Hobby Errata

I got the full set of Scale75 Instant Colors during their KS in hopes that it would be a way to get some things colored up and to the table quickly. I had neither used them nor seen much about them online so I finally broke out some minis I’m not using for much of anything (their from Massive Darkness which is at best a mediocre game but I do like having them should I do something like Rangers of Shadowdeep or Frostgrave) to give them a try.

Overall verdict: I think that with a bit of work they’ll serve their role quite well.
Detailed verdict: I started with these guys zénithal primed. Boy was I disappointed with the initial results. The colors I was using did just about zero to affect the mini. I stewed for an hour and pondered tossing the whole lot. I looked at what few online reviews there were and found much the same reaction.
I went back to the box and pulled out the primer that came in it and figured it would be worth giving them the best chance possible. I reprimed them and took another shot and…it was a world of difference. An hour later I had these two about where they’re at now and decided I had jumped to the wrong conclusion. I’ll definitely be keeping them and using them for some projects and the weight of fair to middling plastic that isn’t of a high enough quality to warrant my usual laborious paint process but that I don’t really want to play grey now weighs far less heavily on my shoulders.
Some tips/notes:

• These work very differently from my normal paints where I normally highlight up rather than adding shadows to decor in rare instances. These work rather more like watercolors where you work from light to dark. The first layer is going to be rather unsatisfying (and don’t just add more layers of the same color as that really won’t do much). Rather, that’s the base that you than darken down/shade in.
• These both have rather more skin than is probably ideal for these paints. Skin is difficult to do well even with significant time and energy and, considering that, the skin in these is actually fairly decent.
• The results are going to look fundamentally different—a bit washed out, a bit palet, a bit more pastel, a bit more watercolor. I can learn to appreciate that and treat it as an alternate method/medium.
• Let each coat dry before moving to the next. These should go on pretty thick so a hair dryer can be handy to speed up the process.

Some early recipes (though more needs to be done):

Skin: base Human Flesh SIN-15, shadows/second coat Phoenix Feather SIN-14

Leather: base Ogre Brown SIN-38, shadows/second coat Rage Brown SIN-36

Stone: 30-70 mix of Shadow Black SIN-00 and Spectral Wolf Skin SIN-47