My TOP 9 Vallejo Model Color Paints | Vallejo Color Acrylic Colors

My top 9 Vallejo Model Color Acrylic Colors. This video is just my top 9 plus 5 fave Vallejo Model Colors. I owe you guys this video for a while now, but I felI needed more experience and experiments with various colors, thus it took me a while to come up with this top list.
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[@spamstabber]

Ice yellow is the ultimate mixing color for highlighting without losing saturation too, unlike white. Same with Dark sea blue for shadows, also great for stubble if you thin it down to a glaze.

[@DonSuratos]

Totally agree! I like purples a bit more for shadows though. ☺️🎨🎨🎨

[@spamstabber]

@@DonSuratos yes both work great, guess it depends which fits better with your color scheme!

[@JaxterStudios]

Top Nine ----------------- 70.842 Gloss White - 70.986 Deck Tan - rocks/concrete 70.923 Japanese Uniform WWII - under for any yellow 70.827 Lime Green - highlight for green Orc skin 70.838 Emerald - 70.812 Violet Red - shadow color for green skin tone 70.871 Leather Brown - leather 70.981 Orange Brown - highlights of leather parts 70.804 Beige Red - skin Plus Five ------------ 70.898 Dark Sea Blue - black armor 70.947 Dark Vermillion - highlight for anything red 70.858 Ice Yellow - fire or lava 70.918 Ivory - 70.982 Calvary Brown -

[@DonSuratos]

Awesome! 😊🎨🎨🎨

[@bigmecharigs869]

Ty for this. Was looking for a list instead of writing it down

[@GoobertownHobbies]

great list! you gave me a couple new ones to hunt for. :-)

[@DonSuratos]

Goobertown! The Goobertown Hobbies? 😱😱😱

[@soundgarden8885]

@@DonSuratos its him allready!! Good thing buddy!!

[@baldimortiz]

Brent and Don, hope they do a Collab 💕

[@johnsmith3085]

Ice yellow is the perfect color to add to most paints to get a highlight of that color. Dark Sea Blue is my go to for shadows. It looks really good when you add it to almost anything, especially skin tones for shade.

[@DonSuratos]

Yes. ☺️🎨🎨🎨

[@michaeltiedt6376]

I love Black Red...

[@DonSuratos]

Yes! 😊🎨🎨🎨

[@youtousim]

Love the Model Color line. Excellent coverage, opacity and finish.

[@DonSuratos]

The best line. 😊🎨🎨🎨

[@youtousim]

@@DonSuratos A lighter version of Dark Vermillion might be Heavy Orange from AV's Game Color series. Lovely tone for red highlights.

[@DonSuratos]

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[@SigurdDecroos]

I expected Sunny Skin Tone and Tan Yellow in this list. Love those colors, so versatile.

[@DonSuratos]

Oh... Tan Yellow is a bit similar to Japanese Uniform, and Sunny Skin tone is a flesher ( red-er ) version of ice yellow. Both great colors too. Not my faves though. ☺️🎨🎨🎨

[@Man-At-Arms46]

Thank you so much! This was perfect-- I was recently trying to find a list of favorite Vallejo colors as I convert from purchasing Citadel (I also prefer having understandable color names as i think about blending). So appreciate your comments as to how you regularly use each of your favorite colors.

[@DonSuratos]

You are most welcome! Oh, I just kinda talk or share too much sometimes. Glad you found this video helpful. Happy shopping! ☺️🎨🎨🎨

[@Notfritenite]

It's funny that you say that about paint names. It's what immediately turned me away from Citadel. I do have a few Citadel colors that are lovely but very few.

[@DonSuratos]

@@Notfritenite Oh waht did I say bro? 😬 I also have a handful of Citadel, most are just sent by a client though.

[@Notfritenite]

@@DonSuratos oh you made a small comment the names of there paints are silly, it wasn't mean or anything. Just thought it was funny.

[@ramonosuke]

My favorites have to be Ice yellow Dark Sea Blue Deck Tan Beige red Japanese Uniform A bit of a cheat, but Game Color compliments Model so well, but Nocturnal Red and Tan are also fantastic. I think now with the revision to both lines, much improved metallics over both, I don't see a reason to dip my toes into other paint lines. I think a good mix of Vallejo, Pro Acryl and some AK should be all I ever need

[@jammywesty91]

Great list here Don. Gave me some good food for thought. For general purpose shadows, I use mix Dark Sea Blue and Burnt Umber to make a nice chromatic black that I weight more one way or the other depending on how warm or cold I want a shadow. That White Glaze is just magical stuff too. I love it.

[@DonSuratos]

Woot awesome! Glad you liked the list! Thanks for watching man! 😊🎨🎨🎨

[@monocerotis6917]

nice colors! =) For me top 5 colors - Vallejo Game color - 72.012 - Scarlet Red , 72.123 - Angel Green, 72.076 - Alien Purple, 72.110- Sunset Orange, 72.022-Ultramarine Blue

[@DonSuratos]

Ultramarine Blue? Mine is shiny for some reason. 😊

[@monocerotis6917]

@@DonSuratos white color Makes it more shiny :)

[@DonSuratos]

@@monocerotis6917 I see. Thanks man! No wonder. 😊

[@DingoPaints]

Love your videos Don. Great information... Im heading out to get some of these paints right now

[@DonSuratos]

Thank you bro! Happy shopping! ☺️🎨🎨🎨

[@heywoodjablome9114]

Well. Now I can say I've seen a beauty pageant for miniatures paints. Not for painted miniatures, just for the paints. If you asked me a year ago would I ever see this I would say no of course not. But I would have been wrong. Good vid, too. I'll keep this list in mind next time I'm shopping for paints. Give some of these a try.

[@DonSuratos]

Thanks for watching! ☺️🎨🎨🎨

[@timmoors2038]

Great video. Learned a lot and i bought them to mine paint collection

[@DonSuratos]

Thanks Tim! ☺️🎨🎨🎨

[@markgnepper5636]

Great stuff friend 👏 👍

[@DonSuratos]

Thank you Mark. ☺️🎨🎨🎨

[@raymondlee4640]

Good Job. Thanks for all information.

[@DonSuratos]

You’re most welcome! 😊🎨🎨🎨

[@demelsagil7827]

Very interesting! Thank you 🙂

[@DonSuratos]

You are welcome! Thanks for watching! ☺️🎨🎨🎨

[@juancatalan3095]

I love your channel and your contente. The style is awesome, moreover too advance for a 3 month journey painter... sometimes i feel too advance, hopefully with some practice I will make it to your patreon and learn how to mix and choose colors

[@MaskedRiderChris]

I have the majority of those colors, but added a few to my want to get list as of this video!

[@DonSuratos]

Awesome. Thanks as always for watching bro! ☺️🎨🎨🎨

[@MechanicalFrog]

Solid color picks

[@DonSuratos]

Thanks bro! Took me a while to choose to be honest. 😅🎨🎨🎨

[@estebanluchelli1953]

Felicidades por tu español! Saludos.

[@DonSuratos]

Saludos! 😅🎨🎨🎨

[@SCALEMODELSbyNR]

I bought all the paints you mentioned lol... and more you use in other videos...xD Thanks Don you are a great inspiration and motivation for me.

[@DonSuratos]

Oh my! haha. Good call though. Appreciate the compliment bro. Happy painting! ☺️🎨🎨🎨

[@ActionAwesome]

Great video. Loved this Don!

[@DonSuratos]

Thanks man! Will have a new list next week. "Vallejo paints I cannot live without". 😅

[@Cristian_Brush]

Exelente ese español Don!! Y tremendo el vídeo de el tip 14 😅 de los colores imprescindibles que todo pintor debe tener! Me encantan todos tus videos con ellos aprendí a usar el Medium con mis pinturas. Te mando un abrazo desde Argentina amigo!!

[@tonyperez4791]

Dang Don, I just ordered some Vallejo last night , and now I have to order some more ! 😁 Great video !!! I use the Dark Sea Blue a lot , right color for some Japanese ships. Hope you have a great weekend and Thank you for posting.

[@DonSuratos]

Haha! Sorry man! I trid to make a lit minus the usual good stuff ( Black, Olive Green and such ). Thank you for watching! ☺️🎨🎨🎨

[@scroggie_mini_painting3983]

Awesome work Don 👍🏼. Top greens would be good to mix up Ork skin 👏🏼👊🏻

[@DonSuratos]

Top Greens soon! Or at least my fave greens! Thanks for watching Scroggie. ☺️🎨🎨🎨

[@Smokinindachi]

I'd love a top list of each color if possible or a good starter set for Vallejo

[@DonSuratos]

A top 5 of each color is easy bro. A good starter set is kinda hard. 😅

[@HollowedCrow]

Regular vermillion is actually one of my favorite reds to use! Super super vibrant candy color with a scarlet touch

[@DonSuratos]

I really need to hunt for that color. I think I saw it in this lifetime, but, I do not have one now. 😅

[@George-047]

I have at least half of this colors, cavalry brown is really good for bricks too.

[@DonSuratos]

Awesome! Cavalry Brown is king bro. ☺️🎨🎨🎨

[@UltraRomantikoPintor]

Blood red favorite ko bro and golden yellow now I will try ice yellow and vermillion thank You sa tip brother😊❤🙏

[@DonSuratos]

Ah maganda nga Blood Red. Moon Yellow from Game is also good. Welcome as always kabayan! ☺️🎨🎨🎨

[@lolaldanee2743]

I loved that bit of humor there :D Dude, there are some many Uniform colors that seriously don't need a sequel, sadly, Russian unfiorms are getting one right now :/ I think my favourite Vajello color is Jade Green!

[@DonSuratos]

Jade green! So jaded man! 😅 Actually Vallejo greens are awesome, one cannot have enough of those. ☺️

[@briarsandbantams]

I would definitely use a video on your top reds and yellows.

[@DonSuratos]

Will do it down the line bro. Thanks for watching! ☺️🎨🎨🎨

[@briarsandbantams]

@Don Suratos - minis & gunpla And thank you for making videos, homie.

[@perjohanaxell9862]

Actually you could do top any colour. And maybe some examples of how you would use them.

[@lanesteele240]

I do like video like this

[@DonSuratos]

Thanks bro! But I assume you already have all these colors. 😅🎨🎨🎨

[@lanesteele240]

@@DonSuratos most of them

[@DonSuratos]

@@lanesteele240 For sure. 😉🎨🎨🎨

[@giren0079]

I think I'm doing some shopping after this,lol

[@DonSuratos]

lol! Have fun bro! ☺️🎨🎨🎨

[@mauriciomaruri740]

Gracias

[@DonSuratos]

Gracias Mauricio! ☺️🎨🎨🎨

[@littlesadface]

What matte clear coat you use with the Vallejo model colour? Thanks

[@Elfhelm]

Opening my local ebay equivalent to order some of the the colours I am still missing; I mean, if you already have 106 Vallejo paints, what's few more? Great video, I would like to see similar one for Game/Mecha versions too :)

[@DonSuratos]

More videos like this soon! Thanks for watching! ☺️🎨🎨🎨

[@Elfhelm]

@@DonSuratos Went with Violet Red, Lime Green, Emerald, Dark Vermillion, Deck Tan and Gloss White, mainly because I already have Nocturna set for skin tones and Vallejo leather & wood painting set, otherwise I would probably pick some more! Once again, thank you for recommendations

[@charlesbola1971]

Marron cubierta or Deck tan is the color for the aircraft carrier runway or ships.

[@DonSuratos]

Agree! 😊

[@RealEscado]

The vermillion Part 😂❤

[@DonSuratos]

Hahahaha 🤣

[@geertthomas]

I got most of the mentioned of your model colors, Love VA; even got the professional artist line for my art classes, but sometimes they get mix in with the miniature paints :) Whats your top 11 of VA games color and top 15 VA Mecha colors? thanks

[@DonSuratos]

Noted on the Game and Mecha lists. Thanks for the suggestion bro! ☺️🎨🎨🎨

[@alphaleigpyne]

I'll have to give some of these paints a go sometime soon. I bought Beige Red for the skin layering, It's not bad. With the Orange Brown, I could use it to paint hair?

[@DonSuratos]

Base color for blonde hair using orange brown should be great. Layering Beige Red is so opaque. Maybe add a bit of medium to make the transitions softer? ☺️

[@alphaleigpyne]

@@DonSuratos I should give it a go, I've rarely used medium with the paints on my models, I mostly use them in the Citadel shades and contrast paints. I'll look into using them for Vallejo. Thank you for you recommendation. 👍

[@dtejada1988]

😎👍🏼

[@DonSuratos]

☺️🎨🎨🎨

[@franksilva3566]

Hello; I find your videos very helpful - Question please: where would I get ‘white’ replacement caps so I could place a drop of color on each so I could easily locate color I need; I live in the US. Thanks

[@DonSuratos]

Oh thanks! Hmmm... white replacement caps for Game, Air paints and mecha? I recommend you paint white primer on the caps first, then paint the actual colors. I have no idea where to get white caps. ☺️

[@franksilva3566]

@@DonSuratos Thanks - I should have thought of that, still a newbie.

[@EmmaRock991]

Hello, great video! Thank you so much, i have a question, if i would like to paint on wood, i can use vallejo paintings?

[@DonSuratos]

Thanks. Yes! Vallejo has many many good brown and yellow ochre colors. 😊

[@StabSam]

Hi, what is the difference between game color and model color? I am thinking of getting a set of Vallejo paints because GW paints are absurdly expensive like all other things from them. Furthermore i heard that Vallejos colors dry slower and enables wet blending easier. Is there any set you would recommend as a starting point?

[@DonSuratos]

Model Colors were my favorites. But I would recommend the more durable and more vibrant ( new ) Game Colors. Make sure you get the “new” Game, not the old ones. Cheers! 😊🎨🎨🎨

[@StabSam]

Thx !@@DonSuratos

[@JihadMeAtHelllo]

I own way too many miniature paints, especially Vallejo whose sets of paints I buy almost every time I see a unique one. Somehow I only have 11/14. I'm really intrigued by dark sea blue, don't have that one. I could just mix colors, but get some strange satisfaction in having a large collection of pigments.

[@DonSuratos]

Ahhh me too! I love paints! 😊🎨🎨🎨

[@terrydactyl2077]

There are some colours that I can’t choose the game or model version. Like Khaki. It’s mainly for painting my miniatures for gaming on the table but a nice quality job. What should I choose? Game? Or model?

[@DonSuratos]

Hmmm, they paint differently. But for tabletop quality, I would recommend Game... due to durability.

[@terrydactyl2077]

@@DonSuratos ok ty!

[@modelrailenthusiasts]

Do you recommend dark vermillion for Ferrari red color ? Is it smilar for red Ferrari paint ? Thank you

[@DonSuratos]

Hi Polar, Would do, but for very Red Colors, I would recommend Game Color Bloody Red, Mecha Color Red and Nocturna Fire Red. ☺️

[@reyone1143]

Nice list!! I agree with most of your must have paints!! Also, very nice speaking in spanish!!! Saludos buddy!!!

[@DonSuratos]

Saludos Ivan! ☺️🎨🎨🎨

[@jamesanderson9747]

Hi Don,loving all your videos man! You are absolutely informative! Could I ask a little help from you?due to my budget I can’t buy too many colours and the PDF colour chart is not very accurate.I’m gonna buy only the standard red yellow and blue so that I can mix other colours from there .do you mind sharing with me which red yellow and blue to buy ?

[@DonSuratos]

Hi James, we are talking Vallejo?

[@jamesanderson9747]

Wow your reply is fast! Yes vellajo model color

[@jpg0029]

Hi sir, would deep sea blue work as a paint fix for a blue and grey version of Batman? Particularly the mafex one. TIA

[@DonSuratos]

Will work… but you might find it too blue. You might want something more grey? Less saturated? 😊

[@SquizmWizzerd]

Hey Don! I have a friend in the Philippines that's looking to get into mini painting, but me and him are having some difficulty finding places for him to buy hobby supplies. Do you have any suggestions for where to buy paints and minis from?

[@DonSuratos]

Hi, it’s Deovir for me for “paint and art supplies”. For actual miniatures, online is the best for Warhammer and Gaming Library or Fortress for other miniatures like tabletop games.

[@steveisaak4320]

That is a lot of vallejo paints

[@DonSuratos]

Most sponsored… a few personally bought. 😊🎨🎨🎨

[@justinemmons2369]

Any suggestions on a bone color?

[@DonSuratos]

Medium Grey and Stone Grey. 😊

[@ianmontero27]

Is it ok to use water as my thinner?

[@DonSuratos]

Yes but I recommend adding flow improver.

[@viper29ca]

70.909 is Red Vermillion, and is a little brighter than 70.947. I assume the opacity is about the same.

[@DonSuratos]

Awesome Scott! I cant find mine, I think I saw it or glanced at it a while back. Or I really do not have that color. Cheers! ☺️

[@lanesteele240]

Work work

[@lanesteele240]

Noooooo. You cant change the music on me

[@DonSuratos]

As usual bro! 😅🎨🎨🎨

[@marciojosemiguel2094]

as I would like to buy some paints like this and the one you put the paints on, but it's been 2 months since I lost a leg and spending a lot on medicine travel to another city to see the doctors....it's hard as I would like to buy some paints like this and the one you put the paints on, but it's been 2 months since I lost a leg and spending a lot on medicine travel to another city to see the doctors....it's hard

[@DonSuratos]

Oh... I hope you are fine bro. Cheers! ☺️

[@griffglowen5555]

For some reason Emerald 70.838 appears much more green in the bottles I see online, and Leather Brown looks a lot darker more like Burnt Umber

[@DonSuratos]

Ah... the photos of the bottles? Yes they always seem different than the actual colors. 😅

[@geertthomas]

got vermillion just in my hand: 70.909 ;)

[@DonSuratos]

I don't have one... or I can't find it. Thanks! ☺️

[@necpwnz]

I hate you Don, I was forced by your beautiful video to go and buy 11 more paints into my collection! :D

[@DonSuratos]

Haha! Should be awesome bro. I highly recommend them all. ☺️🎨🎨🎨