Vallejo Game Xpress Color: Lizard Green (18ml)

Vallejo 72.418 Game Xpress Lizard Green — Contrast Speedpaint, 18ml

Fast Contrast-Style Paint for Miniatures

Painting reptile skin, scales, fantasy creatures, green armor, or organic textures can take a lot of layering when you want shadows, mid-tones, and highlights to appear naturally. Vallejo 72.418 Game Xpress Lizard Green helps speed up that process by flowing into recesses and leaving more color on raised details, giving miniatures a strong contrast-style effect with far less brushwork than traditional layering.

This bottle corresponds to Vallejo reference 72.418, Lizard Green from the Game Xpress Color range. It is designed for painters who want fast, clean results on tabletop figures, fantasy models, monsters, creatures, armor plates, cloth, and small scenic details. It works especially well over white, light grey, ivory, or bone-colored primer, where the green tone can show its full brightness and contrast.

Unlike regular opaque acrylics, Vallejo Game Xpress Lizard Green behaves more like a controlled transparent color. It settles into sculpted detail, strengthens shadows, and leaves lighter areas visible on raised parts. That makes it useful for speed painting, but also for adding green filters, glazes, or quick color shifts over an existing basecoat.

Advanced Features & Versatility

• Fast contrast-style coverage: Helps create shadows, mid-tones, and highlights in a single controlled application over a light base.
• Ideal for organic green subjects: Great for lizard skin, scales, reptilian creatures, fantasy monsters, goblins, or swamp-themed miniatures.
• Matte acrylic finish: Leaves a natural, non-glossy surface that fits gaming miniatures and display figures.
• Works as a glaze or filter: Can be diluted with Xpress Medium to soften intensity, tint other colors, or blend transitions.
• Precision dropper bottle: The 18ml bottle helps control paint use and keeps the paint from drying out between sessions.

Technical Specifications & Application Guide

Beyond the Label

Vallejo Game Xpress Lizard Green 72.418 is not only useful for obvious reptile subjects. Over a light primer, it can become a quick base for goblins, orcs, jungle creatures, fantasy shields, robes, banners, alien skin, toxic-looking terrain details, or mossy scenic elements. Over a yellow-green or pale beige base, it can look brighter and more saturated; over grey, it becomes calmer and more natural.

It can also be used as a filter over existing greens to bring a miniature back into harmony. For example, if a model has several different green parts that feel disconnected, a thin layer of Lizard Green can help tie them together without fully repainting the figure.

Using Vallejo Game Xpress Lizard Green as a Glaze

1. Paint the base color as normal and allow it to dry fully.
2. Thin Lizard Green with Xpress Medium at about 30–40% medium.
3. Apply over the base color with a clean, damp brush.
4. Guide excess paint away from raised surfaces before it dries.
5. The transparent Lizard Green layer tints shadows and unifies the color without covering all highlights.

From the SprayGunner Team

Lizard Green is one of the standout colors in the Xpress range because the hue maps naturally to how real reptile scales catch light — darker in the recesses and lighter at the raised tip of each scale. One pass over white primer does most of the work.

Where people run into trouble is loading the brush too heavily on flat areas, then pushing the paint around while it starts to dry. Xpress needs to flow and settle, not be overworked. Load the brush, touch it to the surface, and let the paint move into the detail.

For Warhammer Seraphon, skinks, D&D lizardfolk, jungle creatures, or any bright fantasy lizard, finish with a thin edge highlight of Vallejo Game Color Goblin Green or Scorpy Green on the highest raised scales. That final pass takes only a few minutes and lifts the model from tabletop-ready to display quality.

Works Well With

Pair Lizard Green with: Xpress Medium for thinning and glaze effects, Mummy White for highlight layers, Khaki Drill for basing and terrain, and Starship Steel for metallic scale accents, armor, and weapons.

Safety & Handling

Always follow the safety information on the product label. Shake well before use, close the bottle after painting, and clean tools before the paint dries.

Frequently Asked Questions — Vallejo Game Xpress Lizard Green 72.418

Is Vallejo Game Xpress the same as Citadel Contrast paint?

They work on the same principle: a pigment-rich transparent formula that flows into recesses and leaves lighter areas on raised surfaces. The formulas are not identical, but both are used for fast contrast-style painting. Vallejo Game Xpress uses an 18ml dropper bottle, which makes measuring, thinning, and airbrush use easier than pot-based paints.

What primer color works best under Lizard Green Xpress?

White primer gives the brightest, most saturated green with the strongest contrast. Light grey produces a slightly more muted and natural-looking result. Bone or ivory primers push Lizard Green toward a warmer, ochre-shifted tone that works well for desert lizards, dried scales, or duller jungle greens. Avoid dark or black primer unless you only want a very subtle tint.

Can Vallejo Game Xpress Lizard Green be used with an airbrush?

Yes. Thin it with Xpress Medium at approximately 20–30% medium to paint by volume. Apply at 15–20 PSI as a transparent tint or glaze over a lighter base. It works well for glazing large organic surfaces, tinting terrain pieces, and creating smooth green transitions.

What is the difference between Vallejo Game Xpress Color and Vallejo Game Color?

Game Color is Vallejo’s standard opaque acrylic miniature paint and is usually applied in traditional layers. Game Xpress Color is Vallejo’s contrast and speedpaint line: transparent, self-shading, and designed for one- or two-pass coverage. Many painters use Xpress for fast base color and Game Color for highlights or detail work on top.

How do I fix mistakes with Xpress paint before it dries?

Work quickly. While wet, Xpress paint can be lifted with a clean damp brush or blotted carefully with a lint-free cloth. Once it begins to set, it becomes harder to remove without disturbing the primer underneath. For dried corrections, gently overbrush the area with a matching base color or re-prime the section and reapply.