Coat D'Arms Paints?

[Col.Gravis]

What are peoples experience with Coat D'Arms range of paints? I know they corresspond to the old Citadel range, but I've no experience with them beyond that.

I'm curious as too how many people use them, and how those that do (or don't) rate them.

[Grimtuff]

For the most part they are excellent. You need to remember that the GW range they did was with the mid-nineties flip top ones, not the one that was just replaced. The Inks are excellent too, with the brown ink being an almost 100% match for Chestnut Ink, so it gets a huge thumbs up from me.

[Sai-Lauren]

Agree - some of the historical range can be a little dilute, but they're pretty good.

[snake-eyez]

They are good quality paints, but where they are about the same price per volume, and similar quality to Vallejo paints, Vallejo's dropper bottle is so much easier to use than those tall pots which Coat D'Arms use. I've used a Coat D'Arms green paint extensively to basecoat some jungle trees, but this was either painting straight out of the pot, or pouring it into an airbrush. For painting models using a palette, Vallejo is much easier to use.

Overall, good paint, good price, but their paint pot is inferior to dropper bottles.

[LostTemplar]

The solution, which I will do in a while, is to actually use Coat d'arms paints in old, cleaned up, vallejo bottles. Or buying yourself some drop-wise bottles, empty and just using them.

[Radium]

I like the range of colours they provide, but my experience with the paints themselves is mixed. Most are pretty good, but some just seem to dry out really quickly. And the black is slightly off-black, which really annoys me.