Dan Becker's More Paint Charts

First of all, here is a top view of the painted Army Painter Fanatic bottle tops. I think this photos shows the size and scope of the set: 216 bottles in all. Much like the Army Painter charts, I have sorted the paints with the acrylics in the top 9 rows, followed by the metallics, effects, and washes in the bottom 3 rows.

The acylics come in 27 "extended triads" (also known as sextets or hexads) each of which has a color hue with varying highlights and shadows (also known as tints, tones, and shades). I kept the Army Painter sextets together, but I moved the acrylic groups around to try to match the visible light spectrum order: red, orange, ..., violet.

Many paint companies (Foundry, Reaper, Vallejo) have come out with color triads which help you paint nice figures by using a shade layer, a midtone color, and a highlight layer. This provides good three dimensional shading, but it also helps to reproduce the colors if you want a matching color for an entire army. Having a color set of six allows you to move up and down the hue. The scope and organization of this acrylic paint line are really impressive - well done Army Painter.

Here is a graphic picture of the Army Painter Fanatic chart that I made for myself and shared on social media groups. The fanciful Army Painter names such as "Wasteland Clay" and "Tiger's Eye Skin" really do not tell you much about the color hue. However AP did put more common artist's names such as "ruddy brown shade" and "dark yellow ochre" on the bottles.

Originally I had the three sextets with the skin tones on the top right rows. However, I thought the warm middle tones looked better with the grays on the top row so the skin tones shifted down. See the previous photo for this slight rearrangement.

This photo shows my swatch chart of the Army Painter Fanatic Set. It took a while to shake and sample each bottle, but it was fun to do and gives a great indication of the paint coverage and opacity.

The bottom rows have the metallics, washes, and special effects.

This photo shows six random painted bottles from the Army Painter Fanatic set. I painted the tops without any primers and the paints did fine without any sign of chipping or scratching. The paints show nice smoothness and coverage on the white tops.

Some other paint sets have black tops and for these I usually prime with white before painting.

This photo shows the reverse of Army Painter Fanatic paints. I paint over the black and white bar code to check the viscosity and coverage. Be careful not to paint over the bar code digits. If you have to replace a bottle, you can look up the bottle by the UPC code.

Note that the bar code swatch is a better indicator of opacity than the top. The dark blues, greens, and browns did great with coverage. The yellows, tans, magenta, and violets did poorly with the coverage. I would say that there are some substandard paints in the Fanatic Set, maybe 10 percent of the set is not super opaque. In general the Fanatic paints are much better than the earlier War Paints, but I still find Vallejo Model Colors have better overall quality.