The Army Painter Speedpaint 2.0: Caribbean Ocean

One Coat, Fully Shaded

Caribbean Ocean is a rich, vivid blue-green that does the work of three separate painting steps in a single pass. The Army Painter's Speedpaint 2.0 formula flows across your model, settles into recesses to create natural shadow, saturates raised surfaces with strong colour, and leaves subtle highlights at the highest points — all before the pot is back on the shelf. When it dries, you can pick up a layer paint and start highlighting within minutes. No waiting hours for a wash to cure, no coaxing a base coat into even coverage over bare plastic.

What Speedpaint 2.0 Does

Speedpaint 2.0 is The Army Painter's updated one-step contrast-style paint — thicker and more pigment-dense than the original formula, with improved reactivation resistance once dry. That means you can go back over a cured coat with a brush and acrylic paint without lifting or disturbing what's underneath. Caribbean Ocean specifically is a warm blue-teal — strong enough for ocean-themed basing, aquatic creature scales, energy weapons, force fields, or any scheme that calls for a punchy, saturated cool tone with real depth in the shadows. It also pulls double duty as a fast basecoat for larger surfaces where you want colour down quickly without worrying about coverage passes.

Who Should Pick This Up

New painters will find Speedpaint 2.0 one of the most forgiving ways to get models off the grey-plastic pile and onto the table looking genuinely finished. Experienced painters use it to batch-coat rank-and-file models quickly, freeing up time for careful highlighting on character pieces and centrepiece models. Caribbean Ocean is a versatile colour that earns its place in any palette — useful for Tyranid biomorphs, Idoneth Deepkin, Sylvaneth bark, Nighthaunt glows, or any project where you need a cold, saturated blue-green with a single brush pass. Works on any primed miniature regardless of game system.

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