Babe Blonde:This is a cool light yellow. Cool in the sense that it has a slight amount of blue in it. Consistency and opacity was pretty bad on my bottle. Have to say I don’t like the name of this paint though. I think it’s unnecessarily sexist. My recommended highlight colour: Matt White. Deep Blue: A dark, slightly greyish denim blue. A bit lighter than on the colour swatch, it’s very close to GW Alaitoc Blue, just a nuance darker. Decent opacity.My recommended highlight colour: Griffon Blue. Mars Red: This is a bright red with a hint of coral. Great for highlighting Pure Red or GW Evil Sunz Scarlet without the danger to make your highlights appear too orange. It’s very similar to GW Wildrider Red. My recommended highlight colour: Lava Orange or Scar Tissue.

Banshee Brown: A pale, light warm brown that is similar to GW Rakarth Flesh, but less greyish. Useful for mixing into browns for highlighting. My recommended highlight colour: Brainmatter Beige. Alien Purple: A medium violet. Very similar to GW Genestealer purple, but slighty darker. Opacity is above average. Also available as a Color Primer. My recommended highlight colour: Oozing Purple or Orc Blood. Kobold Skin: A medium skin tone for caucasian skin, a bit like a mix of GW Cadian Fleshtone and Kislev Flesh. My recommended highlight colour: Corpse Pale. Jungle Green: A bright, almost neon green. Similar to GW Moot Green but slightly more bright and vibrant. Almost exactly the same as VGC Scorpy Green, makes a great replacement for old GW Scorpion Green,too, if you remember this paint. Coverage is below average. My recommended highlight colour: Poisonous Cloud.Commando Green: A medium green with a nuance of yellow. It’s a bit more greenish and vibrant than on the color swatch. My recommended highlight colour: Army Green. Hydra Turquoise: A medium, warm turquoise. Similar to GW Temple Guard Blue, like the other Warpaints turquoise paints, it leans more towards the warm green side, while Temple Guard Blue leans more towards the cool blue side. My recommended highlight colour: Royal Cloak.

Spaceship Exterior: A very light, almost white neutral grey. It’s even brighter than GW Ulthuan Grey. It’d be nice as an extreme highlight for Ash Grey or GW Ulthuan Grey. My recommended highlight colour: Matt White. Vampire Red: A medium red with a hint of crimson. Would work for highlighting Warpaints Crusted Sore or GW Khorne Red. My recommended highlight colour: Pure Red. Wasteland Soil:Compared to Orc Blood, it’s a less violet and more reddish muted sanguine purple. My recommended highlight colour: Mutant Hue. Dark Sky: A deep navy blue. It’s in-between Caledor Sky and Kantor Blue– a bit darker than Caledor Sky, more vibrant than Kantor Blue. Can be highlighted with either Deep Blue, Ultramarines Blue, Crystal Blue or Viking Blue. Warpaints cater to a lot of different needs. For historic and military wargamers, there are a lot of tinted greys and drab and olive greens to experiment with, while there are loads of bright paints for fantasy and sci-fi collectors as well. It’s a quite large range with very few gaps, the only colours I’m personally missing personally would be a dark turquoise, a dark blue-grey and a dark blueish green. Maybe something to consider for future expansions of the range, The Army Painter?

Orc Blood: A medium warm purple with a hint of red. It’s more vibrant and violet than on the colour swatch. My recommended highlight colour: Toxic Boils. VoidshieldBlue: A light vibrant blue, a nuance lighter than Troglodyte Blue. Useful for highlighting Troglodyte Blue or GW Lothern Blue. My recommended highlight colour: Ice Storm. Pixie Pink: A medium pink, very similar to GW Emperor’s Children. While Emperor’s Children leans slightly to the warm side, Pixie Pink leans slightly to the cool side.

The all-in-one Speedpaint is true one-coat painting solution. Compared to its predecessor, the new Mega Set 2.0 comes with a new formula, expanded colour range that includes 45 new colours, and for the first time ever, it introduces Speedpaint Metallics! Castle Grey: A medium, warm grey. It’s very similar to Stormvermin Fur, only a nuance lighter. My recommended highlight colour: Filthy Cape. Kraken Skin: A light and vibrant cool green. Works great for mixing with Wizards Orb or Elemental Bolt for highlighting. It’s similar to GW Gauss Blaster Green but more vibrant, and, even though it’s a cool green, leans a little bit more towards the yellowish side in comparison. Good opacity for such a light and bright green. Necrotic Flesh: A light, yellowish khaki green. It’s very similar to GW Krieg Khaki. It’s a good colour to highlight GW Ogryn Camo. Also available as a Color Primer. My recommended highlight colour: Drake Tooth. Basilisk Brown: A yellowish ochre paint with decent coverage. It’s an excellent match for old foundation paint Tausept Ochre, and similar to GW Zamesi Desert and Balor Brown. My recommended highlight colour: Troll Claws.Snake Scales: As you can see on the colour swatch, it’s pretty similar to Jungle Green, maybe a tiny bit warmer. But it’s hard to tell the difference between both paints. Almost an exact match for GW Moot Green. Coverage is also below average. My recommended highlight colour: Scaly Hide. I actually think they match much better than Citadel paints to their respective spray paints. I have a can of Mechanicus Standard Grey, and the difference to the paint version is much more noticeable than with The Army Painter’s products – the grey has a slight yellowish-greenish hue that isn’t present in the paint. The 96 acrylic colours It’s important to know that variations like this happen with other paint ranges, too. For example, I bought a bottle of Brassy Brass from Vallejo lately that was much lighter than the bottle I got years ago. Verdict