Your Path
For Speed Painters & Batch Builders
Speed painting is a system, not a shortcut: zenithal prime, one-coat paints, a targeted wash, one matte seal — and a squad that looked like bare plastic on Friday is table-ready by Sunday.
The gear list is mercifully short. One-coat paints in dropper bottles, a light-handed primer routine, a wet palette so mixed batches survive the weekend, and a drybrush that does your highlights for you.
The path
- 01
Prime for the system
Light or zenithal primer is half the shading — one-coat paints inherit whatever is underneath.
- 02
One coat, keep moving
Batch by color across the whole squad; the paint shades the recesses while you work.
- 03
Pick out, don’t repaint
Metal, leather, one spot color — three accents per model is a finished army.
- 04
Seal the batch
A matte coat unifies twenty models into one coherent force.
Gear for this path
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