this weekend i went to ikea and i learned that a trundle is a type of bed
i have great taste because everything i wanted was out of stock and apparently ikea sells paint
hey guys jay here welcome to eons of battle for miniature painting
you need paint and i've tried most of the brands out there so i can tell you it's all the same
let's real quick shotgun through them games workshop citadel paint is decent but expensive
vallejo paint is very nice and they have the widest selection of colors available army painter
dries a little satiny glossy for my taste but it is very cheap so it's good bang for the buck
privateer press formula p3 or ppp is very good and i like it just a little bit more than games
workshop reaper master series paint is very nice although it's a little too watery for my taste
monument hobbies pro krill is also pretty thin and it dries incredibly matte and transparent
inks and oil paints always come in handy for special effects all these paints are good and
fine there's no standouts no clear losers and that makes me wonder just how good these paints
are gonna be ikea makes good stuff and i'm interested to see just how usable these are
so you've got all the obvious colors like red green yellow blue another blue and pink and thank
goodness it comes with a black or white or else this video would probably be dead in the water
they smell weird seems all right a little bit thin but i totally think that they'll manage to do
something i'm gonna test these out on the models i'm most familiar with space marines as i painted
well over 200. i'm gonna have to look at the consistency coverage and who knows they might be
excellent probably not though so i have to decide what color i'm going to paint this space marine
and i want to pick something with a lot of color in it i don't just want to do an ultramarine
and use this suspiciously ikea blue blue color so i'm gonna have to find a chapter that is very
colorful so i can get get the most out of this paint and i can really tell if it's good or not
all right i got it i am going to be doing the storm lords these guys are very colorful white red
yellow helmets blue lenses normal guns this should really show me exactly what this paint's got
alright so i have my chapter i'm going to prime i'm going to airbrush prime this guy white because
i'm pretty sure this paint is going to cover like butt primer color is always an interesting
question i almost always do black because i like to have my shadows taken care of but it depends on
what you're gonna do here i am sure i'm gonna need that white undercoat i set up my palette with all
the colors in the set i will not be using anything but ikea paint and water no fancy mediums no
cheating just swedish colored goo it looks like real paint and as i dip my brush into it it felt a
little thin and the mixing was tricky too alright moment of truth ikea paint two plastic mini
it's pretty thin
um it's not bad it's not too bad it's probably gonna take quite a few coats
quite a few coats but i don't know if this is going to be like disastrous bad or hilariously bad
it's just going to be difficult the paint does not have very good color saturation and it's not very
sticky stickiness is an often forgotten aspect of paint you need it to want to stick and hold onto
surfaces and this paint just doesn't i applied coat after coat but i ran into more problems
the paint layers are horribly fragile the paint reactivates and wipes away easily
so i'm about four or five coats of paint in on this guy and the coverage is
well it's red so there's that it's very very incredibly matte there's a lot of matte medium
inside of this paint which you'd think is very good but whatever they're using using
as a binding agent is terrible let me show you a little bit about what i'm talking about with
this reactivation so as you can see the red is looking pretty good here let's let's work on
this cod piece a little bit this is just water and a couple of strokes the paint is basically 100
gone that is what i'm up against with this paint i tried to use this reactivation to my benefit
removing the red to reveal the white underneath to add highlights and it worked not perfectly not how
i would like to paint things but i did get white to poke through and make some highlighty looking
things happen it's a little pastel desaturated but it's the best i can do under the circumstances
i watered down the black paint and put this over the white areas to wash them and while
wet i was thinking damn this looks good but when it dried it basically disappeared for the most
part washes have flow aid and medium and all sorts of science to make them do what they do
water and cheap paint is no real alternative i went back and fixed it up the best i could i put
yellow over the helmet and about the only positive i can say is it went on relatively smoothly the
red was very streaky but the yellow is decent it's too bad i didn't make an imperial fist
i darkened the green and put it over the base i used some ikea red to highlight the super cool
venus flytrap basing bits from epic basing this paint frustratingly looks completely
different wet versus dry but you know it works perfectly wet or dry that's right our patreon
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i've done just about all i can do with the six colors that ikea provided i'm gonna have to start
mixing and funnily enough ikea has provided a little color mixing chart which is adorable
also i now realize ikea is always capitalized so it's not ikea it's ikea
you know because it's bold i mixed the red and the green and it's sorta made brown but i suspect
these are not true reds and greens so i stole a little yellow and black to help it get to brown
i spread this onto his holster and pouches and yep it's terrible but what did i really expect
i used multiple thick coats and some black to help give it a little contrast to make it look
like anything the black paint is probably the best or should i say the least bad now onto the
white paint it sure looks like white but when i take it out of the brush it kind of disappears
when i put it on a model it looks like nothing happens it does change from just clear when
wet to slightly chalky white when dry but yeah it's worthless and not having white paint really
really takes away a lot of options when it comes to painting this is not white paint this is chalk
in some kind of a binder medium and not a very good quality binder medium at that this is pretty
much worthless and is a good reminder of why a good white paint is so important my favorite is
liquitex professional heavy body acrylic titanium white this is an excellent excellent white paint
and you know what i even have a black paint i enjoy apple barrel multi-surface indoor outdoor
21985e black and this is actually an 88 cent apple barrel paint which is technically cheaper
than this paint because this paint was 1.88 cents and this paint is excellent part of the reason why
i even tried these paints because there can be good stuff in cheapy cheapy cheap paint but uh
i don't know if i've found anything worthwhile in this ikea stuff yet but time to keep on trucking
now it's time for a sword and ikea did not provide a metallic so we'll have to go
nmm non-metallic metal on this i could use black paint but it would look just like the white parts
of his armor so i mixed in blue i glazed this over the chain sword i did one coat on the blade and
three coats everywhere else and somehow and ended up looking really good the blotches just happened
to dry in the perfect spots i put green over the eye lenses and without a real white paint it'll
have to do he's getting real close now it's time to do a little free handing on the shoulder pad
oh boy so what am i gonna have to do and oh uh oh that's pretty detailed the storm lord symbol is a
skull with three red lightning bolts coming out of it so i loaded up my black paint and went for it
i tried my best to nail it in one so i don't have to fuss with this paint it's so bad and
hard to work with the symbol ended up getting a little too big and lopsided but you know what it's
fine i added another lightning bolt to the knee to hopefully help distract from the shoulder
this paint is not fun to freehand with it's not much fun to do anything with it but i'm getting
real close to the finish line i put more black and brown paint on the base as it was way too light
and i stippled brown onto the bottoms of his legs the paint dries so matt that there's not nearly
as much contrast as i would want on the mini the only thing left to do was to paint the rim the
base black uh it's not working um the only thing left to do is to paint the rim of the base black
it took so many thick chunky coats of black paint before the base rim was suitably covered
all right now that the base has about a millimeter of paint on it it looks acceptably black holy
moly ikea usually makes pretty decent stuff so i'm a little surprised i wonder if i can find
something this paint goes well on like wood wood is porous so it's very paint friendly
and this worked reasonably well i could see the kids having fun painting with this stuff on a
birdhouse with gam gam well it's not amazing but for a porous surface like wood it's fine
but that makes me wonder what about paper it's been a few years since art school but clearly
my skills have not dipped even a little in no time i had created a masterpiece
well i can't argue with that this stuff is perfectly good for fine art use well that
sucked ikea i trusted you i trusted you to provide me with adequate paint and you missed the mark i
love your products i have furnished my life with swedish particle board i love the simple design
clean aesthetic rugged durable construction but this paint i mean the results are results it was
a fun experiment well that's not necessarily true it was an experiment to paint with paint that is
barely paint and i was able to get something out of it but holy cow while i was painting all i
wanted to do was paint with something else you don't know what you got until it's gone and i'm
gonna have to paint another project just to get the horrible taste of this ikea paint out of my
mouth i guess both figuratively and literally you know really i've been unfair to this paint it's a
children's toy i think i proved that with the wood and paper experiments it was never going to knock
my socks off and make me want to throw out all of my other paint i was able to paint a space marine
and really this is a perfectly fine children's toy that cost two thirds as much as just my white
paint costs so really it's fine anyway i'm gonna go cook up some swedish meatballs so bye bye