These colours are presented in a new clear 20 ml container featuring a new cap that can be opened and closed with one hand. These paints are non-toxic and odourless.
I was exposed to this paint set by a friend who ordered it first. He inspired me with a project of painting an entire warband with just the colors in the set... so far so good! I love the matte finish on these paints (it's easily the equal to my "regular" Scale75 paints!) and also I am appreciating the smooth, liquid nature of the paint...I know that sounds odd, but I usually use Scale75, which, having a gel medium, can be a touch thicker...gummy-er? than typical mini paint. With this paint I do not experience that at all.
One "downside"(not even that "down", just something to be aware of) is that these paints are hydrophillic! Not as bad as ProAcryl, but very close. So keep slightly less water in the wet pallet, or expect them to thin out fast(not bad either, just a thing to be aware of).
I am excitd to hear that there should be a Kickstarter release of this line from Big Child and Mig soon! I am hoping for a concise range of similar incredibly vibrant and strong paints with high mixability, bright, saturated colors and a nice "feel" to work with.
Although the color range is small, you can mix the colors easily without them going cloudy. Opacity is high but I would recommend applying two thin coats for a smooth result. Pigmentation is really high so you can use glazing technique. It's a bit thick like Citadel so it stays nice on wet palette and you can thin them to your liking. The reason I bought this was these paints were supposed to be different than the regular ATOM paints but I haven't tried them yet. I guess those are more for scale models/airbrushing rather than miniature brush painting, but haven't found any comparisons so far.
Great coverage with vibrant colors. Nice consistency with very little need for thinning on wet pallet. Bottles are a great design too, very easy to control paint flow drop by drop.
Nice opacity and consistency! Really enjoying working with these. Only downside is they seem to separate and.... melt? On a wet pallet so I don't think I'll store them that way again. that doesn't take away from how great they are. I would definitely recommend these
ATOM Basic Set Smartpaint for Miniatures
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