Speed paint

Nowadays, when you are browsing through the shelves with miniature paints, you can hardly avoid seeing a number of bottles or jars with a special name; Speedpaint , the solution for all painters who want to paint a miniature at high speed and therefore cut a few corners here and there. By applying this paint correctly you can paint a large number of miniatures in no time with a very respectable result. In this blog I explain how it works, using 6 Ruffians for the epic board game Journeys in Middle Earth . As an extra challenge, I use all the colors in the basic set of The Army Painter Speedpaints (note, this is still the basic set from before Speedpaint 2.0, the new set contains slightly different colors).

To start with, it is important for Speedpaint that the miniature is prepared with a white primer . The Speedpaint paint is very transparent and would therefore be almost invisible on a black underlayer, quite a waste of time in my opinion. Although it is always important to shake your pots of paint well before use, this is especially true for Speedpaint. As the jar says, shake extra well before each use.
As with the normal painting process, it's smart to paint from the inside out, so I'll start with the skin of the Ruffians. I use the Crusader Skin skin color for this, but of course you can use any skin color that you like. With Speedpaint, unlike normal paint, it is very important that you work as neatly as possible. Because the paint is transparent, you can continue to see spilled pieces of the wrong color through the next layer. On the other hand, it is smart to load enough paint into your brush so that there is a nice wet layer on the miniature. By making the layer a little fuller, the effect of the Speedpaint is enhanced.

As you can see, something special happened after the paint dried. If all goes well, all flat spots should have dried nicely, while the edges and cracks have a nice natural shade due to a darker variant of the color. This is exactly what Speedpaint does for you.

I continue with the facial hair of the Ruffians and give it a tight coat of Gravelord Gray , also note the mustache! Now I want to give the shirts of these guys a nice recognizable color, but at the same time I also want to make 6 unique miniatures. I'm going to achieve this by painting the shirts 3 different colors, and then using 3 other colors for the pants. By making unique combinations I immediately have a kind of unity through the small selection of colors, but also diversity through the combinations. I make the shirts with Orc Skin , Highlord Blue and Blood Red . Make sure you make as little mess as possible on the pieces of leather and fur over the shoulder.

I then paint the pants with Hive Dweller Purple , Fire Giant Orange and Zealot Yellow . I pay close attention to creating 6 unique combinations of shirt and pants. I leave a piece of white at the bottom of the legs, namely the shoes. These will later be given a leather color.
The challenge of getting all the colors from the set is almost complete, so it's the next color turn for all 6 miniatures. I paint the fur that hangs over the shoulder in Pallid Bone . I paint the strips of fabric around the wrists and the fabric around the handle of the club with the same color. Then all leather parts are painted with Hardened Leather and I have had all the colors in the set.

However, there is still quite a bit of white on the miniature, because these Ruffians are armed to the teeth with a club and several long knives. To paint these I use a regular metallic paint, Plate Mail Metal , but one of the new metallic Speedpaints would work just as well. As a final step I paint the bases neatly black with Matt Black and the Ruffians are ready!

By tackling the painting process with Speedpaint you can really paint a lot of miniatures in a very short time. Will they be the most beautiful miniatures ever? Maybe not, but you can paint a larger game at a very fast pace, and with some experience you will become not only faster but neater at applying all the colors. This technique is therefore also very suitable for players of miniature wargames who want to put very large groups of miniatures on the table but do not have too much time or desire to paint. In any case, I will be experimenting a lot with Speedpaint, so you will see that in this blog!

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The Army Painter The Army Painter: Speedpaint Crusader Skin (18 ml) - Paint
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