New Citadel Paints (Was Gossip - GW paints to be discontinued in march)

[AlphariusOmegon20]

Can anyone confirm that the dry paints are no good for regular painting? If you add matt medium, or even water, can you restore them to some measure of usefulness?

I didn't try the medium idea yet, but I did try water.

It works fine that way.


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[dax]

Got a shipping confirmation this afternoon for the paints I ordered on the 24th. The ones I ordered with my Empire stuff on the 31st are still showing as processing.

[M'ichal]

Got a shipping confirmation this afternoon for the paints I ordered on the 24th. The ones I ordered with my Empire stuff on the 31st are still showing as processing.

cool, hoping you'll do some side-by-side comparisons with the old range and report on findings!

[shelfunit.]

'It's like some kind of paint-based magic,'

Anyone else get this in an email? It's new, it's apparently of pretty good quality, but I draw the line at this ridiculous hyperbole.

[ColShaw]

Anyone else get this in an email? It's new, it's apparently of pretty good quality, but I draw the line at this ridiculous hyperbole.

Any sufficiently advanced hyperbole is indistinguishable from magic...

[shelfunit.]

Any sufficiently advanced hyperbole is indistinguishable from magic...

I see what you did there

[Wintermute]

Anyone else get this in an email? It's new, it's apparently of pretty good quality, but I draw the line at this ridiculous hyperbole.

Yes, but for some reason GW failed to include all the negative comments the new paints must have received from those who tried them instore.

I wonder why?

[xxRavenxx]

Want to see the magic paint in action?


Watch as it turns from pink to blue in front of your very eyes...

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/8228/imag0373m.jpg

[shelfunit.]

Want to see the magic paint in action?


Watch as it turns from pink to blue in front of your very eyes...

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/8228/imag0373m.jpg

Is it suppose to do that?

[Torga_DW]

I went in to my local store in time to see the owner unboxing the new paints and starting to sort them out. I must say that i'm mildly optimistic gw has done a good thing here. Unless of course they double the price per pot or something.

[paspinall]

I don't want a lighter pink, I want an 'actual' pink.
I 'can' make a lighter pink from an actual pink by adding white.
I can't make a lighter pink from a magenta or a lilac or a light purple.
First there must be a genuine Pink, then there can be lighter pinks.

or you know, use Red and white.

[Jonahmaul]

Want to see the magic paint in action?


Watch as it turns from pink to blue in front of your very eyes...

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/8228/imag0373m.jpg

Handy for horrors maybe!

[Inquisitor Engel]

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/8228/imag0373m.jpg

Any chance someone could post this as an attachment? Work won't let me look at Imageshack.

[xxRavenxx]

Tadaaa! (See? Now it still feels like magic...)

[BramGaunt]

Unlucky. My Paints arrived in mint condition, and with all new seals =D I'm off to paint some more stuff golden, because I can.

[Autumn Leaves]

On a positive note, here is a blog from an old pal of mine who is a pro-painter selling his wares on ebay for the best part of a decade now, he went in to a GW store with his 6 year old daughter Poppy...
http://youloveitdontyou.wordpress.co...03/25/wowsers/

[Jonahmaul]

That's a great post and always good to hear from people who are very experienced with paints. Getting more excited about these paints. Been (re)reading the Horus Heresy series and really want to paint a Lucius miniature so might pick him up with a couple of the new paints. All hail Games Workshop for the new paint range! As a side note I have to say that when I have children I will be trying my hardest to keep them away from GW, hard enough affording my addiction!

[Born Again]

I don't see that there's a need for coloured metallics when the range has the glazes and glaze medium; two or three coats of your chosen colour over your preferred metal will achieve a similar result, with the benefit that you're not limited to whatever limited range of coloured metallics GW would produce.

That's one of doing it, however only time will tell exactly how much glaze you'll need (if indeed it's possible at all) to create a match to the old Glistening Green. I'm not particularly bothered as it's not a colour I'm in need of anyway, I just thought with such an expanded range they would have thrown it in.

[snake-eyez]

Sorry if this has come up earlier in the thread (I couldn't bring myself to read all 50 pages), but the rumours I've heard are that the supplier stuffed GW with the contract regarding IP and so on.

I just wanted to ask then, is this supplier then going to keep making the same paints under a different brand?

I'm just thinking of Coat D'Arms here (though their case may have been a bit different) still making what was once sold as GW paints. If this mystery supplier sticked GW with the contract terms, surely they don't plan to just pack up and stop making the paints for good.

[M'ichal]

Unlucky. My Paints arrived in mint condition, and with all new seals =D I'm off to paint some more stuff golden, because I can.

Bram, can you post some observations/stuff...? How's Gehenna's gold? How does it compare to Shining in terms of the hue and coverage? What about the other metallics?

Are all the pots the same colour or are the washes in black pots?

On the GW blog today a guy made a statement that seemed to suggest that you don't need to water-down the paints. Is that true? I tried the paints at GW a week ago but watered them down, didn't think of testing straight out of the pot.