So, i will tell you exactly how we're going to be reviewing and testing out this Dang high
flow spray paint today, and exactly how the Dang high flow paint came to be! Basically,
about a year ago, bombingscience.com decided to get into the graffiti market themselves
and release their very own spray paint. That of course was the low pressure prime dang paint,
which they had me do a full honest review of at the time. And now, a year later,
bombingscience.com has contacted me again and said, "hey Sciz, we just released the new
dang high flow spray paint and we're wondering if you'd be interested in doing a review of it." So,
that being said, today i'll be offering you my 100% honest opinions as well as everything you
need to know about this dang high flow spray paint while you see me do a full
graffiti piece! And, while we take a look at the dang high flow's stats, pricing, etc, we'll even
be seeing just how much a dang high flow 400ml can covers, compared to the dang low pressure
spray paint. You may be thinking it's similar but the result might surprise you. And even after that
we will be testing out exactly how the dang high flow spray paint sprays using some of
the most common caps on the graffiti market that most graffiti writers and artists will be using
before i tell you at the end if this spray paint here is something that i would legitimately like
to continue using, or if it's a pass from me and why! Hell, i'll even throw in a rating out of 10
for you guys on this dang high flow spray paint. So, if that sounds good let's get right to it!
So, the new dang high flow spray paint is currently released released in 48 colours
by bombingscience.com, and bombing science is the sole distributor of this spray paint.
I think a lot of people including myself who are used to painting with high pressure spray
paint weren't able to feel totally comfortable using the low pressure dang paint, so bombing
science did what they seemed to do best and they listened! They seemed to have their ear to the
ground with that sort of stuff and thus the dang high flow cans were made in 400ml cans as well as
600ml high pressure tall cans, for those more bomber oriented graffiti writers. The tall cans
come in just four colours; those being black, white, gold and silver, i.e the classic bombing
setup! The dang high flow cans come fitted with an orange dot fat cap as opposed to the
softer carolina fat caps that the low pressure dang cans come with in their 400ml size. If you
aren't familiar with that cap, we'll be taking a look specifically at it as well as many others
later in the video to see what they spray like when you use them on the dang high flow cans;
because as we know every type of can has a different valve and thus the cap sprays a little
differently on each type of can. Just to quickly tell you the relative pricing of the dang high
flow spray paint, the interview i did with Fred down at bombingscience.com really does sum
up the pricing: He said, "this is what dang is all about for the paint and the marker products.
We want writers to paint more but not with cheap quality tools." And he said that in relation to
the cheaper pricing of dang paint and the dang flex 15 mops that were just released. You can
check a full, comprehensive review of the flex mops out in the corner where the cards are or
in the description below. The dang high flow is priced currently at $4.85 US per can and the
black and white cans are always on sale as they say at a price of just $4.39 USD per can. So,
in other words, this paint still does undercut the competition by quite a ways in relation to your
big brands such as Molotow, Montana, and possibly even Ironlak, depending on your location. So,
if the paint does stand up to the test and prove that it is a great all-around high pressure spray
paint, then that will solidify it in the minds of graffiti artists writers and muralists as a high
value product to be using. And, for what it's worth, these are my thoughts on the
dang high flow and what i noticed painting initially with the dang high flow spray paint.
So, just to be clear, the pressure of the dang high flow is high pressure. It says right on
the side of the can right beside the dang logo that it is a high pressure paint. And right on
the other side of the dang logo i think you'll also find it says it is a gloss paint in all 48
colours, and i would say it feels to me like a high pressure paint the same way
other high pressure paints feel like high pressure paints, if that makes sense? But it does spray
a little bit differently because of the valve system. But i will explain more about exactly
what i mean by that when i talk specifically about the valves because that's a very important subject
and it deserves a bit of time all on its own. Painting with the dang high flow paint to me
feels like it keeps you moving at a good pace. If you're like me, the high pressure paint is what
i grew up with using, so it feels very natural to me and it feels quick enough that if you're
in a situation where you feel you need to be putting down lines at a particularly quick pace,
you're more than able to do that with this paint. At the same time though,
it is smooth enough for outlines if your can control is good and you want to try and put
a sort of skinnier cap on there. And even though we'll be testing out all the caps a little bit
later, i will say that the stock cap that comes on it sprays particularly nicely and i really
thought it was a good cap choice for them to include with the can. The only thing i will say,
and i won't get into this in too much detail either, but i'd say the pressure is a little
bit too high if you're working with a colour like say the white, that seems to be sort of watery and
seems to have a few opacity issues. There are a few colours in their colour line that do have sort
of opacity issues and almost seem just a little bit watery to me, so as you can imagine that can
be a little bit problematic when you need a thick opaque layer in an outline of one of those less
opaque colours or something like that. But i'm not going to get into the opacity too too much right
now because we did a full, comprehensive opacity test when we did a review of the dang prime paint,
aka the dang low pressure paint, so if you do want to take a look at that, which i would highly
recommend because it's a very important part of the review and if you're deciding between a dang
high pressure and low pressure, it might be a good time to take a look at the low
pressure review. You can check that out in the top right hand corner as well or in the description.
So, in terms of the colour vibrancy there's definitely nothing to complain about if
anything i would say that a lot of the colours are actually above average compared to some other
spray paint brands. Specifically, i tested out the reds and the yellows and the blues and all
of those colours were very very vibrant. I was really pleased with them. They all looked really
mouth-wateringly vibrant if that makes sense to anyone else... I guess what i'm trying to say is
the colours were very true. And something i guess i should also say is all the colours are sprayed
on the colour doughnuts themselves, so the colours should match pretty much perfectly with what's in
the can on the colour ring. Obviously it's like any other spray paint; if you do a couple layers
or just a very slow layer, you're going to get the truest version of that colour that's in the can.
So, although this is a high pressure spray paint , it does feel like it has a very soft valve
and soft atomization in particular. And that soft atomization is great for flares and
of course great for gradients and fades as well in pieces. And spray paint cans with that kind of
atomization make them feel like very good quality spray paints and that's exactly how this one feels
to work with. It doesn't just spit out paint like the wonderful Ironlak cans do for us. I sort of
have this thing where i say if anything is going to screw up the piece i'm doing it should be me,
and not the spray paint can. And these cans feel reliable and consistent in terms of the
pressurization and the valve atomization, so i guess from a functionality standpoint i'm
getting at here, that's a totally fine spray paint in terms of that. So, if you do want to
see the finished product of both of the pieces i showed you a little bit of footage of today,
we will get to that later in the video, but right now we're going to be testing out just how much
exactly one of these dang high flow cans can cover on a wall!
So, it's quite loud out here this morning; i hope you can hear me! Basically now that
we've got a bit of an idea of just how this high flow feels, i just want to see exactly how much
a can of this stuff cover. So, what we're going to do first is just lay down as much as we can with
the dang high flow paint right here and then what we're going to do is do the same thing over top
with a can of the low pressure dang paint. Of course these are both 400ml cans. They should
have about the same coverage although the differences in pressurization can make marginal
differences in coverage sometimes, so that's just what we want to test out quickly. So, we're going
to do that and give ourselves a nice background so that we can get our cap test going right now. So
let's see what happens! By my rough measurements at the free wall you can tell that it's about 2.5
meters squared coverage per can of the high flow dang paint and i would also say that the same goes
for the low pressure dang paint as well. You can see there is a negligible increase there
but it's so negligible that it could have just been a difference in my spray pattern. So really
the final figure we're dealing with here is about 2.5 meters squared, give or take a little bit I'd
say. Now to a lot of writers that statistic might not be very useful, but to people who are planning
murals or bigger productions, that could actually come into play when you're figuring out how much
paint to bring. So, hopefully that's useful to someone out there. Anyone who has used
a good number of spray paint brands or cans will tell you that in a lot of cases the valve system
makes all the difference in the world! That's why today we are going to be testing out most of the
most common caps that graffiti artists, muralists and writers are using today on female valve spray
paint cans with the dang high flow spray paint. We want to get a good idea of just how these valve
systems perform and what they spray like using each of the most common caps on the graffiti
market. So, what we're going to do is we're going to start out with the stock cap of these dang high
flow cans, then we're gonna test out some skinny caps in a line and dot test as well as tagging up
a few subscribers names. After that, we'll do the same thing with our fat caps. And of course i'll
make sure to tell you exactly how these feel or what you guys might not be able to see on
camera while i'm doing this line and dot test. Let's get to that! So, for the first three caps
you're seeing here, these would actually be great caps if you wanted to just use three caps, like
a triple cap setup. The first is of course the stock cap, which i mentioned is the orange dot.
It has those nice hard edges; i was really happy with that. You can see the beautiful atomization
there. Great for flares. The second one is a lego thin cap. It's not the thinnest but it's a very
nice mid-range cap. And the third is actually a flame skinny blue cap. It's one of the skinniest
caps you can get and on a high pressure can it actually might make a great outline cap. So, the
cream cap here is a little bit like the lego thin cap. The nice valves on these dang high flow cans
really assist because it atomizes paint so well. So, it is a nice sort of mid-range cap as well.
Next up is the molotow skinny here. You can see it looks a little bit misty around the edges,
although that's mostly me just not really holding it close enough. It is a very very skinny cap.
My beef with it is it's just a little bit slow. It feels a little bit slow. So,
to each their own. Some people might really like this cap.
As far as new york fat caps go, they're pretty much always top class, and when you have an even
semi-decent valve system on a can like these dang high flow cans, it's just that much better. So,
you can never go wrong with the new york fat cap. I'll leave it at that. I tried next the carolina
fat cap just because it is the stock cap coming on the dang prime low pressure paint, so a lot of
people might be buying some of the low pressure cans, some of the high pressure cans together,
using them for different parts of pieces. And i found that the carolina fat cap had nice hard
edges when used on the dang high flow cans as well. The rest of the fat caps i tested out here
i don't want to get into anything in particular with them. The only relevant thing i will say
with respect to the dang high flow cans is that the second last cap you can see me doing here
the widow maker fat cap, which is the Ironlak version of sort of a pink dot. Traditionally on
Ironlak cans, those just look like garbage. They vomit out paint whereas on this one,
something that has a bit of a better valve system, it actually works quite well. So,
if anything is to prove that the valve systems here are a little bit nicer, it is that widow
maker fat cap and i was really impressed with that. The rest of the fat caps i would say the
can sprays in a way that represents how the caps are in general, so nothing to comment there.
Okay, so now that we have done some tags, some throws and some pieces with the dang high flow
paint, (link in the description by the way if you want your very own Tags, Throws N Pieces shirt)
i am going to keep my promise and tell you exactly what i thought of this paint, if it's a buy for me
or if it's one that i'm just gonna not really integrate into my painting myself. The way i'm
gonna do that is first i'll tell you the things about the dang high flow paint that impressed me,
some of the things that might not have impressed me, i'll tell you exactly for your benefit what
type of graffiti writer, artist, muralist would like to try this paint out, and who it might not
be for exactly. And of course i'll conclude with that rating out of 10 that i said i'd throw in
there. And to start off, i noticed two things in particular that really really impressed me;
the first of those being the colour vibrancy. All the colours i used in each of sort of the areas of
the colour wheel were all very very vibrant. That is one of the things bombingscience emphasizes in
their sort of marketing of the dang high flow spray paint, so that was nice to see that hold
true. The second thing that i was impressed with, and this is legitimately the thing i was very most
impressed with, was the valve systems on these dang high flow spray paint cans! They actually are
something else. I have to say like they're actually probably above average by quite a margin,
so really overall with the type of paint that's in here and the sort of softer valve that atomizes
really smoothly, very nicely, i think because of that factor in particular these could make for
a very nice can and paint to be using, if you're doing some sort of serious pieces with fades and
that kind of thing. But i do have to tell you the negatives that i noticed with this paint and there
was really just one major one. And this won't be a surprise to you guys, but just a couple colours
seem to be a little bit transparent. The most concerning of those just being the white. I felt
like i had to do two, three layers with a white just to get a nice sharp white and when you want
to just do like a quick highlight or something and you don't want to play around with doing three
coats of a little tiny highlight that's a little bit of an issue. And that can be a little bit
of an issue for colours that are lighter that you want to try and do fades with. You need nice thick
layers if you're going to be trying to fade in between them sort of, so that was the only major
issue that i took with the paint. And just to answer the question for you in particular, whoever
may be watching this, is this a paint that YOU might want to pick up and try or maybe not? I'm
going to tell you three types of graffiti writers and artists who might want to try this paint out.
Number one, the budget conscious graffiti artist. You can't argue that dang paint does undercut the
competition. You can go to the bombing science site and you'll see that. Another type of graffiti
artist who might like this paint is if you're a writer doing a lot of practice pieces and
you don't necessarily want to use the highest quality, like seven eight dollar molotow cans,
for practice piecing and that kind of stuff, then this is a great alternative to a brand like that.
This gives you the nice feel, especially with that valve system, of a very nice can to give you
some good practice with while being a little bit lighter on the wallet for you. And sort of fitting
into that as a third type of graffiti artist that might enjoy this, and that's a graffiti artist who
paints a lot, who are really really active at the moment. This higher pressure paint is nice
for sort of the bombing scene probably, but also if you're painting a lot, saving a dollar a can
adds up very quickly and you're gonna get some very nice savings there. Additionally, if you
don't necessarily fit into one of those three categories, i'd probably still recommend giving
the dang high flow paint a try just because it is a very nice paint to work with in general and
you might notice something about it yourself that you like and you might want to integrate it into
certain parts of your graffiti. So, with all that to being taken into account, my overall rating
for this paint - i'd have to give it a solid 8 out of 10. And yes, i do want to acknowledge that the
two-point gap between perfect and this is largely due to just the opacity of a couple colours,
because in some cases that can be a very big deal depending on what kind of painting you're doing.
But overall i can't emphasize enough that the dang high flow paint here is a very high quality paint
overall. I was very impressed with it. And a lot of you might be wondering, "well this paint seems
good. Should i be trying it or you mentioned the dang prime paint which is the low pressure paint."
If you do want some more information on that, the dang prime paint will be on screen right now,
my in-depth review of that. I'd recommend checking that out. It has a very nice opacity
test in it as well, which is relevant to the low pressure paint and this paint. So, if you want to
make the most educated informed decision about trying the dang high flow OR prime paint out,
check that review out! I hope to see you over there very soon! Until the next one, peace!