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Following on from the year zero idea in this week’s video – if you could only choose one line of paints, which would you choose?
If I were starting again from nothing (but with my accumulated knowledge to date) I’d buy individual paints instead of massive boxed sets, matching the colours I needed for the small skirmish army I was painting at the time (buying only kill team sized squads at most) and I’d tell myself I wouldn’t progress until I’d painted them up (even if to just a basic standard).

I’m loving the Army Painter range.
I hadn’t realised just how many paints I’d accrued until I got them out of the loft and found I’d putting most of them back; I’ve forty or fifty contrast paints but find if I have a speed paint version of the same colour (or very much near to it) I’ll always pick speed paint over contrast.

I just find speed paints more “silky”. It’s a feel thing. Sometimes I feel like I’m fighting contrast paints to get them to where I want them to go; Army Painter Speed Paints just seem to know where to flow! Over a zenith highlight (I tried slapchop but, man, what a ballache all that drybushing is!) speed paints, then some Army Painter Fanatic acrylics for edge highlighting and boom – done to a satisfying quality.

Like the recent cull I had on my unpainted minis, I’m thinking it’s time to cull a lot of my unused paints and focus only on those I actually enjoy painting with. For me, that’s the silky, smooth slop-it-on Speed Paints from Army Painter.  I know the standard response is typically “use whatever works best, don’t just stick to one range”. But if you were starting out, which range would you go to first?