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Monument Hobbies PRO Acryl 1-Step Paints at SprayGunner

Monument Hobbies PRO Acryl 1-Step Paints are built for painters who want faster color, stronger first-pass contrast, and more control than a simple “paint it and hope” workflow. This line uses a low-viscosity, highly saturated acrylic formula designed to work over a bright base, zenithal primer, or value sketch, letting the light and shadow you already created show through the color instead of covering it completely.

That makes PRO Acryl 1-Step Paints especially useful for miniature painting, wargaming armies, RPG characters, fantasy figures, creatures, cloth, skin, armor, leather, chainmail, and textured surfaces where the sculpt can help guide the paint. You can use them for fast one-layer color, controlled filters, glazes, airbrush tinting, and layered color adjustments, then keep working with standard PRO Acryl paints for highlights, edge work, corrections, details, and finishing touches.

The idea is speed without giving up control. These paints can help a beginner get confident results faster, while still giving experienced painters a flexible tool for value sketch painting, zenithal workflows, glazing, filtering, saturation shifts, and quick tabletop-ready projects.

What You Will Find in This Collection

This collection is built around the Monument Hobbies PRO Acryl 1-Step system, including the launch colors and 1-Step Special Sauce M005 as they are added to SprayGunner. The first official PRO Acryl 1-Step range is centered on 12 colors designed for fast miniature painting, plus the Special Sauce medium that expands how the system works with both 1-Step colors and regular PRO Acryl paints.

Because the collection may update as SprayGunner adds individual colors, sets, or related items, always check the product tiles for the current format, bottle options, and availability.

Why PRO Acryl 1-Step Feels Different

The strongest part of Monument Hobbies PRO Acryl 1-Step Paints is not only that they are fast. Many painters already know speed paint, contrast paint, and one-coat paint systems, but Monument’s approach focuses on keeping the result predictable inside the existing PRO Acryl ecosystem.

The paints are designed to flow through sculpted detail, settle into recesses, and tint raised areas without burying texture. That matters on chainmail, fabric folds, fur, skin texture, creature scales, belts, armor plates, straps, weapons, and all the small details that make miniatures worth painting in the first place. You can load the brush more generously than you would with a normal layering acrylic, guide the paint where it needs to go, then wick away excess from areas where it pools too heavily.

They are also built to keep working after the first coat. Once dry, you can add more 1-Step color, apply glazes or filters, reinforce shadows, dry brush highlights, or come back with standard PRO Acryl paints for edge highlights and final details. That makes them useful for tabletop speed painting, but also for painters who want a fast first read of the model before pushing the finish further.

Best Results Start with the Right Base

PRO Acryl 1-Step works best when the model already has light and shadow prepared underneath. A white, light grey, taupe, or zenithal base gives the paint something to reveal, while a black-only primer will usually hide too much of the color because these paints are translucent by design.

For most miniature painting workflows, a zenithal primer is the easiest starting point. Prime the model dark, spray or brush a lighter value from above, then apply the 1-Step color so the shadows stay deeper and the raised areas catch more brightness. That value sketch does a lot of the early work for you, especially on fantasy models, wargaming infantry, tabletop armies, monsters, and RPG characters.

If you are painting over a regular base color, 1-Step paints can also work as filters or glazes. A color like Crimson over yellow can shift the tone toward a warmer orange-red without fully covering the underlying color. A green or grey tone can cool down shadows, while a brown can add warmth to leather, fur, straps, or wood.

Brush and Airbrush Use

With a brush, the key is to use enough paint for the formula to flow, but still guide it with intention. Work by areas, avoid stopping in the middle of a flat surface, move the paint toward edges or recesses, and use the tip of the brush to remove excess before it dries into a stain. In tight detail areas, small tapping motions can give you more control than long dragging strokes.

With an airbrush, PRO Acryl 1-Step Paints can be used as translucent color layers over zenithal highlights, pre-shading, or an already painted base. This is especially useful for fast army painting, color filters, smooth tints, shadow reinforcement, and building saturation without hiding the sculpt. Pressure, thinning, and needle size will depend on your setup, but the idea is simple: let the transparent color work with the pre-shading instead of trying to cover it like an opaque base coat.

For airbrush painters, this opens up a very SprayGunner-friendly workflow. Prime and pre-shade the model, apply a controlled 1-Step color pass, deepen shadows with a second pass where needed, then finish with dry brushing, edge highlights, or standard PRO Acryl colors.

1-Step Special Sauce Explained

1-Step Special Sauce M005 is the control tool inside this system. You can use PRO Acryl 1-Step colors straight from the bottle or thin them with water when you only need a lighter effect, but Special Sauce helps maintain the paint’s behavior when you want more control, lower opacity, softer filters, or custom mixes.

It can also be used with standard PRO Acryl paints to create custom 1-Step-style colors. That is a big deal if you already own PRO Acryl colors and want to turn part of your existing rack into fast filters, glazes, or translucent layers without buying a separate bottle for every possible tone.

Think of Special Sauce as a way to tune the system. Use less when you want stronger color, use more when you want a softer glaze or filter, and adjust depending on whether you are painting with brush, airbrush, or building up several controlled layers.

When to Use PRO Acryl 1-Step Paints

Use PRO Acryl 1-Step Paints when you want to move faster through the early stages of a miniature without giving up the option to keep refining. They are excellent for troops, warbands, RPG parties, fantasy monsters, cloth, leather, fur, organic textures, armor shadows, and figures with a lot of sculpted detail.

They are not meant to replace every acrylic paint on your bench. For large flat panels, smooth vehicle armor, perfectly even base coats, or areas where you need fully opaque coverage, a standard acrylic like PRO Acryl may still be the better choice. The real strength of 1-Step is in textured surfaces, value sketch workflows, filters, glazes, and fast color decisions that still leave room for finishing work.

PRO Acryl 1-Step Paints FAQ

What are PRO Acryl 1-Step Paints?

PRO Acryl 1-Step Paints are low-viscosity, highly saturated acrylic paints designed to add color, shadow, and volume quickly over a light base, zenithal primer, or value sketch. They work like a controlled filter or one-coat paint system for miniatures and wargaming models.

Are they the same as Speedpaints, Contrast Paints, or Xpress Paints?

They belong to the same general category of fast, translucent miniature paints, but Monument Hobbies designed them to work closely with the existing PRO Acryl range. The focus is on predictable flow, matte finish, easy mixing, and the ability to keep painting over them once dry.

Do PRO Acryl 1-Step Paints work over black primer?

They are not ideal over pure black primer by itself. Because they are translucent, they need light underneath to show their color properly. For best results, use white, light grey, taupe, or a zenithal primer with lighter values sprayed or brushed over a dark base.

Build Faster Color Without Losing Control

Monument Hobbies PRO Acryl 1-Step Paints are made for painters who want to move faster, but still care about control, finish, and the final look of the miniature. Use them over a bright base or zenithal primer, tune them with 1-Step Special Sauce, mix them with standard PRO Acryl, and keep refining the model with highlights, details, dry brushing, and finishing work.

If your goal is faster tabletop color, smoother filters, easier glazes, or a more flexible way to build volume on miniatures, this collection gives you a new way to work inside the PRO Acryl system.

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