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Has anyone here used up an entire pot of Citadel Texture paint and can tell me, how many bases you get out of it (roughly)?
I'm trying to figure out, how much it would cost me, to use these paints for my entire army.

use sandy Paste from vallejo.. Its the same cost as 3-4 pots of citadel texture paints, but you get a crap ton more for the price..

just a guess but i am thinking maybe 10 bases. you would do much better using pva and sand then painting it

It depends how thick you apply it. I apply it pretty damned thick and I got around 12 25x25mm square bases AND 28 20x20mm square bases and maybe 2 or 3 round bases out of a single pot of texture paint.

I apply it about 0.5 to 1mm thick in a single thick layer, let it partially dry but before it's completely dry I attack it with the pointy end of a pin, just stirring it up to add more texture. I know some people have said build it up in multiple layers, but I find one thick single layer looks better (assuming you roughen it up before it fully dries).

So it's not cheap, even a small army would probably take you 2 pots to do the whole army and if you had something on a large base (chariots and the like) it won't last very long.

You can make your own textured paints with cheap acrylics and sand.

Acrylic texture mediums.
They made claims that the texture in their paint is not sand, because sand will ruin your brushes. It makes a lot of sense for it to be something like these;
http://www.artsupplies.co.uk/cat-texture-gel-mediums.htm

You can get all sorts of cheap brushes in any "girlie" hobby shop just for this thing As well as cheap acrylics etc.

I'm at about 30 normal round GW bases and have a little under half a pot left. I don't out it on super thick though.

Chancetragedy wrote:I'm at about 30 normal round GW bases and have a little under half a pot left. I don't out it on super thick though.

Yeah I must be applying it slightly thicker than you. By 30 bases I was pretty much scratching the bottom of the pot.

It's actually not too hard to calculate how much area the texture paints will cover if you assume a pot is actually 12ml. If you consider 12ml = 12,000 cubic millimetres. Then if you apply it 0.5mm thick, a 25mm square base would take up 25*25*0.5 = 312 cubic millimetres. So the number of bases you can cover is 12000/312 = 38 bases. Of course that assumes you're covering a whole 25x25mm square, in reality GW bases have the angled bits on the side so it's probably more like 22x22x0.5 = 242 cubic millimetres, then if your model has very large feet like an Orc you might end up with only having to cover about 3/4 of the base, so you're looking at about 181 cubic millimetres which would be about 66 bases.

I found I like to apply it pretty thick, around 1mm, so I only really got half as many bases as that. If your models have small feet, you would definitely use more, if your models have big feet then it'd go further.

I actually quite like the GW texture paints. I know they're a bit expensive and certainly overpriced and you could make your own and I'd never dream of using them to actually do something like a whole gaming table. But it'll probably take 3 or 4 pots to base your average army of around 2000pts. So that's like $11-15 to paint an army that probably cost me $300-400 at least to actually buy in the first place. So whatever, I can live with wasting another $15 to save me some time painting their bases. What hurts me is when GW halve the number of models but only lower the price by like 15%, so the $400 army becomes $600, THAT starts to sting a bit.

I have done 3 60mm round bases, 4 40mm round bases and a 25mm round base and i am about 2/3 through the bottle.

i did a 1500pt chaos marine army with 1/2 a pot

As long as you stick with 20-25mm you'll get a decent amount done but I wouldn't go near anything over 40mm with it.

I reckon your better off just using sand/pva and so on.

I was a little dissapointed with the texture paint.

Theres always pva and flock if you didn't want to paint sand.