Sunday, December 31, 2023

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


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