Now, this isn’t a list of just the best P3 paints. Or my favourite. It is a list of the best P3 paints that are uniquely great, irreplaceable by any other range. The five paints I will recommend to anyone, for anything, regardless of what range they use. I love P3 Umbral Umber, but it’s honestly nearly identical to Citadel Rhinox Hide, VMC Flat Brown, VGC Burnt Sienna, Army Painter Oak Brown, or Two Thin Coats Cuirass Leather. Any dark brown will have equally good coverage cause that’s the nature of the pigment, so while I prefer P3’s version over the others for unique properties like flow and smoothness (and satin finish), I understand why people might prefer a different one because the differences of all those paints are so minor. So Umbral Umber isn’t on the list. This list is five P3 paints that can do things no other similar colours from other ranges can. The five P3 paints I recommend everyone buys, even if you don’t want to get the whole range.

1: Menoth White Base.
Even when you do find a bone colour that has decent coverage, it’s chalky. That’s cause most mini paint companies love to add chalk to white and off-white colours to increase their opacity. Menoth White Base is the only smooth bone colour I’ve ever found, period. It isn’t perfect (it still takes two or three coats to cover black), but at least it’s smooth.

2: Bootstrap Leather.
This is my universal dark brown highlight colour. It’s perfect. Not too warm and orange like Mournfang Brown or too drab and desaturated like Gorthor Brown, it’s just the perfect lighter midtone brown. Works great as a base too, as the coverage is excellent (can cover black in two thin coats, grey in one).

3: Hammerfall Khaki
Hammerfall Khaki is the perfect base for any sort of off white, whether it be bone, ivory, cream cloth, or bandages/wrappings. Identical to Citadel’s Karak Stone, it has five times the coverage and is one of the only off whites I have that can cover black in two thin coats without being chalky.

4: Inferno Orange.
With mini paints, the only oranges that don’t have abysmal coverage tend to be very pastel, due to the addition of opaque white pigments to increase the covering power. Likewise, the most vibrant orange tend to be the weakest. P3 says, why not both? Inferno Orange is super vibrant and can cover black in two or three thin coats, making by far the best orange on the mini paint market in my opinion.

5: Any Grey.
Grey SHOULD be one of the most opaque colours in paint. Made of white and black pigments, the most common of which tend to be opaque, it should be great. But to mini paint companies, that means they can go ahead and skimp on the pigment and put a bunch of extra fillers in to lower the cost. Becuase of that, most mini paint greys tend to cover…. Ok. But they still nearly always require two thin coats over black, when they really should be covering in one. Except with P3. All of their greys (Bastion Grey, Ironhull Grey, Greatcoat Grey) can cover black in one coat. They’re all lovely tones too: Ironhull is your classic midtone grey, Bastion is a brownish/greenish grey (similar to old Citadel Charadon Granite) that is perfect for natural stones and general dirtier greys, and Greatcoat is a lovely blue tinted grey that is just way more interesting then your typical standard midtone grey. I love them all.

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