Army Painter Speedpaint 2.0: Nuclear Sunrise

One Coat. Full Colour. Ready to Highlight.

Nuclear Sunrise is a warm, vivid yellow-orange from Army Painter's Speedpaint 2.0 range — a single-application paint that lays down a base colour, flows into recesses to create natural shadow, and leaves raised edges slightly lighter for an instant highlight effect. The result is a fully shaded, game-ready miniature straight from one pass of the brush. No layering session required, no waiting hours for washes to cure before you can move on. Speedpaint 2.0's improved formula dries faster and reactivates less than the original range, making it easier to paint over with standard acrylics once it's set.

This kind of yellow-orange is a demanding colour in traditional painting — it typically needs a pale primer, multiple thin coats, and careful shading work to avoid a flat, chalky result. Speedpaint cuts through all of that. Nuclear Sunrise delivers punchy, saturated warmth in a single step, making it a strong choice for anything from desert-themed armour and flame detailing to alien flora, hazard markings, or skin tones on creatures that thrive in heat. Once dry, it takes highlighting with standard layer paints or even other Speedpaints immediately — no lengthy cure window standing between you and a finished model.

Who It's For

New painters will find Speedpaint 2.0 one of the most forgiving and rewarding ways to get colour onto models fast. The self-shading effect does work that would otherwise take hours of practice to replicate with base and shade paints separately. Experienced painters keep Speedpaints in the rotation for batch-painting large units quickly, or for laying down a vibrant undercoat that speeds up subsequent detail work. Nuclear Sunrise suits any tabletop hobbyist working across Warhammer, Warmachine, or any other miniature system — Army Painter supplies are not tied to any single game, and this colour earns its place in a broader palette regardless of faction or army.