 Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video and today we're gonna talk about these things We're gonna talk about the new Signature series five and six from pro acryl. We're gonna see what they're capable of we're gonna put him into action painting on a miniature I've loved every signature series so far, and I'm really excited about these two new ones. Let's get into it That's strict techno man sir. That is Vinci V. Let us get to the technique and learn it Vinci V's not signature series Five and six is the third release from pro acryl in the signature series now Obviously the first ones were myself and John Nenis and those still find regular usage on my desk Signature series three and four were from Ben comets and Matt sex wish and those were a very unique set of paints that had some Specific applications, but if you go back and watch that video you'll see how much I liked those as well especially and surprisingly the metal paint in there signature series five and six however now we have Rogue hobbies, which is Louise and of course we have flaming on two painters I very much respect but two painters that maybe Couldn't be more different in their paint sets and of course when we look at the paint sets We immediately see the differences between them Rogue hobbies paint set is bright Super saturated in ten city in ten cities these extreme colors on the other hand flaming on set tends much more toward the neutral In fact, it's a nice span of something like he would use to achieve his Non-metallic gold or something similar, but as we're gonna see later on there's quite a form quite a few more uses for these paints as well Let's get them out and get them on the palette take a look at how they all work So as you can see just like all of our pro acryl these are highly pigmented They're very creamy paints Easy to work with as I've said many times pro acryl is you know one of my favorite paints in the market There are basically three paint brands. I consider using and pro acryl is right up at the top So I these new signature series paints right away as I'm just sort of working with them squeezing out of the bottle I'm seeing similar even Consistency through all of them none of them too thick none of them too thin nothing like that They would that would ring any alarm bells So right away. We've passed the very simple consistency test But of course just getting them out on a palette doesn't tell us much. We got to put these bad boys to use Let's get painting to do our painting. We're gonna start today with our old friend Larry the ogre. He's back again That's right, and we've got him. He's reprimed. You may ask did I strip him? Heck no, he's back again. We just primed over the old paint and we're starting over again for his 30th or 40th time Now when you look at Flamion's paint set, which is where we're gonna start you might initially think that this is sort of Really tuned to just do non-metallic gold and maybe that's true Maybe that's what his ideal sort of usage was when he created it But I think these are actually extremely versatile neutral paints for one thing a lot of these are in the yellow Orange and brown spectrum which actually makes them great for skin tones Which is where we're gonna start with Larry the first thing that jumped out to me is this is actually an awesome paint set For doing a lot of non-caucasian skin tones Specifically either more Asian or Middle Eastern maybe North African Southern European that kind of thing All of those things where you want sort of a more olive or brown skin tone or something in that range This is actually going to excel and so I'm gonna show you here a little progression where I'm taking Larry through this kind of a progression up through the colors and What's really nice about this is the paints just work really well together the higher color paint the very very top Which is that sort of bright pale yellow? It's gonna have that standard high opacity like an ice yellow, which you'll see at the end But most of the rest these colors are quite translucent and so blending and layering with them is really natural Quite easy and as you can see I can build up these skin tones into this more like kind of olive skin quite easily and So I just continue to sort of work it up Hitting all of these skin tones until eventually I get to a nice high highlight of course that jump at the end might be a Little bit of a clown fiesta. It's a little bit sudden But again because those earlier paints are so translucent It becomes very easy for us to then glaze those back down and again preserve some of that nice skin tone All in all this is a really really great set for doing those sort of non pale Non-caucasian skin tones. I think this actually is worth a full video in the future So look forward to that on sort of exploring You know the full Penopoly of sort of how to do all sorts of different skin tone colors and this set will feature heavily in that I Also wanted to just do a quick test with Louise's colors Now specifically I just grabbed the sort of ultramarine blue here and we're gonna turn the blue pants blue Now what was interesting to me about this was oftentimes these highly saturated colors aren't They don't cover very well, and I saw that with this color over straight black It took two thin applications, but then I got to a really nice opacity now Normally, I wouldn't be painting a color like this straight over black So it would be unusual to do this But nonetheless, I was very impressed as per usual with the opacity from Proacryl's colors They always do manage to achieve a nice high opacity even with this extremely highly saturated color That ultramarine blue is really intense Certainly it would be great for when you need to turn the blue pants blue like we are with Larry But of course something like your classic space marine or ultramarine is gonna be well suited to work in these colors And in fact something like over a zenithal and that space brings gonna be done really really fast Returning back to the skin on Larry. I wanted to look at Louise's colors first testing them as a Saturation trick basically using them to tone and add the sort of reds that I want in the skin of Larry And this is actually I think a really great use for these paints now We're gonna get to using these in a highly saturated way Don't worry. I've got a different miniature plan for that. We'll get there But the first thing I wanted to test was with highly saturated Heavily pigmented paints we can get really good effects in the low skin tone. So what I'm doing here is I'm using some of the red as well as some of the magenta That comes in that set to just sort of add additional red and pink tones and visual interest to the skin Especially down in those lower mid tones and lower shadows and this worked really really well These colors are really natural. They work great for things like rosy cheeks lips, you know, just those rich red skin tones We want to capture so it adds a little more hue and variance and tonal variation To our skin tone the two sets actually work really well together in that regard So as I mentioned these other tones from flaming on you can do all these sort of non Caucasian skin tones But you still need to work in a little bit of color So things like the blues or the reds or stuff like that that occurs in skin and why what do we have waiting for us? But these highly saturated colors that when we thin them way down into a glaze or a filter are going to be perfect for that task Now, of course, we couldn't just use these colors in a thin glaze way That's not a real test that wouldn't that would leave you. I don't know pretty sad It would leave me sad. So we've got to get a squig out I know Louise loves funny little monsters and squigs and so What better thing to honor her paint set than to paint this happy little fellow now the goblin that's attached to the top of him Is not present. We're just going to do the little squiggy boy And what I'm going to do is just work with some quick wet blending on mr. Squig That's I'm not gonna we're gonna do something interesting and you'll see how I'm working across the figure starting with the reds Then going into the magenta and then surprisingly we're gonna take an immediate turn into that green and I actually loved this. So my favorite color from all of these without a doubt is The green this green is so intense. It's so vibrant. It's so wonderful I have to find a project to use this on the red color is perfect for squigs I don't know if that's what it was tuned to but you might as well call it squig red That's how I'm gonna think of it. It is exactly the color I want my squigs to be and so what I do here is I use a little bit of the magenta to actually blend with the Green because the pink plus green will equal a sort of natural brown color And you see how I fade the line between the red and the green And sort of give the underbelly that bright green tone Now what I end up doing then is sort of working in some yellow some of the bismuth yellow Into that green to then do my highlights and what I found is that this works really really really well Again, I'm gonna use the dark turquoise for a little bit of lip pop because like let's get every color The fun of squigs is you can just go nuts and get every color you want on them And I found this worked really well Again, like this was pop in this guy is absolutely just all over the spectrum And yet these bright intense colors seem to work well together Especially in this balance on a natural creature and what's really fun is in all these cases with the the red with the green Even with some of the other colors I was able to take that bismuth yellow and have it act as a very natural intense highlight So coming back to the top of the squig I was able to then mix a little of that in and get a very rich Orangey color to be the sort of highlight on the actual top of the squig around his like eyebrows and bumps and stuff like that That are on top of him all in all the squig came out for you know This is not more than I don't know five to eight minutes of work and frankly I think he came out pretty darn cool I ended up using actually some of flamey onset to you to do the teeth as well Which I thought worked really well So you the neutral set for sort of the neutral parts on the squig that I wanted that didn't need to be crazy popping out So all in all Certainly for anything that's like bright creatures for your serif on your squigs your orcs Anything like that. This paint set is going to really excel in that way So whether you're trying to use the saturated paint set for just subtle tones and enriching and saturating and Livening your your paint jobs that have more muted schemes or more neutral colors or Whether you're just punching these bad boys straight in as you saw me doing here on the squig I think these are really going to excel and give you some incredibly vibrant miniatures that are just going to jump off the table Okay, now it really wouldn't be a test of flameon's paints if we didn't at least do a little quick Non-metallic gold so here on we'll go back to Larry and on Larry's gut plate we're just going to run through the entire sort of gamut of colors and The way that this paint set seems to be oriented is basically for you to quite naturally climb up one thing that might throw you off in In his paint set is this little guy right here the sort of caramel brown Because when you're building up through the paints, it won't have a natural place However, what I found was that it's the perfect reflection highlight bounce light So when you're working with your non-metallic gold and you're trying to figure out how bright do I make the bounce light? That caramel brown that sort of mid-tone lighter brown is like the perfect color for the reflective light on the opposite side of the gold I thought it worked really well for that. I'm not sure if that's how he uses it I couldn't really say but I will say that I found it to be really excellent for that purpose Again, this is just a quick sketch of the non-metallic nothing on a round surface. It's very easy This is no more than a few minutes of work and certainly I could refine this a lot more But I did find this color set to be quite natural and rich for this purpose The advantage is that rich mid-tone yellow gives you the the final punch You want at the end for things like glazes or stuff like that to get that yellow tone back in there Well, a lot of the desaturated tones allow you to set the values the shadows and the highlights that you need to actually Sell the gold effect itself all in all I thought this was great If you're looking for basically a sort of I want to buy a box that is my non-metallic gold set because you find the recipe challenging I think this is going to be really excellent. So to me both of these paint sets have multiple uses I mean that sort of is a big duh But I mean I found two really great primary uses for each of them in Flamie on's case It was those non Caucasian skin tones as well as traditional non-metallic gold for Louisa's paints for both punching in saturation and Filtering out and adding life and tone to skin and other neutrals as well as just getting really shock bright things Like those natural creatures or squigs or stuff like that in all of those cases these paint sets really excel Final quick note. These do go through the airbrush just like all the other pro curl paints I did put them through just a test off camera was no issue. We'd all shot that through without a problem All in all I thought these paint sets were absolutely fantastic signature series 5 and 6 in my mind is certainly worth picking up If you're interested in getting them there is an affiliate link down below You can also find a code to save you some money on that purchase down there So check that out it helps support the channel and it helps support these awesome artists Who are making these incredible paints that are certainly going to have a home in my parent paint rotation? 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