It’s finally happening! Affordable and awesome airbrush paints are here from the Army Painter with their new Warpaints Air Sets!
The Army Painter is always coming out with some of the coolest hobby products on the market! This time around they are helping us all get our airbrushing on without spending a fortune. They have been developing these for a really long time now, and that time paid off, as these are awesome. If you want to see how they work, check out Rob’s unboxing and tutorial on them here.
They also recently put their new skin tones set on pre-order so if you don’t feel like breaking out the airbrush, go check that out here!
The team at The Army Painter are known for their amazing Warpaint sets across the globe. Their paints are not only hobby-friendly but also safe for the environment! Let’s take a look at their latest release!
Warpaints Air Starter Set: $39.99
They have three sets to start, with this one getting you a decent amount of paints for a really good price. Let’s hear about everything you get in this set:
The Starter Set is a fantastic way to start your collection of Airbrush colours. With a chosen starter palette of some of the most useable and crisp colour tones for airbrushing, the set allows you to get started from the moment it is unboxed.
The paints are of unparalleled quality due to the nature of the high coverage offered by the specially chosen and ultra-filtered vibrant pigments. This, combined with a very stable and matchless resin solution, is paint science at its best!
Contents:
12 x 18 ml Warpaints Air
1 x 100 ml Warpaints Air Primer
Warpaints Air Mega Set: $180
If you just want tons of stuff in one buy and start off your collection the right way, this is the way to go! There’s a lot in this box, so we’ll let them tell you about it:
All Air are pre-mixed and airbrush-ready right out of the bottle and made from ultra-filtered vibrant pigment. The range has been developed in a unique and innovative Triad System – each matching Warpaints Acrylics colour has a corresponding Base and Highlight colour. This makes highlighting and zenithal shading a breeze and army painting even faster and more cohesive.
Contents
50 x 18 ml Air
9 x 18 ml Air Metallics
1 x 18 ml Warpaints Air Fluo
Air Complete Set: $375 (releases 20 Nov 2021)
This is for all you hobby maniacs who just want everything they have to offer in the new line! Here’s everything inside:
CONTENTS
126 x 18 ml Warpaints Air
including
6 x 18 ml Warpaints Air Fluo
18 x 18 ml Warpaints Air Metallic
How To Use Army Painter Air Paints: Tutorial & Review
The starter set is a great value as well with 12 paints and a giant matt grey bottle for base coating as well. The boxes are all recyclable, so when you get your paints out, you can just drop the box in the recyclables. The paints also come with not one but two mixer balls in there, so even if they’ve sat a little while, they will mix up so easily.
They even give you some ideas of what other colors in their line they match with (100% even) and where in the triad of three they sit (this one being a mid-tone based on the MID label here). With these being color-matched to their other colors, it makes cleaning up any overages so much easier.
Mega Paint Set:
The Mega Set has so much in there, it basically can take you from never having airbrushed to a full collection in one buy. It’s shockingly easy to mix these up, so even if you don’t have a Vortex Mixer, you can get them ready to go in no time.
Rob has even made a few custom colors for his Custodes, and with how the paint is packaged, they are so easy to mix and make whatever colors you want. The metals they have are some of the finest and easiest Rob has used through an airbrush.
The line also has some really cool fluorescents like this green here. Overall, the set is a great value and they just have so much in the box!
Using the Paint:
When using these, you don’t even really need to use much Flow Improver, but Rob does throw a drop in there just to be safe. They still paint just fine with no flow assist, but his airbrush is a little gunky so he adds just a drop of flow.
Editors Note: I should really clean my airbrush lol.
Then he fills the reservoir up until the little nub on the top. Next, he mixes it up with the back end of a used brush, and you’re ready to go!
He’s going to be using the custom gold mix from before to paint up some of his minis. You can see how much this makes the mini pop and it goes on so easily and smoothly. Their metal airbrush paints are just so smooth and finly ground that they can even be used to finish off a mini like this and make the gold pop.
It doesn’t flake or speckle like a lot of other airbrush paints out there. Zero overspray got on the colored areas from errant flake.
If you need to open it up more, you obviously can, but it gives you a ton of control over what you paint. Overall, just super easy to apply and doesn’t splatter or get on your other colors.
It can even be used on areas as tiny as this shoulder pad and not mess up the red or the blue gem.
Color Match Is Automagic
The color match on this is nearly perfect. You can see the primer spray (wide pattern across top), the Warpaint (splotch), and the airbrush spray (arrow indicator) are basically all the exact same. This makes priming and touching up so much easier and efficient.
Even something like the black, the coverage is a little better from the Warpaint, but overall it looks nearly identical. He does a test with a ton of colors and they all come out looking great.
Final Thoughts:
Overall, there is good value in both boxes. The colors match is nearly perfect, they mix up easily, and the quality is just spectacular.
It’s always hard to go wrong with anything from The Army Painter, and these are no different!
Grab Your Warpaints Air Here!
About the Author: Travis Pasch
Travis Pasch
Job Title: Head Writer & Editor
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About Travis Pasch: Travis has been a Warhammer 40k hobbyist since the 1990s, playing the game since Third Edition. Through extensive traveling, he’s seen a lot of the miniatures hobby from across the world, giving him a unique perspective on the latest gaming topics and trends.
Travis’s brother even owns a commission painting studio, where he’s picked up a lot of good advice and techniques for painting Warhammer and tabletop miniatures over the years, as well. Travis joined the Spikey Bits team in 2019 and has been the lead writer since 2020.
Currently, he’s working on converting all his 40k Adeptus Mechanicus models and becoming a true tech enjoyer, complete with both sad and happy robot noises!
