 Hello everybody and welcome to another product review video and today we're going to talk about the AK interactive third generation acrylic colors. I've got a lot of requests to review these and I picked up a whole bunch of them and we're going to go through a little review today. So first things first let's talk about the basics. So this is 236 different colors they have in the range so it's quite a large line. There's different elements to them that is to say there's sort of a main line, there's the metallics, there's the fluorescence like I've got here, there are pastel colors. So there's a lot of different elements to this. Range wise, name wise, sort of color wise they will feel very familiar to you if you're used to say the Vallejo model color sets. A lot of these feel very similarly named, very similarly colored. They're clearly meant to directly sort of hit model color directly where they live. That was sort of immediately obvious if you look through the different colors. They are, I got all mine from Michigan twice soldier where they are $4 apiece for the bottle so they're pretty standard price for a pretty standard amount of paint. These are just your standard 17 milliliter dropper bottles at least as far as size. Now there is something different as far as the construction of the bottle itself goes. Squeeze wise and stuff like that it feels basically like any other bottle you've ever used but you may notice it has this very funny cap. So when you look here, right the cap itself, I don't know if that's visible or not, can you see how it has this extra thing in here to sort of poke down inside. Basically it has this indentation that's supposed to keep paint from clogging up and I will say I haven't had a clog yet with these so that's good. At the same time they have a little, that indentation on the other side here means you can like put a little drop of paint in the top and there's a little reservoir for it and that way if you're a person who you know stores your paints kind of like this on the shelf or something then you still know what colors you're dealing with. They are very highly pigmented, they have a very high opacity right out of the pot or out of the bottle, whatever you want to say. I am impressed by them, I'd say that sort of upon my usage with them and I've used them a lot over the past several weeks I always like to make sure that I use products quite a lot before I do a review of them. I don't just want to put five minutes of paint time in and then come to you and say yeah everything's great. So these have gotten lots and lots of hours I'd say I've spent more than 150 hours painting with these at this point so I feel confident enough to at least do a review. And the first thing I noticed is one extremely high opacity, real good sort of grip onto the miniature. They're solid, they're durable, putting washes over them, putting other elements on top of them. I haven't disrupted paint layers or anything like that. So I think they're a really nice base formulation. They flow really well and smoothly so I suspect they probably do have a little bit of like a flow improver or something like that put into the mix. And in fact in using them with both brush and airbrush I found them to be quite adept at either and much like other very highly pigmented lines you can use a very small amount of this in an airbrush with a lot of thinner. So I was mixing this at about a five or six to one ratio at minimum and still getting very good results out of it. But we're going to bring back our old friend Larry the Ogre. Here he is. It's been a little while since he's been in a video but he's back. And I'm going to show you what some of this looks like. So we have the Ogre here and I've got a little bit of the sunny skin tone which is of course a very popular Vallejo color. Again name wise they're kind of exactly what you expect. If you're coming from something like Vallejo model color you're going to be very comfortable with the naming conventions they use. As you can see very high opacity on the initial application that was poured straight out with just a tiny amount of thinning. We've got a little I'll just show you some other colors here. At the same time they do thin down into a glaze nicely. I've got a little bit of violet red I've thinned down here so you can see that's going to go on nice and smooth. Because of the what I found is that these are actually quite excellent for wet blending. I've noticed they do hold up well to various glazes. I was able to work them into a nice glaze but also because of the opacity because of the thickness because of the rich pigment. I found they did work really well for things like wet blending or tube brush blending anything like that. We've got a little ice yellow here. We'll mix into our flesh tone yet again if you're familiar with our old friend ice yellow from other ranges. This is going to be very similar. Ice yellow is certainly a very popular color on my painting palette and I was very happy with theirs. It provides a nice smooth application as you can see. I think what I'll say is overall what I was impressed with with these is that they felt smooth. They dry pretty matte for the most part. I noticed with a couple of the colors that they had maybe a slight more satin sheen to them, but for the most part they're pretty matte and they're just actually really smooth and easy to work with. Good for feathering they maintain their color for very thin glazes like you can work them way way down and they don't lose any of that pigmentation. You still get a nice good rich application of the color, so I liked all of that. The fluorescent colors, which I'll show here, I really like the pastels. By the way, I've used a couple of those. I don't happen to have any of those right here to show you today, but I really like the fluorescent color. We'll just kind of apply some of that over here. Like many of the fluorescence they are the thinner more transparent colors in the range. Word of warning, they don't cover like the other ones did. I've played around with a couple of the fluorescence and found the same thing. If we maybe give them a little bit up here, you'll see that it is like most of the fluorescence they're out there on the market. They are very transparent. However, what I did notice when working with the fluorescence quite a bit, despite their transparent nature, like you can see I can just keep picking that up until it's effectively gone. Part of that is because of the surface I'm on and part of that is because of the nature of the fluorescent paint. We'll give them some nice pink. There you go. Part of what I did notice about this though with the fluorescent is that it is far smoother than a lot of the other fluorescence that I see out there. This reminds me a lot more of something like the work colors fluorescent, which is my current running favorite. Both in intensity and smoothness. There's no chalkiness to it or anything like that. That's something I've noticed with a lot of different fluorescent colors is that they will go chalky real fast. I haven't really seen that problem with these. No matter where you apply them, they tend to stay rather smooth and obviously rather effective. I do still find that the best way to apply the fluorescent is more or less to put a nice size glob on the mini and then paint on the miniature where you smooth it out. Overall, I would say that I really like these paints. Everything I've tried in the matte line, which is about 15 different colors that I grabbed randomly across the spectrum of the rainbow. Everything I tried in the standard color range I've actually really enjoyed. Things like this deck tan or reddish gray or their blue-green. Again, many of the colors being very similar to Vallejo model color range. I found them to be quite superior in their performance, good coverage, smooth, nice, mostly matte finish and quite effective in their colors. I like dry and you get a pretty true color, which I enjoyed. They don't fade or change. Sometimes you'll see that with some paint where the dry color looks a little different than the wet. These I found maintained a pretty true color. I like them through both brush and airbrush. I've been using them a lot in both ways. Good results there. What I will say is just like any paint range and messing with them, you do have to learn the range and its properties. For example, some of them I did notice weren't as completely opaque as others and I suspect that probably has to do with the exact mix they had to use to keep it flowing, to keep it nice and moving as far as the paint goes and to maintain its consistency. I noticed it mainly with some of the off-grey colors where this would happen. You'd still get a little bit more transparency than I would think, but I suspect that's again because that pigment has a lot of white in it. They don't want it to go chalky, so they added the additional elements. That's just supposition on my part. My favorites so far that I've tried are their blue, green, their ICLO and their pastel violet and this violet red that you saw me use earlier. I really like all of those, but there's a huge range here, like I said. This is 236 colors, so you've got lots of time. There we can see that fluorescent nice and dry. You can see it's actually really, really rip in bright pink and you can see down here where I thinned it out, it says dry with a nice sort of just, you know, tint color over the surface. So you can use it in a couple of different ways. Overall, I give these paints a definite A. I think they're a great product. I think they're very equivalent to something like Pro Acryl, but obviously this is a larger series of paints depending on what you're looking for. I don't think you could go wrong investing in some of these if you're looking for a paint range to expand out to. If you already have a pretty significant paint range that includes stuff like Vallejo model color, that includes, you know, things like Pro Acryl, which are the two sort of closest equivalents, I think, to the exact performance here. I don't know that there's a need there. I haven't found anything about these that makes them completely unique or completely innovative over those existing paint ranges. That being said, I do use them quite a bit. The ones I bought and I tend to mix them interchangeably with those other two ranges I just mentioned. So final score for me is an A. Do check them out if there's something you think you'd be interested in. I like them quite a bit. And if you like this, give it a like. Subscribe for additional product reviews and hobby cheating and everything we do here. If you've got more questions about the paint, feel free to drop them down in the comments. I'm happy to answer any questions you have. But as always, I very much appreciate you watching this one and we'll see you next time.