I think they’re very good. Went for ‘interesting’ colours for more organic subjects, like leathers, green skin etc: Papyrus, Skeleton brown, Elfwood brown, Zombie and Ork flesh. All useful, and thePapyrus may be a better yellow than the one reviewed here. Obviously what you put them on top of is decisive: some of the above are very interesting over a black wash on white or grey primer.
Just used some contrast blood angels red through an airbrush on my red corsairs I'm building. Did a zenithal with some light grey over black primer. Looks really good.
The contrast works best through an air brush. I like that it's translucent, plus once you figure out how to get ur flow right the contrast effect is wonderful an you don't get any streaks like u do with a brush.
I think the main benefit of contrast is that I don't need to worry about thinning my paints or multiple coats. Some of us just aren't good at painting and contrast does make it kinda easier!
Yeah, I love that paints like these can give a sense of depth without needing to worry about adding multiple, separate layers of highlight and shadow. They’ll never be as good as a layered paint job, but I think they’re brilliant for people who don’t want to take that approach!
I've been using the GSW Papyrus dip over Scale 75 Bone Charm for my 40k Ulthwé Eldar and so far it's looking fairly good. I will probably tweak it with Citadel Skeleton Horde painted into the recesses and some highlights but so far Papyrus and Bone Charm work well together. It creates a yellowy bone colour which works quite nice when old Ulthwé had golden yellow as a spot colour and the new method is a really pale bone. This sits between the two which I find quite pleasing. I'm willing to give more dipping inks a try now they have a bigger range but I need to think carefully about which ones I will actually need.
I don't think a single one of these 'contrast' paints are designed to cover such a dark grey, as far as I'm aware a light bone, white or the lightest of greys are what's recommended with a zenithal prime being optimal. Would be good to see them over a lighter primer
The difference on my white palette paper is pretty stark when compared to the results over the grey undercoat. I’m going to try them over white primer and Tamiya’s light grey next. Thanks for checking out the video!
Nice review even though you went a bit too fast during the application and it shows in the end result. But you're the only review so far to have mixed them and dipped a mini in it lol Nice to compare the ratio of paint for the money spent
Cheers for checking it out! Yeah, for this video I wanted to paint as quickly as I could, just slapping it on to see what the end result would be like. I was pleasantly surprised! Normally I’d spend a bit more time! I’m glad you liked the dipped Gobbo! Lol
One thing to keep in mind for Dipping Ink is that some are meant to be painted over with multiple coats. Not really a one coat paint, but they do get better with multiple coats.
It was a good idea to go for red, yellow, blue, but you probably would get better results with magenta, yellow, cyan (azure). If you added in a bottle of black, and a few empty bottles, you'd be able to mix most of the colours in the range. Also, it's a bit odd to say the blue leans towards indigo when the blue IS indigo. Just sayin' :)
Going to have to get some of those for astra militarum. They seem great! Wonder how they'd look on Armoured vehicles. Can you use those inks in an airbrush?
Given the cost per ml, these would have to be pretty bad to not be well worth it, and these seemed to perform just fine. I’ve been toying with the idea of trying this kind of painting, and I think GSW is the way to go. On another note, I suspect the yellow needed a second coat to make the true color show. Where it pooled up, you could see it was much yellower. I think that may be fairly common with these dipping inks.
No worries at all, thanks for checking out the video! This was my first go with them and I was painting fast and loose, so I’m interested to see what they’ll look like with a bit more time spent on them and different primer colours.
Other people on YT are testing them, check their videos out too to have another point of view. But as Gray Primer said, just the ratio of paint for the price paid is worth buying them. It was the same with Contrast paints, I saw plenty of YT reviews and it went from meh to great depending on the application, one or more coats, primer colour,...
@@NightfallTH 60 ml is good for a long time and with a dropper bottle, no worries about drying or spilling unlike contrast. People with horde armies like orks, skavens, etc will find a good use for 60 ml
Contrast are also used in airbrushing as they are traslucent. Did you try them in that way? How do the dipping inks behave in airbrush? Cause I'm not interested in usign them with normal brush.
There's less hype around Scale 75 Instant Color because they are just washes that require at least 2 coats for decent coverage (hardly instant) and many of us who backed the Kickstarter got stung by the marketing
Good video, only thing is where you complain about the red going on lightly and needing a second coat, to then saying that the contrast paint didn’t contrast as much? Seems like if the red had a second coat it maybe similar to the contrast, but wasn’t clear?
Yeah the GSW red was a bit strange, acting much more like a thin, true ink than the other colours in the range, which acted more like traditional Citadel contrast paints. I used a stirring stick on the bottle of GSW red and it started performing better, so maybe it was just in need of a comprehensive shake!
Those don’t look remotely like contrast killers. They just look like less vibrant alternatives. I’m not saying contrast is completely amazing and and without flaws, but this doesn’t appear to be any sort of improvement. Cheaper =/= better.
Thanks for watching the video, Ralph! Yeah, I wouldn’t say these are necessarily an improvement in quality over contrast, but for the value and the way I’ll use them on dioramas they’re a much better choice for me.
I think they’re very good. Went for ‘interesting’ colours for more organic subjects, like leathers, green skin etc: Papyrus, Skeleton brown, Elfwood brown, Zombie and Ork flesh. All useful, and thePapyrus may be a better yellow than the one reviewed here. Obviously what you put them on top of is decisive: some of the above are very interesting over a black wash on white or grey primer.
Thanks for that, I’m going to grab the papyrus for sure, and also try the yellow I have with a white primer.
Just used some contrast blood angels red through an airbrush on my red corsairs I'm building. Did a zenithal with some light grey over black primer. Looks really good.
Would the airbrush paints not give better results? I thought the notion of these are for the one coat painters club!
Sounds great! Do you think you would get the same results with a base or layer red airbrushed over the zenithal, rather than contrast red?
The contrast works best through an air brush. I like that it's translucent, plus once you figure out how to get ur flow right the contrast effect is wonderful an you don't get any streaks like u do with a brush.
I think the main benefit of contrast is that I don't need to worry about thinning my paints or multiple coats. Some of us just aren't good at painting and contrast does make it kinda easier!
Yeah, I love that paints like these can give a sense of depth without needing to worry about adding multiple, separate layers of highlight and shadow. They’ll never be as good as a layered paint job, but I think they’re brilliant for people who don’t want to take that approach!
I feel Ya brother. I use them as Painting is the side of the Hobby I'm least invested in.
I've been using the GSW Papyrus dip over Scale 75 Bone Charm for my 40k Ulthwé Eldar and so far it's looking fairly good. I will probably tweak it with Citadel Skeleton Horde painted into the recesses and some highlights but so far Papyrus and Bone Charm work well together. It creates a yellowy bone colour which works quite nice when old Ulthwé had golden yellow as a spot colour and the new method is a really pale bone. This sits between the two which I find quite pleasing. I'm willing to give more dipping inks a try now they have a bigger range but I need to think carefully about which ones I will actually need.
Thanks for sharing your experience with these. Now that they have some six packs of Dipping Inks available I’m going to pick up a few more for sure.
Great video, mate! At that price and without the reactivation problems of Army Painter, this looks very interesting!
Many thanks! I think these will also be so handy for slapping onto terrain and larger areas of detail, without worrying about the cost!
I don't think a single one of these 'contrast' paints are designed to cover such a dark grey, as far as I'm aware a light bone, white or the lightest of greys are what's recommended with a zenithal prime being optimal. Would be good to see them over a lighter primer
I have enjoyed them over Halfords Gray Spray. But the Yellows and Reds do appear to suffer on a darker Gray.
The difference on my white palette paper is pretty stark when compared to the results over the grey undercoat. I’m going to try them over white primer and Tamiya’s light grey next. Thanks for checking out the video!
I've been seeing these pop up in my feed recently, I'm going to have to pick some of these up!
Cool, thanks for checking out the video too!
Nice review even though you went a bit too fast during the application and it shows in the end result.
But you're the only review so far to have mixed them and dipped a mini in it lol
Nice to compare the ratio of paint for the money spent
Cheers for checking it out!
Yeah, for this video I wanted to paint as quickly as I could, just slapping it on to see what the end result would be like. I was pleasantly surprised! Normally I’d spend a bit more time!
I’m glad you liked the dipped Gobbo! Lol
One thing to keep in mind for Dipping Ink is that some are meant to be painted over with multiple coats. Not really a one coat paint, but they do get better with multiple coats.
That’s great to know, many thanks!
I don't come here for a maths lesson. But it was worth sitting through for your TA-Da!
Hahaha every maths lesson should end with a ta-da!
It was a good idea to go for red, yellow, blue, but you probably would get better results with magenta, yellow, cyan (azure). If you added in a bottle of black, and a few empty bottles, you'd be able to mix most of the colours in the range.
Also, it's a bit odd to say the blue leans towards indigo when the blue IS indigo. Just sayin' :)
Neat been using army painter speed paints might supplement with these !
Nice idea! I’m filling in a few gaps in my paint collection with these too!
Going to have to get some of those for astra militarum. They seem great! Wonder how they'd look on Armoured vehicles. Can you use those inks in an airbrush?
They’d need thinned for airbrush, but I think they’d be fine. There’s good pigment density for sure!
This acid green is amazing... Definitely gonna buy one of this
Absolutely amazing colour! Thanks for watching the video!
Given the cost per ml, these would have to be pretty bad to not be well worth it, and these seemed to perform just fine. I’ve been toying with the idea of trying this kind of painting, and I think GSW is the way to go. On another note, I suspect the yellow needed a second coat to make the true color show. Where it pooled up, you could see it was much yellower. I think that may be fairly common with these dipping inks.
I still have that mini, so I might try the second coat as you suggested, and see how it looks. Cheers for sharing your thoughts!
Ya for the price these are great.
Absolutely! Thanks for watching
don't want to come across too negative, but the results of these GSW paints look really, really not great.
No worries at all, thanks for checking out the video!
This was my first go with them and I was painting fast and loose, so I’m interested to see what they’ll look like with a bit more time spent on them and different primer colours.
I agree. The coverage looks too thin, to me anyway.
Other people on YT are testing them, check their videos out too to have another point of view.
But as Gray Primer said, just the ratio of paint for the price paid is worth buying them.
It was the same with Contrast paints, I saw plenty of YT reviews and it went from meh to great depending on the application, one or more coats, primer colour,...
@@spuriusligustinus4509 people talk about the price. But the price is still high. I mean, who really needs 60ml of a transparent paint?
@@NightfallTH 60 ml is good for a long time and with a dropper bottle, no worries about drying or spilling unlike contrast. People with horde armies like orks, skavens, etc will find a good use for 60 ml
Contrast are also used in airbrushing as they are traslucent. Did you try them in that way? How do the dipping inks behave in airbrush? Cause I'm not interested in usign them with normal brush.
I haven't tried them through an airbrush yet, but they are well pigmented and thin beautifully, so I imagine they'll work well.
I wonder if these work well through an airbrush. All my Primaris Dark Angels are done with contrast through my airbrush.
It could be worth trying for sure, with a bit of airbrush medium.
There's less hype around Scale 75 Instant Color because they are just washes that require at least 2 coats for decent coverage (hardly instant) and many of us who backed the Kickstarter got stung by the marketing
Oh thanks for sharing that. I was planning on picking up some of those up after reading the Kickstarter blurb. You just saved me a few quid!
I agree, instant paint need to work differently, not in a bad thing but they are not contrast or speedpaint remplacement…
Sure...the paints are great...but do they shred? Great video as always! The Emperor Protects!
Haha you certainly shred anyway! Thanks so much for the soundtrack to my show!
Good video, only thing is where you complain about the red going on lightly and needing a second coat, to then saying that the contrast paint didn’t contrast as much? Seems like if the red had a second coat it maybe similar to the contrast, but wasn’t clear?
Yeah the GSW red was a bit strange, acting much more like a thin, true ink than the other colours in the range, which acted more like traditional Citadel contrast paints. I used a stirring stick on the bottle of GSW red and it started performing better, so maybe it was just in need of a comprehensive shake!
Might give indigo a try for my ultramarines....
Yeah, that's a great shout. Thanks for watching the video!
@@GrayPrimer cheers man !
Thanks for reviewing this . Main stream GW advertisment is getting old . Keep it fresh keep it new keep it something i never heard of before .
Yeah it’s great to see other brands working hard to compete and stand out!
How are the GSW Dipping Inks different than the GSW Intensity Inks?
From looking at both ranges, the inks are much faster flowing and leave less pigment on the raised areas being painted.
I'm curious how well they would come out on an airbrush
I think they’d work well (with a bit of airbrush extender)
lol at the heavy metal furiously blasting away in the background. Why.
Because disco sounded weird. lol
Aw dip!
This was so much fun!
maybe ist not a KILLER, but more paintvariation.
Yes indeed, the more options we have the better!
Those don’t look remotely like contrast killers. They just look like less vibrant alternatives. I’m not saying contrast is completely amazing and and without flaws, but this doesn’t appear to be any sort of improvement. Cheaper =/= better.
Thanks for watching the video, Ralph! Yeah, I wouldn’t say these are necessarily an improvement in quality over contrast, but for the value and the way I’ll use them on dioramas they’re a much better choice for me.