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Vallejo Game Color Buyer's Guide
Early 2023, Vallejo released an improved Game Color paint range for hobbyists. Golden Goblin Games is now offering the full product line as an alternative to Citadel Colour.
The new Game Color formulation represents a new approach to painting Fantasy and Wargame figures. Developed by Vallejo's experts together with professional modelers, the new range implies a further step in the evolution of miniature painting by offering an intuitive and easy-to-learn painting method to new generations.
The range has been designed according to the BSL (Base, Shadow, Light) figure paint system, based on chromatically compatible groupings of three colors, which offers the less experienced painters for an easy choice of colors to paint miniatures with the appropriate highlights and shadows for each base color.
The new r-PET (recycled/recyclable) plastic bottle is completely transparent, improves color visualization and enhances AV’s commitment to sustainability and the environment. In addition to the new bottle, the new cap includes a security seal.
Vallejo Game Color
Acrylic colors for all kinds of Fantasy and Wargame figures.
The new Game Color formulation greatly improves the colors application. The paint spreads very smoothly, is more fluid, opaque and contains a high pigment saturation, chosen for their brightness, maximum stability and resistance to light.
Colors are easy to apply and blend, offer a matt finish and excellent self-leveling properties that prevent brush strokes from showing on the painted surface. Formulated with state-of-the-art resins, paints provide a high resistance to handling and rubbing.
How to use: Apply with a brush. It can also be used with an airbrush if properly diluted with Airbrush Thinner.
Vallejo Game Color: Ink
Game Color Ink are transparent colors with a high pigment concentration and can be used for enhancing, shading, unifying and modifying tones, as well as for shadow effects and washes. The satin finish shows intense shading effects on metallic surfaces.
Vallejo Game Color: Special FX
Special FX colors range has been completely reformulated in order to reproduce different effects on miniatures and fantasy sets. Blood, bile, vomit and other organic textures are ideal to apply on fantasy or science fiction figures. Effects such as verdigris, rust or corrosion will allow us to incorporate textures and weathering effects on figures, scenes and dioramas.
Vallejo Game Color: Metallic
Game Color Metallic also has an improved formulation that enhances the application, colors are more fluid and apply easily over the figures.
The metalized pigment used in the formulation has an ultra-fine particle diameter which enhances the color properties and offers an excellent adherence and high resistance to handling and rubbing.
Vallejo Game Color: Wash
Game Color Wash is the range of colors for wash effects and techniques on figures, which can also be used on other surfaces. It is presented with a new formulation that enhances the capillary properties of the product.
Vallejo Game Color: Fluo
Fluorescent colors are ideal for providing special lighting effects to your fantasy figures and vehicles. If you want to optimize the properties of these colors, it is advisable to apply them over a white primer because the few fluorescent pigments available are transparent or semi-opaque in nature.
Vallejo Game Color: Auxiliary Products
The Auxiliary range includes a series of mediums, varnishes and thinners that are used to modify color characteristics, such as gloss, opacity or drying time. The Glaze Medium dilutes and delays color drying time. Mixed with Metallic Medium, colors take on a pearlescent and metallic effect. Diluted with Airbrush Thinner, colors can be used with an airbrush. Polyurethane varnishes offer great resistance to handling and include different finishes, from glossy to ultra matt.
Vallejo Xpress Color
When we need to paint multiple figures in a fast way, Xpress Color is the ideal choice, these matt colors are specifically formulated to paint miniatures in a fast and easy way.
The main characteristics are its excellent capillarity that allows the color to flow easily over the miniature surface, settling on all the reliefs and more intensely in the crevices of the figure, creating a contrast effect with a single layer of paint.
It is recommended to apply Xpress Color on a white or grey primed or painted surface. The color will create light areas on the reliefs, saturated mid-tones and intense shadows in the crevices of the figure.
Like all Vallejo products, they are very versatile and can be applied over any color in the range to create soft shading and contouring effects, to create glazes or filters and to blend transitions between color tones.
Xpress Color can be mixed together, or can be diluted with Xpress Medium to modify or create new shades.
How to use: Apply with a brush, it can also be used with an airbrush.
Last updated: March 2023.
