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I just noticed these up on GW's site...


Citadel Palette



Citadel Water Pot

I assume (hope) that the taper of the indents on the water pot lid hold the brush bristles off the bottom of the pot, but the thing looks way too small either way. You're not going to get your brushes clean in that little medicine bottle.

Mmmm. Superfluous!

Not to overawed by the pallette either only 4 dimples (proper term?) - and a totally useless quarter

This set contains one plastic Citadel Water Pot. Designed to fit in the pre-cut slots of the Citadel Paint Station, the Water Pot has six grooves for holding your brushes and a removable lid to make filling and cleaning easy.

Wait, we're suppossed to buy these? Really? Thanks for clearing that up for me, I was really havin a WTF moment.

I use the cap from an old thermos for water and if I need to mix paint, I use a lid from a 2 liter soda bottle. GW must think it's April 1st.

If you sold hobby products you'd do the same.

Mind you, perhaps the palette is formulated to prevent your paint drying out so quickly.

But then perhaps not.

It looks like a small plastic shield with some shallow holes in them, that's it. At least they're both cheap at €3,90


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And the new cup holder does explain why GW colour coded their brushes.

BrookM wrote:It looks like a small plastic shield with some shallow holes in them, that's it. At least they're both cheap at €3,90


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And the new cup holder does explain why GW colour coded their brushes.

They should put an Imperial eagle on them and shift them to direct only then they could charge three times as much...

What a load of rubbish. Mix paints on blister packaging like the pro's. Always use an old tea mug for paint water so you can have one of those 'this isn't my tea?!' moments.

Are GW trying to remove all fun from my painting sessions?

I picked one of these up at a local craft / art supply store for $0.65. Six wells and it's a perfect size, not to big and not to small.



Here's a link...
http://www.plazaart.com/products.php?a=6&id=285224&page=4350

I may actually buy the water pot because if you look closely at the grooves for holding the brushes, they're tapered. This means that I'd be able to fill the pot with an acrylic brush cleaning solution / brush conditioner and allow my brushes to soak a bit upside down and not worry about the bristles getting damaged.

The water pot seems ridiculously small. I need to see GW staff rinsing their brushes off on
video to believe that one.

The palette seems interesting, even more so to someone as inexperienced as I am when it comes to painting, but it just doesnt seem worth it.

Maybe if it had a space marine on it or something....

malfred wrote:The water pot seems ridiculously small. I need to see GW staff rinsing their brushes off on
video to believe that one.

That pic does make it look small, but the description for it says "Designed to fit in the pre-cut slots of the Citadel Paint Station". I happen to use the painting station, it's a great product, and the pre-cut slots they're referring to are a decent size. I imagine that this Water Pot will be comparable to a standard size Solo cup.

As much as we all bitch about crap like this, you know people will buy these. *YOU KNOW*!! Just like BrookM said, they're just doing what businesses do: buy low, sell high.

combatmedic wrote:

Maybe if it had a space marine on it or something....

See! i told you...

I got my palette free from my local GW a few years ago. It's a ceramic tile.

i got my palette from from an ex-girlfriend.
works well, no idea where the girl is these days

I just use a small plastic bag. That's the way I was taught and I'm sticking with it!

This is GW really, REALLY trying hard.

Water pot? C'mon... I'm sure someone made a joke about GW selling their own water pot a while back. Never imagined it'd actually happen.

And a palette? What????????? Next we'll have the Citadel Painting Chair...

H.B.M.C. wrote:Next we'll have the Citadel Painting Chair...

I can see it now: The Golden Throne! A chair with a nice slipcover so the Emperor can watch over your shoulder while you paint your Space Marines.

I'd buy it if they made some kind of cool ergonomic rolly chair covered in skulls and stuff.

If people will buy fake lightsabers, Lancer Assault Rifles, and plastic men, then I can understand buying a waterpot and mixing pallet. I'll stick to my Dixie cups and paper plates for this though.

I just break a ceramic tile from the bathroom wall and replace it whenever I'm done using it. Slowly our bathroom is taking on a nice nouveau arte style.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Next we'll have the Citadel Painting Chair...

Dammit, H.B.M.C., you know GW reads Dakka. It's like you WANT them to put this stuff out so you can complain about it and its ridiculous over-pricing.

Dammit, Platuan4th, you know HBMC has a hidden agenda, why you complainin about it now?

lulz, guys. lulz.

Marshal2Crusaders wrote:I'd buy it if they made some kind of cool ergonomic rolly chair covered in skulls and stuff.

And a trapdoor for marathon painting sessions. Or is that just me?

I'm not going to defend it, because an old Margarine tub works just fine for a water jar, but this is simply GW offering the complete hobby to those one-stop shoppers. I predict they'll sell as many of these as the Spear of Sicarius...es.

Correct me if I'm wrong, and I say that because I'm not the world's biggest painter, but don't GW already supply a plastic palette in all their paint sets? Are they going to stop doing that?