Vallejo Model Colour Sunset Red 18ml is a high-quality acrylic paint developed for miniature painters, scale modellers, and hobbyists looking for smooth brush application, excellent coverage, and a refined matt finish. Part of Vallejo’s updated Model Color range, Sunset Red provides a distinctive warm red tone suitable for a wide variety of historical, fantasy, science-fiction, and display modelling projects.

The updated Model Color formulation has been designed to deliver excellent brushability and opacity, allowing painters to create smooth, controlled layers while preserving the fine sculpted details of their miniatures and models. Once applied, the paint dries quickly to form a homogeneous, self-levelling film with a matt finish.

Sunset Red is a versatile warm red that can be incorporated into numerous colour schemes. It is particularly useful for clothing, armour, banners, heraldry, shields, equipment, decorative details, fantasy creatures, scenery, and striking accent areas. The colour can be used as a primary base tone or combined with deeper reds and lighter colours to create shadows, highlights, and gradual transitions.

Its warm character also makes Sunset Red useful when painting models that require something different from a conventional bright or deep red. It can provide additional variation across units, clothing, equipment, and decorative elements, while also working well as part of more elaborate layered colour schemes.

For the best results, Vallejo recommends applying Model Color paints over a properly primed surface. The formulation is designed to flow smoothly from the brush and form an even layer without unnecessarily obscuring small details, making it particularly suitable for finely sculpted miniatures and detailed scale models.

The updated Model Color range was developed with advice from experienced painters and modellers, allowing Vallejo to refine its colours for the needs of modern hobbyists. Alongside versatile colours for fantasy and general miniature painting, the wider range also includes shades corresponding closely with recognised military colour codifications used during the Second World War and subsequent conflicts.

Vallejo has organised the range chromatically around its BSL – Base, Shade, Light painting system. This arrangement helps painters locate complementary tones for shading and highlighting a chosen base colour, making it easier to plan layered colour schemes and create natural transitions across a miniature or model.

Sunset Red is supplied in Vallejo’s updated 18ml transparent r-PET bottle, manufactured using recycled and recyclable material. The transparent design makes identifying the colour straightforward, while the familiar dropper format provides good control over the amount of paint dispensed onto a palette.

Product Features:

• Sunset Red colour from the Vallejo Model Color range.
• Supplied in an 18ml dropper bottle.
• Updated acrylic formulation developed for improved brushability.
• Excellent opacity for reliable coverage.
• Dries quickly to a smooth and matt finish.
• Homogeneous, self-levelling formulation helps preserve fine surface detail.
• Suitable for layering, highlighting, shading, detail painting, and general base colour work.
• Useful for armour, clothing, banners, heraldry, equipment, creatures, scenery, and decorative details.
• Suitable for fantasy, science-fiction, historical, and scale modelling projects.
• Recommended for application over a properly primed surface.
• Part of Vallejo’s BSL – Base, Shade, Light colour organisation system.
• Supplied in a transparent recycled and recyclable r-PET bottle.

From bold fantasy miniatures and science-fiction armies to historical figures and detailed display models, Vallejo Model Colour Sunset Red 18ml provides a versatile warm red with the smooth application, strong opacity, and matt finish expected from the updated Vallejo Model Color range.

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