Hey guys, a few weeks ago I stumbled upon a new range of paints from a Cyprus based company called Warcolours and I was impressed.
I am always a easy pushover when it comes to trying out new brands, especially when I see colours that I do not already have in my collection.Warcolours paints come in 15ml bottles,which is slightly less in volume than Vallejo which is 17ml and cost around 1.70 Euros which is about £1.30 in the UK. The price is very good as I am currently paying about £1.70 for a Vallejo bottle. From what I have noticed all the bottles have a small ball inside them similar to Comm Art paints, which makes mixing the paint easy when shaking the bottles. I really like this feature.
The Warcolour paint range totals in at 92 separate colours, ranging from neutrals (see above – all available in handy groups of five corresponding hues), flurorescents and some very unique metallic shades:
Here are some quick tries on a sheet of paper:
My initial thoughts on using them is that I really like them. The colours can be thinned down for both brush work or airbrush. I was particularly impressed with how strong certain colours like the flurorescents and metallics are, as I needed only one coat to cover an area, without a second coat.
All in all I am really impressed with the Warcolours paints that I have and will be purchasing more. The only negative I can give is the bottles themselves are awful. They are hard and trying to get the paint out is difficult, even if you have strong hands. If they changed the bottles too a less stiff plastic I would be happy. Other than that I also look forward to trying them out more on some future projects. Highly recommended. Check out their shop here.
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Oh nooo!!! LOL Another producer of colours!! Too much things i wanna try now!!
Jokes apart, its nice to have options and variants. The range looks interesting.
I was lucky enough to be a beta tester for these paints and I loved them. So glad they are gaining ground 🙂 The metallics are super i've seen some coppers from them and it's stunning – like actual copper.
They are really nice, especially the metallics.
I confirm, their metallics are fantastic. I've bough black, silver, copper and gold. The nice feature is that they're thin like the other colors of the range, so you don't need to dilute them and obtain a smooth layer with a very good coverage. The black metal is my favourite. It's like a darker version of the old GW boltgun metal.
I've been looking at getting some of these myself, particularly the metallics.
I actually bought a set of their brushes after seeing it in the comments on here (which work pretty well, especially for the price) and also quite a few empty bottles for airbrush mixes which I actually quite like myself.
The small ones are a little on the hard side but I don't find it a major problem really (I do however have quite a strong grip), the larger bottles are just about perfect though if you're doing large numbers and need a consistent mix.
Got a large commission of Alpha Legion at the moment for which I'm using FW's airbrush clear range (which I love) in various mixes and the big bottles work well for that.
Ben, btw how are you going about painting the Alpha Legion models with the FW paints? Seems a never ending question on the internet on how it was done.
At the moment I'm using FW's scheme but using their paints rather than the Tamiya range they suggest and getting good results, I will be adjusting it when I do my own force eventually though to get even better results hopefully.
The scheme is:
Iron hands steel base (I'm thinking of doing a black ink wash after that for mine to give better definition and greater contrast with the highlights)
Top down highlights with GW's Runefang steel or Tamiyas flat aluminium
25/75 mix of Mortarian green and Calth blue thinned down quite a bit
Calth blue down from the middle of the panels
Mortarian green up from the middle of the panels
(for speed as the commission I'm currently doing is on the lower end of the scale I've just been doing those last two steps from the middle of the model on troop size minis rather than each panel, still works well)
Light top down highlights with thinned Grey knights steel
Lastly a thin layer of Calth blue over the lot
Took a few practice goes to get consistently right of course.
The green/blue mix is over the whole model btw just in case that wasn't clear 🙂
I write as I as interested as I am also doing a Alpha Legion commission. I think from going from back story and ar the varients in description on colour are so varied. I went with a grey ble scale scheme. Not the most easy army to choose a scheme 🙂
I'm finding it quite enjoyable to do though, really like the sort of colour changing effect the scheme I've used gives.
The most difficult thing I've found is how to do squad markings as it seems to just be a put whatever you like on kind of thing, FW's transfers are superb though so that helps.
I've been using Warcolours paints since shortly after they were first released. I found them a little tricky to get used to at first as they seem to behave differently than pretty much all of the other hobby paints on the market. Once I settled in with them I found that I not only liked them but they might be my favorite paints on the market. They don't replace other paints for me. I still feel like if I want a good, solid base coat for a color I'm more likely going to reach for Vallejo or Citadel but otherwise I'm happy to just use Warcolours after that. Here's an example of a Celestant Prime that I just completed using 95% Warcolours – https://www.flickr.com/photos/dullspork/26007485502/in/dateposted-public/
That metallic turquoise looks ideal for Alpha legionnaires…
Thanks for the review. I'm looking for decent metallic paints, I currently use mostly GW paints, I like most of their non metallics, but only like 5 of their metallics (2 of which are the new Sigmar golds). I'm looking for new alternatives and also like the idea of fluorescent colours too. Might have to invest in some of these, thanks again TEN.