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I think @pagan8th has nailed it. How to hobby “properly” 😉

@redscope – interesting take on AP. I’m not sure I agree with the idea that AP got speed paint “wrong”. As in, they made a one-coat solution that could compete with (and, for me, is better than) Contrast Paints. Far from being late to the party, they were there, second only to Citadel with their “one thick coat” paints (all the other companies took far longer to release their contrast-equivalent paint lines).

I think we’re both talking about the same thing – just seeing them from different perspectives.
For me, Speed Paint 1.0 isn’t broken at all. I have a load of their 1.0 speed paints and they are brilliant. They’re smoother and silkier and more contrast-y that Citadel colours of a similar shade.

I’ve never had reactivation problems – but that’s mostly because I don’t try layering over the top of them (except for edge highlights with standard acrylics). But even if I did, I’d accept that as being down to me – after all, the paint is supposed to be a one-coat-and-done paint; and for that purpose, it works really, really well. If it reactivates when I’m painting over the top of it? Well, that’s not what it was designed for!

But the fact that so many painters *did* have problems – when using AP paints in ways they weren’t designed – AP completely re-engineered their entire paint line. That’s the thing I was impressed by. Far from seeing it as “correcting a failure” I saw it as “failing to anticipate user demand” and adjusting to it. And not just one or two colours, but adjusting their entire paint line.

All the other companies that “got it right first time” had the benefit of watching Army Painter “get it wrong”. They were very late to the party. I’m just really impressed by how much effort AP have put into “getting it right”.