The Army Painter Speedpaint 2.0: Aged Hide

One Coat. Instant Depth. Ready to Play.

Aged Hide is a warm, desaturated leather brown from The Army Painter's Speedpaint 2.0 range — and if you've ever stared down a pile of unpainted models wondering how you're ever going to finish them all, this is the paint that changes the calculation. Speedpaint 2.0 works in a single coat over a white or light primer: it flows into recesses to create natural shadow, coats raised surfaces with rich colour, and dries with built-in depth that would normally take multiple steps to achieve by hand. The result is a tabletop-ready model in a fraction of the usual time.

Aged Hide handles leather straps, belts, pouches, furs, skin tones, and worn organic surfaces with ease. It's the kind of colour that earns its place on a palette fast — almost every army has models that need a convincing leather tone somewhere, and Aged Hide delivers that in one pass. Speedpaint 2.0 is also an improved formula over the original, with better consistency, reduced pooling, and improved reactivation behaviour when layering over dried coats.

Who This Paint Is For

New painters will get the most immediate impact from Speedpaint 2.0 — the formula does a lot of the shading work automatically, removing the need to learn wash control or layering before getting great results on the table. Experienced painters use Speedpaints as an efficient base layer or as a rapid batch-painting solution for large units where speed matters more than competition-level blending. Aged Hide in particular is a genuine workhorse colour: leather and hide tones show up on virtually every faction in every miniature game, making this a useful addition regardless of which army you're painting.