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yay … my Scale75 instant paints have arrived 😀

oh wait … this means I now have to paint stuff.

First impressions :

• SSS-002 WAR TANKS STARTER SET : two 1:100 scale resin tankmodels (a tiger and sherman) and the paints
  To describe the booklet as a ‘painting guide’ is overstating it’s use. The pictures are too small to be used as a guide and the text (in multiple languages) is very short.
• SSS-001 THE SMOG RIDERS STARTER SET  : one chibi resin model (tiny body giant, head) and all the paints + ‘painting guide’.  Again no primer and slightly better instructions as to how to use the paints provided. The images are too small to make them useful though.
• SSE-052 FLUOR and SSE-009 METAL AND ALCHEMY STEEL PAINT SET
  paints … that’s all needs saying. The names are also pretty self descriptive (‘black metal’ … says it all doesn’t it ?)
  the blurb claims that there are ‘instructions’ but the tiny print and the single example doesn’t really work as a guide.
• The Instant paint booklet included in the big ‘Mimic’ chest
  It is useful as a summary for the paints and it has examples on how to use them.
  However that is all that can be said about it though.
  You’re not going to learn much from it …
• The Mimic chest + paints … damn it looks cool and it stores all paints and the primers.
  It feels a bit cheaper when you actually open it and smell the cheap-ish wood, but it’s not like it was supposed to be high-end furniture, was it ? It stores paints …

If you expect any entry level tutorials  in any of this … keep looking. The English translations I’ve seen so far feel a bit weird. The texts themselves are more like adverts and less like instructions to be honest.

I hope the Minipedia is a lot better at showing the techniques.
GW’s paint sets for beginners are quite a bit better, but then … that’s probably because they know they’re talking to absolute newbies whereas Scale75 is probably more aimed at experienced artists.

I shall see if I can put the paint to good use in the future, because I didn’t buy it just for show as the range has more interesting and constistent colours than GW’s contrast … (the chest does look cool though).