Get Your Minis on the Tabletop Fast with Vallejo Xpress Colors
With Vallejo Xpress Colors, you can quickly turn that box of grey sprues into a fully painted army or paint up the minis for your next D&D adventure.
Recently a friend of mine recommended that I try Xpress Color paint by Vallejo to speed up my miniature painting. I decided to explore his suggestion by buying three Vallejo Xpress Color Paints to see how they work. They work really well.
Let’s take a look. The video below shows you how the paint works and the final model, and below that is a step-by-step written out.
The Miniature – Naga Abomination by WizKids
For this project, I chose to use an unpainted miniature by WizKids. Why WizKids? Their unpainted RPG miniatures are 28mm and come pre-primed and assembled. I didn’t need to do any work to get this miniature ready to paint. I could just start painting the figure!
The Vallejo Xpress Color Test
To start painting the miniature, I dry brushed it in white to make it so the areas that would naturally have highlights would be brighter than the other parts of the model.
After the white dry brushing, I choose my first color. Gloomy Violet. It looks great right out of the bottle and onto the miniature.
Next, I painted the model with the two reds that I bought. Plasma Red on the top and Velvet Red on the bottom. In the middle area, on the back of the model, I blended the two colors while they are still wet. Wasn’t sure how it would work, but it looks good.
At this point, the miniature has been painted with just primer (already on the model), white paint, and Vallejo Xpress Color paint. To take the model futher, I changed to regular miniature paints.
Carrying on with Regular Paints
To paint the eyes and mouths, I used green. To paint the teeth and spikes, I used white, and to paint the hair, I went with a brown.
At this point, the model looks great!
I could stop here, but I decided to put a shade on this mini too.
After Applying a Shade
Above is a shot of the mini as the shade dried. After it dried, the final model looked amazing, and it did not take long to paint. The time savings using this product were significant.
Wrapping it up…
Painting with Vallejo Xpress Paints really speeds up the painting process. If you are using other brands, these are equivalent to Citadel Contrast Paints and The Army Painter Speed Paints.
The final product looks great, and I will be using them again. If you want to read a longer version of this post (and with more pictures, too), check out the related post on my personal site.
Until next time, Happy Gaming, Everyone!!!
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