Paint Like Giraldez With Vallejo’s Two New Paint Sets
November 21, 2013 by dracs
Renowned miniatures painter Angel Giraldez has been showing off two new paint sets from Vallejo, each complete with a step by step guide to help you paint like the master himself.
The first set lays everything down for you in Black and White.
Black and white are colours where shading is all important to achieving a good, realistic effect, something which Giraldez demonstrates brilliantly on his Facebook.
The second set teaches one of the most sought after secrets of miniature painting; achieving metal appearance with non-metallic paints.
These sets each come with 8 Vallejo paints and step by step instructions on how to achieve the effects you want. Vallejo's paints are always top quality and considering what Giraldez can achieve with them it's safe to say that they can be quite effective.
Do you use Vallejo paints?
I do use Vallejo paints. I already have the two NMM paint sets from Scale 75 and will be picking up their recently released Black & White set too so don’t really need these. The step-by-step guides would be good to get hold of though. Ironically, I believe Vallejo supply the paint for Scale 75 too, albeit the finish is very different.
I think the range is closer to the Andrea range… I don’t know who makes them, but they’re formulated to be extra matte (for display purposes). I know the Andrea colours are also fragile (they get chipped easily), but it’s not a problem for “shelf indians”… and you’re going to seriously varnish everything before gaming anyway, aren’t you ?
I’ve games with part-painted minis which I obviously haven’t yet varnished and not had any problem with chipping. It’s not a large enough sample to be able to say there’s no problem with chipping and I do varnish them once they’re done. I haven’t used Andrea but I’m under the impression the finish is very similar. I’ve found the NMM and the Flesh paint sets to be very useful as my mediocre painting skills need the help when it comes to colour selection. The sets based around a colour rather than an effect are less useful as they do just… Read more »
Trouble selecting colours ?
Trouble with harmony ?
Trouble with colour schemes ?
Let me recommend the “Color Index” 1 and 2, by Jim Krause, from HOW books. Small formatThey’re originally for webdesigners and graphics artists, but they have everything you need.
All-in-all Vallejo make the best miniature paints I’ve come across. The NMM style is cool, but their metallics are awesome as well! Can’t really go wrong and I am keen to get my hands on the black and white painting guide.
I used to use Vallejo (and still do for WWII) but find the quality control very hit and miss. The last batch that I brought I threw around half away, the deep red had so much flow agent (or whatever it is) in it that it came out a transparent off white. While the paint pigment often separates to the bottom of the bottle so that even after a good shake you still end up having to open the bottle up to give it a good stir. This may be down to old stock as I’ve heard that these problems… Read more »
I do get that with Vallejo’s paints to the extent I’ve considered putting ball bearings in the dropper bottle to help mix the paint up. One of the reasons I prefer Scale 75 is I don’t even have to shake the bottle and the paint comes out perfectly.
Sure, Vallejo paints have to be shaken, but it’s not exactly more than an annoyance, is it ? I’ve never come across a pot that couldn’t be put back together once separated, except once, and it was a very old batch.
Ball bearings work fine, as well…. I know a few people who do that.
Some have been really bad though most are fine after a vigorous shake. It’s not easy to tell though until I’ve squeezed some out, which can often mean I squeeze out a load of medium with little pigment in it before I find out there’s a problem.
Yes, I can see why that would be a problem…
I bought a batch of old Vallejo some time back. Ok, maybe it was 10 years ago.
Some of them were gone, some were salvageable, some were ok. I’ve no idea how old they were, but the labels peeling off because the label glue dried off is sort of an indication…
Newer ones are easier in the shaking department, but one of the whites I have dries almost instantly even on a wet palette so it’s irritating to work with…
I still have some old GW paints from the 80’s that work just fine.
Ah yes, the old Citadel range used to be produced by Coat d’Arms, and was excellent quality, affordable, with paint sets that actually were cheaper to buy than buying pots individually… that was before they found out that people bought paints even when they were more dilute and in smaller pots, even when they dried quickly, and even when the caps tended to dislodge or not close properly.
I think the compassion of the paint makes a difference, Game colour I have no problems with as it’s a liquid pigment while the WWII range probably has a high turn around and any past problems are quickly resolved. But their is nothing more enoying than after an energetic shake it fires a blank!
Last weekend I was able to test some of the Scale75 paints and in my opinion they are not so different from the Vallejo Model Colors I use for several years now. I personally use all kind of paints but made the best experience with Vallejo – to get them in sets is cool to begin with, but if you already have a variety of paints there is no reason to buy a set. Just ad the maybe missing colors. Therefor Vallejo’s Model range is perfect, because they provide so much different tones.
I’ve got a lot of Model Colour paints and all bar the most recent Scale 75 set. They dry to a noticeably different finish, to the extent I’d prefer not to use them both on the same mini unless I had to. As I’ve said above, the paint sets for effects are very good, for colours you’re just getting a bunch of different shades so they’re mainly worth it so I don’t have the mix ranges as much.
Have you tried mixing them together ? That might be interesting.
I wonder what the Garance red from Vallejo (which has very specific reflections and hues) would be when mixed with a scale 75 red (perhaps Cadmium)…
I have not. If I do I shall report back with the results.
Don’t do it! They will explode, I’m sure of it!
I think I have by accident – because there was dark sea blue for my overall shadings on my wet pallete. Works for me on the miniature, but I made no real side by side comparison. Maybe I’ll be able to test this next time I meet some of my fellow painters with a Scale 75 set.
Are you aware that these paints cannot be sent Royal mail any longer? Neither of these new sets would make it through the draconian new postal restrictions applied by Royal Snail. Looks like the internet retailers will have to start considering alternative carriers.
It’s been all over my facebook news feed today. Seems an odd decision and if it’s true and they go through with it then it looks as if the likes of MyHermes are in for a boost in business.
Frankly I hope so. They already banned spray paint carriage and now this. Maybe all they are good for is stuffing letter boxes with spam advertising? Both these sets interested me but I will have to shop around for a company that actually can ship them to me by some other means.
I’m a postman and this is news to me. Maybe GW brought shares in us and have issued Royal Mail with a C&D letter for delivering a product similar to their own, after all didn’t they invent the idea of mixing pigment with water!
While we’re on the subject of Vallejo paints, has anyone else had the problem of them drying a very different colour to how they appear when wet? I know this can happen with paint in general, but I haven’t ever noticed it being so extreme as it is with a couple of Vallejo blue/grey colours I have. Is it a Vallejo problem or is it a problem or is it something about these particular shades?
Are you sure they’ve been shaken properly ? It could be there’s too much thinner in the mix… Other than that, faulty batch. It’s not supposed to happen.
I’ll give that a try. I’ve only bought a few Vallejo paints and been pretty impressed with them in general. It’s just these two particular greys which had been a bit of a problem.
It’s entirely possible that these pots are faulty… It used to happen a lot for older brands. Some Tamiya colours were like that, back in the day, but progress was made and things were corrected, and now it’s a rarity.
I’ve not had any problems with a colour change but I only use a small palet Vallejo paints (WWII) The blue/greys that I do have are years old and still work fine, it could be due to a glitch in production.
I use paints from a variety of sources, Andrea makes an olive green that perfectly matches the Vallejo colour for Late War British Armour…. I’m not above using craft paints…. I’ve had great results, and have been able to assemble a decent collection of varied colours for every purpose….
The new paint sets look useable and could fill a specific niche….
Oh yes, no one is “married” to one brand, nor should anyone be. Mix and match is my motto… Every brand has its merits ! 🙂
Are these game color or model color sets? I like game color but I’ve given up on model color as every bottle I buy has different problems and the latex base makes drying paint much less manageable. It looks like the nmm set is game color so I may pick that up.
Does anyone know of any online store that sells these I can’t seem to find it.
There’s a link in the article leading to the main Vallejo website, where you can order them if you want.
No you can’t, it has a list of distributors and none of them have it yet. You can’t order directly from Vallejo.
Oh, sorry, I was confused.
Apparently, it’ll be available in the coming month in stores that usually stock such products. At a glance, I am able to find most of the other acrylics sets on Amazon.