Vallejo Model Colour Royal Purple 18ml is a high-quality acrylic paint developed for miniature painters, scale modellers, and hobbyists who want smooth application, excellent coverage, and a rich matt finish. Part of Vallejo’s updated Model Color range, Royal Purple is a strong, versatile colour suited to fantasy, science-fiction, historical, and display modelling projects.

The revised Model Color formulation has been designed to provide improved brushability and excellent opacity, helping painters achieve smooth, even layers while preserving the fine sculpted detail of miniatures and models. The paint dries quickly to form a homogeneous, self-levelling film, making it suitable for both larger areas and controlled detail work.

Royal Purple is a bold and distinctive colour that works particularly well for robes, armour, banners, heraldry, magical effects, creatures, decorative details, and high-contrast fantasy or science-fiction schemes. It can be used as a base colour on its own or combined with darker and lighter tones to create shading, highlights, gradients, and layered transitions.

For best results, Vallejo recommends applying Model Color paints over a properly primed surface. The formulation is designed to settle smoothly without obscuring small surface details, helping retain crisp definition on finely sculpted figures, vehicles, terrain, and display pieces.

The updated Model Color range was developed with input from experienced painters and modellers, with Vallejo refining both the paint formulation and the overall colour selection. The range includes colours suited to general hobby use as well as shades that closely correspond with recognised military colour systems and codifications used during the Second World War and later conflicts.

Vallejo has also organised the range according to its BSL – Base, Shade, Light painting system. This chromatic arrangement makes it easier to identify compatible colours for creating shadows and highlights around a chosen base tone, helping painters develop more consistent and cohesive colour schemes.

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

Product Features:

• Royal Purple colour from the Vallejo Model Color range.
• Supplied in an 18ml bottle.
• Updated acrylic formulation with improved brushability.
• Excellent opacity for reliable coverage.
• Dries to a smooth, even and matt finish.
• Self-levelling formula helps preserve fine miniature and model detail.
• Fast drying for efficient layering and detail painting.
• Suitable for miniatures, scale models, figures, vehicles, scenery, and other hobby projects.
• Ideal for robes, armour, banners, heraldry, magical effects, and decorative details.
• 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 painting a regal fantasy character, adding rich purple armour to a science-fiction force, or introducing a bold accent colour to a display model, Vallejo Model Colour Royal Purple 18ml provides a dependable combination of smooth application, strong coverage, and a refined matt finish.

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