Paul Compares Streaking Grime & Playmarkers

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Intro

This Storm Giant is what I’m talking about, which was painted entirely, almost entirely with AK Quick Gen paints. Uh, but this time the three amigos, the three classes that will the party that will take on the storm giant. Uh, we will be painting them entirely with play markers. Um, and we’re going to see if the play markers can hold up also against streaking grime. This will be a full painting video with Playmarkers.

Oh, you like that, don’t you? What about this? Oh, what about this? And this is completely and utterly relevant to the video because nearly two months ago now, uh, we used for the first time and reviewed the AK Playmarkers and we compare compared them with the real markers.

But I want to revisit the play markers for a sec. Not only because they’re uh kind of underappreciated compared to the real markers, but also because um people are worried that they may dry out. Um and that’s what we will uh do today. These are uh still the play markers from that video 2 and 1/2 months ago.

It’s nearly 2 months ago when it was uploaded, but it was filmed nearly 2 and 1/2 months ago. And just as a refresher, we have the Changeling Cleric, Human Warlock, and the Half Elf Paladin. A true front line, a support, a support front line, and a true back line. Starting out with the Half Elf Paladin. We’re going to be painting his shield first uh with the silver. There we go. You like my special effects?

How to Use the Marker

And just as a reminder, the Playmarkers have a protective cap at the bottom to, you know, essentially protect the button so you don’t accidentally press the paint uh reservoir over and over again. All you have to do is press once and let gravity do the work. The paint is also a lot runnier than you might expect.

Uh so please be careful. It might drip from the tip. And again, just to reiterate, all DND figures from Wizkids are pre- primed. Excellent. And look at that. It’s still not dried despite the, you know, the how hot it is in Canada right now. Also, just to remind people, this is water-based acrylic.

My only confusion between the two paint lines is why did they have different bristles and even different mechanisms? The real markers are just Sharpies but with realistic military colors. And the play markers, the one you’re seeing now, are like 500 bristles in forced into like a singular tip like that. But these are still individual brush bristles. Um, so there’s a distinct difference. Not to mention the real markers doesn’t have the the uh button at the very end there.

Half-Elf Paladin Painting

So the real markers are actually in danger of drying. Now that the little guy’s metal parts have been blocked in, we’re going to paint the rest of him. So the tabard will be a dirty white mixed in with red on the edges. And then obviously his flesh uh will be pink skin here. Uh and even the cape actually will be red as well just to keep it simple. Give it a good shake. Remove the protective cap. Press the reservoir button.

Remove Press it again actually. Yeah, there you go. You can see it filling up in real time. And paint away. Oh, see it’s dropping cuz it is definitely stronger than people give it credit for. At least thinner. Even his hair. Block it in with dirty white here. He’s an aging fella. gives him uh kind of like a dirty blonde sort of look.

After blocking in the dirty white, we’re going to be blocking it in using or anything that’s red with red. Uh so that would be the tabard and the cape.All right. Uh, I like the proportions, by the way. Uh, but we’re going to do the final and true stress test for both the real markers and the play markers because we used both. and that is to apply stu uh enamel streaking grime onto them and to see if they can withstand that.

Uh and why is this the ultimate stress test? That’s because for uh people who do tanks or even Warhammer these days, a lot of them use streaking grime for their weathering. They don’t use acrylic washes anymore.

Male Human Warlock Painting Transparent Parts

So D&D figures have a lot of uh clear effects parts and I will give them props. A lot of them are highly detailed. And yeah, these markers not only go well with these clear parts, you can even kind of do a little bit of wet blending with them.

This is just the pink flesh color with the red and I just mix it in between. Um, and it looks like this Warlock’s about to cast fireball, like it’s bubbling. Uh, and it’s about to go out there. So, yeah, always cast fireball. That’s it. You take a big brush like this.

Applying Streaking Grime

This one is the Atlas Dry Brush. You just dip it and you just genuinely start applying. Same thing here. just start dabbing and applying. I would avoid the face. Um, this isn’t Warhammer. Uh, it may uh put too much uh, you know, dirt on the face, changing the feel of the mini entirely. You want the armor dirty, maybe not the face, but up to you.

You can put it on the face if you want. And if you’re wondering where the Changeling is, uh, we’ve relegated the changeling to the side here. I tried something different with the paint job for the Changeling. Yeah. No, it looks ugly. So, yeah, the two amigos only for today.

Removing Excess

We’ll fix the Changeling later. Then you take your odorless thinner, dip your sponge brush. This one’s from Tamiya. And just dab the excess streaking grime off. Simple as that. Just dab it off. This is the true test because odorless thinners from AK are just enamel thinners. A little bit specialized, but enamel thinners all the same.Just dab dab dab dab. Seems to be withstanding it just fine. But we’ll see the final product.

Close Ups

One for the road here just to before we go. Oh yeah. Very nice. And it’s not even dry yet. And it already looks that good. Finally, we have Joker Light here. Nice. Not only was this test a resounding success, they with stood the enamel wash with flying colors, they also look incredible.

Uh, I’m just going to say that right now. On the left, we have the front liner or the Paladin. Looks like he’s truly been in the trenches. Oh yeah, except of course the golden boy face. Look at him. Look at him. He’s not even dry yet, but you can already tell he looks good.

Oh wow. Perfect. Perfect. Like he’s on a crusades or something. And then we have the Joker copycat here. That’s what I was going for. Uh, and it provided a lot of details to his trench coat, which is, you know, obviously just a very monotone sort of purple. Uh, but the streaking grime made it so that uh he kind of he has to work for his uh bounties and uh his loot. Uh it is DND after all, but he is a back liner. So, while his front liner is in the trenches avoiding axe swings and such, this guy is getting dust on his jacket and calling it a day.

There’s dust in my jacket. Whatever. But you know what? It looks so good though, guys. I’m being so serious. Oh, yeah. In pure durability from a pure durability standpoint, sorry, impure durability. what I’m talking about. Yeah. Um, this is definitely worth your time. Uh, the play markers and the real markers. I was very much scared of using them, but Oh, look at the detail on the shield.

Oh, this is nice. If you do Warhammer or uh just tanks or whatever, yeah, this is for you. This is for you. Let’s look at the cape before we wrap this up. Oh yeah. Oh my goodness. There’s a lot of folds here that I didn’t even know they molded in. Props to uh Wizkids and um DND for that.

Paul’s Conclusion

So overall they passed with flying colors. I kind of was under estimating them. Uh when I reviewed them I just thought overall they were good uh but not great. And because of that I full today I fully expected them to just slag off, chip, melt off with the streaking grime for weathering. But it’s good to know that they won’t. And by the way, this applies to both play markers and the real color markers. So if you’re doing tanks and such, fear not, you can use enamel washes on top of them, no problem. So long as you dab them off if if you remove them roughly, it will come off the paint.

Uh but it’s good to know that these are the standard uh water-based paints. They’re just as that durable. The only kind of caveat is um they only have 36 paints. Uh it’s unfortunate. Uh but it’s something that they probably aren’t working on and behind the scenes. Um but yeah, 36 paints not enough to replace a full line. Like you won’t you replace game color with these. This is only a supplement for now. Uh maybe down the line in about a year, year and a half, we can accomplish something like that.

And again, shout outs to AK for both the streaking grime and this uh excellent products. Uh so that’s it for me today. Thank you guys so much for watching. Uh down below is both the subscribe button, subscribe if you uh like what you saw there, and follow us on our socials. See you guys next time.

About the Author:

Paul Catindig As someone who’s been building model kits since he was 8 years old, Paul is very knowledgeable and adept at model kit building! When he’s not building or painting kits, he spends his free time cooking, playing video games with friends, or at a restaurant patio somewhere. Hopes to make his very own movie one day.

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