I have to say this video makes me want to paint up a couple of armies with florescent effects like vehicle lights, targeting scopes, ethereal wraithbone armor, cybernetics, psyker eyes, and tyranid bioluminescent bits, and then play a game under a black light, possibly in city terrain (with more lighting effects for lamp posts and such) with a few pen-light spotlights. I think it would probably look pretty cool though you would have to tag all the pips on the dice too just to see them clearer. ;)
I use Golden's high flow fluresent pink for my necrons. The glow is much better then vallejo's fluresent pink. I can't compare them to other brands though, as I don't own any others. Golden's high flow acrylics work great for miniatures, i would suggest buying some if you are looking for a new brand of paint.
I've used Golden's high flow paints before, they are amazing through an airbrush. I was unaware they had fluorescents, I'll have to try them out. Thank for the tip!
Thanks so much for posting this comparison. I’m working on an Emperors Children army, and I wanted them to look like the 1980’s took a giant dump on them. I’d had issues deciding on which paint to get, and just ordered the GSW set after watching this.
Thank you so much for this review as I was debating on getting the Vallejo or GSW sets for a project of mine. Now I know which im getting 100% for my airbrush!
Thank you, this video was really helpful. I'm painting Thousand Sons and Tzeentch demons for my wife, I was trying to give them very bright lining in places to make them look like they glow with warp energy, using glow in the dark paints. The results were disappointing and I realized I was better served switching to Florescent/neon to achieve the effect.
Hey cool video, looking into getting some paints like the ones shown. Love the old skull pass demo goblins :D And the old monopose archers. Also the side by sides, appreciate the effort getting them to show on camera think it came across well. Cheers for the video keep up the great work!
Got the Star Wars Legion starter box a while back and have left everything unpainted for a while. Need something for the lightsabers and I really do want them to glow.
i was surprised to see that the blue is almost not shining under UV light. I only used GSW blue fluor paint to paint some nuka cola quantum for FWW and is a bit darker than i would like to, but still is pretty shining under the UV light. Maybe the video doesnt show it well, and compared to others the shine is not so bright... so it only makes that i want to try the other colours now!
Would have been nice to see you use some unpigmented, invisible fluorescent lights. Colors which don't have any visible color unless UV light actually hits them
Wish I had found this two weeks ago lol, I ordered Arteza Fluorescent paint fo a terrain piece I decided to do in a neon Gothic/ Cyberpunk/ Neo-Paris style
Excellent review! One line you might not have noticed is Warcolours, they have fluorescent ones too, but haven't seen them in person to compare. Also, if you need volume, Vallejo's RC Premium line, aimed at the RC cars crowd over airbrush, comes in very big bottles, as apparently also do the Golden ones which are said to be great. And as an aside, I did not like the GSW white. Not sure if it was my bottle or if it was the product, but instead of being a fluorescent it was essentially a very typical glow in the dark, which also meant it wasn't actually white, but a milky greenish yellow, and one which precipitated a lot. I'm still in the market for a True white fluo, specially to mix with the other fluos for highlights.
Thanks. I'll have to look into Warcolours. I tried out the Golden High Flow Acrylic fluorescents after I made this video. I found them to be ok, but not great. Very similar to the vallejo mecha paints. I love that brand overall though, they go so nicely through an airbrush. The GSW white is definitely not a pure white and does separate horribly. I've gotten some good effects mixing it with non-fluo paints to make them brighter though.
@@TwoRavenStudios And just now i recalled some that might be the best ever but are sold as pigments and not done for minipainting: The stuff by Stuart Semple on Culture Hustle. His Pink is effectively the brightest pink i've ever seen, anywhere, even before a blacklight (have some and can attest to this), and his relatively recent LIT line is amazing (still gotta get me some of this). The issue of course is that they're more expensive than pretty much any paint for miniatures. But if you can, do check that out!
@@TwoRavenStudios The dreaded shipping, i'm thankful for being in Europe so shipping of these is not insane for me (even after their Brexit), but it's VERY annoying checking something out, then realizing that shipping doubles or sometimes triples the cost (or more!) because it's from the other side of the pond. I understand it well...
@@TwoRavenStudios Thanks for your reply, just what I needed to know. Been looking into them all week. Still thinking of giving one a try for more subtle spell effects though.
Pen style UV light can help if you can physically see the product. Yes, I looked like a wierdo shining a UV light on paints...Under regular lighting Liquitex has a nice blue
Great video, very helpful as I'm looking to get a set of fluorescents. Two questions: 1) Any experience with the AK Acrylics fluorescents? Element Games in the UK sells them, at least, so they're not impossible to get in Europe. 2) I've heard from other sources that the GSW fluorescents all separate really hard in very little time, and that you basically need a paint shaker to be able to use them at all. This is kind of scaring me away from GSW towards the hopefully more reliable Scale75 set. Any comments on this?
I have not used AK interactive fluorescents, I was unaware that they made them. I have used many other or their products and have no complaints. The GSW paints do separate and require quite a bit of shaking, they do come with agitator balls in the droppers though. Full disclosure: I have a paint shaker that I use with them, but the reason I have the paint shaker is from using scale 75 paints. All of their paints separate quite badly and they don't come with agitators in the droppers. Honestly all of the fluorescent paints I tried need more shaking than your average paint, I don't think you are escaping that.
@@TwoRavenStudios yeah but you kept pointing at the GSW 2nd orange saying it's the best while saying it's scale 75 hahaha, so people are easily confused.
Awesome video, but I'm a novice with miniatures and still have questions. I am really digging FX, but what's the best coat for fluorescent paints? I want to use a gloss for the project I'm working on, but am not sure if that'd affect the vibrancy or paint itself.
I personally don't normally varnish my miniatures and on the rare occasion I do I use a matte one. I don't think a gloss coat would affect the vibrancy of the paint but I have never used it over fluor paints so I can't say for certain.
I am curious, I am going to paint a model but want to still show details. Was going to do black base, then highlight white before using the paint. Can you still see the detail with the black or dose it get lost and need more coats?
Fluorescent paints are very translucent, they will barely show up at all over black. I shade by using other Fluorescent paints, like when I paint pink, I shade down with purple, then blue in the shadows. If you watch my video about painting the menhir from the silent king kit you can see my process.
Like pretty much all fluor miniature brand paints the GSW is rather transparent so it takes a few layers to build up a good color. I am currently filming some new videos and they should be released soon. One is a video comparing fluorescent paints from an art store and there are definitely more opaque paints out there once you branch out from mini paints. As for it going on lumpy and streaky, you really have to shake them extra well. I have a mini paint shaker on my desk that I use.
THIS was the video I needed! Green stuff world should've paid you to use this video. Theirs left me thinking I was mistaken and maybe it was just a line of bright colors. Thank you SO MUCH! this video answered everything I was looking for ❤🎉 cheers!
Btw thanks for mentioning hand versus air brush. I'll be brushing by hand and I do want green world stuff, good to know it'll take several coats. And for testing them as a base, seriously as someone looking for the first time, I think this answered ALL of my questions lol
The GSW fluor paints shouldn't be thick. They are actually very thin and go through the airbrush without thinning. Maybe you got a bad batch if they are thick.
Black light only. You can buy glow in the dark paints, either colored or dry to milky clear. Glowing works without a uv light, but the fluorescents have way more true and vibrant color, and i always want to use a blacklight to really show off the glow anyway. That favors just using fluorescents instead. If going for glow paints, shop around for the brightest smallest grain highest grain count paints you can. I use some glow paints, but they are not model paints: they don't shrink, they stick and glob, they don't coat a surface evenly at all. I limit them to small uses like completely covering an eye (needs to be gloves on thick enough you won't see any eye detail after) or gems on the minis. The dry clear blue is nice for eyes (can barely have eye detail), is mostly hidden on weapons, etc. The colored green, orange, red glow paint is good for recessed/non-visible eyes or larger or beady eyes (masks, goblins, lizardmen). If their eye is large enough, it can look cool to have a glowing eye with a dark reptilian slit painted atop.
You say "Scale 75" while pointing at the Green Stuff World paints in the orange and possibly another. Could you please watch the video and see if that's a mistake?
It is importnat to note that blue and red pigments do not fluoresce and thus a true fluorescent blue/red/purple paint does not exist. The one's that glow under the black light (mostly Green Stuff) would have to be mixed with a true fluorescent pigment (like pink, green, yellow, or orange) which is why the Green Stuff red would look more pink under a black light.
Really good side by side comparison. Thank you for taking the time to do this.
Thanks for sharing this. I haven’t seen much fluo focused miniature TH-cam content.
I have to say this video makes me want to paint up a couple of armies with florescent effects like vehicle lights, targeting scopes, ethereal wraithbone armor, cybernetics, psyker eyes, and tyranid bioluminescent bits, and then play a game under a black light, possibly in city terrain (with more lighting effects for lamp posts and such) with a few pen-light spotlights. I think it would probably look pretty cool though you would have to tag all the pips on the dice too just to see them clearer. ;)
Side by side video's like these are great!!! Keep up the good work.
thanks, that was enlightening. No seriously, this video is my go to for fluorescent paints picking.
I've been wanting some neon paints for my cyberpunk stuff so thank you. This review led me to the scale 75 set.
I use Golden's high flow fluresent pink for my necrons. The glow is much better then vallejo's fluresent pink. I can't compare them to other brands though, as I don't own any others. Golden's high flow acrylics work great for miniatures, i would suggest buying some if you are looking for a new brand of paint.
I've used Golden's high flow paints before, they are amazing through an airbrush. I was unaware they had fluorescents, I'll have to try them out. Thank for the tip!
Great video! Exactly what I needed when choosing fluorescent paints, thanks!
This is making me really happy that I already have the gsw set on order.
Excellent job, Sir, thank you!
Thanks so much for posting this comparison. I’m working on an Emperors Children army, and I wanted them to look like the 1980’s took a giant dump on them. I’d had issues deciding on which paint to get, and just ordered the GSW set after watching this.
Great review, thanks for clearing things up!
Thanks for the review I've been looking at picking up a set but wasn't sure which to choose
So helpful thank you 😊
Thank you so much for this review as I was debating on getting the Vallejo or GSW sets for a project of mine. Now I know which im getting 100% for my airbrush!
Thank you, this video was really helpful. I'm painting Thousand Sons and Tzeentch demons for my wife, I was trying to give them very bright lining in places to make them look like they glow with warp energy, using glow in the dark paints. The results were disappointing and I realized I was better served switching to Florescent/neon to achieve the effect.
Hey cool video, looking into getting some paints like the ones shown.
Love the old skull pass demo goblins :D
And the old monopose archers.
Also the side by sides, appreciate the effort getting them to show on camera think it came across well.
Cheers for the video keep up the great work!
Greenstuff world blows the others out of the water! GSW is such an under rated company usually there products are cheaper and better A plus
Great comparison! Thanks!
Extremely helpful video thank you so much !
I couldnt have asked for a better video for my question. Thank you.
Great video, thanks! I wonder how they'd look over a really reflective silver, that might make hand brushing them less of a pain.
I did test them over a silver. It actually dulls them, they are brighter over white.
i think they may have come out after you made this video, id like to see this comparison done with the army painter fluorescent paints.
GSW Fluor, so good they put zombie Alec Baldwin on the cover! Nice review.
Great analysis. Huge Miniatures has a 10 color line-up of flourescent paints. Have you tried them? They look promising.
Thank you very much, this is a great help.
Got the Star Wars Legion starter box a while back and have left everything unpainted for a while. Need something for the lightsabers and I really do want them to glow.
i was surprised to see that the blue is almost not shining under UV light. I only used GSW blue fluor paint to paint some nuka cola quantum for FWW and is a bit darker than i would like to, but still is pretty shining under the UV light. Maybe the video doesnt show it well, and compared to others the shine is not so bright... so it only makes that i want to try the other colours now!
great comparison video
Would have been nice to see you use some unpigmented, invisible fluorescent lights. Colors which don't have any visible color unless UV light actually hits them
Wish I had found this two weeks ago lol, I ordered Arteza Fluorescent paint fo a terrain piece I decided to do in a neon Gothic/ Cyberpunk/ Neo-Paris style
Excellent review! One line you might not have noticed is Warcolours, they have fluorescent ones too, but haven't seen them in person to compare. Also, if you need volume, Vallejo's RC Premium line, aimed at the RC cars crowd over airbrush, comes in very big bottles, as apparently also do the Golden ones which are said to be great.
And as an aside, I did not like the GSW white. Not sure if it was my bottle or if it was the product, but instead of being a fluorescent it was essentially a very typical glow in the dark, which also meant it wasn't actually white, but a milky greenish yellow, and one which precipitated a lot. I'm still in the market for a True white fluo, specially to mix with the other fluos for highlights.
Thanks. I'll have to look into Warcolours. I tried out the Golden High Flow Acrylic fluorescents after I made this video. I found them to be ok, but not great. Very similar to the vallejo mecha paints. I love that brand overall though, they go so nicely through an airbrush.
The GSW white is definitely not a pure white and does separate horribly. I've gotten some good effects mixing it with non-fluo paints to make them brighter though.
@@TwoRavenStudios And just now i recalled some that might be the best ever but are sold as pigments and not done for minipainting: The stuff by Stuart Semple on Culture Hustle. His Pink is effectively the brightest pink i've ever seen, anywhere, even before a blacklight (have some and can attest to this), and his relatively recent LIT line is amazing (still gotta get me some of this). The issue of course is that they're more expensive than pretty much any paint for miniatures. But if you can, do check that out!
I was actually going to have those as part of this video but with the shipping they were far too expensive for me to invest in right now.
@@TwoRavenStudios The dreaded shipping, i'm thankful for being in Europe so shipping of these is not insane for me (even after their Brexit), but it's VERY annoying checking something out, then realizing that shipping doubles or sometimes triples the cost (or more!) because it's from the other side of the pond. I understand it well...
Thanks for this!
Very interesting. I do have a question though. Does applying multiple coats of the FW ink make it stronger?
It does, but it takes many many coats of the fw ink to get a solid coat with any kind of strong effect.
@@TwoRavenStudios Thanks for your reply, just what I needed to know. Been looking into them all week. Still thinking of giving one a try for more subtle spell effects though.
I'm having trouble find a fluoro red that if actual RED and not pink. Any recommendations?
Nighthaunt might be getting a repaint🤔
Pen style UV light can help if you can physically see the product. Yes, I looked like a wierdo shining a UV light on paints...Under regular lighting
Liquitex has a nice blue
Great video, very helpful as I'm looking to get a set of fluorescents. Two questions:
1) Any experience with the AK Acrylics fluorescents? Element Games in the UK sells them, at least, so they're not impossible to get in Europe.
2) I've heard from other sources that the GSW fluorescents all separate really hard in very little time, and that you basically need a paint shaker to be able to use them at all. This is kind of scaring me away from GSW towards the hopefully more reliable Scale75 set. Any comments on this?
I have not used AK interactive fluorescents, I was unaware that they made them. I have used many other or their products and have no complaints.
The GSW paints do separate and require quite a bit of shaking, they do come with agitator balls in the droppers though. Full disclosure: I have a paint shaker that I use with them, but the reason I have the paint shaker is from using scale 75 paints. All of their paints separate quite badly and they don't come with agitators in the droppers.
Honestly all of the fluorescent paints I tried need more shaking than your average paint, I don't think you are escaping that.
Did you gett the GSW orange confused with scale 75? You used two GSW oranges in the comparison.
There are 2 GSW oranges. There is Orange & Yellow-orange.
@@TwoRavenStudios yeah but you kept pointing at the GSW 2nd orange saying it's the best while saying it's scale 75 hahaha, so people are easily confused.
Awesome video, but I'm a novice with miniatures and still have questions. I am really digging FX, but what's the best coat for fluorescent paints? I want to use a gloss for the project I'm working on, but am not sure if that'd affect the vibrancy or paint itself.
I personally don't normally varnish my miniatures and on the rare occasion I do I use a matte one. I don't think a gloss coat would affect the vibrancy of the paint but I have never used it over fluor paints so I can't say for certain.
@@TwoRavenStudios Thanks! I will keep this info in mind.
Can you put a varnish on top?
3:55
Weird: Brushrage shows Green Stuff Wolrd as true green and Vallejo as Lime.
I am curious, I am going to paint a model but want to still show details. Was going to do black base, then highlight white before using the paint. Can you still see the detail with the black or dose it get lost and need more coats?
Fluorescent paints are very translucent, they will barely show up at all over black. I shade by using other Fluorescent paints, like when I paint pink, I shade down with purple, then blue in the shadows. If you watch my video about painting the menhir from the silent king kit you can see my process.
you kept saying scale 75 but you where pointing at the GSW orange.
"?i am confusion?"
🔥🎸🔥
The green stuff paint goes on very lumpy/streaky for me and needed a lot of layers to fill in. Is there something I can do to get an even coat?
Like pretty much all fluor miniature brand paints the GSW is rather transparent so it takes a few layers to build up a good color. I am currently filming some new videos and they should be released soon. One is a video comparing fluorescent paints from an art store and there are definitely more opaque paints out there once you branch out from mini paints.
As for it going on lumpy and streaky, you really have to shake them extra well. I have a mini paint shaker on my desk that I use.
You needed a UV light filter maybe? The camera picks up UV light and alters the actually perceived color
THIS was the video I needed! Green stuff world should've paid you to use this video. Theirs left me thinking I was mistaken and maybe it was just a line of bright colors. Thank you SO MUCH! this video answered everything I was looking for ❤🎉 cheers!
Btw thanks for mentioning hand versus air brush. I'll be brushing by hand and I do want green world stuff, good to know it'll take several coats. And for testing them as a base, seriously as someone looking for the first time, I think this answered ALL of my questions lol
I used the scale 75 ones and couldn't get them to cover at all
All fluorescent paints are rather transparent, they need to be over white to get good coverage.
@@TwoRavenStudios with extra coats ?
You definitely need a couple coats to get a strong color out of them.
@@TwoRavenStudios cheers my dude
How do you get the greenstuffworld fluor to even go through the airbrush? Its thick as porridge.
The GSW fluor paints shouldn't be thick. They are actually very thin and go through the airbrush without thinning. Maybe you got a bad batch if they are thick.
@@TwoRavenStudios Mate mine are so thick it could pass as pasta :'>
Hi how good are these paints at being mixed together to create other colours?
I've mixed the pink, blue & purple to create a few different shades and it has worked fine. I really haven't tried to mix anything else.
@@TwoRavenStudios brilliant thanks for your input 👍
REMEMBER FLUORECENT =/= GLOW IN THE DARK. You need to make sure the paints say they glow in the dark.
They glow only in black light? Or generally they can glow in the dark?
Black light only.
You can buy glow in the dark paints, either colored or dry to milky clear. Glowing works without a uv light, but the fluorescents have way more true and vibrant color, and i always want to use a blacklight to really show off the glow anyway. That favors just using fluorescents instead.
If going for glow paints, shop around for the brightest smallest grain highest grain count paints you can.
I use some glow paints, but they are not model paints: they don't shrink, they stick and glob, they don't coat a surface evenly at all.
I limit them to small uses like completely covering an eye (needs to be gloves on thick enough you won't see any eye detail after) or gems on the minis.
The dry clear blue is nice for eyes (can barely have eye detail), is mostly hidden on weapons, etc.
The colored green, orange, red glow paint is good for recessed/non-visible eyes or larger or beady eyes (masks, goblins, lizardmen). If their eye is large enough, it can look cool to have a glowing eye with a dark reptilian slit painted atop.
You say "Scale 75" while pointing at the Green Stuff World paints in the orange and possibly another. Could you please watch the video and see if that's a mistake?
It is importnat to note that blue and red pigments do not fluoresce and thus a true fluorescent blue/red/purple paint does not exist. The one's that glow under the black light (mostly Green Stuff) would have to be mixed with a true fluorescent pigment (like pink, green, yellow, or orange) which is why the Green Stuff red would look more pink under a black light.
well blue and purple contains blue ofcoarse they wond glow in blacklight xD
Subbed! Like and comment to appease the almighty algorithm
How did a five year old grow a beard?
LMAO... "V-A-whole".....