Antinea Posted March 28, 2020 Report Share Posted March 28, 2020 First of all a disclaimer: I am not paid by AK for this test (why would they, I'm a quite bad painter). I have bought a few of their paints and have been testing them. So as I said I bought recently some of the new AK 3rd generation acrylic paints. Basically, I have all their "Intense" colors (11 paints, the very basic colors: white black, the primaries and secondaries plus a pink, a brown and a purple), all the "Pastel" colors (6: pastel yellow, pink, violet, peach, green and blue, more or less coloured off-whites), 5 Fluorescent ones and the complete metallics range (22 of them). After doing some basic tests; how they behave with a brush, with an airbrush, etc, I decided to test them on real minis. I had some spares when I was extremelu clumsy at assembling Malifaux ones so off we go. Primed black, then pre-shading in grey and zenithal with white. Then applying a few basecoats with Intense Deep green, Deep blue and Deep brown. Result is below. . I have to say that they are nice. Quite thin out of the pot. Not as thin as Reaper but thinner than Vallejo Model Color. Dilution was roughly 2 paints : 1 water Good coverage was achieved after 2 thin coats for blue and green, 3 thin coats for the brown. The flow very nicely on the surface. They take quite a while to dry (for acrylics) so people who like wet blending might consider them. I haven't applied metallics yet here but I've done some airbrushing with them on plastic spoons. And they are great! Dilution 2 thinner : 1 paint, pressure 1.4 bar. 0.35 mm needle. Sprayed perfectly. No clogging. Appearance is quite smooth and shiny, though less shiny than Vallejo Metal Colors. But what a range of colours, especially some very unusual ones: a red, purple, several blues and greens! So, all in all, very good paints. Coverage could have been better but it's not bad. They take dilution quite well. Next step: doing glazing/washes with them. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diddick Posted March 30, 2020 Report Share Posted March 30, 2020 Got myself 2 of them one intense (deep purple) and one regular (hull red). And i was super happy with the coverage. I did use them for "washes" and worked fine 👌 True that one is in the intense range and the other is quite dark, i'd like to see results for lighter colors, I might try a lighter color in the future. On my experience so far, I'd recomend them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antinea Posted July 14, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2020 Done a lot more trials Yellows: Not even the Intense Deep Yellow. It was the Standard Yellow. Quite good coverage for a yellow. And reds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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