So I opened the package, and found six pots, 17ml if I'm not mistaken (not mentioned but I read it somewhere) and the have fliptops in the old citadel style. Price is ? 17.99 So that comes down to ? 3/pot
There are six colors in the set:
Pig Iron: A dark metallic color. Heavy pigmented, and leaning a tiny bit to the blue side. It would be an excellent start color for sivler metallics. The coverage over white and black is very good. Thinned it takes 2 mostly 2 passes to cover well. The metallic flakes do seem to drop to the bottom of the bottle after a period but with some shaking or stirring with a match or something, this can be solved. MAybe adding an agitator might work too.
It's a paint that I'm gonna use a lot. Move over Boltgun Metal
Rhulic Gold: a yellowish gold paint with again heavily pigmented and very good coverage over black and white. 2 - 3 thinned passes will cover fully. It has the same problem as the Pig Iron though with the flakes dropping to the bottom.
I'm not sure about if I'm going to pass up my VMC brassy brass for gold metallics since brassy seems a bit warmer, but it looks as a good starting point for gold metallics and you can add warmth to the color with a brown or red colored ink or paint.
Thamar black This black is as dark as it gets. The heavy pigments and thicker paint mean you should take care when trying to shade by adding black. Good paint!
morrow white This is the lightest paint in the P3 line. Pure white. Heavy pigmented (yes again) and a pretty good color for those final contrasting highlights. Also, it's coverage over black is AMAZING while keeping a smooth finish.
Midlund flesh This one is my favourite. A skincolor that doesn't look pink or too pale. It's tone comes close to elf flesh but it's not as pale. It's a color where you don't need to add another color to if you want to paint a regular skintone. Excellent paint with again good coverage and a lot of pigments.
Bootstrap leather a warm brown, that would be a good base for any medium brown builds. It could be used too to shade skintones as it's has a bit a tanned look. Coverage is again very good over both black and white.
So my first impressions are: heavy pigmented paints. A bit gloopy but it reacts really good to thinning with water and the overall coverage is excellent. Mixing with the paints from most compagnies is not a problem, but there are some VGC colors that shift from the P3 colors when mixed.
You do need to experiment with the thinning a bit but how thin you like your paints is a personal preference so I can't really give any tips on that
Also the paints dry slower than Vallejo's or GW's. And don't seem to rub off easily when touched.
Overall I'm impressed with the paints. I will need to do up some more experience with them, like mixing them together, etc... but at first glance the paints seem excellent.
I will update this topic as soon as I get another set




