Steamforged Games Fund P3 Paints Return On Kickstarter
September 11, 2024 by brennon
Steamforged Games are now on Kickstarter looking to bring the P3 Paints range back to hobbyist's collections. The Kickstarter is already going great guns with options to scoop up paints both old and new.
P3 Paints Kickstarter // Steamforged Games
The classic range of paints is returning with plenty of fan favourites as well as never-before-released colours. In addition to the paints themselves, you also get a choice of pot design. You can either go for the classic lids that you'll remember or the new dropper design that you see here.
P3 Paints Project// Steamforged Games
The formula for the paints has been adapted and there are 110 bottles in the range already, raring to go. Twenty-eight new colours find their way into the collection as well, offering up more options for those painting their Warmachine miniatures and beyond. I must admit, apart from their reds and yellows, I really liked the P3 Paints range and their metallics were a staple of my collection for a very long time.
Here is the list of paints available as part of the range...
P3 Paints Range // Steamforged Games
When it comes to pledges for the paints, you can either start off small with a starter set of ten paints or go in at the hobbyist level and get fifty of them. There is also a master pledge that gives you access to all of the paints from the new collection.
The different pledges are also accompanied by a welcome pack of STL miniatures for you to 3D Print and the campaign recently unlocked a neat bust for the legendary Sorscha that you could paint up using your new P3 collection.
If you're someone who lamented the loss of the P3 Paint range, will you be backing to bulk out your collection once again?
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"When it comes to pledges for the paints, you can either start off small with a starter set of ten paints or go in at the hobbyist level and get fifty of them..."
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Goobertown Hobbies did a video on these paints and I found it very helpful. Even entertaining.
So … why P3 ?
Isn’t the market for paints a bit over-saturated ?
What is the unique selling point for these ?
(and can we get some normal paint colour names for once ? :D)
I remember when these came out, and someone I knew had the line. He swore by them…. I tried them, and to me, they were just his hatred of GW, find another paint, brand. Nothing spectacular.
That said, yeah – what the world doesn’t need now is more hobby paint.
Between:
GW
Army Painter
Vallejo
AK Interactive
Reaper (?)
and others?
How could anyone justify MORE paints?
Clearly they do …
Heck, Scale75 managed to make several paint sets (with the next one on its way ‘soon’).
I had to do a reality check myself as I really don’t need more paints. I do need to start painting 😀
> How could anyone justify MORE paints?
Add to the list colored primers, craft paint, and washes. (: Skip spray priming, remove mold lines whenever you feel like it, and nobody cares about the paint jobs (including myself) when we start throwing dice!
Market is saturated and I’d like to add Cuttlefish Colors, Coat D’Arms, Reaper (yes, @grantinvanman) Humbrol, Testors, Tamiya and Warchest (a company that was out of Crete or Cyprus with skull logo if I remember right) P3 was awesome for blending. I still have a couple of old pots that have managed to survive this long and they are some of the smoothest things I’ve worked with. I took up Cuttlefish for some of the same property but it doesn’t quite reach the level. As far as names… ugh.. we deal with IP names for paints like GW has. It’s… Read more »
There you go – literally so many paints…
What I like about AK is the base paints are mostly airbrushable, even better than Vallejo Air, and AK Air are just sublime to use! I’m moving toward a lot more AK.
P3 has been around for a while, just been on a bit of a hiatus.
I don’t mind more choice in the market, it shakes things up and drives some innovation and hopefully competition! All of which are good for us as consumers, the demand clearly exists to be supporting so many products too.
Agree on the paint names, though quite a few of these are reasonably descriptive.
paint names is something that applies to all brands.
I guess one has to use unique names so folk can’t easily shop for the best based on colour alone…
I don’t mind choice, but at the same time I would like something that makes it easier to decide.
As is I the only factor that works is ‘availability’.
GW paints are practically in every hobbyshop with Armypainter a good second.
Everything else is harder to find for someone new to the hobby, unless you got money to burn and pick a kickstarter.
Vallejo is also easy to find; for me, getting AK interactive was easy when I lived in Vancouver – a model shop had racks of it, every option.
When I moved back to Calgary, there were no local shops that had it. So I had to tack it on to online orders from wherever. And then I found my favourite online airbrush shop had decided to pick it up! Now I get whatever I need consistently.
> What is the unique selling point for these ? I’ve heard quite a bit about P3, but, if you already have a ton of paint and are happy with it, I don’t see any reason to pick it up now, especially when you can buy it retail, or won’t be painting your mini’s to a high standard. (I have seven sprues of swamp terrain and had fifteen mini’s to paint for a game in a week. No, I don’t think I’ll be able to do a good paint job on them. ): It’s “reformulated” so isn’t the same exact… Read more »
I’m pretty stoked. I liked my P3 stuff back in the day, and I’ve never been able to find quite the right matches for some of those colors. It’ll be nice to be able to get them again, and in the superior dropper bottle format no less!
Will I buy the entire line? Hell no. Will I grab the handful of colors I liked and never found good replacements for? Absolutely.