Reaper Miniatures Does Xpress Colors

I've noted in a few of the recent posts that I picked up a few bottles of Vallejo's version of the contrast paint product they call Xpress Color. I originally found four at the local hobby store and was told that they were hard to get and keep in stock. After the holiday the jackpot was hit as the local hobby store had another 18 colors in stock. According to Vallejo's literature there's a total of 52, so I only have about half. Plus there are 8 "Intense" colors which I haven't seen on the store shelf - only in Vallejo's marketing literature.

Making a color swatch on a piece of paper isn't really possible so I figured it was best to see how these really performed on a model. Therefore I grabbed a handful or two of modern Bones from past Kickstarters that I was never going to actually use in a medieval fantasy game that I run.

All miniatures were airbrushed with a white primer.

Here's what I have so far...

Velvet Red - Reaper Miniatures Deadlands Noir: Femme Fatale - 91011

Plasma Red - Reaper Miniatures Nightslip - 80027

Martian Orange - Reaper Miniatures Ellen Stone, Cowgirl - 80003

Nuclear Yellow - Reaper Miniatures Berkeley, Zombie Hunter - 80022

Imperial Yellow - Reaper Miniatures Deadlands Noir: Houngan - 91010

Deep Purple - Reaper Miniatures Texas Ranger Female - 91004

Cardinal Purple - Reaper Miniatures Brotherhood of the Seal Human Monk of the Seal - 89035

Gloomy Violet - Reaper Miniatures Deadlands Noir: Grifter - 91014

Storm Blue - Reaper Miniatures Sister Maria - 80028

Omega Blue - Reaper Miniatures Sascha Dubois - 80004

Mystic Blue - Reaper Miniatures Astrid, Female Bard Half-Elf - 77078

Caribbean Turquoise - Reaper Miniatures Deadlands Noir Occult Detective - 91013

Copper Brown - Reaper Miniatures Deadlands Noir: Stone - 91009

Wasteland Brown - Reaper Miniatures Texas Ranger, Male - 91003

Dwarf Skin - Reaper Miniatures Deputy Wayne Tisdale - 80024

Plague Green - Reaper Miniatures Undead Outlaw - 91005

Lizard Green - Reaper Miniatures Stone - 91001

Troll Green - Reaper Miniatures Deadeye Slim - 80002

Snake Green - Reaper Miniatures Sam Ayers - 80030

Black Lotus - Reaper Miniatures The Black Mist - 80007

Space Grey - Reaper Miniatures Bonnie - 80025

Templar White - Reaper Miniatures Agatha Fox - 80026

I've put all these models on a little riser shelf on the side of where I paint so that I can reference them as needed. One note that I did notice after the paint dried that some of them had air bubbles in the paint with the Black Lotus color being the worst of the group. I'll need to watch and determine if that's something I'm doing or a characteristic of the paint itself.

Kickstarter paint total 182 + 22 paint sample figs = 204

Lost Mine of Phandelver - Redbrands

 

These were awesome 3d prints for the Redbrand gang and I had a good time detailing these out from a basecoat of airbrushing Scarlet Red on all the models (which went down very well). All paints were Vallejo and after using the airbrush I brought these six models onto the hobby desk to pick out the details. Tan for the flesh followed by Terracotta for the leather armor. Next was Leather Brown on the bags, Bestial Brown on the hair/beards and Gunmetal on the swords. The Redbrand Gang leader, I did a little more by using Wolf Grey to give him candy cane stripes on his pants.

This is part of the 3D Dungeon Labs Etsy shop purchase.

Sculpt: Excellent - these were fun sculpts to airbrush with lots of dynamic flowing robes/cloaks and as a group will look great on the tabletop.

3D Print: Excellent - well done - clean - no issues anywhere - very solid.

Fitness: Excellent - has the proper base and scale, and will look good as a unit on the tabletop.