This post is designed to be both a tutorial and review on some of the colour shift paints available today. Many of you are familiar with Green Stuff World's line, but there's also paints available from Turbo Dork which have been creating some interest in the community lately.
What are colour shift paints? Essentially they're paints that are a different colour depending on the angle you're looking at them or the way the light is hitting them. Typically you have one colour in the light and another in the shadow. You may have seen these kinds of things on sports cars or in nature like on beetles and pearls.
You can see an example below, in how the colour shifts between green highlights and purple shadows with the Martian Green paint from Green Stuff World:
Then how it shifts between blue and purple with TurboDork's 3D-Glasses paint:
This post is two parts:
First, I'm going to cover how you're supposed to apply colour shift paints to your miniatures.
Then, I'm going to discuss some alternate Do's and Don'ts when painting with them and include unique techniques that you can use.
Finally, I'm going to summarize my feelings on the differences between the products offered by TurboDork and Green Stuff World.
Full Disclosure, TurboDork sent me a few free samples for review purposes.