Vallejo Model Colour Blue Violet 18ml is a high-quality acrylic paint developed for miniature painters, scale modellers, and hobbyists who want smooth application, strong coverage, and a clean matt finish. Part of Vallejo’s updated Model Color range, Blue Violet is a versatile colour suited to everything from fantasy and science-fiction miniatures to historical figures, vehicles, scenery, and display models.

The revised Model Color formula has been created to provide excellent brushability and opacity, helping painters build even layers while preserving fine sculpted detail. The paint dries quickly to form a smooth, homogeneous, self-levelling film, making it well suited to both broad areas and controlled detail work.

Blue Violet is a useful cool-toned colour that sits between blue and violet, making it a strong choice for armour, clothing, magical effects, creatures, banners, decorative details, shadows, and stylised colour schemes. It can be used as a base colour on its own or combined with lighter and darker tones to create highlights, shading, and more complex transitions.

For best results, Vallejo recommends applying Model Color paints over a properly primed surface. The formulation is designed to respect small surface details, helping maintain crisp definition on finely sculpted miniatures and scale models.

The updated Model Color range was developed with input from experienced painters and modellers, with Vallejo refining both the formulation and the overall colour selection. The range includes colours for general hobby use as well as shades intended to correspond closely with historically recognised military colour systems and codifications.

Vallejo has also organised the range according to its BSL – Base, Shade, Light painting system. This chromatic arrangement makes it easier to identify complementary tones for building shadows and highlights around a chosen base colour, helping painters create consistent and balanced colour transitions.

The paint is supplied in Vallejo’s redesigned 18ml transparent r-PET bottle, manufactured using recycled and recyclable material. The clear bottle makes the colour easy to identify at a glance while retaining the controlled dropper format widely used by miniature painters.

Product Features:

• Blue Violet colour from the Vallejo Model Color range.
• Supplied in an 18ml bottle.
• Updated acrylic formulation with excellent brushability.
• Strong opacity for reliable coverage.
• Dries to a smooth and matt finish.
• Self-levelling formula helps preserve fine miniature and model details.
• Fast drying for efficient layering and detail work.
• Suitable for miniatures, scale models, figures, vehicles, scenery, and other hobby projects.
• Recommended for application over a properly primed surface.
• Part of Vallejo’s Base, Shade, Light colour organisation system.
• Supplied in a transparent recycled and recyclable r-PET bottle.

Whether you're adding cool violet tones to a character miniature, painting armour and clothing, creating magical effects, or working on a more complex model colour scheme, Vallejo Model Colour Blue Violet 18ml provides a dependable combination of smooth application, strong coverage, and a refined matt finish.

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