IM A ENT!!! wrote:
The thing that makes vellejo interesting to me is that, you dont have to dip a brush into a pot, i hate paint mixing. For example, you use enchanted blue, wash your brush and then you dip the same brush in again and it leaves a subtle watered down blue part in ...say skull white. For most its not issue, but for me im a prefectionist when it comes to keeping every paint pure and clean( i dunno why? ).
Use a cocktail stick to transfer the paint from GW pot to palette, so you don't have to dip your brush directly in the pot. It's not perfectionism but common sense to keep your paints clean. It's also good for your brushes because you won't accidentally dip too deep and get paint in the base of the bristles where it ruins the brush if it dries there.
My experience is that Vallejo's greens and metals are not as good as GW's, otherwise they are very similar. I usually choose my paint depending on which side of the city I am, one shop here sells Vallejo and another GW.
Vallejo has their own foundation range, look for "Heavy X" such as Heavy Charcoal, which is basically the same as GW's Charadon Granite. The normal paints are very similar to GW's but the foundations/heavys are a bit different coloured. They also have washes but I haven't tried them.
You don't have to switch. Buy one and if you like it start getting Vallejo when you need new paints. They mix well with GW paints so no need to switch by getting rid of your old paints. I have both, and also Vallejo's Model Colour, which is also a good paint range.
In the articles we use GW names even if the writer actually used Vallejo to paint the model. It would be confusing to mix the names and you can easily figure out which Vallejo colour matches a GW colour.
-- Pasi
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